"You lie," was the instant answer, "for you go shod." The Friar lifted up his foot in disproof, but the shoe was there.

In an agony of repentance he woke and flung the pair out of window.
[Sidenote: Revival of Theology] It was with less success that the order struggled against the passion of the time for knowledge.

Their vow of poverty, rigidly interpreted as it was by their founders, would have denied them the possession of books or materials for study.

"I am your breviary, I am your breviary," Francis cried passionately to a novice who asked for a psalter.

When the news of a great doctor's reception was brought to him at Paris, his countenance fell.
"I am afraid, my son," he replied, "that such doctors will be the destruction of my vineyard.