There was a feud among the Platonists on a matter of interpretation, in which already stilettos had been drawn.

More bitter still was the strife about mistresses--kitchen-wenches and courtesans, where one scholar stole shamelessly from the other and decked with names like Leshia and Erinna....

Philip sickened at what he had before tolerated, for he had brought back with him from the north a quickened sense of sin.

Maybe the Bishop of Beauvais had been right.

What virtue was there in this new knowledge if its prophets were apes and satyrs! Not here grew the Wood of Life.