The Little Flowers and the Life of St. Francis, with the...

Portion, went into the house to look at the brethren’s dormitory with a number of soldiers and clerics, and, when he saw that the brethren lay on the ground and had nought under them but a little straw and some bolsters, all tattered and torn as it were, and no pillows, he began to weep sore before them all, saying: “Look you here where the brethren sleep, while we wretched ones do make use of so many superfluities! How will it be with us for this?” Whereby he himself and all the rest were much edified. Moreover, no table saw he there, for that in that place the brethren did eat together on the ground.