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20 I brought up and betrothed to Christ, has now gone seeking strangers for her lovers?

FR. From time immemorial that has always been the way of the fallen woman, to be continually seeking a fresh lover.

AB. (abruptly). Can you get me a good horse and an officer's uniform? I am going to discard my hermit's dress, and go after her under the guise of a lover.

FR. Here is everything you need. (offering his own horse and coat)

AB. And get me a hat too, please, to hide my tonsure.

FR. (giving his own). A very necessary precaution, if you mean to avoid detection.

AB. And do you think I had better take this piece of gold of mine, and use it to pay the master of the house?

FR. Certainly, for otherwise you will not be able to get an opportunity of speaking to Mary.

In the town of Assos, outside an Inn.