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Rh, where the young men used to be climbing the hill to the blessed well, they were sitting at the cross-roads playing cards. When I went by Carrigoras, where the friars used to be fasting and serving the poor, I saw them drinking wine and obeying their wives. And when I asked what misfortune had brought all these changes, they said it was no misfortune, but that it was the wisdom they had learned from your teaching.

And you too have called me wise&mdash;you would be paid for that good opinion doubtless&mdash;Run to the kitchen, my wife will give you food and drink.

That's foolish advice for a wise man to give.