If Prior Aymer rode hard in the chase, or remained long at the banquet,--if Prior Aymer was seen, at the early peep of dawn, to enter the postern of the abbey, as he glided home from some rendezvous which had occupied the hours of darkness, men only shrugged up their shoulders, and reconciled themselves to his irregularities, by recollecting that the same were practised by many of his brethren who had no redeeming qualities whatsoever to atone for them.
Megbocsátották kis ballépéseit, és arra gondoltak, hogy sok más pap is elkövet ilyesmit, de nem rendelkezik olyan jó tulajdonsá­gokkal, mint a prior. Így ismerte a mi két szász jobbágyunk is Aymer priort és jellemét.