This very garden, filled as it is with curious herbs and trees sent from the Eastern climes, better becomes the harem of an unbelieving Emir, than the plot which Christian Monks should devote to raise their homely pot-herbs.--And O, Conrade! well it were that the relaxation of discipline stopped even here!--Well thou knowest that we were forbidden to receive those devout women, who at the beginning were associated as sisters of our Order, because, saith the forty-sixth chapter, the Ancient Enemy hath, by female society, withdrawn many from the right path to paradise.
Miként te is tudod, megtiltották nekünk, hogy befogadjuk azokat a hitbuzgó nőket, akik kezdetben rendünkhöz tartoztak, szent rendünk nővérei voltak. De szabályzatunk negyvenhatodik pontja rámutat arra, hogy asszonyi társaság segítségével az ősi ellenség már sok férfit letérített a helyes útról, amely a paradicsomba vezet.