Let the brothers who are court chaplains take note of this and let them know that they have been drawn before their time from the womb of their mother.
A certain brother, seeing some brothers living at a certain court and attracted by what desire for glory I know not, wanted to become a court chaplain with them. And while he was curious about the court, he one night saw in his sleep such brothers placed outside of the place of the brothers and separated from their companionship. He also saw them eating from a ver foul and unclean pigs' trough, from which they were eating peas mixed with human dung. Seeing this, the brother was greatly astonished and getting up long before daybreak he had no more desire for court.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, Second Life
CHAPTERS LXXXIV and LXXXV
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