I Was Once Consulted By A Man Troubled With Asthma, Who Presented Me
With Two Alquieres - That Is, About Twenty-Eight Pounds Weight - Of
Corn And A Sheep.
The advice I gave him, after having turned over
my books, was to drink goats' urine every morning; I know not
whether he found any benefit by following my prescription, for I
never saw him after.
Being under a necessity of obeying our acoba, or protector, we
changed our place of abode as often as he desired it, though not
without great inconveniences, from the excessive heat of the weather
and the faintness which our strict observation of the fasts and
austerities of Lent, as it is kept in this country, had brought upon
us. At length, wearied with removing so often, and finding that the
last place assigned for our abode was always the worst, we agreed
that I should go to our sovereign and complain.
I found him entirely taken up with the imagination of a prodigious
treasure, affirmed by the monks to be hidden under a mountain. He
was told that his predecessors had been hindered from discovering it
by the demon that guarded it, but that the demon was now at a great
distance from his charge, and was grown blind and lame; that having
lost his son, and being without any children except a daughter that
was ugly and unhealthy, he was under great affliction, and entirely
neglected the care of his treasure; that if he should come, they
could call one of their ancient brothers to their assistance, who,
being a man of a most holy life, would be able to prevent his making
any resistance.
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