Note 2 — THE TWO FRIARS.1
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Two friars once went out on a journey, that is to say, a friar and a lay brother.2 One day of their journey, when they were far from their convent, the friar said to the lay brother: ‘We fare poorly enough all the days of our life in our convent, let us, for one day of our lives, taste the good things of this world which others enjoy every day.’