Note 168 — TINTERNE ABBEY. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Mox ut mortuus fuero, cucullam Ordinis Cisterciensis mihi induite, et ne fiat me vivente, diligentissime cavete. MS. Roy. Lib. 7. A. III. ap. Fosbroke, 173.
So—when the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; But when the devil got well, the devil a monk was he.