Chapter 43 Chapter Forty-One

How the monks put Gao Kangda to sleep; how they chanted After the banquet, everyone discussed the current emergency situation together, and unanimously decided to launch a sneak attack in the middle of the night to see how well the enemy is defending and vigilant.For the time being, everyone will rest for a while, in order to be more energetic when the time comes.However, Gao Kangda tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.The monk said to him: "I fall asleep only when I'm listening to the sermons and saying my prayers. I beg you to try, you and I, and we'll read the seven psalms together, and see if you'll fall asleep right away."

Gao Kangda was willing to try this idea, so he started the first chapter of "Psalms". As soon as the Beati quorum was read, both of them fell asleep.However, the monk will definitely wake up before midnight, because he is used to the time of morning lessons.As soon as he woke up, he woke up everyone else, and he sang loudly at the top of his throat: "Hey, Leniu, wake up, wake up; Hey, Leniu, wake up." When they were all aroused, he said: "Everyone, there is a saying that you cough first in the morning class, and drink first in the dinner. Let's do the opposite, give him a morning class first, drink first, and at dinner time in the evening, we will compete to see who has the worst cough."

Gao Kangda said: "Drinking alcohol immediately after waking up is not in line with medical regimen. The dregs and feces digested in the stomach should be excreted first." The monk said: "What a doctor! If there are no more old drunkards than old doctors, let a hundred devils come and catch me! I have a contract with my appetite, that is, it will sleep with me at night, and I will only use it during the day. It will get up with me. How hungry and hungry you are, please do as you please, I will go to find my Yinshi Wan.” Gao Kangda asked: "What is Yinshi Pill?" The monk said: "It is my scripture, because before feeding the eagle, the eagle-keeper always gives it a chicken leg for it to play with, so as to dispel the half-dead dullness in its mind and arouse its appetite. As for me, As soon as I get this delightful little book in the morning, my lungs are clear enough to drink."

Gao Kangda asked again: "How do you recite these beautiful scriptures?" The monk said: "Fecamp's way of reading, three chapters of the Psalms, three of the Offices, if you don't want to read, don't read a word. I never restrain myself in reading the scriptures; the scriptures are It is established for man, but man is not established for the scriptures①. Therefore, I recite the scriptures, which are the same as the rope for hanging a stirrup. Articles fifty-first, one hundred and one, one hundred and twenty-ninth, one hundred and forty-second, etc. ② Latin: "Blessed man? ." See the first sentence of the original text of Psalm 32 of "Old Testament? Psalms".

③ The pope once ordered all the priests in the pope's country to stand on guard and strictly abide by the order, sleep on a hard stone slab at night, and get up in the middle of the night to exercise. ④ This is a refrain of a folk song collected by Talbe de Sablon. It is still sung in France, but it is not "Leniu" but "Doma". ① A hip flask in the shape of a book. ② Fécamp: A monastery in the province of Normandy. It is said that the Grand Apostle III of Normandy had asked Pope John XVII to allow the Fécamp Abbey not to be under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rouen, and the priests could move freely.Since then, "Fecamp's rules" have become synonymous with laxity.

③ Morning classes generally include twelve chapters of "Psalms" and three "Daily Classes". Only during Easter and Pentecost are only three chapters of "Psalms" and three "Day Classes" read. ① This sentence imitates the syntax of the 27th verse of the second chapter of the "New Testament? Mark's Gospel". I; brevis oratio penetrat celos, longa pota-tio evacuat cyphos.Where is this sentence? " Bonnocrates said: "God knows! I don't know; you're a wonderful fellow, little fellow!" "On this point we are both alike," said the monk. "But, venite apotemus."

At this time, someone brought a large plate of roast meat, delicious gravy and bread soup, and the monk drank wine to his heart's content. Some people drink with him, some people don't drink.After drinking, everyone began to prepare weapons and put on their armor. Regardless of whether the monk agreed or not, he was also armed. He himself was unwilling to accept other weapons except for the congregation coat on his body and the wooden stick holding the cross in his hand.However, to please everyone, he dressed up from head to toe, mounted a Neapolitan steed, and slung a long sword at his side, and accompanied Gokonda, Bonocrat, Jimnast, Eyre Twenty-five of the most valiant warriors in the palace of Demont and Golanguj, all wearing armor and holding spears, all of them straddle horses like St. George, and each has a musketeer behind their buttocks. .

② Latin: "Short straight to heaven, long to empty the cup." ③ Latin: "Let's have a drink." Imitating the syntax of Venite adoremus (come and praise) in the scriptures. ④ St. George is the god of war in mythology.