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GERMANUS: On this subject you have certainly left no room for any
further uncertainty. For we are sure that we cannot possibly keep up our
present wretched garb, or our daily going barefoot in their neighbourhood,
and that there we should not even procure with the same labour what is
necessary for our sustenance, as here we are actually obliged to fetch our
water on our necks for three miles. For shame on our part as well as on
theirs would not in the least allow us to do this before them. However how
will it hurt our plan of life if we are altogether set free from anxiety on
the score of preparing our food, by being supplied by them with all things,
and so give ourselves up simply to reading and prayer, that by the removal
of that labour with which we are now distracted we may devote ourselves
more earnestly to spiritual interests alone?
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