Chapter IV Book-Making and Collecting in the Religious Houses
“For if hevene be on this erthe. and ese to any soule,
It is in cloistere or in scole. be many skilles I fynde;
For in cloistre cometh no man. to chide ne to fighte,
But alle is buxomnesse there and bokes. to rede and to lerne.”
Piers Plowman, B. x. 300