Là les salons sont peints, les meubles sont dorés
Des larmes et du sang des pauvres devorés.
[641] Heloisa to Abelard: "These cloisters owe nothing to public charities; our walls were not raised by the usury of publicans, nor their foundations laid on base extortion. The God whom we serve sees nothing but innocent riches, and harmless votaries whom you have placed here."
[642] There were no benefactors whose praises were celebrated in the services, but the building was vocal only with the praise of the Deity.
[643] Our author imitates Milton:
And storied windows richly dight
Casting a dim religious light.—Wakefield.
[644] Dryden had said of his Good Parson:
His eyes diffused a venerable grace.—Wakefield.
[645] Mrs. Rowe on the Creation:
And kindling glories brighten all the skies.—Wakefield.
[646] By pretending that she desires Abelard to visit the Paraclete in obedience to the call of her sister nuns.