Pa. So I found afterwards: But however, I liv'd harder here, than I did in the Monasteries.
Eu. And what did you do after this?
Pa. Now my Mind began to be wavering, whether I should return to my Business of a Merchant, that I had laid aside, or press forward in Pursuit of Religion that fled before me. In the mean Time it came into my Mind, that I might follow both together.
Eu. What, be a Merchant and a Monk both together?
Pa. Why not? There is nothing more religious than the Orders of Mendicants, and there is nothing more like to Trading. They fly over Sea and Land, they see many Things, they hear many Things, they enter into the Houses of common People, Noblemen, and Kings.
Eu. Ay, but they don't Trade for Gain.
Pa. Very often, with better Success than we do.
Eu. Which of these Orders did you make Choice of?
Pa. I try'd them all.
Eu. Did none of them please you?