[11]. Cant. v. 1: "Veniat dilectus meus in hortum suum, et comedat."
[12]. A.D. 1572.
[13]. Maria de Velasco y Aragon, Countess of Osorno (Ribera, lib. iii. c. 1).
[14]. See [Relation iv. § 2].
[15]. The monastery of the Incarnation, Avila (De la Fuente).
[16]. St. John of the Cross, at the instance of the Saint, was sent to Avila, with another father of the reformed Carmelites, to be confessor of the nuns of the Incarnation, who then disliked the observance of the primitive rule.
[17]. 2 Cor. xi. 27: "In labore et ærumna, in vigiliis multis."
[18]. St. Matt. xvii. 2: "Et transfiguratus est ante eos."
[19]. St. John xiii. 16: "Non est servus major domino suo."