And voluntarie pouertie profest,
By food of angels seeming as to liue:
But yet with them th’accounted were the best
That most to their fraternitie doe giue,
And beyond number that they were increas’d:
“If so,” quoth Conscience, “thee may I beleeue,
Then t’is in vaine more on them to bestow,
If beyond number like they be to grow.”
102.
The frier soone feeling Conscience had him found,