too; lazy monks often have to murmur, _"Saevit ut lupus,_ He
rages like a wolf; was not our Dream true!" "To repress and
hold-in such sudden anger he was continually careful," and
succeeded well:--right, Samson; that it may become in thee as
noble central heat, fruitful, strong, beneficent; not blaze out,
or the seldomest possible blaze out, as wasteful volcanoism to
scorch and consume!


"We must first creep, and gradually learn to walk," had Abbot
Samson said of himself, at starting. In four years he has become
a great walker; striding prosperously along; driving much
before him. In less than four years, says Jocelin, the Convent
Debts were all liquidated: the harpy Jews not only settled
with, but banished, bag and baggage, out of the _Bannaleuca_
(Liberties, _Banlieue_) of St. Edmundsbury,--so has the King's
Majesty been persuaded to permit. Farewell to _you,_ at any
rate; let us, in no extremity, apply again to you! Armed men
march them over the borders, dismiss them under stern penalties,
--sentence of excommunication on all that shall again harbour them
here: there were many dry eyes at their departure.

New life enters everywhere, springs up beneficent, the Incubus of
Debt once rolled away. Samson hastes not; but neither does he
pause to rest. This of the Finance is a life-long business with
him;--Jocelin's anecdotes are filled to weariness with it. As
indeed to Jocelin it was of very primary interest.

But we have to record also, with a lively satisfaction, that
spiritual rubbish is as little tolerated in Samson's Monastery as