Excerpt from A Modern Prose Translation of the Ancient Poem of Guillaume De Guileville: Entitled the Pylgrymage of Man, With Illustrations and an Appendix
She (aid (he would conceal nothing from him. She led him into a room, which had a large coffer, and told him to open it. He was (urprifed that it had holes, and that by each hole entered a great hand, open ready to take and receive quickly. He inquired what it meant. This is the place, (he replied, where all the goods are received by night, but however much is brought nothing ever remains, for it is fcarcely received before it is confumed by all thefe hands; nothing, therefore, remains to give to the poor monks, who in this place (erve God mo('t devotedly.
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