"Thanks to good brother Bartholomew, I carve in wood and in ivory, and can do something also in silver and in bronze.

From brother Francis I have learned to paint on vellum, on glass, and on metal, with a knowledge of those pigments and essences which can preserve the color against damp or a biting air.

Brother Luke hath given me some skill in damask work, and in the enamelling of shrines, tabernacles, diptychs and triptychs.

For the rest, I know a little of the making of covers, the cutting of precious stones, and the fashioning of instruments." "A goodly list, truly," cried the superior with a smile.

"What clerk of Cambrig or of Oxenford could say as much?
But of thy reading--hast not so much to show there, I fear ?" "No, father, it hath been slight enough.