It sometimes played havoc with their tempers.

The nuns were not chosen for convent life because they were saints.

They were no more immune from tantrums than was the Wife of Bath, who was out of all charity when other village wives went into church before her; and sometimes they got terribly on each others' nerves.

Readers of _Piers Plowman_ will remember that when the seven deadly sins come in, Wrath tells how he was cook to the prioress of a convent and, says he, Of wycked wordes I, Wrath ...

here wordes imade, Til 'thow lixte' and 'thow lixte' ...