50. Such expressions as my book, my cloak, my shoes
(Cassian. Institut. 1. iv. c. 13) were not less severely
prohibited among the Western monks (Cod. Regul. part ii. p.
174 [tom. i. p. 178], 235, 288); and the Rule of Columbanus
punished them with six lashes. The ironical author of the
Ordres Monastiques, who laughs at the foolish nicety of
modern convents, seems ignorant that the ancients were
equally absurd.