Obsecro, sancte frater, qui ad coronam te vitae quae terminum nesciat tendere credis, quid contrario tuae fidei habitu terminatam in capite coronae imaginem portas? et si beati consortium Petri quaeris, cur eius quem ille anathematizavit tonsurae imaginem imitaris? et non potius eius cum quo in aeternum beatus vivere cupis etiam nunc habitum te, quantum potes, diligere monstras? Respondit ille: Scias pro certo, frater mi dilecte, quia etsi Simonis tonsuram ex consuetudine patria habeam, Simoniacam tamen perfidiam tota mente detestor ac respuo: beatissimi autem apostolorum principis, quantum mea parvitas sufficit, vestigia sequi desidero.
I beseech you, holy brother, why do you, believing that you are on the way to a crown of life which knoweth no end, wear on your head the form of a crown which hath an end, of a fashion contrary to your faith? and if you seek the fellowship of the blessed Peter, why do you follow his form of shaving, whom Peter put under a curse? and do not rather shew even now that with all your might you love the fashion of him with whom you desire to live in bliss for ever? Know you for a surety, my beloved brother, answered he, that albeit I use the fashion of shaving that Simon did, after the custom of my country, yet with all my mind I abhor and reject the unbelief of Simon; and desire to follow, so far as my poor ability doth serve, the steps of the most blessed chief of the apostles.
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