Cum autem ipse sibi ibidem expulsis hostibus mansionem angustam circumvallante aggere, et domos in ea necessarias, iuvante fratrum manu, id est, oratorium, et habitaculum commune construxisset, iussit fratres in eiusdem habitaculi pavimento foveam facere: erat autem tellus durissima et saxosa, cui nulla omnino spes venae fontanae videretur inesse.
Now when, after the enemy had been driven out, he had made himself a narrow place of abode compassed about with a bank, and with the helping hand of the brethren had builded necessary houses in the same, that is to say, a chapel and a common dwelling-place, he commanded the brethren to make a pit in the floor of the same dwelling-place: yet was the earth very hard and stony, wherein there seemed to be no hope in the world of a vein of spring water.
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