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1 Int | his station and become a priest is to be abhorred. It comes
2 I | do not hear in vain!"~ ~PRIEST GENKU'S OATH.~ The celebrated
3 I | OATH.~ The celebrated priest Genku sent his oath to Tsukinowa,
4 I | word to say.~ Such was priest Genku's oath. He knew there
5 I(21)| Musashibo Benkei. The priest and robber samurai who became
6 I | and his hill.~ ~THE OLD PRIEST'S TREE-GRAFTING.~ But
7 I | when a boy. Once I heard a priest tell this story:—~ In
8 I | attendant or two. ./. An old priest eighty years of age was
9 I | said: "What are you doing, Priest?" The priest thought the
10 I | you doing, Priest?" The priest thought the question foolish
11 I | Shōgun laughed: "Such an old priest will not live to see them
12 I | in your hard work?" The priest returned: "Who are you that
13 I | Shōgun's crest, and the priest recognizing his visitor
14 I | him.~ I am like this old priest. To the end of life I study
15 I | without it." 53~It is like Priest Saigyō's verse at the Shrines
16 I(54)| of Yoritomo who became a priest. He died A.D. 1198.~
17 I | grateful tears like the priest before the shrine.~ ./.
18 III | day, at evening, as the priest went out of the temple gate
19 III | not a common man. When the priest returned from his errand
20 III | Thinking that strange the priest asked, "Who are you? Come
21 III | So in they went and the priest inquired whence he came
22 III | find some place." And the priest rejoined, "Stay here to-night,
23 III | stayed, and the next day the priest asked him to remain until
24 III | occupation. He thanked the priest and remained. It soon appeared
25 III | my past." So he told the priest his real name and that he
26 III | worked on after the chief priest and all the other priests
27 III | with clasped hands like a priest. It was Yuge, and all the
28 IV(2)| A Buddhist priest said to be of India (?).~
29 IV(7)| an official who became a priest on the death of his Imperial
30 IV | when at Kyōto he met the priest Honen he mourned over it.
31 IV | too if I am so?" And the priest replied, "No matter about
32 IV | their example. Mioe was a priest, but his words agree with
33 IV | his high rank, became a priest, liked quiet walks and thus
34 V | When the celebrated priest Saigyō went on pilgrimage
35 V | at that time, a very bad priest at Takao, named Bungaku.
36 V | of the world and became a priest. Truly that was lamentable!~
37 V | save himself by becoming a priest is indeed to forsake the
38 V | to be comforted. But the priest reproved her: "You may well
39 V | was wise advice, but the priest did not consider how it
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