Þat al þat churche lihted þo,
Line 1415
A wondur gret swetnesse com him fro.
SEint Bernard þorwh Godus miht [Sanctus quoque Bernardus dum quadam vice in matu|tinis exsistens aliquantulum obdormivisset et de quodam tractatu Augustini lectiones legerentur, vidit quendam pulcherrimum juvenem ibi stantem, de cujus ore tantus in|undantium aquarum impetus exibat, quod totam illam ecclesiam videretur replere. Qui Augustinum esse non dubitavit, qui fonte doctrinae totam ecclesiam irrigavit.]
Was at matins on a niht,
Þer þe legende good and fyn [legende st. lessoun?]
Was rad of a trete of seint Austin;
Line 1420
Þe while a luytel on slepe he fil,
Þouh hit were not wiþ his wil,
Him þhouȝte he say þat ilke tym
A feir child stondynge beo him,
Of whos mouþ out þer ran
Line 1425
So grete cours of watres þan
Þat hit semed to him wel
Þat hit fulde þe chirche eueridel.
Whon he awok, he wuste wel afyn
Þat þat was seint Austin,
Line 1430
Þat wiþ his goode teching
Fulled holichirche wiþ god lyuyng.
A mon þat louede him hertilike [Quidam s. Augustinum valde diligens monacho custodi corporis s. Augustini pecuniam magnam dedit, ut sibi s. Augustini digitum unum daret; sed ille accepta pecunia digitum cuiusdam mortui sericis involutum sibi tribuit, simulans esse digitum Augustini. Quem ille reverenter accipiens semper devotissime adorabat et ori oculis|que apponens crebro pectori adstringebat.]
Coueyted of him to haue a relyke:
Þerfore ful deuoutely
Line 1435
To a monk þat kepte þe bodi
He ȝaf for seint Austines sake,
On of his fingres him forto take,
A gret summe of good money.
Þe monk þenne tok al in god fey,
Line 1440
But he him þouȝt sumwhat on gyle:
And a ded monnes fynger he rayed þat while,
Wrapped hit in a selkene cloþ,
And tok hit þe mon wiþouten oþ,
He seide: hit was of seint Austyn
Line 1445
A fingre and a relyke fyn.
Þe mon hit tok reuerentliche
And worschiped hit deuoutliche,
Wiþ his eȝen and his mouþ,
He hit cussed, as þing selcouþ.
Line 1450
But God tok hede to his feiþ [Cuius fidem Deus intuens, digito illo projecto unum digitum s. Augustini tam mirabiliter quam misericorditer sibi dedit.]
Þorwh his miht, as þe bok seiþ,
And a verrei fingre of seynt Austin
Him sende of his merci diuin,
And þat oþur anon riht
Line 1455
Was don awey þorwh Godus miht.
Whon he to his cuntreye com, anon [Qui cum repatriasset et multa ibi miracula fierent, fama usque Papiam delata est. Sed cum praedictus monachus assereret, quod cuiusdam mortui digitus ille esset, sepulchrum aperuerunt et unum deesse de ejus digitis invenerunt. Unde abbas re cognita monachum ab officio deposuit et dire afflixit.]
Mony miracles þer weoren don.
Þe fame sprong so brod wiþ hyȝe,
Til hit com to Papye.
Line 1460
Þe monk þat him bygyled hadde
Seide þat men weren waxen al madde,
For he him bigyled on his maner
Wiþ a ded monnes fynger.
But whon þe toumbe was vndon,
Line 1465
Þei founden þat þer lakked on
Of þe fyngres of his honde.
And þenne þei þonked Godus sonde,
And þe abbot of his offyce
Remued þe monk, þat was so nyce,
Line 1470
And punissched him for þat doyng
Of such a fals begyling.
AT Burgoyne in a munster swet, [Apud Burgundiam in monasterio, quod dicitur Fontanetum, erat quidam monachus, Hugo nomine, s. Augustino valde devotus, qui in ejus scriptis miro desiderio pascebatur, quem etiam crebra supplicatione rogaverat ut ipsum ex hac luce migrare non sineret, nisi in die suae sacratissimae sollemnitatis. Ipse igitur XV die ante festum ejusdem sic coepit duris febribus aestuare, ut in vigilia ipsius super humum tamquam moriens poneretur.]
Þat is icalled Fountanet,
Þer was a monk, god mon and truwe,
Line 1475
Þat men called þo Daun Huwe, [Ms. þat þat.]
