CCCXXI.
Familiaritas mulieris eciam sanctis
nocet.
We rede in 'Legenda Sancti Remigij' how þer was one þat hight Genelandus, & he was a wurthi man̛, & wed Saynt Re[mi]gius [MS. Saynt Regius.] sister doghter vnto his wife. And so be conceƚƚ of þis gude holie man̛ þai departid̛ [Lat. MSS. Et se religionis causa mutuo absoluissent.] ; and þis Genelandus was made bisshopp̛ of Lugdun̛, and he was a gude clerk̘ & a wurthi prechur. And his wife wold̛ oft sithis com̛ vnto hym̛ becauce of instruccion̛, & to here hym̛ preche. And so att þe laste, be temptacion̛ sho conseyvid̛, & was with child̛ with hym̛; and when̛ þis child̛ was born̛, þis bisshopp̛, þe fadur þeroff, garte caƚƚ it Latro, becauce it was getten̛ be stoltherie. Not-with-stondyng, becauce of suspicion̛, he suffred̛ his wife com̛ to hym̛ agayn̛ as sho did befor̛; and belife scho was with childe agayn̛. And when̛ þe childe was born̛, þe fadur garte caƚƚ it Vulpiculus. So at þe laste hym̛ repentid̛, and went vnto Remigius, and shrafe hym̛ to hym̛ & knowlegid̛ his syn̛. And he closid̛ hym̛ vp̛ in a ceƚƚ vij yere, & in þe mene while he gouerned̛ his bisshopprik̘. And at þe vij yere end̛, ane angeƚƚ aperid̛ vnto þis Genelandus [MS. Gelelandus.] , & told̛ hym̛ at his syn̛ was forgyffyn̛