Þen þei him asked what he hiht. [Qui cum eum de nomine suo interrogassent, ait: Ego sum Augustinus, quon|dam Hypponensis civitatis episcopus — statimque ab oculis eorum evanuit. Illi autem Papiam pergentes, cum ad dictum monasterium pervenissent, coeperunt omnes voces levare ac unanimiter conclamare: Sancte Augustine, adjuva nos]
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Þen onswerde he anon riht:
"Mi nome is Austin, wite ȝe wel, men,
Þat sum tyme was bisschop of Iponen",
And þenne anon from heore eȝe-siht
He vanissched þorwh Godus miht.
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Te Papye whon þei weren come,
To þe munstre þe wey þei nome,
Anon þei liften heore vois at ones
And cried riht þus for þe nones:
"Seint Austin confessour glorious,
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Haue merci nou and help þou vs!"
At þis cri þer comen anon [Ad quorum clamores cives et monachi (excitati ad tam grande spectaculum) confluebant, et ecce ex nervorum distentione sanguis multus coepit effluere, ita ut ab introitu coe|nobii usque ad tumbam s. Augustini tota terra sanguine videretur respersa. Cum autem ad sepulcrum s. Augustini venissent, omnes sanitati sunt integrae restituti, acsi nulla in eorum corporibus laesio exstitisset.]
Monkes and oþur men mony on:
Þer mihte men seo þe traces of bledyng
Of heore veynes streynyng,
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From þe churche dore wel a fyn
Til þei come to þe tumbe of seynt Austin:
Þere þei weren heled alle, parde,
Þat no sore on hem men mihte se.
From þat tyme forþ þe grete fame [Coepit extunc fama s. Augustini crebrescere et multitudo languentium ad ejus tumulum adventare, qui omnes sanitatis beneficia reportantes suae salutis pignora relinquebant, factumque est ut tanta prae|dictorum pignorum fuerit multitudo, ut inde totum oratorium s. Augustini et porticus plena essent, ita ut eundi et redeundi impedimentum non modicum generarent. Qua|propter monachi necessitate compulsi ea inde removeri fecerunt.]
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Encresed of seint Austines name,
Þat muche pepele afturward
Þat seke weoren wenten þiderward,
And of heore seknesse feir and wel
Weren iheled eueridel.
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And þer weore laft so mani
Signes of wax, verreyli,
Þat seint Austines chapel
And þe porche þerof eueridel
Weoren so ful, þat no wiht
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Nouþur in ne out passe miht.
Neode drof þe monkes to take away
Mony of þe signes, day bi day.
HIt is an old notabilite [Notandum, quod, cum tria sint quae a mundanis hominibus appetuntur: scilicet divitiae, deliciae et honores, vir iste sanctus tantae perfectionis exstitit, quod ipse divitias contemsit, honores respuit, voluptates abhorruit.]
Þat þreo þingus þer be
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Þat worldliche men disiren here:
Riches, delices, and worschipes in feere.
Þis seint was of so gret parfecciun
Þat he of þeos þinges hedde abhomina|ciun.
Þat he dispised so riches, [Quod enim divitias contemneret, ipse testatur in libro Soliloquiorum, ubi ratio eum interrogat dicens: Divitias nullas cupis? et respondet Augustinus: Hoc quidem nec nunc primum; nam cum XXX annos agam, XIV fere anni sunt ex quo ista cupere destiti nec aliud in his praeter necessa|rium victum cogitavi, prorsus unus Ciceronis liber mihi facile persuasit nullo modo esse appetendas divitias.]
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Þe bok "Soliloquijs" he bereþ witnes; [Ms. he ist zu tilgen.]
Þer Resun askeþ him þus:
"Of richesse wheþur þou beo couetous?"
Seint Austin þer onswereþ him
And seiþ: "þis nis not þe furste tym,
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For i am now of þritti ȝeer
And seþþhe fourtene ben passed her
Siþen i hedde no coueytyng
But onliche to mete, drinke and cloþing:
For vppon Ciceronis oune boke
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I lernde wel whon I dude loke,
Þat i schulde on none wyse
Of richesse haue no coueytise".
