Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ Capitulum 19

AFter the second Innocencius the seconde celestyn{us} was pope fyue monethes / after hym lucius enleuen monethes / The thyrdde eugenius was pope eyght yere and fyue monethes / This was fyrst saynt bernardes disciple and afterward Abbotte of saynt anastasy besydes Rome. and cam vnware to saynt Cesa∣rius chirche and was chocen by the Cardynals / but for drede of the Senatours he was sacred withoute the cyte / This sygned lo∣wys kyng of Fraunce with cros and made a counseyll at Reme in Fraunce. ¶ Also to hym saynt bernard the Abbot wrote the bookes de considere / ¶ Henricus libro nono ¶ Ranulph Consul of Chestre cam to walyngford with many knyghtes / and was acorded with the kyng / But soone therafter he was gylefully ta¦ken in the parlement of northampton and myght not be delyuerd er he had yolden vp the castel of lyncolne / ¶ That tyme the walsshmen destroyed the prouynce of Chestre / but at wycumalbā they were kylde / Soone therafter kyng steuen was crowned at lyncolne / and soo happed noo kyng byfore / Also that yere con∣radus the emperour lowys kyng of Fraunce the Erle of flaun∣dres and many other that hadde take the cros to the hooly londe / chesed the lond weye and not the water weye / And passed by hongary and were bytrayd by fraude of the emperour of Constā¦tinople / For many of them tasted mele medlyd with lyme / and deyde and many other were deed by swerde and honger / For robbyng and reuyng and lechery / Giraldus de p / capitulo 18

¶ Loys kyng of Fraunce come homeward out of the hooly lon∣de / and wexed seke for long continence and defaute of women as leches sayde / and leches and prelates counsayled hym to take a wenche· by cause he was so fer from the quene / Me is leuer deye sayd he chaste than lyue in spousebrekyng / and soo he putte all in goddes hande and was hoole anone / In a tyme a clerke cam to hym / and brought to hym ā pryuelege of the pope that he shol¦de in euery cathedral chirche of his Reme haue the fyrst Bene∣fyce that voyded with the fruyte and prouffytes in the mene ty∣me / Anone he threwe the lettres in to the fyre / and sayde that hym was leuer brenne suche lettres than haue his soule tormen¦ted in helle / the same prynce fasted euery frydaye to brede and water / and men counseylled hym to fede an honderd poure men on the fryday and leue that fastyng / We wold gladly fede so many poure men other more / but our fastyng will we not breke / For al withoute the prouffyte that it doth to the soule / hit profyteth moche to the body also / we do euery weke soo moche and so many superfluytees in to the body / that the purgacion and reste of one daye helpyth moche to putte of superfluyte / and also to make the sharper appetyte / Whan this lowys was dede a vercifyour wro∣te on his tombe in short style a wrytyng y hight with faire spech of rethorik & torned his speche as it were to his sone phelip / & she¦wed hym his fader that lay beryed there / and sayde / Nunc super tu qui superes successorum honoris / Degener es si degeneris a lau¦de prioris / that is to saye thou ouerlyuest this that art aboue suc∣cessour of worship / thou art vnkynde / yf thou goost oute of kynde of the praysyng of thy forfader / Aboute that tyme deyd mayster hughe de saynt vyctor monk and pryour of saynt vyctor besydes paris a parfyght man of lettrure and of Relygyon / Of hym it is sayde that whanne he was seke in his deth euyl / and myght hol¦de no mete nother drynke he axyd besyly and prayed to yeue him gods body / his bretheren wold ceese his cryeng and brought him an oubleye that was not sacred / he knewe hit in his spyryte and sayde god foryeue it you bretheren why wol ye begyle me this is not my lord / Anone they brought an obley that was sacred / he sawe it and myght not hold and hened vp his handes and sayde I praye that the sonne goo vp to the fader. and the spyrite to god that made hym of nought / And so he yelde vp the goost / and our lordes body vanysshed oute of syght / R / But somme men wol me¦ne that this hughe myght not holde for he was castyng aweye /

and therfor his bretheren wolde not brynge hym the veray sa∣crament / And he prayd hem specially that they wold sette the sa¦crament vpon his syde / and whanne they hadde soo done the seke mannes syde opened and the sacrament went in by hit self / This made many good bookes de sacramentis de Archa noe / de institu¦cione nouiciorum / de arra anime / de studio sapiencie / dydascaly∣con and de laude crucis / he made a booke also / Fr••st and yse was soo stronge that horses myght passe ouer temse / This yere mayster gracianus de Tuscia / monk of Bononia was borne / He compy¦led and gadred the book of decrees so sayth hugh / 296 / forma / His broder germayne mayster peres lombard Bisshop of parys compyled and made the foure bookes of sentence· and gloosed the sauter and poules pystles also