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 1 VIII|    endlessly beseeching both my abbot and me myself that now,
 2 VIII|      life quite scandalous. The abbot himself was as far below
 3 VIII|       the hearty consent of the abbot and the rest of the brotherhood,
 4 IX  |  further suggestion was that my abbot, who was there present,
 5 X   |         HAD AT THE HANDS OF HIS ABBOT AND THE BRETHREN~STRAIGHTWAY
 6 X   |        I was handed over to the Abbot of St. Médard, who was there
 7 X   |    immediately dissolved. ~ The abbot and the monks of the aforesaid
 8 X   |     person of Hilduin, a former abbot of theirs, who had travelled
 9 X   |       Thereupon they ran to the abbot and told him of the misdemeanour
10 X   |    which they charged me. ~ The abbot listened to their story
11 X   |        however, that one day my abbot came to Provins to see the
12 X   | intercede in my behalf with the abbot. I asked no more than that
13 X   |     asked no more than that the abbot should absolve me of the
14 X   |      find a suitable place. The abbot, however, and those who
15 X   |         stricken with fear. The abbot went away still obdurate,
16 X   |    Stephen, having summoned the abbot and his subordinates that
17 XIII|     accept the post from my own abbot and brethren. Thus did the
18 XIII|       days to his monastery, my abbot of St. Denis got possession
19 XV  |        entrusted to me as their abbot, which is to say their father. ~
20 XV  |       monk to the dignity of an abbot, that my wretchedness increased