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 501 II  |       Nevertheless, the garb he had donned by reason of his conversion
 502 VII |          left but this, that in our doom the sorrow yet to come shall
 503 XI  |             to erase from above the door the name of him who is the
 504 X   |             all in vain. O God, who dost judge justice itself, in
 505 IX  |            Our Lord Himself, said: 'Doth our law judge any man before
 506 I   |         dear to him, he sought with double diligence to have me wisely
 507 VI  |             for that very reason it doubly graced the maiden, and made
 508 II  |         students were holding grave doubts as to his religion, and
 509 XII |              I daily expected to be dragged before their councils or
 510 VIII|  remembrance that, according to the dread letter of the law, God holds
 511 VI  |        might favour with my love, I dreaded rejection of none. Then,
 512 XIII|            one. And there, amid the dreadful roar of the waves of the
 513 VII |        upper story, he was suddenly drenched with foul slops; wiping
 514 XV  |      ability, so far as my food and drink were concerned, against
 515 II  |           of my youth and the brief duration of my studies. ~ Out of
 516 XI  |             many charms for eye and ear, fearing lest their souls
 517 VII |            A few days later, in the early morning, having kept our
 518 VI  |          even than this, by his own earnest entreaties he fell in with
 519 XIII|             drove Jerome toward the East. Never, God knows, would
 520 I   |            eight miles, as I think, eastward from the city of Nantes,
 521 XV  |             resist the spirit which echoes in the words, "Thy will
 522 VI  |            she should have the best education which he could possibly
 523 IX  |            found in my book, to the effect that, although God had begotten
 524 I   |       lesser Brittany, distant some eight miles, as I think, eastward
 525 VII |      passage on this subject in the eighth book of St. Augustine's "
 526 I   |        should have been mine as the eldest born, I fled utterly from
 527 XIII|         shepherd. To this abbey the elective choice of the brethren called
 528 XII |             lion, or an ant with an elephant, in very truth my rivals
 529 II  |          religious, and so might be elevated to a loftier rank in the
 530 VII |             the sons of the prophet Elias and others the followers
 531 VII |             and they must simply be eliminated. This view is maintained,
 532 XIV |      thought them the Zacharias and Elisabeth of the Gospel, saving only
 533     | elsewhere
 534 IX  |           they were amazed and much embarrassed. He himself, in order to
 535 XIV |          say: 'have we not power to embrace a sister, a wife,' but he
 536 VII |            they might repose in the embraces of philosophy alone. One
 537 III |          thing which some among his eminent followers took sorely to
 538 XIV |        women kept under close guard employ eunuchs for that purpose,
 539 XIV |             Such men, in truth, are enabled to have far more importance
 540 XIV |        depriving me of all power to enact such baseness? How shameless
 541 XV  |       abandon his wicked sons might encourage me to follow the example
 542 VII |      intolerable annoyances and the endless disturbances of married
 543 VIII|         sought me in great numbers, endlessly beseeching both my abbot
 544 VIII|            would spread to the very ends of the earth. ~ What path
 545 XV  |           heir methinks I am in the endurance of foul slander, says in
 546 VIII|     disgrace would bring bitter and enduring grief to my kindred and
 547 V   |         foolish and worldly comfort enervates the soul, rendering it an
 548 XIII|            either give up trying to enforce discipline or else abandon
 549 V   |         practiced it; for my pride, engendered in me by my knowledge of
 550 IX  |          manifest violence of their enmity. He bade me not to doubt
 551 VIII|         bidding, taken the veil and entered a convent. Thus it was that
 552 IX  |            to celebrate mass before entering the council, and through
 553 I   |             until in truth I was so enthralled by my passion for learning
 554 III |         praises abroad with notable enthusiasm, and thus compelled me to
 555 IX  |           and all who heard me were enthusiastic in their approval alike
 556 XI  |          many windows, do vices win entrance to the soul. The metropolis
 557 VI  |         practiced, I went to him to entreat his forgiveness, promising
 558 VI  |            this, by his own earnest entreaties he fell in with my desires
 559 II  |          William, was active in the episcopate of Chalons. In this field
 560 XIV |           myself, could but find an equal cause for suspicion against
 561 VI  |            uncle's love for her was equalled only by his desire that
 562 VIII|           husband most noble~Who ne'er shouldst have shared my
 563 XI  |           Son? Who would presume to erase from above the door the
 564 XI  |             fields and paid for the erection of buildings, in order that
 565 IX  |             William and Anselm, our erstwhile teachers, we're dead, were
 566 VII |        called less because of their erudition than by reason of their
 567 XV  |       others. I barely succeeded in escaping them, with the aid of a
 568 XI  |           feast which is solemnized especially for Him. But while this
 569 VII |    Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Essenes. In our times, furthermore,
 570 II  |          his students, to a certain estate far distant from the city.
 571 X   |           writings are held in high esteem by the whole Latin Church,
 572 XIV |               We read, too, of that eunuch of great authority under
 573     | everywhere
 574 VII |         their lives" is used, it is evident that the wise, in other
 575 V   |          from the heights of my own exaltation. Nay, in such case not even
 576 XV  |          experience, I who had been exalted from the condition of a
 577 XV  |       Inspired by those records and examples, we should endure our persecutions
 578 IV  |          who were considered far to excel all the others: Alberic
 579 VII |          for the life of a convent, excepting only the veil, and these
 580 V   |     diligently kept myself from all excesses and from association with
 581 XI  |    permissible to dedicate a church exclusively to the Holy Spirit rather
 582 VIII|           students to hear me as an excuse whereby they might be rid
 583 XIV |           The more power such women exercise over men, the more easily
 584 VII |        reasons for this philosophic exhortation with these words: "Who among
 585 VII |      counsel of the Apostle nor the exhortations of the saints regarding
 586 VII |      avoidance of which the Apostle exhorts us, saying: "Art thou loosed
 587 XIII|            become the prioress. The exiles being thus dispersed in
 588 XIV |          fathers, if such spite had existed in their time, seeing that
 589 XII |         with a thunderbolt, I daily expected to be dragged before their
 590 XIII|            veil. From this abbey he expelled by force all the nuns who
 591 XV  |             a father, lest, in thus exposing myself to certain peril,
 592 VIII|           no less persuasiveness in expounding the Scriptures than in lecturing
 593 XV  |     returned to the abbey after the expulsion of those whom I have just
 594 XI  |             his glory. We strove to extinguish his fame, and we have but
 595 XIII|       heavier than those which were extorted from the Jews themselves. ~
 596 III |          but that it appeared quite extraordinary to me that educated persons
 597 XIII|       divine office, for indeed the extreme poverty of the place would
 598 VI  |         make amends even beyond his extremest hope, I offered to marry
 599 XI  |         stream, the many charms for eye and ear, fearing lest their
 600 V   |        truly from learning the very facts than from hearing what is
 601 XIII|             No one, methinks, could fail to understand how persistently
 602 VI  |         with threats and blows if I failed to do so with caresses?
 603 X   |             lamented the hurt to my fair name far more than the one
 604 VI  |  fulfillment of my wish, for he was fairly agape for my money, and
 605 XIV |           they preached (Chap. 4). "Faithful women," he says, "who were
 606 VII |           or the noisy confusion of family life? Who can endure the
 607 XI  |             huts; instead of dainty fare they lived on the herbs
 608 XV  |           ahead of the will of God. Farewell. ~  ~
 609 X   |   repentance for his injustice, and feeling that he had yielded enough
 610 XIII|         appeal strongly to people's feelings, as likewise it makes their
 611 XI  |             on his couch with muddy feet, and in order that he might
 612 III |   discovered that it was indeed the fig tree which Our Lord cursed (
 613 VII |           and irrevocably into such filth as this? If you care nothing
 614 V   |            kinds, and the amount of financial profit as well as glory
 615 VIII|          head among men, when every finger should be pointed at me
 616 XIII|          build, and was not able to finish" (Luke xiv. 30). My despair
 617 V   |            HE RETURNED TO PARIS AND FINISHED THE GLOSSES WHICH HE HAD
 618 III |           reason. When he kindled a fire, he filled his house with
 619 X   |     memorable book of mine into the flames. Although my enemies appeared
 620 V   |         people, perverse and subtly flattering chance gave birth to an
 621 XII |          Though I seem to compare a flea with a lion, or an ant with
 622 XIV |           swayed by the delights of fleshly lust. Many times I thought
 623 XI  |          retreat than they began to flock thither from all sides,
 624 XIV |             to be tarnished, but to flourish. Conscience and reputation
 625 I   |         study of my chosen art most flourished, I became such an one as
 626 II  |          art of dialectics was most flourishing, and there did I meet William
 627 III |         nought. He had a miraculous flow of words, but they were
 628 XI  |        taken unless the army of the foe has first rushed in through
 629 VII |           me or dissuade me from my folly by these and like arguments,
 630 VIII|             remember well, when her fond friends sought vainly to
 631 XI  |        compelling the soul to dwell fondly upon remembered iniquities,
 632 X   |           of Daniel: " 'Are ye such fools, ye sons of Israel, that
 633 X   |     instantly return; likewise they forbade the prior with whom I had
 634 IV  |         coward had the impudence to forbid me to carry on any further
 635 VIII|            that men thus maimed are forbidden to enter a church, even
 636 VII |        myself forever of Heloise by forcing her to become a nun. Violently
 637 XIII|            habits of all alike were foreign to me. Outside the monastery
 638 II  |            teacher himself had some foreknowledge of this, and tried to remove
 639 II  |            students who were ranked foremost, seemed all the more insufferable
 640 XV  |         saying of Our Lord, what he foretold for his followers at the
 641 For |                                     FOREWORD~OFTEN the hearts of men
 642 VI  |          went to him to entreat his forgiveness, promising to make any amends
 643 XII |        perhaps be won over to their form of worship. ~ ~~
 644 II  |           was that the same quality formed the essence alike of the
 645 I   |            my liking than the other forms of philosophy, I exchanged
 646 XI  |           waters of the Jordan, and forsaking the throngs and the cities,
 647 XI  |         many among the philosophers forsook the thronging ways of the
 648 IX  |         these two rivals of mine so foully slandered me with both the
 649 XI  |      Although this oratory had been founded in honour of the Holy Trinity,
 650 VII |       school," he says, "had as its founder Pythagoras of Samos, who,
 651 XIV |             seen with our own eyes, founding convents for women and making
 652 XI  |            birds, the mirror of the fountain, the murmur of the stream,
 653 VI  |      tenderness surpassing the most fragrant balm in sweetness. What
 654 IX  |         finally they induced him to frame a new sentence, whereby
 655 IX  |         their approval alike of the frankness and the logic of my words.
 656 II  |           there would be given more frequent chance for my assaults in
 657 VIII|             her from submitting her fresh youth to the heavy and almost
 658 III |         tree that I might pluck the fruit thereof, I discovered that
 659 XIII|   wretchedness of my existence, how fruitless my life now was, both to
 660 IX  |            result, my rivals became furiously angry, and summoned a council
 661 VII |         lies. Her uncle, aroused to fury thereby, visited her repeatedly
 662 IX  |           words, saying that it was futile to utter words which the
 663 II  |           for peace from him in the future. But since, as I have said,
 664 XV  |             the servant of Christ" (Galat. i. 10). And the Psalmist
 665 XI  |             any one delights in the games of the circus, in the contests
 666 XI  |             cities and the pleasant gardens of the countryside, with
 667 VII |          make ready for her all the garments of a nun, suitable for the
 668 XI  |         first rushed in through the gates. If any one delights in
 669 XI  |             our minds through these gateways, where will be its liberty?
 670 IX  |         know, my lords, all who are gathered here, the doctrine of this
 671 III |           seemed noble to those who gazed upon its leaves from afar,
 672 XI  |            women, in the glitter of gems and raiment, or in aught
 673 XV  |          even as the accursed Cain (Gen. iv. 14). I have already
 674 IX  |          the questions involved are generally considered the most difficult
 675 VII |             of their eyes and their genital organs. One of these two
 676 IX  |      maligning me in whispers. Then Geoffroi, Bishop of Chartres, who
 677 VIII|             apparently the Lord had gifted me with no less persuasiveness
 678 XIII|              a certain abbey of St. Gildas at Ruits, then mourning
 679 I   |            of letters before he had girded on the soldier's belt. And
 680 IX  |              and a man's later life gives testimony as to his earlier
 681 VII |             rather than reluctantly giving them up, and denied themselves
 682 XIV |           preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of
 683 XI  |             beauty of women, in the glitter of gems and raiment, or
 684 XV  |           says: "All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
 685 IX  |        prove the existence of three gods. No sooner had I reached
 686 XV  |      persecution. For our adversary goes about as a roaring lion
 687 XV  |        chalice. One day, when I had gone to Nantes to visit the count,
 688 VI  |          that very reason it doubly graced the maiden, and made her
 689 X   |          for a long time throughout Greece for the purpose of investigating
 690 IX  |          teachers, we're dead, were greedy to reign in their stead,
 691 XI  |             you another comforter" (Greek "another Paraclete," John,
 692 XI  |           utmost to hurt me, should grieve to see how all things worked
 693 VI  |         reason of my disgrace! Each grieved most, not for himself, but
 694 XIII|            nought. Full often did I groan: "Justly has this sorrow
 695 XIV |             for his own wife on the grounds of religious duty, so that
 696 XV  |        clearly shows that whosoever grows wrathful for any reason
 697 X   |            that I should be closely guarded. In vain did I offer to
 698 VI  |         then seen him could rightly guess the burning agony of his
 699 XV  |           the clear evidence of his guilt. ~ After this, as their
 700 VI  |    everything merely as a matter of habit. I had become nothing more
 701 XIII|         could turn for aid, for the habits of all alike were foreign
 702 XV  |         sword secretly hanging by a hair above his head, and so learned
 703 X   |           convicted criminal, I was handed over to the Abbot of St.
 704 VI  |             household was a serious handicap to my studies, and likewise
 705 XV  |           beheld the sword secretly hanging by a hair above his head,
 706 II  |             While these things were happening, it became needful for me
 707 V   |            the stories of these two happenings, understanding them more
 708 VIII|          the uproar with which they harassed me, or the grief with which
 709 XIII|     daughters. They took delight in harassing me on this matter, and they
 710 XV  |  steadfastly the more bitterly they harm us. We should not doubt
 711     | hast
 712 III |         should attempt the thing so hastily. However, this lecture gave
 713 XV  |          John xv. 20). If the world hate you, ye know that it hated
 714 XIV |           this there was no lack of hateful murmuring, and the thing
 715 XV  |            to be one whom the world hates" (Epist. 99). And to the
 716 XV  |         rage of the tempest as to a haven of peace. There, indeed,
 717 IX  |       following sentence, under the heading "Augustine, On the Trinity,
 718 XIV |        certain women which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities,
 719 XV  |             reckoning the power and heaped-up wealth of the tyrant Dionysius
 720 XI  |             beds they exchanged for heaps of straw and rushes, and
 721 X   |                The very cruelty and heartlessness of my punishment, however,
 722 VIII|            themselves, and with the hearty consent of the abbot and
 723 XII |  Christendom and go forth among the heathen, paying them a stipulated
 724 XIII|           were far more savage than heathens and more evil of life. The
 725 XIV |            my way to the kingdom of Heaven lies through good and evil
 726 XIII|           down the monks with taxes heavier than those which were extorted
 727 VII |            vii. 32). But if I would heed neither the counsel of the
 728 XI  |            reality denies to it. ~ "Heeding such counsel, therefore,
 729 V   |            me lightly down from the heights of my own exaltation. Nay,
 730 XV  |             this, St. Jerome, whose heir methinks I am in the endurance
 731 IX  |           speak, to succeed them as heirs. While they were directing
 732 XV  |         Epist. 99). And to the monk Heliodorus he writes: "You are wrong,
 733 X   |             the monastery by night, helped thereto by some of the monks
 734 XI  |            rightly be called God or Helper, so likewise may It be termed
 735 XIII|          monastery the lord and his henchmen ceaselessly hounded me,
 736 IX  |         have yourself fallen into a heresy in believing that a father
 737 XII |         councils or assemblies as a heretic or one guilty of impiety.
 738 XII |           no less bitterly than the heretics of old hounded St. Athanasius.
 739 VII |           time is really sufficient hereto" (Epist. 73) ~ It matters
 740 I   |         glory in arms, the right of heritage and all the honours that
 741 XI  |        Arduzon, so that they seemed hermits rather than scholars. And
 742 XIV |           Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna,
 743 VI  |             last, nor is it easy to hide from one what is known to
 744 XI  |         envy seek me out even in my hiding place. Secretly my rivals
 745 X   |          whose writings are held in high esteem by the whole Latin
 746 XIV |          the famous scholar to have highly commended what he thus saw,
 747 VII |           the consideration of such hindrances to the study of philosophy,
 748 VI  |          The truth was often enough hinted to him, and by many persons,
 749 IX  |            they managed by repeated hints to stir up their archbishop,
 750 II  |           illness forced me to turn homeward to my native province, and
 751 X   |             solely by reason of the honesty of my purpose and my love
 752 VIII|           the latter, however, as a hook, luring my students by the
 753 II  |       returned from Melun to Paris, hoping for peace from him in the
 754 X   |          any way been guilty. Then, horrified at their wickedness, which
 755 XV  |            blow, for I fell from my horse, breaking a bone in my neck,
 756 XI  |           and the immolation of the Host is made to Him, why should
 757 VI  |           know the evils of our own households, and to be ignorant of the
 758 XIII|             if I had stayed there a hundred. True it is that the weakness
 759 VII |       reproaches which Xantippe was hurling at him from an upper story,
 760 VIII|          the words of Cornelia: ~"O husband most noble~Who ne'er shouldst
 761 II  |            the reality of universal ideas was that the same quality
 762 XI  |             failure to perceive the identity of the Paraclete with the
 763 XI  |           saints are not held to be idolatrous even though they are used
 764 VII |          felt would be in every way ignominious and burdensome to me. ~
 765 X   |            And lest I should allege ignorance, pretending that I did not
 766 VI  |           own households, and to be ignorant of the sins of our children
 767 X   |           which seemed to crown the ill fortune I had so long endured,
 768 XI  |           would have been in no way illogical. ~ ~~
 769 III |            his house with smoke and illumined it not at all. He was a
 770 VII |           is not for me to prove by illustration, lest I should seem to instruct
 771 IX  |          basis of our faith through illustrations based on human understanding,
 772 III |             mark of contempt for so illustrious a teacher. Thenceforth they
 773 XI  |   iniquities, and so to practice in imagination those things which reality
 774 VII |             there are the monks who imitate either the communal life
 775 X   |           with this the council was immediately dissolved. ~ The abbot and
 776 X   |           which they regarded as an immense disgrace to their own. They
 777 II  |      illness, brought upon me by my immoderate zeal for study. This illness
 778 XI  | particularly to the Father, and the immolation of the Host is made to Him,
 779 III |              If any one came to him impelled by doubt on any subject,
 780 XII |            heretic or one guilty of impiety. Though I seem to compare
 781 IX  |             sea to sea. Now, if you impose a lightly considered judgment
 782 VIII|     dwelling. It is difficult, nay, impossible, for words of mine to describe
 783 VI  |            no power to seize me and imprison me somewhere against my
 784 XI  |            in so doing they greatly improved it, building it of stone
 785 IV  |            venerable coward had the impudence to forbid me to carry on
 786 IV  |         training—the thing might be imputed to him. When this came to
 787 XII |            being no good Christian, imputing my flight to some crime
 788 VIII|             It was their plea that, inasmuch as of old I had laboured
 789 XIII|            be of use to either; how incapable I had proved myself in everything
 790 II  |   unconcealed envy. From this small inception of my school, my fame in
 791 XV  |            within it I am compelled incessantly to endure the crafty machinations
 792 IV  |          with envy, and straightway incited, as I have already mentioned,
 793 VII |           to seek to adjust life to include them, and they must simply
 794 XIII|            and the sweetness of her incomparable patience in all things.
 795 X   |           way of living was utterly incompatible with mine. I knew it to
 796 X   |      control of the king, making it increasingly useful and likewise profitable
 797 VI  |             happened could not seem incredible to any one who had ever
 798 III |             toil. To this I replied indignantly that it was my wont to win
 799 IV  |     scholars, they were filled with indignation at so undisguised a manifestation
 800 III |            them that I. hitherto so inexperienced in discussing the Scriptures,
 801 XIV |          healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene,
 802 VI  |         love which was denied to us inflamed us more than ever. Once
 803 XIV |     Christian philosophers, Origen, inflicted a like injury on himself
 804 IX  |      particularly to all who sought information on this subject. And since
 805 II  |        certain of his opinions, not infrequently attacking him in disputation,
 806 VII |             she should make me thus inglorious, and should shame herself
 807 XI  |        dwell fondly upon remembered iniquities, and so to practice in imagination
 808 XIV |             can they lead them into iniquitous desires, and in this way
 809 IX  |          over as containing nothing injurious to me. And it was God's
 810 X   |        Swayed by repentance for his injustice, and feeling that he had
 811 IX  |            book without any further inquiry, to burn it forthwith in
 812 XIV |          Christ and the apostles as inseparable companions, even accompanying
 813 X   |             very question. He, they insisted, had by his writings removed
 814 VIII|             me; and finally, at the insistent urging of the students themselves,
 815 VI  |            I did nothing because of inspiration, but everything merely as
 816 XV  |           ambush among the rich." ~ Inspired by those records and examples,
 817 X   |     excommunication unless I should instantly return; likewise they forbade
 818     | instead
 819 IX  |        action against me, the chief instigators therein being my two intriguing
 820 VII | illustration, lest I should seem to instruct Minerva herself. ~ Now,
 821 II  |       foremost, seemed all the more insufferable because of my youth and
 822 IX  |            that it would be a grave insult to him to transfer this
 823 VIII|             so that I suffered more intensely from their compassion than
 824 VII |          and the spindle? What man, intent on his religious or philosophical
 825 X   |             me, and besought him to intercede in my behalf with the abbot.
 826 VIII|         demand it back from me with interest. It was their plea that,
 827 III |         compelled me to continue my interpretation of the sacred text. When
 828 III |       sorely to heart, because they interpreted it as a mark of contempt
 829 VII |             point where it was thus interrupted. All other occupations must
 830 VII |     philosophy completely or merely interrupts it, for it can never remain
 831 X   |            but finally, through the intervention of certain friends of mine,
 832 XIV |             again: "Before I became intimate in the household of the
 833 IX  |            to me for the purpose of intimidating me, and, after a few bland
 834 IX  |    instigators therein being my two intriguing enemies of former days,
 835 XIV |        places we may even behold an inversion of the natural order of
 836 X   |           Greece for the purpose of investigating this very question. He,
 837 IX  |           on the basis of a careful investigation, what ought to be done.
 838 III |         accepted the challenge, and invited them to attend a lecture
 839 IX  |             And since the questions involved are generally considered
 840 X   |          the royal council that the irregularities in the conduct of this abbey
 841 VII |             plunged shamelessly and irrevocably into such filth as this?
 842 II  |           Porphyry, writing in his "Isagoge" regarding universals, dared
 843 IX  |      nothing to do with the case at issue, since you have asked for
 844 VII |         schools of philosophy. "The Italian school," he says, "had as
 845 II  |             Even so held the poet: "Jealousy aims at the peaks; the winds
 846 III |        Forthwith they cried out and jeered all the more. "Well and
 847 XI  |          come up into our windows' (Jer. ix. 21). And then, when
 848 XIV |           Paula is setting forth to Jerusalem." And again: "Before I became
 849 III |             texts, we scholars were jesting among ourselves, and one
 850 X   |     tradition, I showed it somewhat jestingly to sundry of the monks who
 851 XIV |          Mary called Magdalene, and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod'
 852 XI  |           huts by the waters of the Jordan, and forsaking the throngs
 853 VII |           philosophical sects which Josephus defines in his Book of Antiquities (
 854 I   |           disputation. Thenceforth, journeying through many provinces,
 855 VI  |          all times could we live in joyous intimacy. ~ Thus, utterly
 856 XIV |   intolerable than a rich woman." ~(Juvenal, Sat. VI, v 459) ~  ~
 857 VI  |            afford. Now he was a man keen in avarice and likewise
 858 VIII|             God had committed to my keeping (Matthew, xxv. 15), since
 859 VII |         contrary, denounced her own kin and swore that they were
 860 XIV |       thought, God's mercy had been kinder to me than to him, for it
 861 XIII|           round about feel pity and kindliness for the sisterhood. So that,
 862 V   |           on subjects of both these kinds, and the amount of financial
 863 XIV |           sojourning with widows (I Kings xvii. 10), would likewise
 864 VI  |           to suffer for it among my kinsfolk. He had no power to seize
 865 VII |              When her uncle and his kinsmen heard of this, they were
 866 XIII|         moment rushes to another, I knowingly sought this new danger in
 867 VIII|            inasmuch as of old I had laboured chiefly in behalf of the
 868 XV  |            quiet, and among them my labours were fruitful, as they never
 869 VI  |           he had entrusted a tender lamb to the care of a ravenous
 870 X   |         Full often did I repeat the lament of St. Anthony: "Kindly
 871 VII |        marriage! How unfitting, how lamentable it would be for me, whom
 872 VI  |         known to all. So, after the lapse of several months, did it
 873 XIV |     baseness? How shameless is this latest accusation! In truth that
 874 X   |            high esteem by the whole Latin Church, appeared to me the
 875 II  |            steal away the school by launching the vilest calumnies against
 876 XIV |         thereby that such women may lawfully be supported by them out
 877 VII |       herself. ~ Now, she added, if laymen and gentiles, bound by no
 878 III |     discovery, and stretched myself lazily in the shade of that same
 879 IX  |            He said: "They are blind leaders of the blind" (Matthew,
 880 II  |      despite my tender years to the leadership of a school; nay, more,
 881 III |            those who gazed upon its leaves from afar, but to those
 882 XIII|        laying claim to it as having legally belonged in earlier days
 883 VII |            studied only in hours of leisure; we must give up everything
 884 XIV |       substance" (Luke viii. 1-3) ~ Leo the Ninth, furthermore,
 885 IX  |             know how greatly he has lessened the renown of other teachers,
 886 VI  |          together far more than the lesson drew them to the pages of
 887 VIII|   acceptable as sacrifices. Thus in Leviticus (xxii. 24) is it said: "
 888 X   |           Bede was no better than a liar, and that they had a far
 889 XI  |         gateways, where will be its liberty? where its fortitude? where
 890 XV  |             think of peace? Nay, he lieth in ambush among the rich." ~
 891 VIII|         forthwith to the altar, and lifted therefrom the veil, which
 892 IX  |             creates rivals, and the lightning strikes the highest peaks.'
 893 II  |          time, at first indeed well liked of him; but later I brought
 894     | likely
 895 III |          ancient oak to which Lucan likened Pompey, saying: ~"he stands,
 896 I   |        logical reasoning more to my liking than the other forms of
 897 VI  |           to go to the school or to linger there; the labour, moreover,
 898 VI  |            our bodies served but to link our souls closer together;
 899 VI  |            school. Indeed it became loathsome to me to go to the school
 900 VII |       asleep in a secret room in my lodgings, they broke in with the
 901 II  |           so might be elevated to a loftier rank in the prelacy, a thing
 902 II  |          peaks; the winds storm the loftiest summits." (Ovid: "Remedy
 903 VIII|      fortune such power~To smite so lofty a head? Why then was I wedded~
 904 IX  |            of the frankness and the logic of my words. When the public
 905 II  |            the most vexed one among logicians, to such a degree, indeed,
 906 IV  |             Rheims and Lotulphe the Lombard. The better opinion these
 907 X   |            Forthwith I sought out a lonely spot known to me of old
 908 XIII|        thing had it not been for my longing for any possible means of
 909 VII |       exhorts us, saying: "Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a
 910 V   |   disturbance of my peace, began to loosen the rein on my desires,
 911 IX  |         spoke thus: ~ "You know, my lords, all who are gathered here,
 912 II  |         hearts were troubled by the lore of dialectics. But after
 913 XIV |           Paula, the whole city was loud in my praise, and nearly
 914 XIV |       either as superiors or in the lower orders. In many places we
 915 II  |           reason of my dear mother, Lucia, for after the conversion
 916 VII |            Seneca, in his advice to Lucilius, says philosophy is not
 917 VI  |         became utterly careless and lukewarm; I did nothing because of
 918 VII |            whining of children, the lullabies of the nurse seeking to
 919 VIII|         latter, however, as a hook, luring my students by the bait
 920 XI  |         souls should grow soft amid luxury and abundance of riches,
 921 XIII|          heart is overwhelmed" (Ps. lxi. 2). ~ No one, methinks,
 922 XV  |    incessantly to endure the crafty machinations as well as the open violence
 923 VI  |        after his return, was almost mad with grief; only one who
 924 X   |          shame, accusing Thee in my madness! Full often did I repeat
 925 XIV |            infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, and Joanna the wife of
 926 VIII|           abomination that men thus maimed are forbidden to enter a
 927 XIII|          the end that my failure to maintain order might make me either
 928 II  |             this opinion, no longer maintaining that the same quality was
 929 XIV |          making provision for their maintenance, thereby following the example
 930 X   |           he publicly denounced the malice with which the French had
 931 IX  |          silence, or at the most to maligning me in whispers. Then Geoffroi,
 932 IX  |          the school at Rheims, they managed by repeated hints to stir
 933 I   |            even earlier than in the management of arms. Thus indeed did
 934 II  |        things, but that, rather, it manifested itself in them through diverse
 935 X   |             God's mercy, one who is manifestly innocent, even as Susanna
 936 XI  |            afar from cities and the market place, from controversies
 937 VI  |            not anger; they were the marks, not of wrath, but of a
 938 XIV |           ib. 5). For this reason I marvel greatly at the customs which
 939 XIII|        laity as a mother. All alike marvelled at her religious zeal, her
 940 XIV |            spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, and Joanna
 941 IX  |            other teachers, both his masters and our own, and how he
 942 VII |        regarding this heavy yoke of matrimony, she bade me at least consider
 943 IX  |          you well know that even if mayhap you are in the right there
 944 XV  |             free breath between one meal and the next. Even so do
 945 VI  |     possibly procure for her. Of no mean beauty, she stood out above
 946 XI  |           divine grace, by which is meant the Holy Spirit? Forsooth
 947     | Meanwhile
 948 VI  |           or dared, for I had taken measures to guard against any such
 949 X   |        accompanied by the Bishop of Meaux, to try if I might win from
 950 X   |            over to the Abbot of St. Médard, who was there present,
 951 IX  |         strongly urged me to endure meekly the manifest violence of
 952 II  |        flourishing, and there did I meet William of Champeaux, my
 953 IX  |            the purpose of holding a meeting, or rather an ecclesiastical
 954 VII |             to time, the joy of our meetings would be all the sweeter
 955 VIII|           stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter
 956 X   |            my own hand to cast that memorable book of mine into the flames.
 957 VII |            his example. Jerome thus mentions this affair, writing about
 958 XI  |         Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
 959 IX  |           could understand than for mere words, saying that it was
 960 II  |          his renown and by his true merit. With him I remained for
 961 VI  |             with the aid of written messages. Perchance, too, we might
 962 II  |         never vanquished."~(Ovid , "Metamorphoses," XIII, 89.) ~But even were
 963 XI  |           entrance to the soul. The metropolis and citadel of the mind
 964 XI  |            the Sepulchre, or of St. Michael, or John, or Peter, or of
 965 XII |          till its echo reverberated mightily—echo, that fancy of the
 966 III |            the shade of a name once mighty,~Like to the towering oak
 967 I   |        Brittany, distant some eight miles, as I think, eastward from
 968 For |           witness thereof, am I now minded to write of the sufferings
 969 XI  |             named it the Paraclete, mindful of how I had come there
 970 IX  |       consoled me as best he might, mingling his tears with mine. ~ ~~
 971 IX  |             it over and examined it minutely, but could find nothing
 972 XI  |            my soul something of the miracle of divine consolation. ~
 973 III |             him as nought. He had a miraculous flow of words, but they
 974 XI  |              the song of birds, the mirror of the fountain, the murmur
 975 X   |           abbot and told him of the misdemeanour with which they charged
 976 X   |          was in very truth the most miserable among men. Indeed that earlier
 977 III |           of those who were present mocked at me, and asked whether
 978 XIV |       importance and intimacy among modest and upright women by the
 979 XIII|             to shun one death for a moment rushes to another, I knowingly
 980 XIV |       customs which have crept into monasteries whereby, even as abbots
 981 VII |             us who are truly called monastics, and in the love of wisdom
 982 VI  |             was fairly agape for my money, and at the same time believed
 983 VIII|              and when I should be a monstrous spectacle to all eyes? I
 984 XIII|           St. Gildas at Ruits, then mourning the death of its shepherd.
 985 X   |     condemns himself out of his own mouth. Set free today, with the
 986 II  |         more confident in myself, I moved my school as soon as I well
 987 XI  |           trample on his couch with muddy feet, and in order that
 988 VII |             were set apart from the multitude by their continence or by
 989 XI  |         mirror of the fountain, the murmur of the stream, the many
 990 XIV |        there was no lack of hateful murmuring, and the thing which sincere
 991 X   |            was burning, one of them muttered something about having seen
 992 XI  |         upon earth His feast of the Nativity. Even as the Son was sent
 993 XIV |          behold an inversion of the natural order of things, whereby
 994 VII |          Jews of old there were the Nazarites, who consecrated themselves
 995 VIII|            O husband most noble~Who ne'er shouldst have shared
 996 III |         afar, but to those who came nearer and examined it more closely
 997 XI  |         their number, they found it necessary to increase its size, and
 998 XI  |            hand everything they may need, and yet, spurning the pleasures
 999 XI  |       provided me with whatsoever I needed in the way of food and clothing,
1000 XIV |         trusting in his conscience, neglects his reputation." Again he