Chapter

1501 VI  |          for the payment of a small sum. My pretext for this was
1502 II  |            winds storm the loftiest summits." (Ovid: "Remedy for Love,"
1503 IX  |           France. Their plan was to summon me to be present at this
1504 X   |        BRETHREN~STRAIGHTWAY upon my summons I went to the council, and
1505 VI  |          the one he loved. The very sundering of our bodies served but
1506 VI  |          widely known and have been sung in many lands, chiefly,
1507 XIV |             out by women, either as superiors or in the lower orders.
1508 XI  |           His to whom above all the supplication and sacrifice are made?
1509 XIII|             The monks pressed me to supply them with their daily necessities,
1510 VIII|            Matthew, xxv. 15), since surely He would demand it back
1511 VI  |          wrath, but of a tenderness surpassing the most fragrant balm in
1512 XIII|             professed, I should not survive. And yet, if I did not do
1513 XIV |           much more reasonably have suspected baseness of the Lord, considering
1514 VIII|            nor the earth sufficient sustenance. ~ Here, as befitted my
1515 XV  |             pledging their faith or swearing upon the sacrament, that
1516 VIII|             utterly blotted out, so swiftly by an evil chance. I saw,
1517 X   |          than recite the Athanasian Symbol, a thing which any boy might
1518 XI  |         straw and rushes, and their tables were piles of turf. in very
1519 VII |           cradles, between books or tablets and distaffs, between the
1520 VII |            and because their wealth takes no thought of expense and
1521     | taking
1522 VIII|             my friends, and how the tale of this amazing outrage
1523 V   |            from you, for the matter talked of. But prosperity always
1524 XIV |         reputations ought not to be tarnished, but to flourish. Conscience
1525 VI  |           find her negligent of her tasks. In all this the man's simplicity
1526 XIII|          ground down the monks with taxes heavier than those which
1527 VII |          regard for your reputation temper your shamelessness. Remember
1528 II  |              though I speak it more temperately, I still am bold enough
1529 XI  |             Methinks the altars and temples of certain ones among these
1530 V   |           it an easy prey to carnal temptations. Thus I who by this time
1531 XV  |            I might be deemed a rash tempter of God rather than a lover
1532 X   |         conduct of this abbey would tend to bring it more and more
1533 VI  |              not of wrath, but of a tenderness surpassing the most fragrant
1534 VII |        Hircius after his divorce of Terentia whether he would marry the
1535 XI  |       Helper, so likewise may It be termed the Paraclete, that is to
1536 III |           the exposition of certain texts, we scholars were jesting
1537 XV  |          accused of loving: "I give thanks to my God that I am worthy
1538 X   |          hard by the lands of Count Theobald (of Champagne). He himself
1539 XIV |            long all those who dwelt thereabouts began to censure me roundly,
1540 VI  |             of letters and her zeal therefor; so, even if we were parted,
1541 X   |            the aforesaid monastery, thinking that I would remain long
1542 III |          the second and more to the third, and all of them were eager
1543 VI  |        pursuit of them, so that our thirst for one another was still
1544 IX  |         this matter required a more thorough examination. His further
1545 XIV |            they so often passed the threshold of the church that you might
1546 XV  |            me indeed, but to cut my throat with a sword. Even to the
1547 VIII|           way. To this place such a throng of students flocked that
1548 XI  |            philosophers forsook the thronging ways of the cities and the
1549 XI  |           Jordan, and forsaking the throngs and the cities, lived on
1550 XIII|            to say the Consoler, and thrust myself into sure desolation;
1551 VII |             a shower after all that thunder.'" ~ Her final argument
1552 XII |             like one smitten with a thunderbolt, I daily expected to be
1553 XIV |      preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and
1554 XII |         throughout the whole world, till its echo reverberated mightily—
1555 XV  |             suffer persecution" (II Tim. iii. 12). And elsewhere
1556 X   |        alike omnipotent." A certain Tirric, a schoolmaster, hearing
1557 X   |             his own mouth. Set free today, with the help of God's
1558 III |            inexperience by diligent toil. To this I replied indignantly
1559 XV  |      misfortunes, amid which I have toiled almost from the cradle.
1560 XV  |             Cor. vii. 5), and these torture me ceaselessly, the fears
1561 XI  |            of all does the sense of touch paint for itself the pictures
1562 VIII|            the hand of God that had touched me, when I should devote
1563 XIV |        manner of woman this is that toucheth Him: for she is a sinner" (
1564 III |            once mighty,~Like to the towering oak in the midst of the
1565 XI  |            all sides, leaving their towns and castles to dwell in
1566 X   |        established the truth of the traditional belief. ~ One of the monks
1567 IV  |        enough in view of my lack of training—the thing might be imputed
1568 XI  |             a rich man let Diogenes trample on his couch with muddy
1569 IX  |          had given it to many to be transcribed. Methinks it would be a
1570 IX  |            a grave insult to him to transfer this case to another court,
1571 IV  |        suggestion, as it afterwards transpired, yonder venerable coward
1572 X   |            abbot of theirs, who had travelled for a long time throughout
1573 XV  |            am ever exposed to their treacheries. The violence of my enemies
1574 X   |        bidding him desist from such treasonable talk, but he boldly stood
1575 XIV |           who had charge of all her treasure, him to whose conversion
1576 XI  |         watered fields, their shady trees, the song of birds, the
1577 IX  |           accomplish nothing if the trial were to be held outside
1578 XII |            paying them a stipulated tribute in order that I might live
1579 II  |             those whose hearts were troubled by the lore of dialectics.
1580 XIV |           clergy, "He is cruel who, trusting in his conscience, neglects
1581 X   |            that they had a far more trustworthy authority in the person
1582 XIII|        might make me either give up trying to enforce discipline or
1583 VIII|        flesh and withdrawn from the tumultuous life of this world. Thus,
1584 XI  |          their tables were piles of turf. in very truth you may well
1585 VII |           demands upon him. ~ Then, turning from the consideration of
1586 XV  |            worldly power (Cicer. 5, Tusc.) Thus did I too learn by
1587 II  |          might put himself under my tutelage along with all the rest,
1588 XIV |             kingdom of God: and the twelve were with Him and certain
1589 XV  |             heaped-up wealth of the tyrant Dionysius as a great blessing,
1590 XIII|            of the region, too, were uncivilized and lawless. Thus, like
1591 VIII|         enter a church, even as the unclean and filthy; nay, even beasts
1592 V   |        spirit of the divines in the uncleanness of my life. For it is well
1593 II  |             me by reason of his own unconcealed envy. From this small inception
1594 IX  |            unless it could first be understood, and that it was absurd
1595 XIII|    understand how persistently that undisciplined body of monks, the direction
1596 IV  |       filled with indignation at so undisguised a manifestation of spite,
1597 III |             should by no means make undue haste in so important a
1598 VII |            because it seemed to him unduly boastful to call himself
1599 XIV |             monastic zeal says: "We unequivocally declare that it is not permissible
1600 VII |           from such a marriage! How unfitting, how lamentable it would
1601 XI  |            not only uninhabited but unhealthy as well. This he did in
1602 IX  |            only one God. I answered unhesitatingly: "I can give you an explanation
1603 XI  |         from the city, and not only uninhabited but unhealthy as well. This
1604 VI  |       attract lovers, determined to unite with myself in the bonds
1605 IX  |     students a certain tract on the unity and trinity of God. This
1606 II  |            regarding the reality of universal ideas was that the same
1607 VI  |           for one another was still unquenched. ~ In measure as this passionate
1608 VII |           and one night while I all unsuspecting was asleep in a secret room
1609 XIII|           the monks, their vile and untameable way of life was notorious
1610 XV  |             my weapon to coerce the untamed rebelliousness of the monks,
1611 VII |            can endure the continual untidiness of children? The rich, you
1612 VI  |            love's progress was left untried by our passion, and if love
1613 VII |    privileges as a cleric, at least uphold your dignity as a philosopher.
1614 VII |          was hurling at him from an upper story, he was suddenly drenched
1615 XIV |           intimacy among modest and upright women by the fact that they
1616 VIII|      lamentations they uttered, the uproar with which they harassed
1617 IX  |      conspiracy to me, and strongly urged me to endure meekly the
1618 VIII|           finally, at the insistent urging of the students themselves,
1619 XIII|         considered and lamented the uselessness and the wretchedness of
1620     | Using
1621 XI  |              the departure from the usual custom would have been in
1622 VIII|         them, the lamentations they uttered, the uproar with which they
1623 XV  |           and yon, a fugitive and a vagabond, even as the accursed Cain (
1624 XIII|       Brittany, in the bishopric of Vannes, a certain abbey of St.
1625 II  |          battle, by him was~I never vanquished."~(Ovid , "Metamorphoses,"
1626 II  |           being alike save for such variety as might grow out of the
1627 VI  |       believed that his niece would vastly benefit by my teaching.
1628 X   |             one who heard the story vehement in censuring it, so that
1629 VII |          had bribed. There they had vengeance on me with a most cruel
1630 X   |             justice itself, in what venom of the spirit, in what bitterness
1631 VI  |         once happened with Mars and Venus when they were caught together.
1632 IX  |             little influence on the verdict, and in truth having small
1633 XI  |        contests of athletes, in the versatility of actors, in the beauty
1634 II  |         universals is ever the most vexed one among logicians, to
1635 XI  |         through so many windows, do vices win entrance to the soul.
1636 II  |        these debates I was adjudged victor. Now this, to those among
1637 II  |            abandoned altogether his views on this one subject, his
1638 VII |           having kept our nocturnal vigil of prayer unknown to all
1639 VI  |    burdensome, since my nights were vigils of love and my days of study.
1640 II  |             school by launching the vilest calumnies against him who
1641 XIV |           throughout every city and village, preaching and showing the
1642 IX  |           were the offshoots of his vine from sea to sea. Now, if
1643 IX  |          Have a care, then, lest by violent action you only increase
1644 VII |           hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry she hath not sinned.
1645 VII |             than by reason of their virtuous lives. In what sobriety
1646 XV  |             I had gone to Nantes to visit the count, who was then
1647 VII |            aroused to fury thereby, visited her repeatedly with punishments.
1648 XII |             s, which has so great a voice, and nought beside. My former
1649 III |   contemptible in meaning and quite void of reason. When he kindled
1650 XV  |           the ambition of those who voluntarily seek such power might be
1651 VII |            order not to prefer base voluptuousness to your sacred duties, to
1652 XV  |            hated me before it hated vou. If ye were of the world,
1653 II  |       disputation which my scholars waged both with him himself and
1654 XIV |        supported by them out of the wages of their preaching, but
1655 X   |             Lord: "Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the
1656 XIII|         their life there was one of want, and for a time of utter
1657 X   |           case, asked them why they wanted to keep me against my will.
1658 I   |            the prizes of victory in war I preferred the battle of
1659 VII |          subject for the purpose of warning us. Thus St. Jerome, in
1660 II  |             my gifts far beyond the warranty of my youth, was aspiring
1661 II  |           above all to me, in these wars, you have long since learned
1662 XV  |     reverence for me, I arranged to watch over them in person. And
1663 XI  |       Forsooth we are born again of water and of the Holy Spirit in
1664 XI  |        countryside, with their well watered fields, their shady trees,
1665 XIII|            the dreadful roar of the waves of the sea, where the land'
1666 XV  |              they bribed bandits to waylay me on the road and kill
1667 XIV |        women? (Acts vi. 5). For the weaker sex needs the help of the
1668 VII |             by no means that of the wealthy, nor can those whose minds
1669 XV  |         Using excommunication as my weapon to coerce the untamed rebelliousness
1670 I   |   philosophy, I exchanged all other weapons for these, and to the prizes
1671 XIV |            thereof he bade her ever wear her head covered (ib. 5).
1672 VIII|        lofty a head? Why then was I wedded~Only to bring thee to woe?
1673 XI  |             21). And then, when the wedges of doubt have, as it were,
1674 VIII|          monastic life, sobbing and weeping replied in the words of
1675 VII |            of the philosophers, and weigh carefully what had been
1676 VI  |           and partly because of the well-known continence of my previous
1677 X   |       Anthony: "Kindly Jesus, where wert Thou?" The sorrow that tortured
1678 XIII|       hatred of the French drive me westward, even as that of the Romans
1679     | whatever
1680     | whereas
1681 IX  |             his that lies before us whereon any open accusation can
1682     | Whereupon
1683 VII |             can possibly endure the whining of children, the lullabies
1684 II  |           to his religion, and were whispering earnestly among themselves
1685 IX  |             most to maligning me in whispers. Then Geoffroi, Bishop of
1686     | whither
1687 I   |           debating as I went, going whithersoever I heard that the study of
1688 XV  |            the saint to abandon his wicked sons might encourage me
1689 XIV |        dwelling and sojourning with widows (I Kings xvii. 10), would
1690 VI  |           than ever. Once the first wildness of shame had passed, it
1691 XI  |           of my hands. The students willingly provided me with whatsoever
1692 IX  |          the Bishop of Chartres got wind of this, he reported the
1693 II  |     Jealousy aims at the peaks; the winds storm the loftiest summits." (
1694 X   |             had good hope of easily winning the support of the king
1695 VII |           drenched with foul slops; wiping his head, he said only, '
1696 I   |         double diligence to have me wisely taught. For my part, the
1697 IX  |         happened according to their wishes.   Before I reached Soissons,
1698 II  |           CORBEIL AND AT PARIS ~HIS WITHDRAWAL FROM THE CITY OF THE PARISIANS
1699 VIII|             snares of the flesh and withdrawn from the tumultuous life
1700 II  |            abandoned this world, he withdrew himself and his brotherhood,
1701 VII |       Jovinianus: "Once when he was withstanding a storm of reproaches which
1702 VI  |             of our children and our wives, though our neighbours sing
1703 VIII|        wedded~Only to bring thee to woe? Receive now my sorrow,~
1704 VI  |           to the care of a ravenous wolf. When he had thus given
1705 XIII|             is that the weakness of womankind makes their needs and sufferings
1706 III |         more doubtful still. He was wonderful, indeed, in the eyes of
1707 XI  |            building it of stone and wood. Although this oratory had
1708 IX  |           should strive against the wordiness of this man, whose arguments,
1709 X   |          statement, but changed the wording thereof, as indeed was most
1710 XI  |        grieve to see how all things worked together for my good, even
1711 XI  |         authority, and consider the workings of this Spirit Itself. To
1712 VII |            protects them from daily worries. But to this the answer
1713 XV  |        suspicion, I found them even worse than the others. I barely
1714 XII |           won over to their form of worship. ~ ~~
1715 X   |            me, the desperation that wracked my mind, all these I could
1716 VI  |         they were the marks, not of wrath, but of a tenderness surpassing
1717 XV  |          shows that whosoever grows wrathful for any reason against his
1718 X   |             who chanced to be near. Wrathfully they declared that Bede
1719 X   |          upon myself through my own wrongdoing, but this other violence
1720 XV  |       whatsoever may seem to happen wrongfully. Wherefore rightly do all
1721 II  |           of what he felt to be his wrongs, and shrewdly he attacked
1722 X   |                             CHAPTER X ~ OF THE BURNING OF HIS
1723 VII |           storm of reproaches which Xantippe was hurling at him from
1724 XIV |         loving when he said (Epist. xcix): "I am charged with nothing
1725 XIV |         care of the young man (John xix. 27), or who had beheld
1726 XIV |     sojourning with widows (I Kings xvii. 10), would likewise have
1727 VII |            his Book of Antiquities (xviii. 2), calling them the Pharisees,
1728 III |            Our Lord cursed (Matthew xxi. 19; Mark xi. 13), or that
1729 VIII|           cut." And in Deuteronomy (xxiii. 1), "He that is wounded
1730 VIII|             to my keeping (Matthew, xxv. 15), since surely He would
1731 IX  |      enemies are our judges" (Deut. xxxii. 31). ~ These three, then,
1732 XV  |             Even such are those who yield to their own rather than
1733 IV  |           it afterwards transpired, yonder venerable coward had the
1734 XIV |         might have thought them the Zacharias and Elisabeth of the Gospel,