Note 25 — ITS EPICS, FOLK-SONGS, AND MEDIAEVAL POETRY (continued 2)
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In other poems we see his susceptibility to passion and his sense of love’s power. In one of these poems he depicts25 a bishop of 100 years old whose beard had turned from white to yellow and who, when officiating at the altar, suddenly uttered the name of a lady in his invocation before the cross.