Part 3 — PART III — RELIGIOUS WAYFARERS
Lucy Toulmin Smith translation
“Of these frer mynours me thenkes moch wonder,
That waxen are thus hauteyn, that som tyme weren under.”
Thomas Wright’s “Political Poems and Songs,” 1859, vol. i. p. 268, Rolls Series.
“Isti fratres prædicant per villas et forum
Quod si mortem gustet quis in habitu minorum
Non intrabit postea locum tormentorum,
Sed statim perducitur ad regna cœlorum.”
But if burial is requested for a pauper in one of their privileged churches, “the keeper is absent,” is the answer, and admittance is refused:
“Gardianus absens est, statim respondetur
Et sic satis breviter pauper excludetur.”
Wright’s “Political Poems,” Rolls Series, vol. i. pp. 256–57.
“His typet was ay farsud ful of knyfes
And pynnes, for to yive faire wyfes.”
“Muids” (modii) were of a different sort, according to places; those “of the Paris measurement” contained 270 of our litres and were therefore quite goodly casks.
“And a-poyntid to his sone the perell and the dout,
Ffor shot of arbalast and of bowe, and eke for shot of gonne.”
“The Tale of Beryn,” ed. Furnivall and Stone, E.E.T.S., 1909, p. 9.
“Et anpules raportent en signe del veiage,
Mès de Jerusalem en est la croix portée,
Et de Rochemadur Marie en plum getée,
De Saint Jame la scale, qui en plun est muée;
Or à Deus saint Thomas cele ampule donée,
Qui est par tut le mund chérie et honorée.”
The Saint Luke legend appears in a somewhat different form in William Wey, according to whom the saint was about to paint when he fell asleep, and the angels made the picture for him, “Itineraries,” p. 143. A similar legend is attached to the great wooden crucifix of Byzantine workmanship, called in the middle ages the “Saint Vou” (the Holy Face, vultus), at Lucca, begun by Nicodemus after the Ascension, and miraculously finished during his sleep. Bédier, “Légendes épiques,” 1908, II. 210.
589 P. 95.
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