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Citation Information
CONTEMPORARY RECOGMTION
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doing so, he could do them an ill turn, he would gladly. The
people then suggest their claim to the stone :
" Or leur donna vos pères, dont che fu mesprisons.
Ceste pierre, biaus Sire, Crestiens demandons :
Il ne le porront rendre, pour vrai le vous disons,
Si li monstiers n'est mis et par pièches et par mons ;
Et s'il estoit desfais, jamais ne le larons
Refaire chi-endroit. Ensélnent averons
Faites et acomplies nostres ententions." P. 324.
The Caliph accordingly sends for Maistre Thumas, the
Priest of the Christians, and tells him the stone must be
given up :
" Il a. c. ans ut plus c'on i mist à solas
Mahon, le nostre Dieu : dont che n'est mie estas Que li vous monstiers soit fais de nostre harnas !"
P. 324.
Master Thomas, in great trouble, collects his flock, mounts the
pulpit, and announces the calamity. Bauduin and his convert
Polibans then arrive. Bauduin recommends confession, fasting,
and prayer. They follow his advice, and on the third day the
miracle occurs :
"
L'escripture le dist, qui nous achertéfie
Que le pierre Mahon,qui ou mur fut fiquie,
Sali hors du piler, coi que nul vous en die,
Droit enmi le monstier, c'onques ne fut brisie.
Et demoura li traus, dont le pière ert widie,
Sans pière est sans quailliel, à cascune partie ;
Chou deseure soustient, par divine maistrie,
Tout en air proprement, n'el tenés à, falie.
Encore le voit-on en ichelle partie :
Qui croire ne m'en voelt, si voist ; car je l'en prie ! " P. 327.
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The Caliph comes to see, and declares it to be the Devil's doing.
Seeing Polibans, who is his cousin, he hails him, but Polibans
draws back, avowing his Christian faith. The Caliph in a rage
has him off to prison. Bauduin becomes very ill, and has to
sell his horse and arms. His disease is so offensive that he
is thrust out of his hostel, and in his wretchedness sitting on
a stone he still avows his faith, and confesses that even then
he has not received his deserts. He goes to beg in the Christian
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