The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun printed on parallel pages from the Cottonian and Wemyss mss., with the variants of the other texts: Edited with introduction, notes, and glossary by F. J. Amours |
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 | CHAPTER CXIV. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun |  |
In that samyn tyme apon chance
Thare come in till þe realme of France
A legat send a latere,
For to vesyte and to se
How þat bischopis gouernyt þaim þare,
And oþer prelatis seculare.
Sa þis ilk legat fand
That a bischop of þat land
Sat þat stait throu symony,
And liffit alsua viciously,
Cuvatuse and incontinent.
This legat þar for in iugement
Sittand in plane chapitere,
Gert þis bischop þare appeire;
And said him be public defame
That þai put till him gret blame,
That he enterit be symony,
And liffit alsua viciously.
This bischop wes a wyly man,
And corrumpit with giftis þan
All his accusaris, sa þat he
Gert þaim till him haldand be,
Sa þat nane wald him contrare,
Quhill þis legat wes sittand thare,
Nouþer in word na ȝit in deid.
And þis legat couþ nocht proceid
Be nakyne accusatioun
In to that visitacioun;
Bot ȝit he trowit neuer þe les
That þis bischop all vicious wes.
Than said þis bischop: “Sen I na can
Proceid be help heire of na man,
Be Goddis vertu in till deid
One þis wiss I will proceid.
Be þe Haly Gaist now lat se
Gif in þi stait wes entre;
Say Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.”
Than Gloria Patri et Filio
This bischop said and þan maid [ho];
And þat rehersit he oft syss,
Oftare þare þan anys or twiss;
Bot Spiritui Sancto be na way
Mycht he with his lippis say.
This bischop þan confessit how he
In his bischoprik gat entre
With giffin and symony,
And led his lif all viciously,
As covatouss and incontinent.
This legat þare in iugement
Assolȝeit him of his cursing,
And gaif him pennance for his liffing.
Sa wes his benefice vacand,
Remanand in þe papis hand,
That gaif it syne quha to him list,
As he and þis legat thocht best.
Thare come in till þe realme of France
A legat send a latere,
For to vesyte and to se
How þat bischopis gouernyt þaim þare,
And oþer prelatis seculare.
Sa þis ilk legat fand
That a bischop of þat land
Sat þat stait throu symony,
And liffit alsua viciously,
Cuvatuse and incontinent.
This legat þar for in iugement
Sittand in plane chapitere,
Gert þis bischop þare appeire;
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That þai put till him gret blame,
That he enterit be symony,
And liffit alsua viciously.
This bischop wes a wyly man,
And corrumpit with giftis þan
All his accusaris, sa þat he
Gert þaim till him haldand be,
Sa þat nane wald him contrare,
Quhill þis legat wes sittand thare,
Nouþer in word na ȝit in deid.
And þis legat couþ nocht proceid
Be nakyne accusatioun
In to that visitacioun;
Bot ȝit he trowit neuer þe les
That þis bischop all vicious wes.
Than said þis bischop: “Sen I na can
Proceid be help heire of na man,
Be Goddis vertu in till deid
One þis wiss I will proceid.
Be þe Haly Gaist now lat se
Gif in þi stait wes entre;
Say Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.”
Than Gloria Patri et Filio
This bischop said and þan maid [ho];
And þat rehersit he oft syss,
Oftare þare þan anys or twiss;
Bot Spiritui Sancto be na way
Mycht he with his lippis say.
This bischop þan confessit how he
In his bischoprik gat entre
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And led his lif all viciously,
As covatouss and incontinent.
This legat þare in iugement
Assolȝeit him of his cursing,
And gaif him pennance for his liffing.
Sa wes his benefice vacand,
Remanand in þe papis hand,
That gaif it syne quha to him list,
As he and þis legat thocht best.
| CHAPTER CXIV. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun | |