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Nous fait de Dieu sept choses croire: C'est sa doulce nativité, Son baptesme d'humilité, Et sa mort, digne de mémoire: Son descens en la chartre noire, Et sa résurrection, voire; S'ascencion d'auctorité, La venuë judicatoire, Ou ly bons seront mis en gloire, Et ly mals en adversité."

238. "And while they were making these cobbled verses and harmonious creeds, there came a romeo to court, returning from the shrine of St. James." I must stop again just to say that he ought to have been called a pellegrino, not a romeo, for the three kinds of wanderers are,—Palmer, one who goes to the Holy Land; Pilgrim, one who goes to Spain; and Romeo, one who goes to Rome. Probably this romeo had been to both. "He stopped at Count Raymond's court, and was so wise and worthy (valoroso), and so won the Count's grace, that he made him his master and guide in all things. Who also, maintaining himself in honest and religious customs of life, in a little time, by his industry and good sense, doubled the Count's revenues three times over, maintaining always a great and honoured court. Now the Count had