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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 127<br />

with his lips thy mouth, polluted with the corruption of<br />

lepers' feet.'<br />

" Then she said smil<strong>in</strong>g, ' Who knows not that the feet<br />

of the eternal K<strong>in</strong>g are to be preferred to a mortal k<strong>in</strong>g's lips ?<br />

I <strong>in</strong>deed have called thee, dearest brother, that thou mayest<br />

take t<strong>here</strong>-<br />

learn from my example to perform such th<strong>in</strong>gs ;<br />

fore the bas<strong>in</strong>, and do as thou seest me do.'<br />

" At <strong>this</strong> word I was greatly afraid, and replied that <strong>in</strong> no<br />

wise could I endure it. For not yet did I know the Lord,<br />

nor had his spirit been revealed to me. So she persisted <strong>in</strong><br />

her task, and I, guilty one, laugh<strong>in</strong>g returned to my friends."<br />

1 102<br />

FLORENCE OF WORCESTER, CHRONICON, VOL. II, p. 51. 1<br />

Henry, k<strong>in</strong>g of the English, gave the queen's sister Mary<br />

<strong>in</strong> marriage to Eustace, count of Boulogne. 2<br />

1 Cf. W. of M., H.N., ii, 579. Henry had previously offered Mary to<br />

Bk. of H., 306.<br />

William, earl of Morta<strong>in</strong> ;<br />

2 "<br />

Because he was both sprung from noble ancestors, and also remark<br />

able for prudence and bravery," W. of M., u.s.

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