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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 237
suasions of his contemporaries, and even of those whom he
held in the place of masters, and then, when yet they held not
their peace, so checked them with a certain authority by
word and countenance that none of them thenceforth dared
try such things with him again.
But the enemy, urged on by jealousy, repulsed in this
laid stronger snares for the godly child. He employed the
mother, to insinuate to him the hidden poison as the counsel
of motherly kindness and not ; only to allure him by blandishments
but even to instigate him by commands, urging
him to be a king, not a monk ;
and showing that a girl's
embraces best befitted his age and body. Constrained rather
than conquered by his mother's importunity, he appeared
to consent, not to distress his parent. She gladly, standing
by the bedside of her reclining son, placed by his side a beautiful
and noble virgin, without opposition from him. When the
accomplices had gone out and he had obtained solitude, fired
by the flame of charity rather than of lust he rose immediately,
and for the whole space of the night left the royal couch to
the virgin, and slept upon the pavement, covered with a cloak.
Since he was found thus in the morning by the attendants,
and the maiden's testimony followed, the virginity of both
was declared.
When his mother afterwards employed either reproof or
blandishment, by a certain authority of the constancy of his
mind he constrained her, so that she thought not to venture
further in this matter.
Let the venerators of signs say what they will, esteeming
merit by miracles, and by the distinction of signs alone assign-
hold this miracle in the
ing the title of sanctity : I certainly
young king of integrity so assailed and so unconquerable to
be preferred not only to the illumination of the blind, but
even to the raising of the dead. 1
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HlSTORIA DUNELMENSIS ECCLESLE, CONTINUATIO Al/TERA,
IN S. OF D., VOL. I, P. 168.
When [Hugh de Puisac] had obtained the bishopric [of
Durham], 2 for the defence of himself and his followers he
Malcolm's charter in the Liber S. Maria de
1 Nevertheless compare
Calchou, Bann. Club, 22-23.
2
Hugh was installed in the see on the 2nd of May, 1154, according to
the fragment in S. of P., i, 169.