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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 367
king, who emulously prepared for the guests in plenty voluptuous
repasts, that the world's theatrical vanity might offer
to mortals whatever it could of its brief and transient happiness.
They all dined for some days with the archbishop, who
was as a northern prince and cheerful host of all. And in every
lack or need he afforded to all the shelter of his aid now in
;
now in various
guesting wanderers, again in feeding horses ;
dishes, now in fuel for fires now with the ; gift of money,
the needs of all : so that in
again by authority he supplied
that Lord's Advent he sowed in a barren shore in gifts of
gold and silver and of silk four thousand marks, which he
never afterwards reaped. But this he had to do for the occa-
and to close the
sion, to preserve the entirety of his repute ;
mouths of them that speak lies.
1252
MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONICA MAJORA, VOL. V, PP. 270-272.
Philip Luvel is reconciled [with Henry III].
While still the festivity of nuptial joy endured, and the
remaining devices and plans celebrated a feast-day to Hymen,
the cleric Philip Luvel, a man crafty and eloquent, humbly
besought the new king of Scotland and his more newly-made
spouse to make supplication for him, thereby to incline the
king towards him and render him kind and placable.
For this Philip formerly knew the king of Scotland well,
and at one time was on very friendly terms with his father
and mother. For while he was seneschal of the earl of
Winchester, and abode at one time in Galloway, which is known
to belong to the earl's right, he favoured the said king of
Scotland, and the queen, and his friends, very often with
honourable gifts.
Seeing therefore that the occasion was fitting, the new
king favouring Philip's requests bowed his knees and joined
his palms before the lord king of England, and pronounced
these introductory words, which were able to move the heart
of the king of England, for he wished to raise him, but the
suppliant refused,
and which seemed to rouse tears of com-
passion and pleasure in many who sat by.
He spoke therefore :
" My lord king, your Serenity knows
that, although I am a king and have of your generosity been
made a knight, I am a child, without age or knowledge ;
moreover also an orphan, because my father is dead, and my
mother returning to her native country, distant and foreign,