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The King as a Humble Student
Saint Louis rejects worldly distractions to study Holy Scripture with humility, insisting that his teachers maintain their proper place.
Blessed Saint Louis, understanding that one shouldn't spend time on idle things or on curious questions of this world—time that should be put into weighty and better things—set his study to reading Holy Scripture, for he had the glossed Bible and the original works of Saint Augustine, and he would sit there on a tile on the ground before the master reading in the chair and listen diligently.1 The friars sat in the high seats, as was their custom in the school, and whenever they tried to come down to sit on the floor, he wouldn't allow it.2
Devotion in the Refectory
The king demonstrates his piety by joining the friars at the lectern to listen to the reading of the Word during meals.
It even happened sometimes that, while he was in the refectory of the Friars Preachers of Compiegne,3 he would go up to the lectern where they read from the Bible when they ate, as the friars are accustomed to do.4 There, the blessed king would stay for a long time beside the friar who was reading the lesson, listening gladly.5
Read the original Latin
Li benoiet saint Loys entendanz que l'en ne doit pas despendre le tens en choses oiseuses ne en demandes curieuses de cest monde, le quel tens doit estre emploie en choses de pois et meilleurs A', s'estude il metoit a lire Sainte Escriture, car il avoit la Bible glosée et originaux de saint piegne et se scoil ilecques sus un caircl a terre devant le mestre lisant en ehaiere et l'escoufoit tlilioaunient. It li n frère se seoient es sièges haut, si cotn il avoient acouslunié en l'escole, et quant li frère voloient descendre de leur sièges et seoir a lerre, il ne le soufroit )as. Et neis aucune foiz avenoit que, quant il estoit eu refietoier des Frères Preecheeurs d(! Conipiegne que il niontoit en Ictrun " la ou l'en lisoit de la Bible quant l'en niengoit, si comme les frères ont acoustumé. Et ilecciues estoit loncfuemerl li benoiez rois de lez le frère qui lisoit la leçon et l'escoutoit volentiers.
Notes
- 1 ↩Heavy OCR damage and a likely page/section splice restored as: benoiet→benoiez; A' treated as Delaborde apparatus noise after 'meilleurs' (variant note), reading 'a s'estude'; originaux de saint piegne→originaux de saint Augustin (Delaborde p. 52–53 page break: 'de saint' / 'Augustin'); se scoil→se seoit; caircl→carrel; ehaiere→chaiere; escoufoit→escoutoit; tlilioaunient→diligenment/diligaument. The sitting-before-the-master clause belongs in Delaborde to the Compiegne Dominican school scene later in the chapter and appears fused here by OCR/segmentation.
- 2 ↩Restored: It li n→Et li; cotn→com; acouslunié→acoustumé; lerre→terre; )as→pas.
- 3 ↩Sentence is truncated mid-phrase in the source at 'd(!'. Restored: neis=even/indeed; eu refietoier→en refretoier (in the refectory); Frères Preecheeurs=Friars Preachers (Dominicans); d(! + s4 'Conipiegne'→de Compiegne. Completing sense continues in s4.
- 4 ↩Continues s3. Restored: Conipiegne→Compiegne; niontoit→montoit; Ictrun→letrin (lectern; Delaborde apparatus: letrin C); niengoit→mengoit; stray quote mark after Ictrun discarded.
- 5 ↩Restored: ilecciues→ilecques; loncfuemerl→longuement; de lez→delez (beside).
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