The friars and how they came to England;

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160 THE FRIARS

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m. i. Mib in Pre ining and in disputations in

tho brothron in their primitivo simplicity. For so pleagant was his addreas and so eloquent Washe, that even Min those Who Were opposed to tho

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secular dreas, I myaeli saW. There WasBrother Nicholas Rufus, a reader of great merit, Who, being gealous tor the reformationot tho Order, Went atterWards With Brother Haymo torepresent Franco in the appeal against Brother Elias

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yet a novice and cantor to the brothren at Paris, composed during a meditation tholollowing verses against the temptationawhich troubled him:

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Qui Minor es, noli ridere, tibi quia soli

Convenit ut plores; jungas cum nomine mores: Nomino tu Μinor es, Μinor actibus esto, labor Perier, et ingentem nunciat patientia mentem. Nempe cor objurgat, per nam patientia purgat

Si quicquam facis, est siquis te corripit i ta est, Qui te c indit; non te, sed quod facis, ordit, Quid tibi cum vili veste, cibs, quoque cubile lPeccator certe, tu singula perdis aperte Si mentitus oris factis quod Veste fateris. Umbra minoris erit, qui nulla re sua quaerit.

Now Brother Henry, b auso ot his high character, aftemarda Was tound worthy to M the special companion in England of four Ministere-Generat and four Provinciais, and for a long time he Was interpreterand preacter to the Patriarch ot Antioch, when this prelate Was legato in Lombardy. Asterwarda ho M- came penitentiary ot our Lord Pope Gregory IX., Custos of Venice, and Vicar to the Custos ot London.