Book 5
50. Although I should have
spoken before of my conversation with the blessed bishop Salvius, it slipped
my mind, and I suppose is not wicked if it is written later. When I had
said goodby to the king after the synod I mentioned, and was anxious
to return home, I decided not to go before kissing this man and taking
leave of him. And I found him in the entrance of the house of Braine.
And I said to him that I was about to return home. Then we withdrew a
little and speaking of this and that he said to me: "Do you see upon this
roof what I see?" I replied: "Why, I see the roof-covering which the king
lately gave orders to place there". But he asked: "Don't you see anything
else?" And I said: "Nothing else." For I suspected that he was making
a joke. And I added: "Tell me what more you see." But he drew a deep sigh
and said; "I see the sword of divine wrath unsheathed and threatening
this house." The bishop's words were not wrong; for twenty days later
there died the two sons of the king whose deaths I have described before.
HERE ENDS THE FIFTH BOOK.
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