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apres che quant saint pol vient celle part ou saint
denis estoit comme celui qui le savoit estre tresgrant
clerc pourquoy il le converti plus tost alaide de nostre
seigneur qui y ouvra et aussi que tous deux estoient
tant bons clercs sicomme en leurs legendes est bien
au long contenu. Et ainsi devient le noble clerc saint
denis bon et vray cristien lequel avoit toute sa vie es
te sarrasin. Si emploia sa science et son temps de jour
en avant au salut de son ame. Celle eclipse ne le de
chupt pas ne che quil sceut dastronomie ains en devient
depuis homme de si sainte et bonne vie quil en acquist
pour son loier le royalme de paradis. Vous avez
ouy du fait des eclipses se bien les volez entendre ja
piz ne vauldrez aincois y poent chascune personne
moult prouffiter Car cest siginification et demonstran
che que telles besongnes ont de grandes signifficances
Che treuvent les astronomiens par astronomie
sicomme deffault daulcuns biens ou de chier temps
ou de guerres ou de mort de roys ou de prinches qui
dovient advenir en terre tant comme len en poeut
enquerre par raison. Celle eclipse qui fu si grande

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when Saint Paul came to the place where Saint
Denis was, knowing him to be a very great cleric,
he was able to convert him quickly because of this, with the aid of Our
Lord who made it to be so. And thus the two of them became
very good clerics, as is contained and described at length in
their legends. And in this way the noble cleric Saint
Denis, who had been a Saracen his whole life,
became a good and true Christian. He used his knowledge and his time,
from that day forward, to the health of his soul. This eclipse did not
deceive him because he had knowledge of astronomy, rather from it
he became afterwards a man of such holy and good life that he gained
as his reward the realm of Paradise. You have heard about what eclipses
are; if you want to understand them better, that would not be a bad thing,
and everyone could benefit from it, for they are an indication and demonstration
that certain matters have great significance. Astronomers find things out
through astronomy, whether it be the loss of certain property, or famine,
or wars, or the death of kings or princes -- things that will necessarily happen
on earth, such that one can investigate them through reason.
This eclipse that was so great

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apres che quant saint pol vient celle part ou saint
denis estoit comme celui qui le savoit estre tresgrant
clerc pourquoy il le converti plus tost alaide de nostre
seigneur qui y ouvra et aussi que tous deux estoient
tant bons clercs sicomme en leurs legendes est bien
au long contenu. Et ainsi devient le noble clerc saint
denis bon et vray cristien lequel avoit toute sa vie es
te sarrasin. Si emploia sa science et son temps de jour
en avant au salut de son ame. Celle eclipse ne le de
chupt pas ne che quil sceut dastronomie ains en devient
depuis homme de si sainte et bonne vie quil en acquist
pour son loier le royalme de paradis. Vous avez
ouy du fait des eclipses se bien les volez entendre ja
piz ne vauldrez aincois y poent chascune personne
moult prouffiter Car cest siginification et demonstran
che que telles besongnes ont de grandes signifficances
Che treuvent les astronomiens par astronomie
sicomme deffault daulcuns biens ou de chier temps
ou de guerres ou de mort de roys ou de prinches qui
dovient advenir en terre tant comme len en poeut
enquerre par raison. Celle eclipse qui fu si grande

96

when Saint Paul came to the place where Saint
Denis was, knowing him to be a very great cleric,
for this reason he converted him quickly with the aid of Our
Lord who made it to be so, and also that the two of them became
very good clerics, as is contained and described at length in
their legends. And in this way the noble cleric Saint
Denis, who had been a Saracen his whole life,
became a good and true Christian. He used his knowledged and his time,
from that day forward, to the health of his sould. This eclipse did not
deceive him because he had knowledge of astronomy, rather from it
he became afterwards a man of such holy and good life that he gained
as his reward the realm of Paradise. You have heard about what eclipses
are; if you want to understand them better, that would not be a bad thing,
and everyone could benefit from it, for they are an indication and demonstration
that certain matters have great significance. Astronomers find things out
through astronomy, whether those be the loss of certain property, or famine,
or wars, or the death of kings or princes - things that will necessarily happen
on earth, such that one can investigate them through reason.
This eclipse that was so great