10 When Him, Who had allotted him to such great good, it pleased to draw him up to the reward 111 which he had gained in making himself lowly, to his brethren as to rightful heirs he commended his most dear lady, 114 and commanded them to love her faithfully; and from her bosom his illustrious soul willed to depart, returning to its realm, 117 and for his body he willed no other bier. Think now what he was, who a worthy colleague was to keep the bark 120 of Peter on the deep sea to its right aim! And this was our Patriarch: wherefore that whoever follows him as he commands 123 thou canst see good merchandise loads. But his flock of strange food has become so greedy that it cannot 126 but over diverse meadows be scattered; and the farther his sheep, remote and vagabond, go from him, 129 the more do they return to the fold empty of milk. Indeed there are some of them who fear the harm, and keep close to the shepherd; but they are so few 132 that their cowls furnishes little cloth. Now if my words are not faint, if thy hearing has been attentive, 135 if that which I have said thou recallest to mind,
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