r speciosa
Juxtum foenum gaudiosa
Dum jacebat parvulus.

Quae gaudebat et ridebat
Exsultabat cum videbat
Nati partum inclyti.

Fac me vere congaudere
Jesulino cohaerere
Donec ego vixero.[28]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] All this took place with prodigious rapidity. The dimensions
of the Basilica of Assisi, the plans of which were made in 1228,
no more permits it to be considered as a conventual chapel than
Santa-Croce in Florence, San Francesco in Sienna, or the
Basilica San Antonio at Padua, monuments commenced between 1230
and 1240. Already before 1245 one party of the episcopate utters
a cry of alarm, in which he speaks of nothing less than of
closing the door of the secular churches, which have become
useless. He complains with incredible bitterness that the Minor
and Preaching Friars have absolutely supplanted the parochial
clergy. This letter may be found in Pierre de la Vigne,
addressed at once to Frederick II. and the Council of Lyons:
_Epistolae_, Basle, 1740, 2 vols., vol. i., pp. 220-222. It is
much to be desired that a critical text should be given. See
also the satire against the two new Orders, done in rhyme about
1242 by Pierre de la Vigne, and of which, allowing for possible
exaggerations, the greater number of the incidents cannot have
been invented: E. du Meril, _Poesies pop. lat._, pp. 153-177,
Paris, 8vo, 1847.

[2] And not of the 29th, as Sbaralea will have it. _Bull. fr._,
vol. i., n. 10. Horoy, vol. iv., col. 129; the original, still
in the archives of Assisi, bears the title: _Datum Anagnie 11
Kalendas Aprilis pontificatus nostri anno sexto_.

[3] Potthast, 6809; Horoy, iv., col. 129. See also the bull
_Ecce Venit Deus_ of July 14, 1227; L. Auvray: _Registres de
Gregoire IX._, no. 129; cf. 153; Potthast, 8027 and 8028, 8189.

[4] He had finished his mission as legate in Lombardy toward the
close of September, 1221 (see his register; cf. Boehmer, _Acta
imp. sel. doc._, 951). In the spring of 1222 we find him
continually near the pope at Anagni, Veroli, Alatri (Potthast,
6807, 6812, 6849). The Holy See had still at that time a marked
predilection for the Preachers; the very trite privilege of
power to celebrate the offices in times of interdict had been
accorded