Chapter CIII Of him that did weep before the Blessed Francis, that he might be received into the Order Atthe time when none was received into the Order without the leave of
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Chapter CIII Of him that did weep before the Blessed Francis, that he might be received into the Order Atthe time when none was received into the Order without the leave of
the Blessed Francis, a certain son of a nobleman of Lucca came with
many others wishing to enter the Order, to the Blessed Francis that was then sick in the palace of the Bishop of Assisi.
And when all they were presented unto the Blessed Francis, this one bowed himself before him and began to weep sore, beseeching him that he might be received. The Blessed Francis, looking straitly upon him, said: “O wretched and carnal man, wherefore dost thou lie unto the Holy Ghost and unto me? Thou dost weep carnally, not spiritually!” And when he had said this, forthwith came his kinsmen on horses without the palace wishing to take and carry him back. But he, when he heard the clattering of horses, did look forth through a certain window and saw his kinsmen, and did forthwith go down unto them and, as the Blessed Francis had foreseen, did return into the world with them.