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One Latin rhyme distinguishes carefully between the contents of his sack: 'These are they who wickedly corrupt the holy psalms: the dangler, the gasper, the leaper, the galloper, the dragger, the mumbler, the fore-skipper, the fore-runner and the over-leaper: Tittivillus collecteth the fragments of these men's words. Indeed, a holy Cistercian abbot once interviewed the poor little devil himself and heard about his alarming industry; this is the story as it is told in The Myroure of Oure Ladye, written for the delectation of the nuns of Syon in the fifteenth century: 'We read of a holy Abbot of the order of Citeaux that while he stood in the choir at matins he saw a fiend that had a long and great poke hanging about his neck and went about the choir from one to another and waited busily after all letters and syllables and words and failings that any made; and them he gathered diligently and put them in his poke.
C.F. Deiser , pp. 71-7; and Power, op. cit., pp. 36-8. G.J. Aungier, Hist. of Syon , p. 385. A.H. Thompson, pp. 120-3. G.J. Aungier, op. cit., pp. 405-9. Translated from John de Grandisson's Register in G.G. Coulton, A Medieval Garner , pp. 312-14. Rule of St Benedict, c. 22. V.C.H. Lincs., II, p. 131. Translated in G.G. Coulton, A Medieval Garner. Myroure of Oure Ladye, ed.
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