[534] Spec. perf. 95; 2 Cel. iii. 65. But Francis condemned all vain and foolish words which move to laughter (Admon. xxi.; Spec. perf. 96).
[535] Spec. perf. 93; 2 Cel. iii. 67.
[536] Spec. perf. 34.
[537] Cf. Spec. perf. 108; 2 Cel. 132.
[538] Spec. perf. 27, 28, 33; cf. 2 Cel. i. 15; ibid. iii. 30 and 36.
[539] Spec. perf. 101. This is one of the apparently unsupported stories of the Speculum, that none would like to doubt.
[540] 2 Cel. iii. cap. 101.
[541] One is tempted to amuse oneself with paradox, and say: Not he of Vaucluse, who ascended a mountain for the view and left a record of his sentiments, but he of Assisi, who loved the sheep, the birds, the flowers, the stones, and fire and water, was “the first modern man.” But such statements are foolish; there was no “first modern man.”
[542] Spec. perf. 113.
[543] 1 Cel. xxi. 58.