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CH. xxn] FRANCE BURGUNDY 97were cut to his fashion/'He exposes the parade of the s. Bernardbishops and abbots, who carryall their furniture and onluxiiryplate about with them when they travel. " Could younot use the same vessel for sprinkling your hands, anddrinking your wine ? Could you not have a candle withoutcarrying about your own candlestick, and that of goldCould not the same servant be both groomor silver ?and bedmaker, and also wait at table " ?Alluding nodoubt to the great church then building at Cluny, hespeaks of the immense heights of the oratories, their Condemnsimmoderate lengths, their great empty widths, their tect^'sumptuous finish, their curious paintings, which attractthe eyes of the worshippers and hinder their devotions,and seem to represent mainly the ancient rite of theJews. "What fruit," he continues, "do we expect fromall this, the admiration of fools, or the offerings of thesimple "?"Even on the floor are images of saints, which weupon. Men spit in the face of an angel, andtrampleon the features of saints."Then he turns to the cloisters and their carving. Condemns"Why these unclean apes Why ? these grotes^essavage lions ?Why these monstrous centaurs ? Why the half-men ?Why the spotted tigers ? Why the trumpeting huntsmen? You may see many bodies with one head, andagain many heads on one body; quadrupedswith thetail of a serpent, fish with the head of a quadruped,beasts, in front a horse, dragging half a goat behind.Here a horned animal carries a horse behind. In shortthere appears so great and strange a variety of diversforms that you may if you please read in marble insteadof books, and spend the whole day in looking at thesethings one by one rather than in meditating on the lawj. A. n. 7