ote 312: A. Monteil, _Histoire des Francais_, 1853, vol. ii, p.
194.]

About this time a mystery was performed at Reims in which the miracles
of the apostle of Gaul were fully represented.[313]

[Footnote 313: _Mystere de saint Remi_, Arsenal Library, ms. no.
3.364. This mystery dates from the fifteenth century, from the time of
the wars in Champagne. The following lines relate to the misfortunes
of the kingdom:

SAINT-ESTIENNE

O Jhesucrist, qui les sains cieulx
As de lumiere environnez,
Soleil et lune enlumines,
Et ordonnez a ta plaisance;
Pour le tres doulz pais de France
Les martirs, non pas un mais tous,
A jointes mains et a genoux
Te requierent que tu effaces
La grant doleur de France; et faces
Par ta sainte digne vertu
Qu'ilz aient paix; adfin que tu,
Ta doulce mere et tous les sains,
Et ceulx qui sont de pechiez sains,
Devotement servis y soient!...

SAINT STEPHEN

O Jesus Christ who hast surrounded the heavens with light and kindled
the sun and the moon, command, if it be thy will, the martyrs, not one
only but all, to clasp their hands and on bended knee to implore thee
to remove the great sorrow from France; and by thy holy and august
merit ordain that they may have peace, that thou, thy sweet mother and
all the saints and those who are cleansed from sin may be served
devoutly!...

SAINT-NICOLAS

Dieu tout puissant fay tant qu'il ysse
Hors du doulz pais sans amer
Que toutes gens doivent amer
C'est France, ou sont les bons Chrestiens
S'on les confort; si les soustiens
Car l'engin de leur adversaire
Et son faulx art les tire a faire
Contre ta sainte voulente.
Ayez pitie de Crestiente
Beau sire Dieux
Tant en France qu'en autres lieux!
Ce seroit Pitie a oultrance
Que si noble roiaume, comme France,
Fust par male temptacion
Mis du tout a perdicion....

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SAINT NICHOLAS

God all powerful grant that he may issue forth from that sweet land
which all must love, all France, where are good Christians, and may
they be comforted, and may they be sustained; for the power of their
adversary and his false art tempt them to withstand thy holy will.
Have pity on Christendom, good lord God, on other lands as well as on
France! It would be the worst of pities if so noble a kingdom as
France were through much temptation to fall into perdition....]

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