) But though absorbed in so great a woe, at
last she remembered God, and recovering her spirit said--(Her words
I have paraphrased as closely as possible.)
Ibid. 'The close hard by.' Cf. Lib. V section 4.
NOTES TO ACT IV
P 120. 'Your self imposed vows.' Cf. Lib. IV. section I. 'On Good
Friday, when the altars were exhibited bare in remembrance of the
Saviour who hung bare on the cross for us, she went into a certain
chapel, and in the presence of Master Conrad, and certain Franciscan
brothers, laying her holy hands on the bare altar, renounced her own
will, her parents, children, relations, "et omnibus hujus modi
pompis," all pomps of this kind (a misprint, one hopes, for mundi)
in imitation of Christ, and "omnmo se exuit et nudavit," stripped
herself utterly naked, to follow Him naked, in the steps of
poverty.'
P 123. 'All worldly goods.' A paraphrase of her own words.
P 124. 'Thine own needs.' But when she was going to renounce her
possessions also, the prudent Conrad stopped her. The reflections
which follow are Dietrich's own.
P 125. 'The likeness of the fiend' etc.
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