Et quod magis mirandum
fuit lingule ille siue caudule que in extremitatibus uex
illorum dependent in
predicto uexillo quasi ad flatum uenti moueri ⁊ agitari ui
debantur. Post hec
aliquanto interposito interuallo, omnis castelli illius machina dispa
ruit. Et luna
propria resump\t/a1
forma naturali cursu progressa est. Post hec turris quedam
paruula ⁊ nebulosa minimis munita propugnaculis breuissimo spatio supra lu
nam
apparuit ⁊ statim disparuit, luna uero tam crebra sui uexatione tam in
conuenienti
deformatione, tam uiolenta tam subita suimet mutatione quasi iniuriam
passa,
turbata, contristata, ⁊ conturbata, pallida mansit ⁊ decolorata.2 Tandem uero
proprio
resumpto colore in
se ipsam reuersa est. Aduertat igitur sanctitas uestra si tam insolitum spectaculum3
tam monstruosum portentum, tam horrendum miraculum silentio tegi debuerit, ⁊ si
creator non tantum
lune sed tocius creature precellentissime speci\osi/tati lune, ⁊
fere omnium
elementorum firmamenti etiam terre ⁊ maris sacramenta4
in se continenti non pepercit.
Immo ⊗ pro humani generis premunitione tanta tamque diuersa deformitate ipsam
lunam
⊗ dehonestari permisit. Quid de ipsis fiet pro quibus hec
preostensa sunt, qui
nec timore Dei, nec pauore Gehenne siue alia quacunque de
causa5 a perditionis sue uia re
uertuntur?
And what
was more strange, the little tongues or tails which hang down at the ends of banners
were, in this banner, seen to be moved and blown about as though by a gust of wind.
Next, after a short while, the whole artifice of this castle vanished. And the moon,
having resumed its proper form, advanced on its natural course. After these things, a
very small and cloud-like tower, fortified with the smallest battlements, appeared over
the moon for a very brief space, and immediately disappeared; but the moon, as though
having suffered damage from its repeated violent movement and the disturbance of
changing shape, from the furious and sudden alteration of itself, remained troubled,
darkened, and disordered, pale and discoloured. At length, however, it resumed its
normal colour and became itself again. You holy men, then, may decide whether such an
unusual spectacle, such an unnatural portent, such a fearful miracle, ought to
be veiled in silence; and whether the Creator, not only of the moon, but of everything
that has been made, did not spare the unsurpassable beauty of the moon, which altogether
contains in itself a sacrament of all the elements of the firmament, and of the earth
and the sea also. Indeed, ⊗ he allowed the moon itself to be dishonoured, by
undergoing a transformation so great and so strange, as a warning ⊗ to the
whole human race. What shall become of those for whose sakes these things were
foreshown, who are turned back from the path of their destruction neither by the fear of
God, nor by the dread of hell, nor any other
cause?