Cumque una quadragesimae esset impleta septimana, sequente Dominica iussit ad se intrare pauperem, ingresso eo linguam proferre ex ore ac sibi ostendere iussit; et adprehendens eum de mento, signum sanctae crucis linguae eius impressit, quam signatam revocare in os, et loqui illum praecepit: Dicito, inquiens, aliquod verbum, dicito Gae, quod est, lingua Anglorum, verbum adfirmandi et consentiendi, id est, etiam.
And when one week of Lent was past, the next Sunday the bishop willed the poor man to come in to him, and when he was come he bid him put out his tongue and shew it unto him; and taking him by the chin he made a sign of the holy cross upon his tongue, and when he had so signed and blessed it, he commanded him to pluck it in again and speak, saying: Speak me some word, say Gae (which in the English tongue is a word of affirmation and consent, in such signification as Yea). that
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