Letter CCXCVII. To the abbot of Montier Ramey,t ox behalf of a fugitive monk.
The bearer of this was lately, at my request, admitted into your society, but prompted by folly and carelessness he threw off the sacred habit, and left you. But he is now, it seems, penitent, and wishes to return, and humbly begs to be received again; and I, too, beg the same thing for him, that for the love of God and of me you will not refuse admission and the habit to one who is now penitent.
Lator praesentium, ad petitionem nostram dudum susceptus in consortium vestrum, stultitia et levitate sua rejecto habitu sancto a vobis exiit. Sed quia ductus poenitentia, ut videtur, redire cupit, et se iterum recipi humiliter petit, petimus et nos ut iterum recipiatur, poenitentique, amore Dei et nostro, introitus et habitus non negetur.
