Chapter XC. How the Saint when cheered in spirit would sing in French

127. Sometimes he would behave thus: the sweet melody of the spirit bubbling up within him was wont to break forth into utterance in French, and the vein of the Divine whisper which his ear perceived in secret would burst out into a French song of joy. Sometimes, as we have seen with our eyes, he would pick up a stick from the ground, and, putting it over his left arm, would draw across it, as if across a viol, a little bow bent with a string; and, going through the proper motions, he would sing in French about the Lord. Oftentimes all this ecstasy of joy would end in tears, and the song of gladness would melt into compassion for the Passion of Christ; and then this holy man would heave continual sighs, and utter repeated groanings; and, heedless of the things he had in his hands, would be uplifted toward heaven.