75. #sinnes dern# would in any other context mean sins done in secret,
but T. has ‘Est homo peccatis que sunt ab origine matris | Qualis adest
(_a. l._ idem est) aquila, sed renovatur ita,’ which requires the sense
of original sin not manifest in word or deed. This is clearer in
Philippe de Thaün, ‘Pur general pechié (i.e. the universal sin of the
human race) | Est enfes baptizié, | E quant il est levez | Cum aigle est
renuvez; | Quant il est baptiziez | Dunc est rejuveigniez: | Vertu e
veement | En baptisteire prent,’ 78/2115-22. The infant is old in
inherited sin, in baptism he renounces Satan and becomes a Christian,
then he learns priest’s lore, pater noster and creed: ll. 93-102 are
simply variations on the preceding. ‘Nubes transcendit solisque incendia
sentit. | Mundum cum pompis despiciendo suis. | Fit novus in Christo ter
mersus gurgite vivo. | . . . | Os terit obliquum per verba precancia
Christum,’ T.