And until he should hand me over to the king, he ordered that I should be closely guarded.

In vain did I offer to submit to the customary discipline if I had in any way been guilty.

Then, horrified at their wickedness, which seemed to crown the ill fortune I had so long endured, and in utter despair at the apparent conspiracy of the whole world against me, I fled secretly from the monastery by night, helped thereto by some of the monks who took pity on me, and likewise aided by some of my scholars.
I made my way to a region where I had formerly dwelt, hard by the lands of Count Theobald (of Champagne).

He himself had some slight acquaintance with me, and had compassion on me by reason of my persecutions, of which the story had reached him.

I found a home there within the walls of Provins, in a priory of the monks of Troyes, the prior of which had in former days known me well and shown me much love.