The corruptness of their lives infects the air.

It is just that they suffer chastisement." That the Lord should speak thus must be expected, because he was angry and because the people of Orleans had greatly sinned.

But now, behold, Our Lady, she who loves the King of the Lilies, prays for him and for the Duke of Orleans to the Son, whose pleasure it is to do her will in all things: "My Son, with all my heart I entreat thee to drive the English from the land of France; they have no right to it.

If they take Orleans, then they will take the rest at their pleasure.

Suffer it not, O my Son, I beseech thee." And Our Lord, at the prayer of his holy Mother, forgives the French and consents to save them.[860] [Footnote 860: _Mistere du siege_, lines 6964 _et seq._] Thus in those days, according to their ideas of the spiritual world, did men represent even the councils of Paradise.