Your former voluntary services and fidelity are enhanced by your brilliant exploits in this last victory.

Be pleased to style yourself Governor of Modena." Gilbert advanced a step, and sinking upon one knee, replied: "Madam, I came to share in your generous devotion to our common Father, and to assist you as best I could.

You are now--thanks to your own valor--victorious and secure.

I must decline your bounty, for from this moment I renounce the soldier.

Here is my sword, madam; since Rome and you no longer require it, I shall not need it; nowhere would I more willingly resign it than thus at your feet." As the morning dawned, Gilbert de Hers, accompanied by a troop of horse, set out for Monte Cassino.
Gregory had retired to Salerno, where he passed his days in the contemplation of heavenly things, and in reading the lives of the Saints and ecclesiastical history.