39, 52.] About that time, on the pavement of the cathedral of Reims a labyrinth had been traced with compass and with square.[1127] Pilgrims who were patient and painstaking followed all its winding ways.

The Archbishop of Embrun's treatise is likewise a carefully planned scholastic labyrinth.

Herein one advances only to retreat and retreats only to advance, but without entirely losing one's way provided one walks with sufficient patience and attention.

Like all scholastics, Gelu begins by giving the reasons against his own opinion and it is not until he has followed his opponent at some length that he returns to his own argument.

Into all the intricacies of his labyrinth it would take too long to follow him.