[Footnote 17: Deus vult, Deus vult! was the pure acclamation
of the clergy who understood Latin, (Robert. Mon. l. i. p.
32.) By the illiterate laity, who spoke the Provincial or
Limousin idiom, it was corrupted to Deus lo volt, or Diex el
volt. See Chron. Casinense, l. iv. c. 11, p. 497, in
Muratori, Script. Rerum Ital. tom. iv., and Ducange,
(Dissertat xi. p. 207, sur Joinville, and Gloss. Latin. tom.
ii. p. 690,) who, in his preface, produces a very difficult
specimen of the dialect of Rovergue, A.D. 1100, very near,
both in time and place, to the council of Clermont, (p. 15,
16.)]