‘Praeterea mementote, quod Salomon ad regendum populum Israel, cui diu in maxima pace praesedit, sapientiam potissimum postulavit’ (‘Moreover, remember that Solomon asked, in preference to all else, for wisdom in order to rule the people of Israel, over whom he presided for a long time in the greatest peace’): Epistolae, ed. Marshall, no. 33, p. 45.

‘Ante tamen reserat clare primordia cosmi / Et per quam illius esse fuit sophiam … Quoque modo quisquis caveat munitus ab armis / Hostis perversi tela inimica nimis. … Quisquis es instructus mundanis usibus hisce, / Quis Salomone opibus ditior emicuit? / Hoc concessa cui dives sapientia fecit, / Regibus ac cunctis hunc ea proposuit. / Tu quoque, qui es humilis, prudens – intentio sancta – / Se propter sophiam dilige, posce, cape’ (‘Yet earlier [the bible as divine law] reveals clearly the beginnings of the universe, and through [the bible's] wisdom it came into existence … Let anyone who is only defended by arms fear the greatly hostile weapons of the wicked enemy. … Those of you equipped with worldly benefits, gape: who shone forth richer in riches than Solomon? Rich wisdom, when granted to him, did this, and placed him ahead of all kings. You also, who are humble and prudent – a holy intention – love, seek, grasp wisdom on its own account’): Dutton and Kessler, First Bible of Charles the Bald, pp. 110–13, lines 157–8, 163–4 and 179–84 (my translation differs slightly).