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Gualteri Mapes de Nugis Curialium Distinctio Tertia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2010

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Cum a palatii descendunt palatini negotiis regalium operum immensitate defessi, placet eis ad humilium inclinari colloquia, ludicrisque levare pondera seriorum. Hoc tibi vultu placeat, cum a philosophiæ vel divinæ paginæ senatu respiraveris, voluminis hujus innobiles et exangues ineptias vel audire vel legere recreationis et ludi gratia. Non enim fori lites aut placitorum attempto seria; theatrum et arenam incolo nudus pugil et inermis, quern in armatos obtrectantium cuneos talem ultro misisti theatrum, tarnen hoc et hanc arenam si Cato visitaverit aut Scipio vel uterque, veniam spero dum non districte judicent. Scribere jubes posteris exempla quibus vel jocunditas excitetur vel ædificetur ethica. Licet impossibile mihi sit hoc mandatum, quia pauper poeta nescit antra musarum, non difficile legere vel scribere quod bonis sua faciat utile bonitas, cum omnia bonis cooperentur in bonum, nec terræ bonæ mandare semina quæ proficiant. Sed quis animum nequam et discolum excolat, cum dicat scriptura, Acetum in nitro, et qui cantat carmina cordi pessimo.* Carmina cantavit Sadius, si placet audire.

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Gualteri Mapes de Nugis Curialium
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1850

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References

page 107 note * Prov. xxv. 20.

page 108 note * The word pronuba, the original signification of which was a bridesmaid, was used commonly in the Middle Ages in the sense of a strumpet or bawd.

page 131 note * Selden (Tit. Hon. p. 627) describes the vavasor as one in dignity next to a baron, one who either held of a mesne lord and not immediately of the king, or at least of the king as of an honour or manor, and not in chief.

page 134 note * Prov. i. 17.