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96 GUALTERI MAPES [DistinC. II.<br />

juvenem illarum partium elegantissimum, faraa, nobilitate morum,<br />

generis, et formte. statuque rerum et personee felicissimum, somni-<br />

asse quod cum ipsa rem habuisset. <strong>De</strong>lusum se dicit rex, et quasi<br />

de re veraciter acta stomachatur, dolet, et dolo comprehendit innoxium,<br />

et si non obstet reverentia parentum et timor ultionis ipsum<br />

cruciatibus affliget ad mortem. Ut moris est, vadem se ofFert pro<br />

juvene tota cognatio, et cavere judicio sisti. Ipse negat, et judicium<br />

statim fieri petit. Repulsi de repulsa queruntur, et dum tene-<br />

tur in vinculis vindictam difFerunt. Multi ad judicium Scepe<br />

conveniunt turn jussu principis, turn alterius invitatione partis, et<br />

in omni contractu defecti plures invocant undequaque prudentes.<br />

Tandem unum consulunt quern fama faciebant preecipuum, et res<br />

non minus, quibus ille, " Judicia terrce nostras sequi oportet, et<br />

quse statuerunt patres preecepta longaque consuetudine firmata<br />

sunt, nulla possimus ratione destruere. Sequamur eos, et antequam<br />

in contrarium decreta ducent publica nihil novum proferamus.<br />

Ab antiquissimis promulgatum est institutis, ut qui regis Walliae<br />

reginam adulterio deturpaverit, mille solutis regi vaccis ceetera indemnis<br />

liber abibit. <strong>De</strong> uxoribus similiter principum et magnatum<br />

quorumcunque secundum singulorum dignitates constituta<br />

est poena sub certo numero.* Iste accusatur de somnio concubitus<br />

cum regina, nee inficiatur de veritate criminis confessa. Certum<br />

est quod mille vaccee darentur. <strong>De</strong> somnio damns judicium,<br />

quod juvenis hie mille vaccas in conspectu regis super ripam stag-<br />

ni de Behthenio statuat in ordine, sole lucente, ut sint umbrae<br />

singularum in aqua, et sint umbrae regis, vaccae vero cujus ante, cum<br />

sit somnium veritatis umbra." Approbata est ab omnibus sen-<br />

tentia haec et executioni mandata, licet objurgante Luehno.f<br />

* The Welsh laws make the fine for se- fences were to be paid,<br />

ducing the king's wife a hundred cows for f This story has been repeated under<br />

each cantref. Cows were the common different forms, and with different applica-<br />

article with which fines for different of- tions, up to our own days.

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