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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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156 GUALTERI MAPE8 [Distinc. IV.<br />

prsemuniam signis * manifestis, tempore competenti vicibus interpolatis,<br />

ut inter singula spatium habeas poenitudinis. Sed non<br />

credes ; ais enim, si blanditiem tuam deglutiero, praeda sum, Heec<br />

nobis inflixit a casu Luciferi Dominus nostras gentis odia dede-<br />

cusque peri^etuum, unde cum distinguendum sit, nocentes et inno-<br />

centes pari persecutione damnatis. In primseva namque superbia<br />

quam ex novi plenitudine decoris nostra contraxit ingrata <strong>De</strong>o<br />

familia, choruscum ilium principem multi secuti sunt ad aquilo-<br />

nem, alii scismatis artifices alii coadj uteres, alii seductores alio-<br />

rum, alii consentientes, alii dubii quid ageretur, omnes contra<br />

<strong>De</strong>um superbi vel sapientise negligentes. <strong>De</strong>jecti sunt igitur a<br />

vindice dextra, tam librata tara justissima lance, quod non defuit<br />

ignorantiee venia nee iniquitatis ultio. Fit igitur jam quod qui<br />

plus cruciantur ex immanitate peccati plus affectant ex innata ne-<br />

quitia leedere. Sunt autem ex his magnatibus hi quorum cupit<br />

et potest immanitas ardua scandala, quee vitanda censes efficere.<br />

Sunt autem hi qui merito timentur, in quorum manus dati sunt<br />

improbi quos completa damnavit iniquitas. Hi sibi traditos<br />

docti sunt copia exaltare, promo vere successu, defensione tutos<br />

providentia cautos reddere. Faciunt autem hsec his quorum eis<br />

prosperitas utilis est, et salva damnatio cum voluerint. Hii<br />

blandiuntur, ut perdant ; elevant ut allidant ; hi merito detestabi-<br />

les orbi prsedicantur. Et heu !<br />

nos<br />

ilia fucamur innocentes infa-<br />

mia. Procul enim a nobis sunt rapines peculiorum, subversiones<br />

urbium, sanguinum sitis et fames animarum, et plus mali velle<br />

quam possimus. Sine morte nobis sufficiat nostram omnino com-<br />

plere licentiam, Ridiculis fateor et ludificationibus apti, prsesti-<br />

gia struimus, fingimus imaginationes, fantasmata facimus, ut veri-<br />

tate contecta vana ridiculaque simultas appareat. Omne quod ad<br />

* This incident of the three warnings, a dicantium, title Mors.— See my Selection<br />

little altered in its details, was the subject of Latin Stories, p. 35. It is hardly ne-<br />

of a popular monkish story in subsequent cessary to refer the reader to the English<br />

times. Two versions of the story are poem on the same subject composed by<br />

given in John of Bromyard's Summa Prse- Mrs. Thrale.

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