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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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182 GUALTERI MAPES [Distinc. IV.<br />

quern admirabantur pater ejus et mater et tota natio prse scientia<br />

in puero matura. Hie cum esset sollicitus de salute animae suae,<br />

non invenit in lege gentilium unde spem conciperet. Scrutatis<br />

igitur patrum traditionibus, ad christianam se contulit veritatem,<br />

Templaribus baptismo, fide, societate conjunctus. Cui cum acceptis<br />

induciis pater ejus et mater et suee magnates parentelse secretins<br />

loquerentur, ut ipsum quasi ab errore facerent resipisci, respondit,<br />

" Carissime pater, qui sapientia prcemiiies aliis, tu mihi solus<br />

omissis lachrymis die quam expectes a diis anirace tuse retributionem<br />

pro impensis obsequiis." Turn ille, " Carissime fili, paradisum<br />

nobis prceparaverunt dii nostri, lacte et melle duobus magnis<br />

fluminibus manantem, eritque nobis in melle sapor omnium desi-<br />

derabilium ciborum, et in lacte cujuslibet delectatio liquorish'<br />

Ait ergo Salius, ^' Si non appetieritis, non erunt delicise : appeti-<br />

eritis, quo plus multam saturitatem ad requisita divertetis naturae.<br />

Corporalis enira cibus aut potus evanescere non potest, necessaria<br />

ut habeatis necesse est, et pereat paradisus quse tali eget tugurio.'^<br />

Yidentes igitur sui legem patrum suorum ab ipso delusam, et<br />

contra constantiam ejus eorum vanara instantiam, recesserunt<br />

cum lachrymis maledicentes ei. Ipse autem nee uxorem duxit nee<br />

boves probavit.<br />

<strong>De</strong> Alano rege Britonum. xv.<br />

At Alanus Rebrit, i. e. rex Britonum,* uxorem sinistro duxit<br />

auspicio sororem regis Francorum, comes ipse Redonensis et<br />

totius Britannise minoris dominus, et quasi rex. Erat tunc tem-<br />

poris comes Leoviensium Remelinus, qui licet Alani juratus<br />

esset et ejus homo, insolenter tamen se habebat et vitanter ad<br />

* It is not very easy to say who is the daughter of William the Conqueror. The<br />

Alan alluded to here. The last of the dukes of Britany at this time usually joined<br />

Alans dukes of Britany was Alan Fergent the title of count of Rennes (comes Redo-<br />

(1084—1112), who married Constance, weM««^ with that of duke of Britany.

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