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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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GUALTERI MAPES<br />

DE NUGIS CURIALIUM<br />

DISTINCTIO QUINT A.<br />

Incipit qiiinta. Prologus.<br />

Antiquorum industria nobis prse manibus est; gesta suis<br />

etiam praeterita temporibus nostris reddunt prcesentia, et nos ob-<br />

mutescimus, unde in nobis eorum vivit memoria, et nos nostri<br />

sumus immemores. Miraculum illustre ! mortui vivunt, vivi pro<br />

eis sepeliuntur. Habent et nostra tempora forsitan aliquid Sophoclis<br />

non indigens cotburno. Jacent tamen egregia modernorum<br />

nobilium, attolluntur fimbriae vetustatis abjectee. Hoc nimirum<br />

inde est, quod reprehendere scimus, et scribere ignoramus ; carpere<br />

appetimus, et carpi meremur. Sic raritatem poetarum faciunt ge-<br />

minee linguae obtrectatorum. Sic torpescunt animi, depereunt inge-<br />

nia; sic ingenua teraporis hujus serenitas enormiter extinguitur, et<br />

lucerna non defectu materiae sopitur, sed succumbunt artifices, et a<br />

nostris nulla est autoritas. Caesar en Lucani, ^neas Maronis,<br />

multis vivunt in laudibus, plurimum suis mentis et non minimum<br />

vigilantia poetarum. Nobis divinam Karolorum et Pepinorum nobilitatem<br />

vulo"aribus ritbmis sola mimorum concelebrat nugacitas *<br />

* An allusion to that popular class of ventures of the a^e of Charlemagne and<br />

medieval romances entitled the Chansons Pepin. They became popular in the twelfth<br />

de Geste, which turned chiefly on the ad- century.

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