Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque
Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque
Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque
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198 GUALTEBI MAPES [Distinc. V.<br />
propositum est ullius unquam bonitatem invidia supprimere.<br />
Idem inimicis obsessis et periculo famis sub hastam ire coactis,<br />
largitus est victualia, ut ipsius viribus et non annonge defectu<br />
vincerentur, auxitque nomen victorise suae licet distulit. Idem<br />
vicariis suis mansuetus et mitis exteras debellabat gentes, instar<br />
accipitris qui nullas unquam infestat aves nido suo, proximas sed<br />
earum hostes paciticis arcet unguibus, et remotissimas in prsedam<br />
adducit.<br />
<strong>De</strong> origine Godwini comitis, et ejus moribus. iii.<br />
Anno ab incarnatione Domini mliiij. capta est Sarracenis Jerusa-<br />
lem, et annis quadraginta <strong>quinque</strong> detenta, annis xij. ante<br />
redactam in servitutem Sarracenorum Jerusalem Normannis et<br />
Anglis data.<br />
Anno milleno centeno septuageno,<br />
Septimus a deno dat Jerusalem Saladeno.<br />
Anno milleno sexagesimo quoque seno,<br />
Anglorum metse crinem sensere cometse.<br />
Anno milleno centeno quo minus uno,<br />
Jerusalem Franci capiunt virtule potenti.*<br />
Annis triginta tribus ante captam Jerusalem a Saracenis captivata<br />
est Anosia, et per iram altissimi data est Normannis. Annis<br />
circiter tribus ante banc subversionem Jerusalem, quae in nmlta<br />
pace consenuerat, Constantinopolis ab Andronio,t cujus nequiiia<br />
Neronis impar non fuit si non major, multis et innumeris obtenta<br />
est et habita dolis. Sic subversionibus Jerusalem propbetissse<br />
fuerunt et prsenuncise duse prccdictee. Sed ut earum rationes<br />
in posterum non deficiant, notandee sunt et paulo digrediendum,<br />
* Memorial verses of this kind were ceded the Conquest of England by the<br />
much in use in the Middle Ages, and are Normans, is a well known one.<br />
found scattered in great abundance through -f- Andronicus I. grandson of Alexis Com-<br />
tbe manuscripts. The second of these nenus (1183-1185). He was at last massa-<br />
couplets relating to the comet which pre- cred by the populace of Constantinople.