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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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Cap. Hi.] DE NUGIS CURIALIUM. 199<br />

Edgarus Anglorum rex, stemraate, moribus, et regno preenobilis, de<br />

sponsa similem sibi bene patrissantem suscepit Edwarduni, cujus<br />

matre defuncta de secunda sibi legitima suscepit Edelredum, cujus<br />

mater Edwardo regnum invidens ipsi venenum propinavit, quo<br />

non proficiente conductis ipsum militibus interemit apud Sceftes-<br />

biriam. Successit igitur Edgaro rex Edelredus,* quern Anglici<br />

consiUum vocaverunt, quia nullius erat negotii. Hie de sorore<br />

comitis Normanniie sive ducis duos habuit lilios, Elvredum et Edwardum.<br />

Hujus ignobiUs Edelredi tempore, propter ipsius inep-<br />

tiam et inertiam, reges insularum finitimarum turn prsedas ab<br />

Anglia tum ab ipso Edelredo xenia pacifica referebant. Surrexit<br />

autem ea tempestate vir quidam hoc modo.f Aberraverat a sociis<br />

venatu Edelredus. Hyems erat, et devenit noctu solus errabundus<br />

ad domum cujusdam custodis vaccarum suarum, petens et concessum<br />

suscipiens hospitium. Prosibt ergo impiger filius custodis<br />

puer, nomine Godwinus, pulchrior et melior quam ipsi daret bnea<br />

priorum. Ocreas abstrahit, emundat, et reponit; equum abluit,<br />

extractum ambit, strigili tergit, et stramenta suppoiiit et pabula<br />

ministrat ; omnia composite, celeriter, et munde disponit. Hie<br />

quasi dilectus patris et angustse prseceptor domus, pinguissimum<br />

apponit igni anserem. Sororem adliibet custodise pater suus, unam<br />

jubet parari galUnam ; ille statim tres. Igni apponit pater unum<br />

salsi porci frustum oleribus apponi; ille tria properanter adjicit,<br />

et prseter matris et patris adhibet conscientiam nefrendem, id est<br />

adolescentem et virginem suem. Ignera nutrit, candelas accendit,<br />

fabulatur contra tedium regi, minus est matri adulator, patri horta-<br />

tor; defectus omnes provide supplet; non jacet, non sedet,non accu-<br />

bitat, non stat ; totus in motu est; laborem non pensat, non utilitati<br />

suae studet, non intendit promotioni propriee, totus inhiat regi, to-<br />

* Ethelred the Unready. The anecdotes the Saxon romances relating to the family<br />

of this monarch's reign given here are not of Godwin. All the great Anglo-Saxon<br />

found in the ordinary chroniclers. families had such romances attached to<br />

t This is evidently an abstract of one of them.

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