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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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The folloiving fragment of Walter <strong>Mapes</strong> is found isolated in an early<br />

MS. ivitliout any indication from whence it was taken.<br />

[From MS. 130 in Corpus Christi College. Copied in MS. James 39.]<br />

Ex dictis W. Map. Cerva fugiens a facie venatorum, divertit<br />

in curiam cujusdam divitis, stetitque ad prsesepe inter boves. Cui<br />

unus bos ait, " Veniet bubulcus et cum videret te, occidet te."<br />

Respondit cerva, " Non timeo bubulcum, coecus enim est.^' Venit<br />

bubulcus, bob us apposuit cibos, et cervam non videns pertransiit.<br />

Iterum dixit bos ad cervam, " Veniet preepositus et occidet te."<br />

At ilia, " Non timeo prtepositum, videt quid paululum, sed subobscure."<br />

Venit preepositus damans ad bubulcum, " Quomodo<br />

sunt boves ?" Ait, " Optime." Ingressus et excutiens cibos<br />

eorum, et quasi hortatus ut comedant, recessit. Tertio dixit bos<br />

ad cervam, " Veniet dominus noster, et cum viderit te occidet.^*<br />

Dixit cerva, " Absit ! absit ! nunquara hue veniat dominus domus !<br />

nihil enim fallere potest oculos illius." Vespere igitur facto, dixit<br />

dominus servo, *' Accende lucernam, vadarn videre boves meos."<br />

Introgressus igitur per ordinem singulos boves adiit, cibos excussit,<br />

manum per spinam dorsi quasi applaudendo et fovendo duxit,<br />

proprio nomine ut comederent monuit. Ad extremum veniens<br />

ubi cerva stetit in angulo, ait, " Quid facis, o cerva, inter boves<br />

meos ? rea es mortis ;" et statim data sententia occidit earn. Hinc<br />

liquido apparet quod dominus domus ceeteris videt limpidius.

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