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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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Cap. xii.] DE NUGIS CURIALIUlOT"«iuJU« ?* l7<br />

annis* hoc regnum possederunt, expulsis incolis." Stupefactus<br />

ergo rex, qui per solum triduuni moram fecisse putabat, vix haesit<br />

equo. Quidam autem ex sociis suis ante canis descensum immemores<br />

mandatorum pygmcei descenderunt, et in pulverem statim resoluti<br />

sunt. Rex vero rationem ejus intelligens resolutionis, prohibuit<br />

sub interminatione mortis consimilis ne quis ante canis descensum<br />

terram contingeret. Canis autem nondum descendit. Una fabula<br />

dat ilium Herlam regem errore semper infinito circuitus cum ex-<br />

ercitu suo tenere vesanos sine quiete vel residentia. Multi fre-<br />

quenter ilium, ut autumant, exercitum viderunt. Ultimo tamen,<br />

ut aiunt, anno primo coronationis nostri regis Henrici cessavit<br />

regnum nostrum celebriter ut ante visitare. Tunc autem visus<br />

fuit a multis Wallensibus immergi juxta Waiamf Herefordiee flumen.<br />

Quievit autem ab ilia hora fantasticus ille circuitus, tanquam<br />

nobis suos tradiderint errores, ad quietem sibi. Sed si velis attendere<br />

quam plorandus fiat, non solum in nostra sed in omnibus<br />

fere potentum curiis, silentium mihi libentius et certe justius in-<br />

dicere placebit. Libetne nuper actis aurem dare parumper ?<br />

<strong>De</strong> rege Portingalensi. xii.<br />

Portingalensis rex, % qui vivit, et adhuc suo modo regnat, cum a<br />

multis impeteretur hostibus, et ad deditionem jam fere cogeretur,<br />

in subsidium ei quidam advenit juvenis, corpore prsestanti et forma<br />

venusta : qui cum ipso commorans, virtute bellica tam praeclarus<br />

apparuit, ut non viderentur ejus opera possibilia viro uni. Hie<br />

pacem desiderio regis et regni restituit, ingressusque merito in<br />

domini sui prsecipuam familiaritatem, magis quia ab ipso excultus<br />

est, ssepe scilicet queesitus, frequenter visitatus, in multis remune-<br />

* The quickness with which time passes f The river Wye in Herefordshire,<br />

in fairy land was also the source of a nu- \ The King of Portugal at this time was<br />

merous class of legends in the popular Sanchez I. who reigned from 1185 to<br />

mythology of the Germanic race. The 1211; but I do not find that any historian<br />

English reader will remember Washington has alluded to the events related here by<br />

Irving's story of Rip van Winckle. Walter <strong>Mapes</strong>.<br />

CAMD. SOC. D

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