| Keywords |
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| ID |
903 |
| Text |
Epistolae (Bonifatius et Lullus) (700 - 754) Boniface Lull |
| Quotation |
Bonis et laudibus gentis nostrae laetamur et gaudemus, peccatis autem eius et vituperationibus eius
tribulamur et contristamur.
Obprobrium namque generis nostri patimur sive a christianis sive a paganis dicentibus, quod gens
Anglorum spreto more ceterarum gentium et despecto apostolico praecepto, immo Dei constitutione
legitimas uxores dedignentur habere et hinnientium equorum consuetudine vel rudentum asinorum
more luxoriando et adulterando omnia turpiter fedet et confundat.
Igitur, si hoc scelus maximum verum sit, frater carissimae, rogemus omnes commoniter supradictum
regem, ut semet ipsum cum populo corrigat, ne tota gens cum principe hic et in futuro pereat, sed ut
vitam propriam emendando et corrigendo exemplis suis iterum gentem propriam ad viam salutis
dirigat et, unde peccatum ante contraxit, inde mercedem mereatur aeternam. |
| Translation |
The
well-doing and the fair fame of our race is our joy and delight;
their sins and their evil repute fill us with grief and sorrow. We
suffer from the disgrace of our people whether it be told by Chris-
tians or pagans that the English race reject the usages of other
peoples and the apostolic commands—nay, the ordinance of God—
and refuse to hold to one wife, basely defiling and mixing up
everything with their adulterous lusts, like whinnying horses or
braying asses.
Wherefore, beloved brother, if this, the greatest of vices, really
exists, let us all with one accord urge the king to reform himself
and his people with him, lest the whole race perish with its prince
both here and in the life to come. Let him amend his own life
and, by his example, guide his people into the way of salvation,
so that whereas before he incurred guilt he may henceforth merit
an eternal reward. (Trans. Emerton, p. 131) |
| Summary |
Boniface gives further advice to a priest concerning his letter to the Mercian king Æthelbald. |
| Quotation source |
Epist. 74 (p. 156) |
| Temporal Coverage |
746 - 747 |
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