Exemplum autem de responso Ricardi regis Anglorum, facto ma… - Gerald of Wales

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Exemplum autem de responso Ricardi regis Anglorum, facto magistro Fulconi viro bono et sancto…et hic interserere praeter rem non putavi. Cum inter cetera vir ille sanctus regi dixisset; "Tres filias habetis, quae quamdiu penes vos fuerint, nunquam Dei gratiam habere poteritis, superbiam scilicet, luxuriam, et cupiditatem." Cui rex, post modicam quasi pausationem, "Jam," inquit, "maritavi filias istas, et nuptui dedi; Templariis superbiam, nigris monachis luxuriam, albis vero cupiditatem."

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Gerald of Wales (c. 1146 – c. 1223) was a churchman and writer of Welsh birth, and of mixed Welsh and Norman ancestry. He was born Gerald de Barri, but as an author is usually known as Giraldus Cambrensis or as Gerald of Wales.

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Alternative Names: Giraldus Cambrensis • Girardus Barrius • Girald de Barri • Sylvester Giraldus • Gerald de Barri • Giraldo Cambrense • Gerald de Barry • Silvester Giraldus Cambrensis • Girauld de Barri • Gerallt Gymro • Giraldo di Barri • Giraud de Barri • Giraud le Cambrien • Sylvester Cambrensis • Giraldus de Barri • Silvester G. Cambrensis • Giraldo Cambrese

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In musico modulamine, non uniformiter, ut alibi, sed multipliciter, multisque modis et modulis, cantilenas emittunt. Adeo ut in turba canentium, sicut huic genti mos est, quot videas capita, tot audias carmina discriminaque vocum varia.

Giraldus mingles in the crowd, catches its accents, is borne along by its changing passions, and thus becomes a very mirror of that fighting, chaffering, praying age.

To his industry we are exclusively indebted for all that is known of the state of Ireland during the whole of the middle ages, a few barren Chronicles excepted.

Exemplum autem de responso Ricardi regis Anglorum, facto magistro Fulconi viro bono et sancto…et hic interserere praeter rem non putavi. Cum inter ce… - Gerald of Wales

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