![]() ![]() ‘My honey, my light, my darling’-lover’s nonsense like this, and all such wanton playfulness and ridiculous courtesy, makes us blush when we hear it on the stage, and seems detestable even on the lips of worldlings. Frequent gifts of handkerchiefs and ties, pressing a woman’s dress to your lips, tasting her food beforehand, writing her fond and flattering billets-doux, of all this a holy love knows nothing. Thoughts, and if a tale can be invented with some probability avoid giving the scandalmonger his opportunity. Sit heres, sed mater filiorum, id est gregis sui, ecclesia, quae illos genuit, nutrivit et pavit. Per fidei commissa legibus inludimus, et quasi maiora sint imperatorum scita quam Christi, leges timemus, evangelia contemnimus. Cauterium bonum est, sed quo mihi vulnus, ut indigeam cauterio? Provida severaque legis cautio, et tamen nec sic refrenatur avaritia. Nec de lege conqueror, sed doleo, cur meruerimus hanc legem. Pudet dicere: sacerdotes idolorum, mimi et aurigae et scorta hereditates capiunt solis clericis et monachis hoc lege prohibetur et prohibetur non a persecutoribus, sed a principibus Christianis. ‘Mel meum, lumen meum meumque desiderium’ et ceteras ineptias amatorum, omnes delicias et lepores et risu dignas urbanitates in comoediis erubescimus, in saeculi hominibus detestamur: quanto magis in clericis et in clericis monachis, quorum et sacerdotium proposito et propositum ornatur sacerdotio! Nec hoc dico, quod aut in te aut in sanctis viris ista formidem, sed quod in omni proposito, in omni gradu et sexu et boni et mali repperiantur malorumque condemnatio laus bonorum sit.Ħ. Crebra munuscula et orariola et fasciolas, et vestes ori adplicatas, et degustatos cibos blandasque et dulces litterulas sanctus amor non habet. Quid probabiliter fingi potest, ne fingatur, ante devita.
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