Haec cui debentur, precor ut cum veneris illuc, Istae vos cupiunt iam revidere fores; · Misc. VIII. 8. HE SENDS A BASKET OF CHESTNUTS Ista meis manibus fiscella est vimine texta, Misc. XI. 13. FORTUNATUS SENDS THANKS TO ST. AGNES AND Hinc me deliciis, illinc me pascitis herbis, Ventri utinam pax sit, sic variante cibo. Me geminis ovis iussistis sero cibari, Misc. XI. 20. 13. illuc i.e. ad eum (antecedent of the preceding cui). 14. Meque: 'me too.'-16. Istae . . . fores: Radegunda seems at the time to have been in a religious "retreat." 1. fiscella: weaving baskets was a common occupation in monastic institutions. 1. Hinc . . . illinc: one of the ladies had sent him eggs, the other, plums.-2. pruna: instead of prunum. 5. sero: 'in the evening.' — cibari: 'to be fed.' — 6. bibi: ' sucked.' 15 5 5 10 VERSES PENNED TO SAINT AGNES AND RADEGUNDA Inter delicias varias mixtumque saporem, Nec digitis poteram, calamo neque pingere versus, Nam mihi vel reliquis sic vina bibentibus apta Alloquio dulci carmina parva dedi. Et si me somnus multis impugnat habenis, hi 11. matri. . . sorori: Radegunda and Agnes.-14. scribere: 3E (3) (c). 1. These iambic dimeters are accentual. 2. mysterium: sacred symbol.' — 3. Quo: 'on which,' 14. David intrans. - nationibus: referring to Psalm 96, 10. 18. purpura: i.e. sanguine. — 23. statera: 'ransom.'- - 26. Vincis : sapore: Abl. of specification. nectare: Abl. of means. 28. triumpho: Dat.-30. De . . . gloria: causal. - - 31. vita: cf. "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." 5 THE SACRED TREE Pange, lingua, gloriosi proelium certaminis De parentis protoplasti fraude factor condolens, Hoc opus nostrae salutis ordo depoposcerat, 10 Quando venit ergo sacri plenitudo temporis, 15 20 Vagit infans inter arta conditus praesaepia, Lustra sex qui iam peracta tempus implens corporis, Hic acetum, fel, arundo, sputa, clavi, lancea, 1 sqq. The trochaic septenarii are accentual. 4. protoplasti: 'firstformed,' i.e. Adam. - factor: Creator.' 6. lignum . . . notavit (cf. unde laeserat, infra): a mediaeval legend traced the tree from which the cross was made to a sprout from the tree with the forbidden fruit in Paradise. 17. Se volente: referring to the subject of the clause, a non-classical construction. 19. Hic acetum lancea: sc. sunt. |