Fagia, quod vivis, Vel quod superas inimicum, Scire potest quivis Quia cuncta per Aimericúm. Fagia, magna facis Sub principe, sub duce tali, Causa tuæ pacis Vir hic est, scuto generali. Fagia, publica res, Equitum virtus populosa, Teque tuosque lares Laus usque manet preciosa. Fagia, terra ferax, Validis circumdata muris, Judicii verax, Succincti clausula juris. Fagia, frumenti Felix humus, apta Falerno, Commodus armenti, Locus aëre grata superno. Fagia, grande forum, Recipis venalia quæque, Colligis armorum, Locuples juventâ fideque. Fagia, cespitibus Vivis tellus co-operta, Pabula des gregibus, Per prata virore referta. Fagia, regalis Pagus, dominis dominabus Patria legalis, Dives famulis famulabus. Fagia, causidicis Tua presonat aula frequenter, Atria grammaticis Fiuntque canora valentèr. Fagia, rethoribus Clamosis es reverenda, Equè militibus Caleatis es metuenda. Fagia, postpono Quod multis causa fuisti Mortis, et ense bono Terras animamque tulisti. Fagia, prætereo Quæ sic tua gloria terræ Dicere, nam nequeo Præconio tanta referre. Fagia, cur dicam Quod per tua strenua facta, Et vim mirificam, Cernis loca multa subacta. Fagia, si loquerer Linguis, et millia nossem Plectra, prius morerer Quam singula scribere possem. Fagia, dum calidis Sol curribus occidet undis Cerulea Thetidis, Hastes mucrone retundis. Fagia, donec aper Silvas, et flumina piscis, Et virgulta caper Repetunt, tu crescere discis. Fagia, donec apes Orchisium, juvenemque puella, Esuriensque dapes Amat, ardens vincere bella. Fagia, dum vivam, Te laudo meam genitivam Terram, dum fuero, Grates tibi solvere quæro. G Fagia, favisti, Genuisti, perdocuisti Olim me puerum Falso discernere verum. Fagia, vive, vale, Nostrum tibi sic speciale Carmen, et has apices, Fagia, sic facies, Si famuli carmine gaudes: Famuli de te tibi laudes. The celebrated poem the Schola Salerni, or Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, is to be referred to the end of the eleventh century. It was written by the learned doctors of Salerno, and contains rules for the preservation of health, and the prevention of disease, composed for the use of Robert of Normandy, son of William the conqueror, to whom it is dedicated. No poem was more popular in the middle ages, and many of its precepts are frequently quoted even to this day; but it is too long for insertion here, and a new edition of it, with a copious introduction and notes, is prepared for the press. The Twelfth Century. In days of gross darkness and superstition, Hildebert could see and reprove the vices and ignorance of his contemporaries, even of the highest rank in the church. He was a Cluniacensian monk, and a disciple of the celebrated Berengarius. About the year 1107, having been persecuted by Henry the first, king of England, he retired to Rome, that he might be protected by Pascal the second. Upon his return he was imprisoned, and refused to undergo the ordeal by fire to prove his innocence of the charges brought against him. In 1097 he was consecrated bishop of Mans, and about 1130, archbishop of Tours. His death is fixed about 1136. He was a man of genius and learning, a philosopher, a poet, and a divine ; and his works were numerous. Poems on the praises of Zosimus, the life of Saint Mary the Ægyptian, in Leonine verse, on the Mass, on Rome, on the Creation, or work of six days, an Epitaph on Berengarius, and one hundred and forty-eight Cantilena, or Songs, on the corrupt state of the Romish Church and other subjects, have been attributed to him 90. 90 Fabritius, Leyser, Tanner, Bibl. Cave, etc. |