The Deeds of God Through the Franks by Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert
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Regalique situ pyramidum altius:
(I have built a monument) more lasting than brass, taller that the royal site of the Pyramids... So that the fine man, happier than any pig, might say with the poet: Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitiam. I shall not die entirely, a great part of me shall avoid Hell. That is: Manditur ore suum, qui porcum vixerat, hujus Membra beata cluunt, podice fusa suum. Quum talos ori, tum quod sus fudit odori, Digno qui celebrat cultor honore ferat. He who has lived by the pig is chewed to death by the pig and the limbs which were called blessed have become pigs' excrement. May those who wish to honor him carry to their mouths his heels, which the pig has poured forth in stench. What if there is some truth in what the Manicheans say about purification, that in every food something of God is present and that |
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