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4 Contemporary Poem on the Translation of the Cathedral. 211 
J upon his expulsion from Eden he would have preferred his new 
quarters to his old. 
Line 189, “ Regis silua domos prebet’’ may refer to the Royal 
grants of timber of 9th May and 30th December, 1221, which the 
- Bishop of Salisbury mentioned in the lecture (afterwards printed) 
_ upon his palace, which he gave at the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, 
in 1890 (Wilts Arch. Mag., xxv., 166). 
De translatione ueteris Ecclesie Saresbiriensis et constructione noue. 
Ecclesiam cur transtulerit salisberiensem 
Presul Ricardus insinuare uolo. 
Mons salisberie, quasi Gelboe mons maledictus, 
Est inter montes, sicut et illa fuit. 
Non pluuia uel rore madet, non flore uel herba 
Uernat, non forma uel bonitate viget 
Nil equidem preter absinthia gignit amara, 
Quatinus ex fructu se probet ipse suo. 
Prebet ibi castrum solis obstacula ucntis, 
10 Materiam culmen qua cieatur habens. 
Est ibi defectus limphe, set copia crete, 
Ventus ibi clamat, sed phylomena silet. 
Candor obest crete, set plus karistia limphe, 
Disgregat hic oculos, aggrauat illa sitim. 
Pausando phylomena nocet, plus aura furendo, 
Derogat hee ludis, obruit illa domos. 
Hic locus et castro fuit insignitus et urbe, 
Nec castri dignus ferre nec urbis opes. 
In castro stabat urbs castrum stabat in urbe, 
20 Sic erat utrumque maius utrumque minus. 
Nec respectiue dico maius minus, immo, 
Simpliciter maius, simpliciterque minus. 
Viterius monstrum superest, hec stabat in illo, 
Illud in hac, igitur non duo prorsus erant. 
Non duo prorsus erant, set sicut nec duo prorsus, 
Sic nec res prorsus vna sed una biceps. 
