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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 Grelboe mons maledictus, 



Est inter montes, sicut et ilia 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 uentis, 

 10 Materiam culmen qua cieatur habens. 

 Est ibi defectus limplie, set copia crete, 



Yentus ibi clamat, sed phylomena silet. 

 Candor obest crete, set plus karistia limphe, 



Disgregat hie oculos, aggrauat ilia sitim. 

 Pausando phylomena nocet, plus aura furendo, 



Derogat hec ludis, obruit ilia domos. 

 Hie 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. 

 Ylterius 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 aed una biceps. 



