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Poem #180

Prosa de martyribus aulicis
written s.d. first edition 1980

Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 16th-century, BK, 243, f. 312
2copy in Latin, 16th-century, BNW, akc. 4793, f. 15r-16r
3copy in Latin, 16th-century, BNW, III 3042, f. 29r-30v
4copy in Latin, 16th-century, B. Ossol., 158/II, p. 346-347
5copy in Latin, 16th-century, B. Ossol., 2447/II, f. 97r-v

Prints:
1WIESIOŁOWSKI (Prosa de martiribus aulicis) No. 17, p. 252

 

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O beata beatorum
Aulicorum agmina,
O remote recolenda
Illorum certamina!
5
Digni dignis raro signis
Florent pro virtutibus,
Illos semper condecenter
Dedignemur laudibus.
Fide, voto, corde toto
10
Nemo credit alteri,
Et invicti sunt addicti
Sed frustra martyrio.
Carceratis, trucidatis
Digniores rabulae
15
Hasta laesis, ferro caesis
Praestant nugigeruli.
Probi torti cedunt forti
Captatorum gloriae,
Hi electi sunt adepti
20
Beatorum praemia.
Per ambitum mundanorum
Et commenta fortia
Meruerunt magnatorum
Victores consortia.
25
Ergo facti exhaeredes
Christo in caelestibus,
Apud ipsum vota vestra
Irrita cum precibus.
Ut post huius vestra vitae
30
Pompa transitoria
In perenni mereatur
Exsulare gloria.

Conclusio

Contemnentes non sequentes
Aulam sancti regiam
35
Pervenerunt ut optarunt
Ad regna caelestia.