Desiderio spiritalium lectionum, quarum tibi tam per authenticos quam per disputatores bybliotheca fidei catholicae perfamiliaris est, etiam illa, quae maxume tuarum scilicet aurium minime digna sunt occupare censuram, noscere cupis; siquidem iniungis, ut orationem, quam videor ad plebem Biturigis in ecclesia sermocinatus, tibi dirigam; cui non rhetorica partitio, non oratoriae minae, non grammaticales figurae congruentem decorem disciplinamque suppeditaverunt.
In your zeal for spiritual reading (and you are familiar with the whole library of Catholic reading, whether composed by the scriptural writers or by the expositors) you wish to acquaint yourself with even those productions which are obviously quite unworthy to hold the discriminating attention of such a critic as yourself; for you ask me to send you the oration which I am reputed to have delivered in the church to the people of Bourges. But it was a homily which had none of the harmonious grace and artifice contributed by rhetorical partition, oratorical shocks, and grammatical figures.
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