Quod perhorrescens ad epistularum transtuli cultum genus omne cura, ne reus cantu petulantiore sim reus actu; Neu puter solvi per amoena dicta, schema si chartis phalerasque iungam, clerici ne quid maculet rigorem fama poetae.
Appalled by this memory, I have transferred my study in all its forms to the cultivation of letter-writing, lest, guilty as I was of wanton song, I should be guilty also of wanton deed; And lest I should be thought a voluptuary demoralised by prettiness of language if I added to my pages tropes and trappings, so that my fame as a poet might not cast a slur on my strictness as a cleric.
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