igitur his animi litterarumque dotibus praeditus mulierem pulchram sed illam deuternomio astipulante nubentem, domine papa, tibi iugasti; quam tu adhuc iuvenis inter hostiles conspicatus catervas, atque illic in acie contrariae partis adamatam, nil per obstantes repulsus proeliatores, desiderii brachio vincente rapuisti, philosophiam scilicet, quae violenter e numero sacrilegarum artium exempta raso capillo superfluae religionis ac supercilio scientiae saecularis amputatisque pervetustarum vestium rugis, id est tristis dialecticae flexibus falsa morum et illicita velantibus, mystico amplexu iam defaecata tecum membra coniunxit.
An artist then endowed with all these intellectual and literary excellences, you have joined to yourself a beautiful woman, but who married you in the ritual prescribed by Deuteronomy, my Lord Bishop. You had seen her, while still in your youth, among the hordes of the enemy, and there in the midst of the hostile ranks you fell in love with her and, defying the attempts of the opposing warriors to drive you back, you carried her off with the conquering arm of desire. Her name was Philosophy; rescued by force from the crowd of blasphemous sciences, she shaved off the locks that betokened false religion, shaved off the disdainful eyebrows of worldly knowledge, cut away the folds of her old former raiment'and by folds I mean the twists and turns of sinister dialectic screening wrong and unlawful behaviour: and then, when cleansed in every part, she united herself with you in a mystic embrace.
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