Nam cum primaevo adolescentiae tempore in clero illius degerem legendi quidem canendique studiis traditus, sed non adhuc animum perfecte a iuvenilibus cohibens inlecebris, contigit die quadam nos iter agentes cum illo devenisse in viam planam et amplam aptamque cursui equorum: coeperuntque iuvenes qui cum ipso erant, maxime laici, postulare episcopum ut cursu maiore equos suos invicem probare liceret.
For when in the days of my lusty youth I lived among his clergy and was set to school to learn both to read and sing, but did not yet fully restrain my fantasy from youthful enticements, it fortuned one day, that as we journeyed with him, we came into a goodly plain way which was a trim place to course our horses in; and the young men that were in his company, especially of the lay sort, began to desire the bishop to give them leave to gallop and make trial of their horses one against the other.
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