Tantum rex idem utilitati suae gentis consuluit, ut plerisque in locis ubi fontes lucidos iuxta publicos viarum transitus conspexit, ibi ob refrigerium viantium, erectis stipitibus aereos caucos suspendi iuberet, neque hos quisquam, nisi ad usum necessarium, contingere prae magnitudine vel timoris eius auderet, vel amoris vellet.
The same king did so much tender the comfort of his people, that in most places where he saw clear well-springs breaking out by the side of the highways, he bade posts be set up and copper vessels hung thereon for the refreshing of wayfaring men, which vessels either for greatness of fear of the kings displeasure no men durst touch further than to his present use and need, or would wish to touch for greatness of the love they bare him.
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