obversatur etenim per dies mentibus singulorum quod persona aetate gravis infirmitate fragilis, nobilitate sublimis religione venerabilis solius dilectionis obtentu abrupisti tot repagula, tot obiectas veniendi difficultates, itinerum videlicet longitudinem brevitatem dierum, nivium copiam penuriam pabulorum, latitudines solitudinum angustias mansionum, viarum voragines aut umore imbrium putres aut frigorum siccitate tribulosas, ad hoc aut aggeres saxis asperos aut fluvios gelu lubricos aut colles ascensu salebrosos aut valles lapsuum adsiduitate derasas; per quae omnia incommoda, quia non privatum commodum requirebas, amorem publicum rettulisti.
For day after day there is a picture before the mind of each, how you, a personage weighed down by years and frail through ill-health but exhalted in birth and venerable for your piety, with no pretext but that of affection broke through all the obstacles and all the hindrances in the way of your coming, I mean the length of the stages and the shortness of the days, the superabundance of snow and the scarcity of provisions, the wide expanse of the solitudes and the cramped space of the rest-houses; sloughs in the road, here rotten with soaking rain, there made jagged by dry frost; besides these, the rough stones of the causeways and the slippery ice of the streams, rugged hills to climb and valleys scoured by continual landslides; through all which discomforts, as you sought no private advantage, you won the love of a people.
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