Dum nos sedes apostolica, more suo sicut in universo orbe terrarum, in his occiduis partibus ad praedicandum gentibus paganis dirigeret, atque in hanc insulam, quae Brittania nuncupatur, contigit introisse; antequam cognosceremus, credentes quod iuxta morem universalis Ecclesiae ingrederentur, in magna reverentia sanctitatis tam Brettones quam Scottos venerati sumus; sed cognoscentes Brettones, Scottos meliores putavimus.
Whenas the see apostolic (according to the accustomed manner thereof as it doth in all parts of the world) sent us to preach to paynim people in these western parts, and so it happened us to enter into this isle which is called Britain; where thinking, before we had experience, that men walked according to the customed way of the universal Church, we honoured with great reverence of holiness as well the Britons as the Scots; but having experience of the Britons we thought the Scots better.
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