Bill East set the literary competition for a "Kentish Archbishop
called Odo" limerick. As it's Friday, and many of you bona-fide
medievalists have returned from Leeds, I suggest that a year's free
subscription to medieval-religion be offered to the author of the
best "Kentish Archbishop" limerick in Latin.
Here's my offering, to set the ball rolling:
Archiepiscopus Odo
Dunstani dixit, "Quomodo
Laudabimus Deum
Propter hominem reum?
Absentem amicum rodo?"
(Rough translation: Archbishop Odo said to Dunstan, "How can we
praise God on account of man's guilt? Or am I being rude about an
absent friend?")* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Mark Harris
S-mail: Finance Division, University of London, Room 255, Senate
House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
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"The reason of a thing is not to bee inquired after till you are
sure the thing it selfe bee soe. Wee comonly are att *What's
the reason of it?* before wee are sure of the thing."
John Selden (1584-1654), _Table Talk_
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