Exhortation to charity University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/N.Caritas.Vers Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems Exhortation to charity
Non jam pastus erit digne dulcedine coenæ Qui domino mensæ non infert fragmina [plenæ] Quisquis et extremum spreverit sine tegmine [virum] Illic stridorem patietur frigore durum. Lucis amore caret tenebris demersus iniquis, Non curans alios, solis qui parcit amicis. Auctorem vitæ non coeli in culmine cernit Pauperis et minimi vocem qui in lumine spernit. Mansuram Dominus requiem non æquiparavit Poscenti sedem qui sic præstare negavit. Solvere qui non vult hic vinctum pondere [poenæ] Non jam pastus erit digne dulcedine coenæ.