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Lepus Claudicans

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The story of The Lame Rabbit is adapted from the Dialogus creaturarum moralizatus.

There is an English translation of this Latin book published in 1530, attributed to Nicolaus Pergaminus: The dialoges of creatures moralysed Applyably and edificatyfly, to euery mery and iocounde mater, of late tra[n]slated out of latyn into our Englysshe tonge: page view 1 and page view 2.

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Abrotanus lignum est
et infixa extrahit. 		abrotanus: this plant (popularly known as "Southernwood") is still used in homeopathic medicine
Unde
quidam lepus claudicans
humiliter venit ad eum,
habebat enim spinam
infixam in pede,
dicens:

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o medice animarum et corporum,
miserere mei
et sana me. 		 
Hoc dicens
pedem dextrum illi ostendebat.		  
Abrotanus autem
pietate commotus
super vulnus eius
se posuit
et spinam inde eduxit
eumque curavit.		  
Lepus vero
non immemor beneficii
quotidie lagenam aquae
super humeros suos portabat
et abrotanum ad radicem balneabat
et porrigebat aquam,
ut abrotanum viride et friscum permaneret,
dicens:
Semper ad benefactores
simus boni servitores. 		 
Non enim sic faciunt
maligni et ingrati,
imo,
quod cito beneficia recepta sunt,
oblivioni tradunt. 		 
Unde Salomon interrogatus,
quid inter homines
facilius se nesciret,
respondit: beneficium.		  
Et propterea dicit Cato:
beneficii accepti
memor esto. 		 
Legitur in Ecclesiastica Historia,
quod quaedam leaena,
habens speluncam
iuxta cellam beati Macharii,
invenit catulos suos caecos,
quos ante pedes eius portavit,
et intelligens vir sanctus,
quod pro catulis benigne supplicaret,
ipse orando illuminavit eos. 		 
Quae non ingratam
se reputari voluit,
quia pelles omnium bestiarum,
quas capiebat,
saepe quasi pro mercede
ad ostium cellae eius
deportabat.

  
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