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Not wishing to keep all for himself, he has taken heaven and given thee earth ; what could he do better ? " 3 Precepts and examples are in the same style. Geoffrey teaches how to praise, blame, and ridicule ; he gives models of good prosopopoeias ; prosopopoeias for times of happiness : an apostrophe to England governed by Richard Cceur-de-L5on (we know how well he governed) ; prosopopoeia for times of sorrow : an apostrophe to England, whose sovereign (this same Richard) has been killed on a c...ertain Friday : " England, of his death thou thyself diest ! . . . O lamentable day of Venus ! O cruel planet ! this day has been thy night, this Venus thy venom ; by her wert thou 1 " Galfridi de Vinosalvo Ars Poetica, " ed. Leyser, Helmstadt, 1724, 8vo. He wrote other works ; an " Itinerarium regis Anglorum Richardi I. " (text in the " Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores" of Gale, 1684 ff. , fol. , vol. Ii. ) has been attributed to him, but there are grave doubts ; see Haureau, " Notices et Ex- traits des Manuscrits, " vol.
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