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Epistle XXII.
To Rusticiana, Patrician Lady.
Gregory to Rusticiana, &c.
As often as any one comes to us from the royal city, we
take care to enquire of your bodily health; but, my sins being the
cause, I always hear what I am sorry to hear, since, frail and weak as
you already are, it is reported that the pains of gout still grow upon
you. But I pray the Almighty Lord that whatever befalls your body
may be ordered to the health of your soul, and that temporal scourges
may prepare for you eternal rest, and that through the pains which have
an end He may grant you joys without end. As for me, I live in
such a state of groaning and in the midst of such occupations that it
irks me to have arrived at these days which now I spend, and my only
consolation is the expectation of death. Wherefore I beg you to
pray for me, to the end that I may be soon released from this prison of
the flesh, so as to be no longer
tormented by such great pains.
Furthermore, I have to inform you that a certain person has come here, Beator by name, who gives himself out as comes
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, and is doing many
things against all, but principally against your Excellency’s
people, or those of your most noble granddaughters, as though he were
making enquiry into matters of public import. And we indeed will
not permit him to act wrongfully, but neither can we stand in the way
of public interests. Do you therefore treat as you can with the
most pious princes, that they may countermand any wrongful proceeding
on his part. For neither is the public interest served by any
kind of turmoil, nor does he appear to reclaim anything of great
amount. I beg that my most sweet son the lord Strategius213
be greeted in my behalf, whom may Almighty
God nourish for Himself and for you, and ever comfort you by His own
grace and by the young lord’s life. Further, what should I
write to you concerning your return hither, knowing as you do how much
I desire it? But, when I look to the obligations of the business
that detains you, I am in despair; and so I implore the Creator of all
that, wherever you are, and wherever you may be, He would protect you
by the extension of His right hand, and preserve you from all
evil.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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