Although my mother was England, France was my nurse, and I prefer my nurse to my mother.
Anglia cui mater fuerat, cui Gallia nutrix,
Matri nutricem praefero mente meam.
Six utriusque tamen meritis praeconia justis
Attribuo, niteant ut probitate pares.
Matri nutricem praefero mente meam.
Six utriusque tamen meritis praeconia justis
Attribuo, niteant ut probitate pares.
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De triumphis ecclesiae (ed. Thomas Wright, 1856), l. 7, as translated by Louis John Paetow, Two Medieval Satires on the University of Paris: 'La Bataille des VII Ars' of Henri d'Andeli and the 'Morale Scolarium' of John of Garland (University of California Press, 1927) p. 85, footnote