Hoc cum regi esset relatum, dicebat episcopo, cum forte ingressuri essent ad prandium: Quid voluisti, domine antistes, equum regium, quem te conveniebat proprium habere, pauperi dare? Numquid non habuimus equos viliores plurimos, vel alias species quae ad pauperum dona sufficerent, quamvis illum eis equum non dares, quem tibi specialiter possidendum elegi? Cui statim episcopus: Quid loqueris, inquit, rex?
When this had been reported to the king, he said to the bishop, as it chanced they were about to enter in to dinner: What meant you, my lord bishop, to give to the poor man that royal horse which it was fitting for you to keep for your own use? Had we not store of horses of less price and other kind to be sufficient for gifts to the poor, though you should not give them that horse which I chose to be your peculiar possession? To whom the bishop at once said: Why talketh your Grace thus?
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