igitur hic tu, quantum recordor, citos iambos, elegos acutos ac rotundatos hendecasyllabos et cetera carmina musicos flores thymumque redolentia, nunc Narbonensibus cantitanda, nunc Biterrensibus, ambigendum celerius an pulchrius elucubrasti, apud aequaevos gratiam tuam, famam apud posteros ampliaturus; certe mihi, quotiens tui versus a meditationis incude tamquam adhuc calidi deferebantur, sic videbatur, qui, etsi non bene scribo, bene iudico.
Here then, as I remember, you produced with busy toil (and one could not say whether the rapidity of your composition or the beauty of it was the more remarkable) swiftly moving iambics, clever elegiacs, and shapely hendecasyllables, and your other verses all fragrant with the Muses thyme and flowers, to be eagerly sung, now by the people of Narbonne, now by those of Beziers. By these poems you were bound to win more and more acceptance from your contemporaries and increased fame with posterity; at least, so it seemed to me whenever your verses were delivered to me still hot, as it were, from the composers anvil'and I am a good judge, though not a good writer.
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