Letters295 Letter CCXCV. To Cardinal Henry,- for the same bishop (Circa A.D. 1150)

St Bernard of Clairvaux († 1153) · Epistolae · c. 1120-1153

Letter CCXCV. To Cardinal Henry,- for the same bishop (Circa A.D. 1150)

I write to you as if to myself, and this every time that I write to you. For where you are, there I hope to be, for I love you as myself. If you love me as much, or, I should say, because you love me, see that my lord of Le Mans, as far as you can, does not have to return disappointed in any way. Otherwise I shall be disappointed too, for I love him for his uprightness, and I wish him to be loved by you.

Sic tibi, quasi mihi scribo, et hoc quoties tibi scribo. Ubi enim tu es, me esse confido, quippe quem tanquam me ipsum diligo. Si me tu aeque diligis, imo quia diligis, vide ne dominus Cenomannensis ex te (quod in te est) in aliquo redeat contristatus. Alioquin ego contristarer in homine quem satis pro sua honestate diligo, et a te diligi volo.

Samuel J. Eales (active by 1879; M.A., Principal of S. Boniface College, Warminster, in 1882), Life and Works of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, edited by Dom John Mabillon, vols. I-III, London: Burns & Oates / John Hodges, 1889-1896. Digital text: OCR of Internet Archive scans saintbernardlife00bernuoft, saintbernardlife02bernuoft, lifeworksofsaint03bern, word-repaired against second copies (lifeworksofsaint01bern, lifeworksofsaint02bern, LifeWorksOfSBernardClairvauxV3). Original text: Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich) TEI of the Patrologia Latina, via the CatholicCorpus mirror. Public domain in the US and Canada: published 1889-1896; translator active by 1879, an M.A. and principal in 1882; necessarily died before 1972. Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina 182-183 (1854), public domain.