The necessity of the Bishop of Troyes, a reverend old man and my friend, obliges me to have recourse again 1 Carum; there is a play upon the words cams and car it very usual with S. Bernard. (E).
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to the well known fountain of loving kindness. This then, is my request, that your Apostolic Piety would not permit a good man, whose white hairs have already deserved peace and quiet, to be unjustly harassed: and that you would deign to grant the petitions which he makes by his messenger.
N. flamma negotiorum quae assidue Romae geruntur, fere adustus, ex desiderabili et jucunda inspectione scriptorum vestrorum, utinam refrigerari merear. Sed, proh dolor! ad opus servi vestri in tota Clara-Valle scriptores non possunt reperiri, satis dictum est a filio patri. Amicum nostrum et personae nostrae et Ordinis glorificum amatorem dominum N. qui etiam fideliter negotia gerit suorum, dulcedo vestrae benevolentiae pro se et nobis habeat charum.
