Letters60 Letter LX. To THE SAME. He intercedes for the Abbey of Molesme. (Circa A.D. 1128)
Letter LX. To THE SAME. He intercedes for the Abbey of Molesme. (Circa A.D. 1128)
I hope that you will not think me an importunate meddler if I approach you to intercede on behalf of the Abbey of Molesme. There are many motives which encourage me to believe that I need not fear a refusal from you. First, because the house for which I make request is not a foreign one; it depends upon you. Next, that it asks only its right from your justice, and is not usurping that which belongs to another; and, thirdly, that our request is joined in by such a person as would be sufficient to obtain even a greater thing from your kindness. I mean Count Theobald. If I presume to add a fourth, it is with diffidence that I do so. For neither have I such distrust in my humility but that I would venture, if need were, to commit myself to your long-tried kindness in making any request that might be reasonable. Farewell.
Pro ecclesia Molismensi supplex, non, ut arbitror, importunus interventor, accedo. Multa quippe sunt quae me confortant, ut repulsam non metuat haec nostra petitio. Primum quia non pro qualibet extranea, sed pro vestra vobis ecclesia supplicamus. Deinde quod eamdem ecclesiam non alienum usurpare, sed suum jus tantum a vestra aequitate requirere credimus. Tertio quod idipsum talis nobiscum postulat, qui solus ad impetrandum etiam majus aliquid a vobis sufficere possit; videlicet comes Theobaldus. Quartum quoque si addidero, non temere id me praesumere putaverim. Neque enim vel ipsi de nostra adeo humilitate diffidimus, quin audacter, si opus sit, per nosmetipsos ad vestrae celsitudinis nobis jam satis expertam benevolentiam, petituri quod rationabile visum fuerit, accedamus. Valete.