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"Quem Papa dispenset multus labor opprimit aeger Qui timet aut occulus, officioque caret." The obligation of reading the Office is imposed by the Church and the Pope can dispense in it even without cause. Bishops can give temporary dispensations. A grave occupation excuses from the whole or from a part of the Office.
Aeger, the ruler of the turbulent and stormy sea, is a Yotun, but he is a friend of the gods. When they visit him his hall is lighted with shining gold. His wife is Ran, and their daughters are the waves. In the beginning there was peace among gods and men.
He lashed the ocean into great sheets of foam, he piled the waves mountain high, he dashed the spray into the very heavens, and woe to the galleys that were sailing homeward. It happened once that the gods were feasting with AEger, the sea-god, and the ale gave out, and AEger had no kettle in which to brew a new supply. "Thor," said.
AEger, after he had thought a moment, "will you get me a kettle?" Thor was always ready for any hard or dangerous thing. "Of course I will," was his quick reply, "only tell me where to get one." That, however, was no easy thing to do. Kettles big enough to brew ale for Asgard were not to be picked up at a moment's notice.
His account of the difficulties of his journey, gives a very tender image of pastoral distress: En ipse capellas Protenus aeger ago: hanc etiam vix, Tityre, duco: Hic inter densas corylos modo namque gemellos, Spem gregis, ah! silice in nuda connixa reliquit. Ec. i. 12. And lo! sad partner of the general care. Weary and faint I drive my goats afar!
Sanguinis missione vis vitae diminuta: fiebat pulsitis debilior, respiratio difficilior. In pejus ruunt omnia. Febris anomala in febriculam continuam mutata. Dyspnoea confirmata. Fibrarum compages soluta. Valetudo penitus eversa. His agitatus furiis, aeger ad mare provolat: in fluctus se precipitem, dat: periculum factum spem non fefellit: decies iteratum, felix faustumque evasit.
Although, surpris'd with joy, we become as lost in the performance; when gladness and admiration strikes us silent, as we look back upon the precipiece of our late condition, and those miraculous deliverances beyond expression. What shall we do with these men? saith he; Aeger intemperans crudelem facit medicum, et immedicabile vulmis ense recidendum.
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