"Auribus immensis quondam donatus asellus institit ut caudam posset habere parem. cauda suo capiti quia se conferre nequibat, altius ingemuit de brevitate sua, mon quia longa satis non esset ad utilitatem. ante tamen quam sic apocopata foret, consuluit medicos, quia quod natura nequibat, artis ab officio posse putabat eos.Cui Galienus ait: "satis est bipedalis asello cauda; quid ulterius poscis, inepte, tibi? sufficit ista tibi, nam quo productior esset, sordidior fieret proximiorque luto. hac nisi contentus fueris, dum forte requiris prolongare nimis, abbreviabis eam. quod natura dedit non sit tibi vile, sed illud inter divitias amplius esse puta. crede mihi, vetus est tibi cauda salubrior ista natibus innata quam foret illa nova.""
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Speculum Stultorum (A Mirror of Fools), "Concerning the Ass That Wished to Have a Longer Tail". Edited by J. H. Mozley and R. R. Raymo (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1960) pp. 32–33. Reported in F. J. E. Raby (ed.) The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse (1966) no. 243, p. 370. Translated by Graydon W. Regenos, The Book of Daun Burnel the Ass (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959) p. 32
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Nigel de Longchamps
Nigel de Longchamps (fl. c. 1190, died c. 1200), also called Nigellus Wireker, was an Anglo-Norman satirist and poet of the late twelfth century, writing in Latin. He is known to have been a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, from 1186 to 1193, and perhaps earlier (he claims to have met Thomas Becket, killed in 1170).
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