"Aut lego vel scribo, doceo scrutorve sophiam, obsecro celsithronum nocte dieque meum, vescor, poto libens, rithmizans invoco Musas, dormisco stertens oro Deum vigilans. Conscia mens scelerum deflet peccamina vitae: parcite vos misero, Christe Maria, viro."
— Sedulius Scottus

January 1, 1970

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Translated by James Carney, in Robert McNally (ed.) Old Ireland (New York: Fordham University Press, 1965) p. 250. Other translations: Helen Waddell, Medieval Latin Lyrics (London: Constable & Co, 1929) p. 123 · George F. Whicher, The Golliard Poets: Medieval Latin Songs and Satires (New York: New Directions, 1949) p. 16. See also: Ludwig Traube (ed.) Poetae Latini Aevi Carolini, vol. 3 (Berlin, 1896) p. 225