An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

by Henry Charles Lea

Displicet amplexus, horror mihi copula, sexus.

Conjugium vile, vilescit sponsa, cubile.

Nolo thorum talem, desidero spiritualem.

(Croke’s Rhyming Latin Verse, p. 67.)

[674] Eadmer. Hist. Novor. Lib. IV.—Anselmi Lib. III. Epist. 109.

[675] Wilkins, I. 378-80.—Paschalis II. Epist. 221.

[676] D’Achery Spicileg. III. 448.

[677] Eadmeri Hist. Novor. Lib. IV.

[678] Eadmeri Hist. Novor. Lib. IV.

[679] Eadmeri Hist. Novor. Lib. IV.