Specie virtutis.
Tu qui tenes hunc tenorem,
Frustra dicis te pastorem;
Nec te regis ut rectorem,
Rerum mersus in ardorem:
Hæc est alia
sanguisugæ filia,
quam venalis curia
Duxit in uxorem.
Translation.—Although sick with those who are sick, and unknown with those who are unknown, yet I will assume all characters in turn, usurping the right of the priest: weep, ye daughters of Sion, the bishops of the church at the present day are but remote imitators of Christ!