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Letter CDXX. Fragment of a letter to Nicholas, Bishop of Cambrai

Letter CDLV in Eales's numbering. [A new letter: from the MS. Copy in the Abbey of S. Sepulchre, Cambrai.]

To the venerable lord and dear father N.,1 Bishop of Cambrai, Bernard, called Abbot of Clairvaux, health and prayer that he may provide things good before God and before men.

I seek a new instance of an old friendship; not to remove a doubt, but to make new assurance of it. For I am sure that you have affection for me; but just as your friendship has been displayed to me.2

Footnotes

  1. [Nicholas de Chievres, who is mentioned in Ep. 214.] ↩

  2. [The rest is wanting; nor has it been found anywhere else.] [This was Goswin, Abbot of Saint Tron, a monastery near Ghent, from whose autograph this Schedule has been extracted.] ↩

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