Talk:Matthew Paris

Draft

• Armato supplicat ense potens. [The man in power begs with a drawn sword.]
  • AD 1237, quoting "the saying of the poet"

• Rex largitur opes, fert præsul opem, lapicidæ
  Dant operam; tribus his est opus, ut stet opus.
  [The king finds money, the stonemason hands,
  The bishop aids, and so the building stands.]
  • AD 1237, quoting "some versifier"