Prophecy (Vaticinium)

and you others whose medicine has been increased by labor. I shall inspect the type of disease and the hidden causes, and I shall note various cases and experiments, and mixing medicines for the sick in diverse ways, and composing draughts with health-bringing juices, I shall cure bodies languishing with hostile diseases. I shall strive to restore returning life to the dying, and we shall test whatever becomes a physician to the nail. Hence, it is possible to hope for wealth and the favor of the people. Great honors are returned to wealthy physicians; they are pointed out with a finger, it is said "these are the rich ones." We bards are despised, and we are driven out of the whole city as an idle race. Farewell, then, at last, Muses, sweet even to destruction; let not my breast be troubled by vain cares and a raging frenzy anymore. After I poured out these complaints with a contracted brow, Accursius runs to us with a favorable omen. He whom the glorious Maineria family once bore in the clear city of Avignon, the most celebrated interpreter of laws in our age, and the eternal light and perennial pillar of the law. Whom, when he saw him as a boy chasing pleasure with a Herculean brow, Virtue made a student for herself of her own will, and led him through the seven stages of study, and placed the liberal arts more deeply into his tender heart, and instilled both the sacred dogma and the civil laws, under whose guidance I was summoned quickly into the holy inner chambers of the kings of the Gauls during the greatest crisis of affairs.