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HILARIUS (fl. 1125)

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HILARIUS (fl. 1125) , a Latin poet who is supposed to have been an Englishman. He was one of the ptfpils of See also:Abelard at his See also:oratory of Paraclete, and addressed to him a copy of verses with its refrain in the vulgar See also:tongue, " See also:Tort avers vos li mestre," Abelard having threatened to discontinue his teaching because of certain reports made by his servant about the conduct of the scholars. Later Hilarius made his way to See also:Angers. His poems are contained in MS. supp. See also:lat. loo8 of the Bibliotheque Nationale, See also:Paris, See also:purchased in 1837 at the See also:sale of M. de See also:Rosny. Quotations from this MS. had appeared before, but in 1838 it was edited by See also:Champollion See also:Figeac as Hilarii versus et ludi. His See also:works consist chiefly of See also:light verses of the goliardic type. There are verses addressed to an See also:English See also:nun named Eva, lines to See also:Rosa, " See also:Ave splendor puellarum, generosa domina," and another poem describes the beauties of the priory of Chaloutre la Petite, in the See also:diocese of See also:Sens, of which the writer was then an inmate. One copy of satirical verses seems to aim at the See also:pope himself. He also wrote three See also:miracle plays in rhymed Latin with an ad-mixture of See also:French. Two of them, Suscitatio Lazari and Historia de See also:Daniel repraesentanda, are of purely liturgical type. At the end of See also:Lazarus is a See also:stage direction to the effect that if the performance has been given at See also:matins, Lazarus should proceed with the Te Deum, if at See also:vespers, with the Magnificat.

The third, Ludus super iconic Sancti Nicholai, is founded on a sufficiently foolish See also:

legend. See also:Petit de Julleville See also:sees in the See also:play a satiric intention and a veiled incredulity that put the piece outside the See also:category of liturgical See also:drama. A rhymed Latin See also:account of a dispute in which the nuns of Ronceray at Angers were concerned, contained in a cartulary of Ronceray, is also ascribed to the poet, who there calls himself Hilarius Canonicus. The poem is printed in the Bibliotheque de l'Ecole See also:des Chartes (vol. xxxvu. 1876), and is dated by P. Marchegay from 1121. See also a See also:notice in Hist. lilt. de la See also:France (xii. 251-254), supplemented (in xx. 627-630), S.V. See also:Jean See also:Bodel, by Paulin Paris; also See also:Wright, Biographia Britannica literaria, Anglo-See also:Norman See also:Period (1846) ; and Petit de Julleville, See also:Les Mysteres (vol. i. 188o).

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