Letter 10008: Ad eosdem in laude

More Praise of Childebert and Brunhild If I were permitted to open the praises of kings to their full extent, I could not speak enough day and night. How does this people hang on their lords' love and keep its eyes fixed on yours? You — to whom the people is mirror and light and sweetness — you are their dear adornment and honor at once. A special gift: a peaceful and peaceable kingdom, and in your condition the piety of the world's heights. Here lineage and homeland and duty are one thing — and what you are to your people, they are to you. The king who is loved is the king who loves; the queen who is honored has given honor. This exchange, repeated daily, is what makes a kingdom worth having.

VIII Ad eosdem in laude Si praestaretur praeconia pandere regum, non mihi sufficeret nocte dieque loqui. qualiter hic populus dominorum pendet amore et vestris oculis lumina fixa tenet. vos, quibus et speculum et lux et dulcedo manetis, carum ornamentum his simul estis, honos. praecipuum donum placidum et placabile regnum, ac vestro in statu est culmen in orbe pium. hicque parentela et patria et tutela coruscat, hic decus atque gradus, hic pietatis opus. hic tranquilla quies, hic spes iucunda fideli, postque deum in vobis dona salutis habent. hic ego cum populo mea vota et gaudia iungo, quae pius amplificans crescere Christus agat. praestet cura dei vos longa in sede tueri, caelesti ac dono regna tenere diu. adquiratis adhuc nova vel possessa regatis ac pie participes has foveatis opes, ut tibi quae floret de nato et germine, messem maturam videas, mater honore micans; sic ut et ex genito genitisque nepotibus amplis altera progenies inclita detur avae. de Childeberctho dulcedine flore salute fructum habeas genetrix, plebs sua vota videns. de nata atque nuru cumulet tibi dona creator cumque pio merito stes placitura deo. hic ego promerear rediens dare verba salutis. congaudens dominis parvulus ipse piis: prospera sint regum, populorum gaudia crescant: exultet regio, stet honor iste diu.