NÉRAC IN 1530.
Ci entrez, vous, qui le sainct Évangile
En sens agile annoncez, quoi qu'on gronde,
Céans aurez un refuge et bastille.
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Ci entrez, vous, dames de hault parage
En franc courage. Entrez y en bon heur
Fleurs de beaulté, à céleste visage,
À droict corsage, à maintien preude et sage.
En ce passage est le séjour d'honneur.
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Ci entrez, vous, et bien soyez venus,
Et parvenus, touts nobles chevaliers.
Frisques, galliers, joyeux, plaisants, mignons,
En général tous gentils compagnons.
So runs the inscription over the door of the Abbey of Thelema. Whether in designing that perfect Court, whose motto was Fay ce que vouldras, since the virtuous wish nothing else but honour, whose splendour outrivalled Bonnivet or Chantilly, whose library contained all books of Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and French, Spanish and Tuscan, where Lutheran refugees were received and honoured, where all the ladies were noble
