Crossword-Solution: BREVI 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

CHAPTER IV OF THE JOURNEY BY PONT STEPHEN, THE ABBEY OF STRATFLUR, LANDEWI BREVI, AND LHANPADARN VAWR A SERMON having been preached on the following morning at Pont Stephen, {109c} by the archbishop and archdeacon, and also by two abbots of the Cistercian order, John of Albadomus, and Sisillus of Stratflur, {109d} who faithfully attended us in those parts, and as far as North Wales, many persons were induced to take the cross.

From thence we passed through Landewi Brevi, {110b} that is, the church of David of Brevi, situated on the summit of that hill which had formerly risen up under his feet whilst preaching, during the period of that celebrated synod, when all the bishops, abbots, and clergy of Wales, and many other persons, were collected thither on account of the Pelagian heresy, which, although formerly exploded from Britain by Germanus, bishop of Auxerre, had lately been revived in these parts.

For you know the dew was heavy, And your boots, I know, were thin; So a little extra brevi- ty in skirts was, sure, no sin.

The sun ought not to set upon our covetousness; no more than upon our anger; but as to God Almighty a thousand years are as one day, so, in direct opposition, one day to the covetous man is as a thousand years, _tam brevi fortis jaculatur ævo multa_, so far he shoots beyond his butt.

Horace advises very wisely, and in excellent good words, _spatio brevi spem longam reseces_; from a short life cut off all hopes that grow too long.