Crossword-Solution: EXORDIA 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

SERVANT What were they doing up there? TRYGAEUS They were seeking to catch some lyric exordia as they flew by immersed in the billows of the air.

Even these May-morning exordia, in which he was but following a fashion--faithfully observed both by the French trouveres and by the English romances translated from their productions, and not forgotten by the author of the earlier part of the "Roman de la Rose"--always come from his hands with the freshness of natural truth.

But in the exordia and perorations to the several books, as well as in sundry digressions, may be found matter of greater value, embodying the poet's views on the great questions of philosophy.

Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Bis dat qui cito dat Consciencia mille testes In vino veritas Bonae leges ex malis moribus Nequicquam sapit qui sibj non sapit Summum jus summa injuria Sera in fundo parsimonia Optimum non nasci Musa mihi causas memora Longe Ambages sed summa sequar fastigia rerum Causasque innecte morandj Incipit effari mediaque in voce resistit Sensit enim simulata voce locutam quae prima exordia sumat Haec alternantj potior sententia visa est.

Matteo is valuable for the general reflections which form exordia to the eleven books that bear his name.