Theoretical and Practical Garden of Feudal Law

deatur. And since there is no one who does not love benefits, and it is in a man's interest to be affected by the benefit of a man, an old adage has prescribed: Give a benefit, blind man, receive it, seeing man. Therefore, those things which I am now about to distribute regarding Benefits or Fiefs, as Homer a reference to Homer's generosity with his poetic gifts, do you receive them as Argus a figure from mythology with one hundred eyes, signifying attentiveness, even if according to the Horatian line:

forgive humanly, when the weariness of studies also remains with you, which will be pleasant reliefs of progress if you concede to Plautus, that:

He who wishes to eat the kernel from the nut must crack the nut:

& with Ovid to me:

If strength is wanting, still the will is to be praised
I prophesy that my own people will be content with this.

Therefore, let us enter our garden, and let us converse.