133. To Lambert.
The Letters of St. Anselm
receive the reward for this joy, and the other is well served if, by the pain of sin, he flees punishment.
I would have liked to write more, but since, as I said, I am not able to do so, receive this letter, although cut short, without reproof, as testimony of those things about which your afore-named son will tell you personally from us.
Farewell. c. 1079/89.
NOTES 1. Possibly Abbot Robert of Saint Martin of Seez, 1073-1089. He was suc ceeded by Ralph d'Escures, who had become a monk at Seez in 1079, then prior, and later abbot in 1089.
133. TO LAMBERT.
Anselm encourages Lambert to leave the world and become a monk.
TO HIS BELOVED LAMBERT, LONGED-FOR IN CHRIST: BROTHER
ANSELM, ABBOT OF BEC, WISHING THAT HE MAY DESPISE WITH HIS
WHOLE HEART THE VANITY OF THIS WORLD AND STRIVE FOR
ETERNAL TRUTH.
MY MOST BELOVED BROTHER and son, Dorn Ralph of Beauvais,1 once your companion, now your true friend who longs for you, has told me so much about the nobility and reputation of your conduct which adorns the renown of your family that my heart is forced by great feeling while long ing for you to love you, and in loving you to long for you.
Wherefore, since my soul neither wants to love your soul less, nor is able to love it more, than itself, it cannot desire anything else for your soul than for itself. This, then, is my desire for you: that, giving up the world, you follow Christ and through the humility and poverty of the world you achieve the glorification and riches of eternity. Let no oc casion of the flesh either hold you back or delay you, my