Bruno,

one simple way would be to click on the respective link to our archives
given below. The entry there includes another link to the source text of
the papal decree. You can study it and try to find out. I mean, you
yourself >8)

Another way could be to say that, provided the phrase is used the papal
way, Solus cum sola is an Elizabethan way of alluding to intercourse of
the sexes (not necessarily sexual intercourse).

Mat

"Bruno Correia" <[email protected]> schrieb:
>    Interesting, however I'd like to have more info about this papal decree
>    and how it is related to Dowland's pavan...
>    Thanks.

> > Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster.
> >
> > A man and a woman, alone together, will not think of saying their
> > Pater Noster.
> 
>      Indeed, and to say a bit more, this is not a proverb, but a papal
>      decree. See
>      http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg20207.html 



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