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  • Alternate: Carob; otherwise take a trip down to floreat forum.

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  • Further evidence of his presence at court is his inclusion among the musicians called upon to sing praise to King François I and Queen Claude in Pierre Moulu's ceremonial motet Mater floreat florescat.

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  • Prioris was included among the finest musicians of his day by writers such as Crétin, Eloy d'Amerval, Jean Daniel and François Rabelais, and he appears among the second group of composers to whom tribute is paid in Pierre Moulu's motet Mater floreat.

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  • To my eternal shame (though not personally responsible) between ourselves, our printer and International Labour Reports (a campaigning mag floreat 1984-1990) we LOST a handful of the actual labels concerned.

    Made in England: Well, the Labels Were Anyway 2007

  • To my eternal shame (though not personally responsible) between ourselves, our printer and International Labour Reports (a campaigning mag floreat 1984-1990) we LOST a handful of the actual labels concerned.

    Archive 2007-09-02 2007

  • To my eternal shame (though not personally responsible) between ourselves, our printer and International Labour Reports (a campaigning mag floreat 1984-1990) we LOST a handful of the actual labels concerned.

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  • For these reasons I say with you most heartily to-night "Diu floreat Alma Mater Virginiensis."

    The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922

  • Page view page image: atque ad salutem patriæ suæ totiusque generis humani utilitatem per multa sæcula floreat, crescat, augeatur.

    The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922

  • Said Felix Adler to his hemlock-spruce, "Vivat, crescat, floreat"; and a sentiment much like it was implied in Sol Smith Russell's words to the grove's master as they finished putting in his linden together -- for he was just then proposing to play Rip Van Winkle, which Joseph Jefferson had finally decided to produce no more: "Here's to your healt ', undt der healt' of all your family; may you lif long undt brosper."

    The Amateur Garden George Washington Cable 1884

  • As a curio one can hear the Mater floreat, a work that praises-and mentions by name, ending with Josquin-the greatest composers, according to Moulu, of the day.

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