XCI.
Concerning the ruling archbishop Humbert who was sitting to the right of the pope and I to his left
I choose the seat of a kid (baby goat) (by lot), you take up the seat of a sheep;
The left has the right at one time or other, whenever the right has the left.
XCII.
A short elegy over the seculars
I mourn for you, wretched ones, whose heart is dedicated to the flesh;
You despise heaven, you think gain is the highest good.
What do I urge you, what will I advise you to choose?
Now drink down badly the marrow of the world,
Fill up the sacrificial meals with food, load up your limbs with feasting,
Let not the worms perish with lack of food, you are always eating;
Stretch forth farms well-watered with cold springs.
Let there be no number of coins, no measure of metal.
After your narrow possession will be a tomb.
But what hope enriches more precious than yellow.
Of which true riches are the reward of life,
Which things a thief does not defile, nor does a little woodworm plough a banquet,
Avoid the emptiness of failing repentance of hateful
profit; your gifts yield to a tottering world.
The patrimony of heaven is sufficient for the family (servants) of Christ;
Let the chest of heart conceal the priceless coin of faith.
Let it be your study store up the red jewels of virtue
And may you pluck out the growing evil of your sins.
Scorn the disordered business of the fluctuating world.
The free mind exerts itself joing to holy speech;
Let him now discretely taste the honey, by which after being full is overflowing;
In this way may our nature return to its original form.
These riches are to be accumulated, those are the honors to be sought;
Man being powerful by this law, riches come to them forever.
XCIII.
Numbered songs of the holy cross
1.
The only hope of men, Cross, O venerable sign,
(Thou shalt) be the salvation of all, the only hope of men.
2.
You carrier of the price, which releases the debts of the world,
For which it deserves the ransom, you carrier of the price. The one and only hope.
3.
The underworld conquered yielded its prey to your triumph;
The conquered of Tartarus mourn your (raised) standards.
4.
You even open the stars to the righteous, who you mark with your wounds;
(You) give rest to the weary, You even open the stars to the righteous. The only hope of men.
5.
That bond (written decree) which has been forbidden, that he fixed as an obligation on the wood (of the cross),
You wash away that bond which has been forbidden and fix it to the fruit tree.
6.
Light, honor, command, praise, fame, glory through the eternity.
In this way to yoiu, threefold God, light, honor, command. The only hope pf men.
XCIV.
A numbered song to holy Mary
Stairs and throne of God, light of the world, door to heaven,
Hail mother of Christ, stairs and throne of God.
You new star of the sea, who has returned light to the earth,
You are as the risen sun, you new star of the sea.
You have conceived without a man, you the only virgin who has given birth,
To which word by the word you have given birth without a man.
What the underworld fears, the earth is struck with fear, the stars revere,
The caves (hidden places) of your breast (womb) they bear (fear),
(that is) what the underworld fears.
By a virgin life returns to man, that which the virgin had annihilated;
Death is destroyed by death, by your virginity life returns to man.
You raise above the stars, those whom Eve demolished;
She oppresses (them) with guilt, you raise above the stars.
Glory to the father on high, let there (also) be glory to his offspring the son
With equal to the (holy) spirit, glory to the father on high.
Amen.
XCV.
Epitaph for the holy priest Ludwig
In this enclosed cave lies Lodovicus, a man of God,
To whom is carried martyrdom without death of the executioner.
He turned back wine, he was by no means eating bread;
Thus he was giving food only every two weeks.
In different orders he was a painter (scribe?) and also a priest;
He offered each gift from equality to God.
Light arising to the city, he shown light to the whole world;
It blazed and burned, he went and he gave (caused) to go.
A watchtower (mirror) of the church, a living stone, a sacrificial animal, a temple,
Lift us up with your prayers, who are weighed down with sin.
XCVI.
Another epitaph
That which you are now, we were; you yourself will be what we are now.
[you, that which we are now, yourself will be.]
You trust nothing that might be here, which you will see as vanished.
Valueless things run before unspoiled natural ones, dreams run before the truth;
Centuries follow brief times.
Live mindful of death, by which you might always live.
What is with you (now), goes away; that which remains, behold it comes.
How well does he see ahead, who abandons you, O evil world,
First with the mind being dead to the flesh than being dead to you with the flesh,
Heaven to earth prefer, prefer what remains to what has fallen.
The mind free finds its own beginning.
Let the spirit seeks the heights, let it run back to the spring by which it was produced;
Let him despise what is beneath him, whatever oppresses in the deepest.
May you be mindful of me I beg, look at the ashes pius Peter;
With prayer, with lamenting say: “Be lenient to him, Lord.”
XCVII.
Against the Abbot of Cluny who led him to France.
First O man of Cluny, my death, at a great old age;
While you seek all so that you may be well, so that I am not.
So that the honey of sumptuous foods may flow, the colors are reddening,
And enlarge the pots of stored food that was offered.
It happens at our table either rough festive meals or they cease.
While I serve you a solemn feast, there remains to me dark hunger.
XCVIII.
Poem of a poor man
The poor are empty but filled with sores
Behold Lazarus comes, who asks a crumb to live.
Mouths of dogs are not there, mouths of lice are not far;
They lick his skin, they gnaw these bubbling limbs.
XCIX.
Arīminum, mourn, let flow a river of tears;
Benno was your glory, behold he goes to ruin for grief.
Benno worthy of rule, the glory of the Roman race,
Himself father of his nation, he was the light of Italy.
These wretched (found him) a companion, arrogant ones felt his hardness;
He revives those who have fallen, he presses swollen necks
(he assaults the proud [stiffnecked] ones].
He becomes a lion gnashing his teeth to those fighting, a tender lamb to the unarmed;
Then justice always remains, whence piety.
While he cultivated the laws of this faith, while he did not know how to yield,
Holding firm the weight of strict justice,
He raised a blow to the net of the wicked necks.
Through whom peace became vigorous, war fates were prevented.
I implore, you wise men with tears such a dreadful ruin
And (make) pious vows deeply for your companion to the Lord.
C.
A poem concerning those who commit simony
Where Simon the artificer and the cave of money
God condemns these foul seats always by overturning;
For he crawls through the back as a purse robber;
The shepherd seeks a free passage through the way of the opening.
But when they are away from the wicked business of the slavedealer,
Not heavily swollen by gross wickedness for money,
He does not hinder the moneychanger, because their business is not dirty.
For what mummers, when they cannot injure money?
On the contrary what dirty hand besets tree plants?
Often the healing physician gave healthy rice; (56)
Cripples give birth to a fighter, the blind give birth to the seeing;
A physician gave birth to the tall, the foul, evilly, to the charming,
Nor is an offshoot harmful to its assenting parents,
Whoever is assaulted by him, his companions are not held by sinking.
CI.
Break the sluggishness of delay, break the chains of dullness.
CII.
A Poem
It remains divine vengance, Cadalous, ruin of the people
it bores a a cruel blow through your middle.
The highest seeking, may you follow Simon, Simon seeking the stars.
You also Tartarus will absorb in the emptiness at the same time.
CIII.
The canon is not held guiltless, who during night psalms goes back to sleep.
Nevertheless before the collection he does not put his head all around.