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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2024
[fol. ii r]
¶ Vbi fuit mons est uallis
Et de colle fit iam callis
Heus et strata publica.
Propter casum dire sortis
Debilis est factus fortis
Non per sua merita.
Bellicosus infirmatur,
Alter <Sampson> trucidatur,
<Lamentatur> Anglia.
Symon pro simplicitate
Marchionum feritate
Cadit cesus framea.
Die martis bellum creuit,
Cadit \H/ector, Rachel fleuit
Pro cesis in area.
Comparatur hic Vluxi
Nam pro fide crucifixi
Non timebat milia.
Rexit uigor in Achille
Set et Symon talis ille
Qui pungnat pro patria.
Primus natus <rexit> frenum,
Non permisit alienum
Dare patri uulnera.
Vbi fuit mons (207)
Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 85/167, fol. ii r
¶ Where there was a mountain is now a valley, and from a hill is now made a path, alas, and a common highway.
[4] A strong man is now made weak because a cruel fate has befallen him and not because of his deserts.
[7] A fighting man is made a casualty. Like another Samson, he is slain. England laments him.
[10] Simon is fallen for the sake of honesty, pierced by a spear, through the savagery of the marchers.
[13] On a Tuesday (the day of Mars) the battle took place. Hector fell, and Rachel wept for those cut down in the field.
[16] He is like Ulysses; indeed because of faith in the Crucified he did not ‘fear thousands’.
[19] In Achilles strength predominated, and Simon is such as he, fighting for his country.
[22] His eldest son held on to the reins and did not allow anyone to wound his father.
Dum durauit non expauit
Pater enses set certauit
Propter pacis federa.
Pater prole confortatur,
Proles patrem consolatur
Dum durarent prelia.
Non fuerunt duo tales
In amore speciales
Infra mundi climata.
Abel Ade sociatur,
Abel prius inmolatur,
<Cadit> Adam postea.
In Henrico rosa uernat
Et in rosa si quis cernat
Sat †apererit† <lilia..
Martir fertur per ruborem
Et per album fertur florem
Virgo sine macula.
Dixit quidam, ut Pilatus,
Qui in bello principatus
Tenuit dominia,
‘Redde, redde, comes fortis.
Eris aut pro certo mortis
Datus ad suplicia.’
‘Hunc’, fert alter, ‘occidatis
Vlli uiuo non parcatis
De sua familia.’
Omnes clamant ‘Moriatur!’
Comes instans meditatur
De superna patria.
‘Reddo me omnipotenti.
[25] As long as he endured, the father feared nothing but fought for the peace agreement.
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