prosody | miscellaneous |
Pus Raimons e Truc Malecx chapten n'Enan e sos decx, e ieu serai vielhs e senecx ans que m'acort in aital precx don puesca venir tan grans pecx: al cornar l'agra mestiers becx ab que traisses del corn lo grecx; e pueis pogra leu venir secx que'l fums es fortz qu'ieis d'inz des plecx. Ben l'agr'ops que fos becutz e'l becx fos loncx e agutz, que'l corns es fers, laitz e pelutz e prions dinz en la palutz, e anc nul jorn no estai essutz, per que rellent en sus lo glutz c'ades per si cor ne redutz: e no taing que mais sia drutz cel que sa boc'al corn condutz. Pro'i agra d'azaus assais, de plus bels que valgron mais; e si en Bernatz s'en estrais, per Crist, anc no'i fes que savais, car l'en pres paors et esglais: que si'l vengues d'amon lo rais, si l'escaldera'l col e'l cais; e no's cove que dona bais aquel que cornes corn putnais. Bernatz, ges eu no m'acort al dig Raimon de Durfort qe vos anc mais n'aguessetz tort, que si cornavatz per deport ben si trobavatz fort contrafort, e la pudors agra'us tot mort, que peitz ol no fa fems en ort: e vos, qui que'us en desconort, lauzatz en Dieu que'us n'a estort! Ben es estortz de perilh que retrag for'a son filh e a totz aicels de Cornilh; mielz li vengra fos en eisilh que la cornes el enfonilh entre l'esquin e'l pencenilh per on se legon li rovilh; ja no saubra tant de gandilh no'l compisses lo groing e'l cilh. Bernatz de Cornes no s'estrilh al corn cornar ses gran dozilh ab que'l trauc tap el penchenilh: pueis poira cornar ses perilh. |
Though Raimon and Truc Malec defend Ena and her rights, still, I'll be old and decrepit before I agree with such pleads, from which such a mistake may stem: in order to horn, he should have a beak with which to get out of the horn; and he could easily become blind, since the smoke that comes from the folds is thick. He should well have a beak and the beak should be long and sharp, since the horn is dire, mean and hairy and deep into the marsh, and it never remains dry, so that it reeks of rot, what from its core flows and hardens: and he's not fit to be a lover one who leads his mouth to the horn. There'd be much further evidence, better and more fitting; and if Bernat fled from it, by Christ, he did but a wise thing, because fear and loathing took him: and if the jet had come from above, it'd have scalded neck and jaw; and he's not fit to gift with kisses, one who horns a stinking horn. Bernat, I don't agree with Raimon of Durfort, that you had been wrong: if you'd horned for a sport, you would have paid for it dearly, and the smell would soon have killed you, since it's worst than dung on a field: and, whoever blames you, praise God who spared you! Well he is taken out of a danger that'd have shamed his son and all those of Cornilh; he should have rather been exiled than horn the funnel between the back and the groin where the rusts melt, where, good as he might have been in withdrawing, he'd have had his brow and snout flooded. Let not Bernat of Cornes strive to horn the horn without a big cork with which to plug the hole in the groin: then, he'll be able to horn without danger. |