prosody | miscellaneous |
Cascus deu blasmar sa follor a son amic, si com s'eschai, e lauzar so qe ben l'estai, si·l vol portar leial amor; qar qi·l sap dir del mal azaut blasmor a·il sap monstrar adreichamen lo be; greu er q'en ben a far non vir lo fre e qe no·s loing de greu crim malestan s'azaut li sap mostrar lo pro e·l dan. |
Everyone should blame the folly of his friend, when it happens, and praise that which is proper, if he wishes to love him loyally; for he who can blame the bad skilfully can also readily show the good; it's unlikely that he wouldn't set himself to doing good and that he wouldn't distance himself from grievous, unseemly misdeed if one can skilfully show him the profit and loss. |