The Talents (play)

The Talents (play)

"The Talents" is play 24 of the Middle English recitals "The Towneley Plays" (ca. 1460).

This play contains an early example of macaronic English-Latin verse, spoken by the character Pontius Pilate:

:...:Stynt, I say! gyf men place:"quia sum dominus dominorum!":he that agans me says:"rapietur lux oculorum;":Therfor gyf ye me space:"ne tendam vim brachiorum,":And then get ye no grace:"contestor Iura polorum,":"Caueatis;" Rewle I the "Iure,":"Maxime pure,":Towne "quoque rure,":"Me paueatis.":"Stemate regali":kyng "atus" gate me of "pila";:"Tramite legali":Am I ordand to reyn upon Iuda,:"Nomine wlgari":pownce pilate, that may ye well say,:"Qui bene wlt fari":shuld call me fownder of all lay.:...


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