The Talents, or Processus Talentorum, is a play from the Middle English recitals The Towneley Plays (ca. 1460).[1][2]

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.
...

References

  1. NeCastro, Gerard (22 October 2007). "The Towneley Cycle, Play 24 - The Talents (Processus Talentorum)". From Stage to Page - Medieval and Renaissance Drama. Retrieved 25 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  2. The Oxford Text Archive, Towneley plays, Item 1397


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