User:Kendra Brown/Florius/English MS Latin 11269 05r

Latin 5r

¶ Te galea^[1] prensum teneo / qui terga revolvis.
In terram post te currendo pectore mittam.^[2]

¶ Ut modo tellurem calcato corpore tundas
Est opus . hoc faciunt contraria gesta . malignus
Tu tamen illud idem mihimet tentare cupisti.

English 5r

¶ I maintain this capture by your helmet, since you are turning your back,
I would send [your] chest on the ground while galloping behind you.

¶ On the condition that you beat the ground with your trampled body
The work is ...

↑ Added later: “??eeu vit”. Could this be “heeume”, misspelling of “heaume”, old french for “helmet”? There are certainly letters beginning above the g in “galea” and reaching to above the e in “prensum”, but we can’t make out enough to guess further. If the latter word is meant to be “heaume”, this must be hand F.
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[1] Added later: “??eeu vit”. Could this be “heeume”, misspelling of “heaume”, old french for “helmet”? There are certainly letters beginning above the g in “galea” and reaching to above the e in “prensum”, but we can’t make out enough to guess further. If the latter word is meant to be “heaume”, this must be hand F.

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User:Kendra Brown/Florius/English MS Latin 11269 05r

Latin 5r

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