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Latin 12r

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Nunc ego perpendo medium scidisse mucrone
Gutturis. hoc ideo / cubitum quia presto revolui


Cumque manu voluam cubitum voluendo cruentum
Te faciam mucrone meo. nec fallere possum.

Italian

Because of the turn that I have given you by your elbow
I believe I have cut the middle of your throat.


I will make you turn with the left hand
And in that, I want to give you a great blow.

English 12r


At present, I am carefully considering splitting the middle of [your] neck
with my edge[1]. Which is the reason [that] I turned this elbow back here.

And with a hand, I turn the elbow in a circle. By turning in a circle
I make you bloody with my tip. I can't fail.

  1. Mucro can refer to a sword or its edge or point. The original translator of this text uses a variety of words to refer to the sword and its parts, and we have tried to reflect that by rendering ensis as sword, mucro as tip, and cuspide as point. However, in this case, the illustration shows an action that can't be done with the tip of the sword, so we have used edge.