The Talents (play)
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The Talents or Processus Talentorum, is a play from 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
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This play contains an early example of macaronic English-Latin verse, spoken by the character Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilatus , known in the English-speaking world as Pontius Pilate , was the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36. He is best known as the judge at Jesus' trial and the man who authorized the crucifixion of Jesus...
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- 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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