41.
Os in corde scius, cor ponit in ore nabaldus
The wise man puts his mouth in his heart, the fool puts his heart in his mouth.
42.
De dente et lente
Concerning the tooth and the lentil (the eater and the food)
Littera mutetur: quod edebat, rursus edetur.
A letter is changed: he who was eating, will be eaten.
43.
Quod caro sine praedicatione prorumpit in silvam vitiorum
That flesh without preaching rushes forth into a forest of sin
Silvescit vitiis caro verbi libera cultris
Ditescunt steriles sariente ligone novales.
Flesh free of the knives of the word runs wild with sins
Barren (fields) ploughed for the first time grow rich by weeding with a hoe.
44.
Novimus Hannibalem luscumque fuisse Neronem
We knew that Hannibal and Nero were blind in one eye
Quem ramex etiam pressit, cum sceptra levarent.
They whom a hernia also oppresses, when they raise their sceptres.
45.
De baculo rectoris
Concerning the staff of the master
Suscipe diversum moderaminis arte bacillum:
quos ferrum pupugit, cornu pietate reducit.
Take up different wands for the skill of governing:
Those whom the iron one has stung, you (can) bring back with that of the strength of devotion.
46.
De miseria humanae condicionis
Concerning the wretchedness of the human condition
Pro dolor infelix humanae stirpis origo!
Per traducem carnis fit adhuc obnoxia morti
Et miseros gignit, quos vitae limite claudit.
Unhappy is the human race because of its original grief!
Through the flesh leading him astray he is still liable to death
And gives birth to miseries, which close with the end of life.
47.
Qui non uxorem nisi prolis tangit amore,
Etsi mirandus, non omnibus est imitandus.
He who does not touch his wife with love except for children,
Even if admirable, cannot be imitated by all.
48.
Non sine membellis valet esse refectio membris.
A member cannot be restored without its smallest parts.
49.
Saepe novercalis fit mens materna pupillis,
Legeque perversa gravis est de matre noverca.1
The mother’s mind often becomes the mind of a stepmother to her wards,
And when the law is turned around the mother who has become a stepmother is hard.
50.
Ubi Spiritus Sanctus descendit super apostolos
When the holy spirit came down upon the apostles
Ignit apostolicum linguarum flamma senatum
Germinat et varias quasi vox fecunda loquelas.
The flame of tongues ignites the council of apostles
And a voice is born as if abundant different languages.
1 Perhaps this is a metaphor with mother representing the church which has supplanted the law of the old testament.
