I. A man ought certainly to love and serve and honour his good lord and be obedient to his whole domain; but from a bad, merciless lord, when he drives his own to destruction, a man who is able [to do so] should withdraw, when his service brings him no advantage.

II. Similarly a man should distance himself from love, when he can have no joy of it and it is of no use or help to him; so perforce I quit and abandon love whose supplicant I was, since it has never wished to do me good and has never shown me clemency.

III. I have distanced myself from the error in which love used to hold me, and the long desire, from which I feel no [more] pain; and although I have an abundance of ills and am hardly satisfied with good things, what is to its detriment is hard for me to expose: this much good faith do I show it!

IV. Deceiving appearances will not be able to be my death, nor will treacherous eyes ever make me languish: for a man is a fool repeatedly to believe his foolish eyes, it seems to me, and a fool to gaze on what is for him unfitting or unsuitable.

V. To the noble emperor I wish to declare and announce that God disfavours all but His servant; and since God has given him the means, may the emperor rightly serve Him (or: serve Him justly), for a man can take no more from the world than the good that he will do in it.

VI. Countess Beatrice, I hear great good spoken and recounted of you, for you are the most beautiful in the world of all other ladies seen there.

VII. Sir Blacatz never fails to increase his noble reputation, but rather is worth more than ever, and improves and increases what he holds.