# HENRY OF SETTIMELLO: ELEGIA (fl. c. 1190?) 1.217-258

Henry of Settimello, HENRY OF SETTIMELLO: ELEGIA (fl. c. 1190?), Lines 1.217-1.258. Latin.

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Mergor in Oceano, tenuem taxillor in assum,
armatos video currere sepe deos.
Flumina parva fluunt, aret mare, corruit Athlas,
et geminas fortes concutit orbis aves.
Sum velut implumis quam rodit in ilice cadmus,
que diro matrem carmine clamat avis.
Sum velut esuriens qui sompniat aurea tecta
usibus et vestes pauper habere suis.
Sum velut expectans properantem rusticus amnem,
qui cupit excursis pergere siccus aquis.
Sum velut elusus quem detinet alea lusor,
qui cum perdiderit perdere plura parat.
Sum velut insanus qui, cum plus leditur, hic plus
fustibus et iactu liberiore furit.
Ha nimis infelix qui sustinet innumeranda,
qui patitur numeris omnia plura suis.
Tot mala, tot penas patior, quod, si quis arenam
conferat in numero, cedet arena meis.
Pagina sit celum, sint frondes scriba, sit unda
incaustrum, mala non nostra referre queant.
Tam gravibus ledor quod non peiora timesco:
qui summe miser est, plus nequit esse miser.
Sit maledicta dies, in qua concepit et in qua
me mater peperit, sit maledicta dies.
Sit maledicta dies qua suxi pectus et in qua
in cunis vagii, sit maledicta dies.
Sit maledicta dies vite: de ventre sepulcro
me transmutasset, o Deus, illa dies!
Cum dabat ubera mater, ne malatantaviderem,
debuerat iugulis presecuisse caput;
mortua nam melius ascondere membra sepulcro
quam vivendo pati deteriora nece.
Omnia coniurant in me: Pater alme, misertus
succurras misero, spes mea, summe Pater.
Liber II
Plange, miser, palmis, Henrice miserrime, plange,
et caput et dura pectora plange, miser.
Me sibi privignum Rannusia, dira noverca,
ardet in horrendis perpetuaremalis.
Est Fortuna michi serpente neronior omni;
nam serpens fugit, at sepius illa fugat.
Quando michi tribuet sors prospera prosperitatem?
Non hodie, nec cras, quod puto, forsan heri.

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