1. The title of every lasting eulogy
Is to abandon amorousness and pretentiousness in words

2. If you praise the trusted one cried out for aid
Then satirize the wicked enemy, not the docile friends

3. Say to the Prince, may God generously reward you
For the most generous of people to God are the most generous

4. And people are of two kinds, one with a sword, one with a pen
And you combine both sword and pen

5. I praise you with words I do not count
As eulogy to you but as talk about you among nations

6. And the best praise is that whose talk is true
And witnessed by the testimony of deeds and manners

7. And the best rulers standing as a young man
Are ones with wisdom, adorning rule with governance

8. You have taken on the turns of fate, brandishing
The sword of resolutions, opinions and ambitions

9. Thus you tie a crown above its forehead
After the struggle, though it was a stepping ground

10. You extend the palm of a sniper supported
By good fortune hunting the falcon with ease

11. You never desire what you cannot have
Nor begin what you do not finish

12. O most steadfast of people in word and deed
In persistence and most faithful in pacts

13. Between me and you is a covenant in our tribes
Flowing by habit of the served and the servants

14. I by habit of soldiers from early times
So be by habit of masters from early times