1. I saw the clown had lost
His means of conveyance through dire deprivation

2. When he would feign refinement, his
Nature pulled him back toward the old habit

3. He wept for his hopes when he saw them
Plainly lying fallow

4. You blamed the people, then supposed about them
Conjectures in which you were not wise

5. You act indecently without modesty, and you chant
But you make no proper musical measure

6. Thus you err singing for the singer
And err consoling the boon companion

7. I warned you against violating the honor of a freeman
For blame is the habit of the blamer

8. And I said: Be careful and forebearing; quench
Rancor through noble manners

9. Yet the breach of the fool, be he aggressive,
Is no subtler toward you than the hatred of the forbearing

10. When you put to shame a noble one who stepped
Toward you with some of the traits of the wretch