1. Let me be, my brother, from etiquette
If you want to rise in rank

2. And make your traits in the assembly
Trickery, betrayal, and turmoil

3. And know that the pious
Among people is more despised than dried leaves

4. Deceive, betray, be treacherous, you will win
While advice, its consequence is toil

5. Whoever hopes for prestige
Then deceit is the ladder he climbed

6. I saw the advisers
Banished for this reason

7. Many a noble spent the night
While a wretch reached glory

8. O you whose wisdom composed
And whose prose revived literature

9. You reminded me of a past era
I didn't live yet wasn't absent

10. In which I attained my wishes
And winning deceives the defeated

11. The days were as you desire
Honor, prosperity, and joy

12. And today we are as it desires
This by that and no wonder