The Talents (play)

The Talents or Processus Talentorum, is a play from the Middle English recitals The Towneley Plays (ca. 1460).

This play contains an early example of macaronic English-Latin verse, spoken by the character Pontius Pilate:

... Stynt, I say! gyf men place quia sum dominus dominorum! he that agans me says rapietur lux oculorum; Therfor gyf ye me space ne tendam vim brachiorum, And then get ye no grace contestor Iura polorum, Caueatis; Rewle I the Iure, Maxime pure, Towne quoque rure, Me paueatis. Stemate regali kyng atus gate me of pila; Tramite legali Am I ordand to reyn upon Iuda, Nomine wlgari pownce pilate, that may ye well say, Qui bene wlt fari shuld call me fownder of all lay. ...