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 placequia sum dominus dominorum!he that agans me saysrapietur lux oculorum;Therfor gyf ye me spacene tendam vim brachiorum,And then get ye no gracecontestor Iura polorum,Caueatis; Rewle I the Iure,Maxime pure,Towne quoque rure,Me paueatis.Stemate regalikyng atus gate me of pila;Tramite legaliAm I ordand to reyn upon Iuda,Nomine wlgaripownce pilate, that may ye well say,Qui bene wlt farishuld call me fownder of all lay....