Rex tua nolo munera - Estampie (Ludus Danielis)

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Artist: Estampie
Album: Ludus Danielis: Play of Daniel
Title: Rex tua nolo munera

Lyrics:

Et Daniel regi:

Rex tua nolo munera
Gratis solvetur litera
Est autem haec solutio
Instat tibi confusio

Pater tuus prae omnibus
Potens olim potentibus
Turgens nimis superbia
Dejectus est a gloria

Nam cum Deo non ambulans
Sed sese Deum simulans
Vasa templo diripuit
Quae suo usu habuit

Sed post multas insanias
Tandem perdens divitias
Forma nudatus hominis
Pastum gustavit graminis

Tu quoque ejus filius
Non ipso minus impius
Dum patris actus sequeris
Vasis eisdem uteris

Quod quia Deo displicet
Instat tempus quo vindicet
Nam scripturae indicium
Miniatur jam supplicium

Et MANE dicit Dominus
Est tui regni terminus
THECHEL libram significat
Quae te minorem indicat
PHARES hoc est divisio
Regnum transportat alio

Et rex:

Qui sic solvit latentia
Ornetur veste regia

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And Daniel to the King:

O King, I do not want your gifts
The text will be interpreted for free.
But this is the meaning:
Your downfall is at hand.

Your father was once
the most powerful of all potentates:
swelling with excessive pride,
he was cast down from glory

For he did not walk with God
but made himself like a god:
he plundered the vessels from the temple
and took them for his own use.

But after many foolish acts
at length he lost his riches,
was stripped of human form
and grazed the grassy pasture.

You too, his son, are
not yourself any less wicked,
for you follow the actions of your father
and use the very same vessels.

Because this is displeasing to God,
the time is at hand for vengeance,
for the significance of the writing
threatens immediate doom.

And God says MANE:
your reign is finished.
TECHEL signifies the scales:
you have been weighed and found wanting.
PHARES: this is the division.
Your kingdom is given over to another.

And the King:

He who thus solves the mystery
shall be adorned with royal garments.