Estuans interius....................Burning inside ira vehementi...................... with violent anger, in amaritudine......................bitterly loquor mee menti:.................. I speak to my heart: factus de materia,..................created from matter, cinis elementi......................of the ashes of the elements, similis sum folio,..................I am like a leaf de quo ludunt venti.................played with by the winds.
Cum sit enim proprium.............. If it is the way viro sapienti...................... of the wise man supra petram ponere................ to build sedem fundamenti,.................. foundations on stone, stultus ego comparor................the I am a fool, like fluvio labenti,.................... a flowing stream, sub eodem tramite.................. which in its course nunquam permanenti................. never changes.
Feror ego veluti....................I am carried along sine nauta navis,.................. like a ship without a steersman, ut per vias aeris.................. and in the paths of the air vaga fertur avis;.................. like a light, hovering bird; non me tenent vincula,..............chains cannot hold me, non me tenet clavis,................keys cannot imprison me, quero mihi similes..................I look for people like me et adiungor pravis................. and join the wretches.
Mihi cordis gravitas................The heaviness of my heart res videtur gravis;................ seems like a burden to me; iocis est amabilis..................it is pleasant to joke dulciorque favis;.................. and sweeter than honeycomb; quicquid Venus imperat,............ whatever Venus commands labor est suavis,.................. is a sweet duty, que nunquam in cordibus............ she never dwells habitat ignavis.....................in a lazy heart.
Via lata gradior....................I travel the broad path more iuventutis.................... as is the way of youth, inplicor et vitiis..................I give myself to vice, immemor virtutis,.................. unmindful of virtue, voluptatis avidus.................. I am eager for the pleasures of the flesh magis quam salutis,................ more than for salvation, mortuus in anima....................my soul is dead, curam gero cutis................... so I shall look after the flesh.