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Vasilissa, ergo gaude, quia es digna omni laude,
Cleophe, clara gestis a tuis de Malatestis,
in Italia principibus magnis et nobilibus.

Ex tuo viro clarior, quia cunctis est nobilior:
Romaeorum est despotus, quem colit mundus totus;
in prophyro est genitus a deo missus coelitus.

Juvenili aetate pollens et formositate volens,
multum genio fecunda et utraque lingua facunda
ac clarior es virtutibus prae aliis his omnibus.

Tenor: Concupivit rex decorem tuum quoniam
ipse est dominus tuus.

（英訳）

Empress, therefore rejoice, for thou art are worthy of all praise, Cleofe, glorious from the deeds of thy Malatesta kin, leading men in Italy, great and noble,

More glorious from thy husband, for he is nobler than all; he is despot of the Rhomaioi, he whom all the world reveres; he was born in the purple, sent by God from heaven.

Strong in youth and pleasing in beauty, very fertile in wits and eloquent in both tongues,
and thou art more glorious for thy virtues above all others in these things.

Tenor: The King hath conceived desire for thy beauty; for he is thy lord.

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