to the Trinity, and bewail his piteous lot before the highest pitying Godhead. The verses have a lyric unity of mood, and are touching with their sad refrain. Their rhyme, if not quite pure, is abundant and catching, and their nearest metrical affinity would be a trochaic dimeter.
"1. Ut quid iubes, pusiole,
quare mandas, filiole,
carmen dulce me cantare,
cum sim longe exul valde
intra mare?
o cur iubes canere?
"2. Magis mihi, misenile,
flere libet, puerule,
plus plorare quam cantare
carmen tale, rubes quale,
amor care.
o cor iubes canere?
"3. Mallem scias, pusillule,
ut velles tu, fratercule,
pio corde condolere
mihi atque prona mente
conlugere.
o cur iubes canere?
"4. Scis, divine tyruncule,
scis, superne clientule,
hic diu me exulare,
multa die sive nocte
tolerare.
o cur iubes canere?
"5. Scis captive plebicule
Israheli cognomine
praeceptum in Babilone
decantare extra longe
fines Iude.
o cur iubes canere?
"6. Non potuerunt utique,
nec debuerunt itaque
carmen dulce corarn gente
aliene nostri terre
resonare.
o cur iubes canere?
"7. Sed quia vis omnimode,
