Bastarda: Transcription Lines 11-14

............ saturamini : Quis michi tribuat
.......... vt scribantur sermones mei : Quis
.......... michi det vt exarentur in libro sti -
.......... lo ferreo : aut plumbi lamina . vel
In a modern layout, with the modern distinction of u/v, this would read:

... saturamini:
Quis michi tribuat ut scribantur sermones mei?
Quis michi det ut exarentur in libro stilo ferreo, aut plumbi lamina, vel ...

Translation (Douai/Rheims version):
[Job chapter 19 verses 22-24]

[22]......... glut yourselves [with my flesh]?
[23]......Who will grant me that my words may be written?
.............who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
[24]......With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else ...

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