Monetary Paradoxes

XXXVII.

That at the courts of lords, no loyal companions original: "Cliti," likely referring to Clitus the Black, the famously loyal general of Alexander the Great and honest jurists original: "Papiniani," referring to Aemilius Papinianus, a Roman legal scholar celebrated for his integrity are to be found, but plenty of hedge-preachers Winckelprediger: unauthorized or secretive preachers who operated outside the official church, often seen as agitators.

XXXVIII.

That things have now reached such a state that the preachers and clerics must use their church censure and spiritual ban Excommunication to punish the coin-dealers, while the authorities allow their secular arm Brachium seculare: the legal power of the state to enforce order to falter original: "claudiciren," meaning to limp or fail.

XXXIX.

That land and people are allowed to be ruined in exchange for a written pledge Revers: a formal legal bond or written obligation, even though life and limb original: "Gut vnd Blut," literally "goods and blood" cannot be restored original: "restituiren" through such pledges.

XL.

That there are "pious" princes who permit or tolerate such things, even though another pious and God-fearing prince said in a proverb:
A good prince is recognized by good coinage,
Clean roads, and good faith.

original Latin: "Proceres censore opus est, an aruspice nobis?" This suggests the situation is so dire that it requires either a strict moral corrector (censor) or a supernatural explanation (diviner).