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HENRYCUS ROEYSTIVS.
1469.
With the pact of eternal friendship, the mature Roeystius of age
Binds your citizens, O City of Basel.
In addition, you add wealth, and join a pact with Schaffhausen,
You, too, not to be passed over in my songs.
HENRYCUS GOLDLIVS.
Knight. 1476.
At Nancy, the Burgundian Duke Charles, struck by the sword
By the Swiss, laments the ground with his chest.
Harsh wars arise in the Lepontine valleys:
Pope Sixtus makes pacts with the cantons.
IOANNES VVALDMANVS,
Knight. 1482.
He who stained the earth with noble blood having lost his head,
At the arbitration of an insane crowd,
Waldmanus learned how bad a beast the mob is,
When it refuses to bear the yoke under command.
CONRADUS SCHVVENDIVS,
Knight. 1489.
Schwendius, Conradus, then succeeding in the green age,
Takes the sceptres left by the extinct consul.
And our Republic receives its former form,
Which it had for a long time under the consul Brunone in the city.