Stanza the fifth:
Surgamus ergo strenue,
gallus iacentes excitat,
et somnolentos increpat,
gallus negantes arguit.
- Let us therefore rise up nimbly,
The cock rouses those who are lying down,
and reproves the sleepy,
The cock accuses those who deny.
The last line in another clear allusion to Peter, who denied Christ three
times before the cock crew.
I think this stanza is pretty straightforward, so let's look at the next:
Gallo canente spes redit,
aegris salus refunditur,
mucro latronis conditur,
lapsis fides revertitur.
- With the cock-crow hope returns,
health is restored to the sick,
a sword is fashioned for the robber,
faith returns to the lapsed.
The sword is perhaps an allusion to Romans 13:4, 'Si autem malum feceris,
time: non enim sine causa gladium porrat.' - But if thou do that which is
evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain (Douai).
We shall continue.
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