LINGUAE VASCONUM PRIMITIAE - Euskaltzaindia

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XV. SAUTERELLE
1 Rasque has come forth and let us all go and dance.
2 O Rasque, praise the town of Garazi,
for thence hast thou attained the rank thou deservest,
lf before thou wert last among tongues,
now art thou aboye them all.
6 The Rasques are appreciated the world ayer,
but all the rest have mocked their tongue,
for it was not found written on any page.
Now shall they learn what a fine thing it is.
10 Every Rasque should hold his head high,
for his language shall be the flower
for which Princes and great lords shall ask.
They will desire to learn it and, if able, write it.
14 Aman born in Garazi has fulfilled this desire
as well as his friend in Bordeaux.
He is the first printer of the Rasque tongue;
to him are all Rasques indebted forever.
18 And tralala, tralala, falalalala!
Rasque is now out and about and let us go to the dance!
OUT OF A HUMBLE BEGINNING
MA Y BETI'AR FORTUNE FOLLOW