| Heu, heu, heu!
| Alas, alas, alas!
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| Quo casu Sortis venit haec damnatio mortis?
| By what chance did this condemnation of death come?
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| Heu, heu, heu!
| Alas, alas, alas!
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| Scelus infandum!
| Unspeakable crime!
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| Cur me dabit ad lacerandum
| Why medabit to tear down
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| Haec fera turba feris?
| This savage beast?
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| Sic me, Rex, perdere quaeris?
| So are you looking to destroy me, King?
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| Heu!
| Alas!
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| Qua morte mori me cogis?
| By what death do you force me to die?
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| Parce furori
| Spare your fury
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| (Et rex non potens eum liberare, dicet ei:)
| (And the king will not be able to deliver him, he will say to him:)
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| Deus, quem colis tam fideliter
| God, whom you worship so faithfully
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| Te liberabit mirabiliter
| He will deliver you wonderfully
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| (Tunc projicient Danielem in lacum. Statimque angelus tenens gladium
| (Then they will cast Daniel into the lake. Immediately the angel holding the sword
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| comminabitur leonibus, ne tangant eum, et Daniel intrans lacum dicet:)
| He will threaten the lions, lest they touch him, and Daniel will say when entering the pit
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| Hujus rei non sum reus;
| I am not responsible for this;
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| Miserere mei Deus; | God have mercy on me; |
| eleyson
| have mercy
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| Mitte, Deus, huc patronum
| Send, God, protector
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| Qui refrenet vim leonum; | Who restrains the violence of the lions; |
| eleyson
| have mercy
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| (Interea ali us angelus admonebit Abacuc prophetam, ut deferat prandium,
| (In the mean time our angel will remind us that Habakkuk the prophet is to offer lunch,
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| quod portabat messoribus suis, Danieli in lacum leonum, dicens:) | which he was carrying to his harvesters, to Daniel in the lion's den |