I complain, myself, as much I can, and I should do so because they have denied me the tribute that all men have owed me, and always do and always will owe me as long as they receive my tools.

O Genius, with the gift of speech go among the army to the God of Love, who strives mightily to serve me and who, I am certain of it, loves me so much that with his open, good natured heart he wants to draw close to my works more than iron does to a magnet. Tell him that I send greetings to him and to my friend, the lady Venus, and to his entire barony as well, except False Seeming alone, because he always goes congregating with those proud criminals, those dangerous hypocrites of whom Scripture says that they are pseudo-prophets. And I suspect Abstinence to be very proud and like False Seeming, however humble and charitable she seems.

Such people are very much to be feared. If Love had not been so sure that they were so necessary to him that he could do nothing without them, he should have thrown them out of his army, if it pleased him. But if there are advocates to lessen their wickedness in the case for courtly lovers, I pardon them their fraud.

in order to delight their souls. But they are to guard themselves well against the vices that I have told you about before, for they destroy all goodness. Give them a pardon that is fully satisfactory, not for ten years, for they would not think it worth a penny, but a full pardon forever for everything that they have done when they know fully how to confess their sins.

Then he wrote and she spoke, and afterward she sealed it, gave it to him, and begged him to go off immediately as long as she might be absolved for what had been taken off her mind.

He enjoined her to remain within her forge and labour as she was accustomed to do when she had no sorrow; he told her always to perform her service in this way until the King who can arrange everything and make and destroy everything might give some other counsel.  
'Sire,' she said, 'I will do so willingly.'  
'And meanwhile,' said Genius, 'I will go off very quickly to bring help to courtly lovers. But first I will take off this silk chasuble, this alb and surplice.' Then he went to hang everything on a hook and dressed in his less cumbersome worldly clothing, as if he were going off to a carol. He then took wings to fly away immediately.

and helped me advance to the point where I was allowed to speak to Fair Welcoming; he had not wanted to wait any longer, but had fled without asking leave. There is no question, however, that Genius found Constrained Abstinence, who, when she saw the priest coming, got ready with all her might to run after False Seeming in such great haste that she could hardly be held back. In fact, she would not have been seen in the priest's company even if someone had given her four bezants, unless it was in the presence of False Seeming.

He gave him a ring, a crosier, and a mitre clearer than crystal or glass. They had so great a desire to hear his judgment read that they sought no other preparation. Venus, who was so delighted and gay that she could not stop laughing, could not keep quiet. She placed a burning torch in his hand, which was not of virgin wax, in order to enforce his anathema when he would have finished his speech.

The barons sat on the ground and didn't want to seek any other seats. Genius unfolded the charter, made a sign with his hand all around him, and called for silence. Those whom his words pleased looked at and nudged one another. Then they quieted down immediately and listened.  
And with these words, the definitive sentence began:

who sits in the sovereign tower of the noble city of the world, of which he made Nature the minister; Nature who administers all good things through the influence of the stars, for they ordain everything according to the imperial justice that Nature executes; Nature, who has given birth to all things since this world came into being, who gives them their allotted time for growth and increase, and who never for nothing made anything under the heaven that continues without delay to turn around the earth, as high below as above, and never stops, night or day, but turns always without rest - by the authority of Nature, all those disloyal apostates, of high rank or low, who hold in despite the acts by which Nature is supported, be you excommunicated and condemned without any delay. And let him who strives with all his force to maintain Nature, who struggles to love well, without any base thought, but with lawful labour, go off to paradise decked with flowers.

As long as he makes a good confession, I will take on me all his deeds with such power as I can bring to them, and he will never have to bear the smallest pardon for them.

Now that they let the anvils perish without striking a blow with the hammer, the rust can bring them down, and no one will hear them hammered or beaten. If no one thrusts the ploughshare into the fallow fields, they will remain fallow. These people might as well be buried alive when they dare to flee from the tools that God shaped with his hand when he gave them to my lady. He wanted to give them to her so that she would know how to fashion similar ones in order to give eternal existence to creatures subject to corruption.