Come Falsembiante andò a Mala-Bocca 
 
  Falso-Sembiante, sì com' on di coro 
Religïoso e di santa vita, 
S'aparec[c]hiò, e sì avea vestita 
La roba frate Alberto d'Agimoro. 
  Il su' bordon non fu di secomoro, 
Ma di gran falsità ben ripulita; 
La sua scarsella avea pien' e fornita 
Di tradigion, più che d'argento o d'oro; 
  Ed una bib[b]ia al collo tutta sola 
Portava: in seno avea rasoio tagl[i]ente, 
Ch'el fece fab[b]ricare a Tagliagola, 
  Di che quel Mala-Bocca maldicente 
Fu poï strangolato, che tal gola 
Avëa de dir male d'ogne gente. 
 
 

How False Seeming Went to Bad Mouth 
 
      Just like a member of a religious order  
or a man of holy life,  
False Seeming got ready and had donned for this occasion  
the habit of Albert of Agimore. 
      His staff was not made of sycamore  
but of great and highly polished falsity;  
his purse was full and stocked  
with treason, more than with gold or silver; 
      and over his shoulder he carried a volume, all by itself: 
inside his shirt he had a sharp razor, 
he'd had it made in Tagliagola, 
      and later used it to cut the slanderous  
Bad Mouth's throat, the one who took great pleasure  
in saying evil things about everyone.