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Se pari è la tua fé al foco che ho nel sen, ardo contento, perché egual la mercé avrà da te, mio ben, il mio tormento. Il penar per chi s'ama, se gradito a colei per chi si pena, penar non è. Cupido, al par degli altri numi, l'olocausto desia, e questo è il core; e in premio a tanto sacrificio, poi d'una bellezza dona il core a noi. Non s'afferra d'amor il porto senza mai patir procelle. Dopo i nembi e le tempeste son piú bel lume stelle. Sí, sí, questa sia solo la mercé del mio duolo e gema pur l'anima mia fra pene, fra ferite e catene, ché se fedel mi sei, son piaceri del cor gli affanni miei, e se pur colla fé mi giuri amore, vedrà l'alma e i martiri, in porto, il core.
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This text was added to the website: 2010-12-28
Line count: 25
Word count: 139
If your faithfulness is equal to the love in my heart, I love happily, because the reward that my heart will receive from you, my dear, will repay my suffering. Suffering for the one whom one loves, if it is pleasing to her for whom one suffers, is not suffering. Cupid, like the other gods, demands a burnt offering, in fact, a heart, and in return for such a sacrifice, then he gives the heart of a beauty to us. Never can one sail into love's harbor without undergoing storms. After clouds and tempests, the bright stars are more beautiful. Yes, yes, may this be the sole reward for my anguish, although meanwhile my soul trembles with pain, beset by wounds and chains, because if you are faithful, my worries are in fact pleasures, and if you vow both faithfulness and love, my soul and heart will see an end to torment.
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This text was added to the website: 2010-12-28
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