Two loves I have of comfort and despair
Language: English
Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil,
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend,
Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell:
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
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Due amori posseggo, conforto e tormento
Language: Italian (Italiano) after the English
Due amori posseggo, conforto e tormento,
che con la voce loro mi fanno da suggeritore:
quello buono è un uomo come un angelo bello,
quello cattivo è una donna di scuro colore.
Per condurmi all’inferno, la diabolica donna,
prova ad allontanare dal mio fianco il buono,
e, corrompendo purezza con sudicia lussuria,
vuole trasformare un angelo in demonio.
E che il mio angelo sia stato già corrotto,
non posso ancora affermarlo anche se lo sospetto,
e, poiché si sono allontanati e sembrano divenuti amici,
immagino che l’angelo sia nell’inferno caduto.
Questo mai lo potrò sapere, ma vivrò nel dubbio angoscioso
che l’angelo cattivo abbia dannato il buono al fuoco.
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