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"Amor, che ne la mente mi ragiona. " -- Dante. / "Amor vien nel bel viso di costei. " -- Petrarca.
If there be any one can take my place / And make you happy whom I grieve to grieve, / Think not that I can grudge it, but believe / I do commend you to that nobler grace, / That readier wit than mine, that sweeter face; / Yea, since your riches make me rich, conceive / I too am crowned, while bridal crowns I weave, / And thread the bridal dance with jocund pace. / For if I did not love you, it might be / That I should grudge you some one dear delight; / But since the heart is yours that was mine own, / Your pleasure is my pleasure, right my right, / Your honorable freedom makes me free, / And you companioned I am not alone.