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CYPRIAN. Memory of a maddened brain, / Do not with such strong control / Make me think another soul / Is what in my heart doth reign. / Blind idolator I have been -- / Lost in love's ambitious flight, / Since such beauty met my sight, / Since a goddess I have seen. / Yet in such a maze of woe / Rigorous fate doth make me move, / That I know but whom I love, / And of whom I am jealous -- no. / Yet this passion is so strong -- / Ah, so sweet this fascination, / Driving my imagination / With resistless force along -- / That I would (I know too well / How this madness doth degrade me) / To some devilish power to aid me, / Were it even to rise from hell, / Where some mightier power hath kept it, -- / Sharing all its pains in common, -- / I would, to possess this woman, / Give my soul.