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   1 Int|              conveniens.’~ ~ Born in 1405 at Corsignano, near Siena,
   2 Int|            there can be no doubt. In 1435 he visited Scotland, and
   3 Int|             fortunately died; and in 1443, a year before he wrote
   4 Int|         letters was changing, and in 1449 he wrote to a friend that
   5 Int|           joke, though by that time (1452) he may in truth have shared
   6 Not|              in the year of our Lord 1460.’~ ~Thirty-one editions
   7 Not|            etc. Ulrich Zel. Cologne. 1470.~ ~ Silvii Aeneae Poetae
   8 Not|   Bartholomaeus Cremonensis. Venice. 1473?~ ~ Hystoria Pii Pape de
   9 Not|               Antoine Verard. Paris. 1493? (This translation, in which
  10 Not|             finished in 1444, and by 1500 thirty-five editions had
  11 Not|            Baptistam Sena. Venetiis. 1504.~ ~The following is the
  12 Not|            appeared between 1468 and 1566. The following are of interest,
  13 Not|     translations are by W. Braunche, 1596: C. Allen, 1639: and one
  14 Not|            Braunche, 1596: C. Allen, 1639: and one bound up with the
  15 Not|          Hippolite Count of Douglas, 1708.)~ ~ Ein Lieblich und Warhafftige
  16 Not|       Capolago tipographia elvetica. 1832. (Consulted by Dévay for
  17 Not|             etc. Heisler. Budapesth. 1904.~ ~Translations.~ ~The Goodli
  18 Not|             text:~ ~Codex Vindobonum 3148. At the Imperial Library,
  19 Not|          Vienna.~ ~ Codex Vindobonum 3205. At the Imperial Library,
  20 Not|           Codex Bambergensis B. III. 41. Bamberg.~ ~ Codex Gervasii,
  21 |             is off with her seducer, abandoning her home, her kinsmen, and
  22 |            me off. It is not hard to abduct where there is no resistance.
  23 |            bad, you will condemn and abominate them all; and, for as many
  24 |  double-dealing, which in my youth I abominated? No, illustrious daughter
  25    | above
  26 |             what tale will be spread abroad? “See Lucretia, who they
  27 |           ever to depress me by your absence? All the time you are away,
  28 |             cruel than you are kind! Absinth is not so bitter as you.
  29 |            to show me such a fear is absurd, don’t ever sleep away from
  30 |              not whom—who, when he’s abused me, will go away, marry
  31 |           wrong. My spirit knows the abyss that threatens it, and knowing,
  32 |             let slip the opportunity accorded me, that I have sought so
  33 |              he had rejected before. Accordingly, he sent for him and brought
  34 |              Lucretia tortured on my account. I’d rather she hated me
  35 |              these marble halls will accuse you. And though you were
  36 Ded|               Paglarensis gaped, and accused his steward of theft who
  37 |            sack of Troy, many of the Achaeans met, on their wanderings,
  38 |       between whom proximity founded acquaintance and the first steps towards
  39 |              and flattery that. Some acquire it through their wives,
  40 |          must Diana have appeared to Actaeon, when she bathed in the
  41 |        Pacorus’ every step and every action, he left room for Euryalus’
  42 Ded|               and no mean physician. Add to that moral virtues, ruling
  43 |            You bring me letters? You address me? Did I not care more
  44 Not|              sūmi Pontificatus gradū adeptus Pius ē appellatus. Historia
  45 |            more, and (as their homes adjoined) in time created love? But
  46 |           students who, without much ado, persuaded the young girl
  47 |           nor Andromache more richly adorned, when joined in holy wedlock
  48 |          purple and gold and all the adornments of her joy, and wore dark
  49 |           your house, and be the one adulteress of your line. Do you think
  50 |         dream. Now Sigismund, though advanced in years, was quick to passion;
  51 |          this matter will be to your advantage.~ ~ ‘I love Lucretia. And
  52 |             burning passion.~ ~ ‘The advantages arising from all this will,
  53 Int|          life. In youth he loved and adventured, studied and made a name;
  54 Int|           not like to think that the adventurer and the libertine may also,
  55 |               and not those that are adverse to our love and that befell
  56 Ded|              and always the same. In adversity, he maintains a brave heart,
  57 |            my part, dear Lucretia, I advise what is right. Stay here,
  58 |           This is not what my father advised, when he taught me never
  59 |           Polyxena,’ he replied, ‘my Aemilia, Venus herself.’ And now
  60 |            to go down and settle the affair. And Lucretia said to him:~ ~ ‘
  61 |              and noticed how she was affected by the presence of Euryalus,
  62 |         unless I want my house to be afflicted with contumely and a great
  63 Int|            Lionnoise. But, as Aeneas aged, the older element rose
  64 Int|          measure, mediaeval. The two ages met in him, and he reminds
  65 |             first approach she stood aghast, and thought she saw not
  66 Not|                Archbishop’s Library, Agram.~ ~ Codex Bambergensis B.
  67 |          mount your wife.’ So it was agreed that, at the fifth hour
  68 Ded|          cannot play; he understands agriculture with Virgil and has studied
  69 |             such a night as you gave Alcmenus. And you, Aurora, why in
  70 Not|              la traduzione libera di Alessandro Braccio. Capolago tipographia
  71 |            not do as Julius did, and Alexander, and Hannibal? But why speak
  72 |         contemplate marriage into an alien world? Though you are tired
  73 Pre|             never; matrons and girls alike despise old age. No man’
  74 |     Conquering passion rules me: the all-powerful master of my thoughts is
  75 Not|       Euriolo und Lucretia. Darinnen alle Eigenschafft der Liebe. . .
  76 Not|             by W. Braunche, 1596: C. Allen, 1639: and one bound up
  77 |       Tithonus’ yellow couch and was alread scattering the hoped-for
  78 |             life with your eyes. And alter that decision, that made
  79 |             this is how love’s flame alters the heart of man, so that
  80 Not|              cuts.)~ ~ Storia de due amanti di Enea Silvio Piccolimini
  81 |            more modest. It is indeed amazing that nature has given to
  82 |              examining closely every ambiguous word, every turn of her
  83 Int|        conversion was due to worldly ambition, feebler powers, or a very
  84 Pre|           thousand times escaped the ambushes prepared for me; more fortunate
  85 Ded|         testify. And it would not be amiss to quote of him what Statius
  86 |           when Tamar gave herself to Amon, but roused in them a greater
  87 Int|             left behind him a pignus amoris which fortunately died;
  88 |          chickens and trout, and any amount of the best wine. Go on,
  89 |              Paris at his feast, nor Andromache more richly adorned, when
  90 |             their faces are human or angelic. Surely they are from heaven.’~ ~
  91 Not|  Eigenschafft der Liebe. . . hoflich angezeigt und begriffen ist. . . dutch
  92 |            find it in my heart to be angry with you, I should be furious
  93 |              a disgrace and a mental anguish which, day and night, tormented
  94 |           glance was happy, her face animated, and her cheeks like lilies
  95 |              been taken from him, he announced his departure to his mistress.
  96 |               when here comes Sosias announcing Menelaus’ return, and puts
  97 |             your ears? Why don't you answer me? Smile at me, as you
  98 |        wearied by their love, but as Antaeus rose stronger from the earth,
  99 |            who are justified only by antiquity, since their crimes have
 100 Not|      translate de latin en francois. Antoine Verard. Paris. 1493? (This
 101 |             such love as was between Antony and Cleopatra, and many
 102 |       anything, command me. My chief anxiety is that this love of yours
 103 |        should be rewarded.’~ ~ ‘But, anyway,’ said Euryalus, ‘I feel
 104    | anywhere
 105 |            your former praises. But, apart from your reputation, are
 106 |   overlooking the back of Lucretia’s apartments. He made friends with the
 107 Ded|      trifling things. He paints like Apelles; nothing could be more faultless
 108 Int|            of the Holy Roman Empire, apostolic secretary to two popes and
 109 |              suppose, is how it will appear to wiseacres. Chastity dwells
 110 |              different from what, it appears, was your intention.~ ~ ‘
 111 Not|    Pontificatus gradū adeptus Pius ē appellatus. Historia de duobus amātibus
 112 |         comes. This is a saying that applies to all—How you got it, nobody
 113 |            guard beside Lucretia, or appoint other guards. He will trust
 114 Int|              his amatory vein highly appreciated, and by far his most popular
 115 |          freely. So the loving woman approached him, trusting less in the
 116 |             and respect you for your approved loyalty. Why, even if I
 117 |              not condemn, but rather approves a lover’s perjury; so he
 118 |              because it improved the arch of the roof or because of
 119 Not|              Béldianus (incomplete). Archbishop’s Library, Agram.~ ~ Codex
 120 |           without a wrinkle, and her arched eyebrows were dark and slender,
 121 |          rode a chestnut horse, with arching neck and narrow head. Short-bellied
 122 |            country will lie near the arctic regions, and borrow whiteness
 123 |              weary age its burnt-out ardours, and strikes the breasts
 124 |              never without a gaoler. Argus did not more diligently
 125 |          passion.~ ~ ‘The advantages arising from all this will, I think,
 126 Ded|         geometry a very Boethius; in arithmetic another Macrobius; there
 127 Pre|          story teaches youths not to arm themselves for the warfare
 128    | around
 129 |             of their love. So it was arranged with him that he should
 130 |              house there is a goodly array of servants. The out-cry
 131 |             Emperor Sigismund on his arrival, as is now well known; and
 132 |            had gone to church, would arrive, as though to pay her a
 133 |         struck Euryalus, when Sosias arrived and, perceiving the danger,
 134 Ded|            others too, you will find arrogance or greed: my friend is all
 135 |          with a kindly eye. It is an art, or rather an artifice,
 136 |              is an art, or rather an artifice, whereby the real love is
 137 |            said of your sex what you ascribe to mine. But I’ve no wish
 138 Ded|             it aright. And do not be ashamed to recollect, if ever anything
 139 |         court, who with many prayers asks you to pity him.’~ ~ Now
 140 Ded|          theft who told him that one ass travailed for a single foal,
 141 |             in this town; for chance assigned to them what I have chosen.
 142 |              I devote myself to you. Assist this frenzy of ours, for
 143 |               that my beauty has led astray. Many besides you have loved
 144 |             Cato’s daughter, but she ate burning coals.’~ ~ ‘If such
 145 |              if you oppose its first attacks; but welcome with caresses
 146 Int|        despise me not, when you have attained that honour; to which Aeneas
 147 Pre|          trifles. So let all maidens attend and, profiting by this adventure,
 148 |         uproar of your long train of attendants.’~ ~ And, saying this, he
 149 |             there, they turned their attention to the portfolios among
 150 Int|           men who loved Isotta degli Atti, Vittoria Colonna, and la
 151 |        sack-cloth, he put on his own attire and told them how things
 152 Int|           perfect product of the new attitude towards life. ‘Who is there
 153 Not|            dimensions of an epic, is attributed to Octavien de St. Gelais,
 154 |              said:~ ~ ‘What shameful audacity brings you into this house?
 155 Pre|           his youth. And if you hear aught to the contrary, there’s
 156 |              greater! One should not augment ills but diminish them;
 157 Not|            many manuscripts exist in Austria and Hungary, of which the
 158 |             think it would be of any avail. But I know her passion.
 159 Not|              compose par le pape pie avāt la papaute nōme enee silvye
 160 |               the wife of Collatinus avenged it with the sword. But I,
 161 |          hands with human blood, and avenges a lesser crime with a greater!
 162 |           women, and knew not how to avoid them. But if this time I
 163 Int|        laughed. For this future Pope avoided holy orders till he was
 164 Int|             stop there. A higher lot awaits you—the Chair of St. Peter.
 165 |             moved, sat up, as though awakening from a deep sleep, and seeing
 166 |      discovered nothing, he was well aware of the fact that his wife
 167 Not|         Agram.~ ~ Codex Bambergensis B. III. 41. Bamberg.~ ~ Codex
 168 Not|           very beautiful copy in the B.M. is from the library of Prince
 169 Pre|            hear the loves of Troy or Babylon, but of our own city; though,
 170 |             Ceres refreshed her, and Bacchus.~ ~ But alas, how short
 171 Int|             health. At forty, he was bald and old beyond his years.
 172 Not|             Bambergensis B. III. 41. Bamberg.~ ~ Codex Gervasii, at Budapesth,
 173 Not|             Library, Agram.~ ~ Codex Bambergensis B. III. 41. Bamberg.~ ~
 174 Not|           duobus amantibus, etc. Jo. Baptistam Sena. Venetiis. 1504.~ ~
 175 Not|              de duobus amātibus etc. Bartholomaeus Cremonensis. Venice. 1473?~ ~
 176 |              roof or because of some base suspicion, Menelaus walled
 177 |                   NOW Lucretia had a bastard brother, to whom she had
 178 |        appeared to Actaeon, when she bathed in the spring. Could anything
 179 |            impregnable, but when the battering-ram is turned against it, straightway
 180 |            mate; the timid deer seek battle and, by their cries, reveal
 181 |          that remained and the faint beating of her pulse. He was terrified
 182 |            But you write all this so beautifully and so elegantly that I
 183 |          before any misfortune could befall.~ ~ ‘My darling, do I hold
 184 Not|                hoflich angezeigt und begriffen ist. . . dutch den hochgelerten
 185 |           and, as he shut the doors, beheld Lucretia busied on a piece
 186 Int|            of himself, seeing in his belated piety the signs of a weakening
 187 Not|            Library, Vienna.~ ~ Codex Béldianus (incomplete). Archbishop’
 188 |           night, tormented me beyond belief; and I was so immersed in
 189 Int|             Vittoria Colonna, and la belle Lionnoise. But, as Aeneas
 190 |              I am your prisoner, and belong to myself no more. You have
 191 Ded|              a dwarf. He should have belonged to my family, that has the
 192 Int|        friend that he had received a benefice, and would soon be ordained.
 193 |             family. If it happens to benefit you, that is no reason why
 194 |          quiver and his lion’s skin, bent his neck, and suffered emeralds
 195 Pre|            to write of love does not beseem me, who have already passed
 196 |             as though the house were besieged. Are we not safe in our
 197 |             have pointed out. I will bestir myself and make common cause
 198 Int|          Pope Eugenius IV., but soon betook himself to the Court of
 199 |             was being broken up, and bewailed the separation.~ ~ Not a
 200 |              to themselves: let them beware to drink the cup of love,
 201 |         useless against you. No laws bind you; no fear, no shame can
 202 |            always loved by the green bird, and white pigeons often
 203 |             natural passion.~ ~ ‘The birds of the air know those flames;
 204 |            again? When again shall I bite those coral lips, or feel
 205 |          Dear kisses, soft embraces, bites sweet as honey! No one was
 206 |         mouth, coral lips made to be bitten, straight little teeth,
 207 Int|            orator, and as one of the bitterest and most persuasive of the
 208 |           arms of her mother weeping bitterly, and amid her mourning relatives,
 209 |          sack, unless you reap every blade of grass. Men pile up riches,
 210 |      Lucretia:~ ~ That he was not to blame, if he had sent a woman
 211 |           And sometimes, raising the blanket, he gazed at those secret
 212 |            tiny sparks into a mighty blaze.~ ~ ‘For my part, while
 213 |              and, if the wind blows, blazes the higher, so burned poor
 214 |          visits to the chapel of the Blessed Mary, called of Bethlehem,
 215 |            more, only the north wind blew. Snow fell from the skies,
 216 |              paid enough for so much bliss. If after death I could
 217 |            the sword, a husband with bloody stripes; some adulterers
 218 |          window. But Lucretia always blushed, when she saw Euryalus,
 219 |           them lovelier. For, as the blushes spread over their cheeks,
 220 |          indeed Euryalus?’ And, with blushing cheeks, she held him closer,
 221 |       Hircanian tigers burn, and the boar sharpens its death-dealing
 222 Ded|            Plato; in geometry a very Boethius; in arithmetic another Macrobius;
 223 |         honesty. Neither fearful nor bold, she bore within her woman’
 224 |              away.~ ~ And she, after bolting the doors, said: ‘Come out,
 225 |          gates were fastened by many bolts that no woman’s hands could
 226 |              And even that, the last bond of love, was not easily
 227 Ded|              had a litter of eleven. Bonitius of Milan thought he was
 228 Int|           calls Aeneas’ conversion a Bordell-Comödie. For those that have passed
 229 |        Neither fearful nor bold, she bore within her woman’s heart,
 230 |             for your sake? Oh lovely bosom, most glorious breasts!
 231 |            joys of Jove, if they are bought so dear? Its pleasure is
 232 |            to love, there will be no bounds to it, no limits. You cannot
 233 Ded|              In running, leaping, or boxing, be could not be surpassed.
 234 Not|      traduzione libera di Alessandro Braccio. Capolago tipographia elvetica.
 235 |            and brooches, girdles and bracelets, all were there, and marvellous
 236 Ded|         Virgil and has studied every branch of politics. While his body
 237 Not|       English translations are by W. Braunche, 1596: C. Allen, 1639: and
 238 |           eat mouldy crusts of black bread, but yesterday’s mince is
 239 |           gate, that no burglars may break in. Then we can sleep in
 240 Pre|               in not being afraid of breaking them by your request, I’
 241 |            you are still warm, still breathing. Why don’t you speak to
 242 |           guessed that some plot was brewing and, when the day came,
 243 |            We’ll not put up with the briefest labour for ever-lasting
 244 |              graceful carriage, with bright eyes, cheeks of a pleasant
 245 |              although I have been in Britain and the land of the Dacians.’~ ~
 246 Not|       editions are catalogued at the British Museum as having appeared
 247 |            now here, now there, they broached casks and tasted wine, till
 248 |              head. Short-bellied and broad-backed, high-spirited and rippling
 249 |            they are, how upright and broad-shouldered. See how their locks are
 250 |              a flock of fleas in the broiling sun. Unless his wife is
 251 |             elaborate: necklaces and brooches, girdles and bracelets,
 252 |           best to get me in.~ ~ ‘Her brother-in-law must be watched, for he
 253 |          flowed in a stream over her brow and temples, till refreshed
 254 |              scarce differs from the brutes.~ ~ ~ ~
 255 |            to me.’~ ~ It was a heavy burden, but Sosias feared worse
 256 |          train his shoulder to carry burdens, and hire himself out as
 257 |        wounded by this grave sorrow, burnt by a secret flame, completely
 258 |            restores to weary age its burnt-out ardours, and strikes the
 259 |           the doors, beheld Lucretia busied on a piece of silk. And
 260 Not|            are by W. Braunche, 1596: C. Allen, 1639: and one bound
 261 Int|            shut up like a beast in a cage’; and the author was not
 262 Int|          Voigt, the virtuous German, calls Aeneas’ conversion a Bordell-Comödie.
 263 |             I implored her, tried to calm her down, but all in vain.
 264 |             came of the house of the Camilli, and was wife to Menelaus,
 265 |          like a common harlot in the camp, think how honourable that
 266 |              penniless from the long campaign, he, whose home was rich,
 267 |            Not the beautiful wife of Candaules, King of Lydia, was more
 268 Int|    ineradicable habit of burning the candle at both ends, had told upon
 269 Int|               the Chancellor was not capable—when he asked Gaspar in
 270 Not|        libera di Alessandro Braccio. Capolago tipographia elvetica. 1832. (
 271 Int|          rode to Basel with Cardinal Capranica, penniless and without a
 272 Ded|             imperial chancellor, and captain of the lands of Egra and
 273 |             surpass all, has made me captive. What love was, till now
 274 Int|             of Trieste and of Siena, Cardinal-Presbyter of S. Sabina, and at last
 275 |          would be no true lover, who cared more for his own lust than
 276 Int|               by this time, that his career pointed to the Church, and
 277 |             and guards Lucretia most carefully—as though he were her own
 278 |              but of gay and graceful carriage, with bright eyes, cheeks
 279 |      counsellor, now in the ranks of carriers and choosing for his companions
 280 |             now there, they broached casks and tasted wine, till she
 281 |             love got the upper hand. Casting aside all thought for his
 282 |              loved me, but wished to catch me, like a stag, in her
 283 |            the four ladies) was also Catherine Petrusia, who died a few
 284 |          took the sword from Portia, Cato’s daughter, but she ate
 285 |         tresses out of the sea, they ceased; nor could they begin again
 286 |              let us go down into the cellar, will you and taste it,
 287 |              the approach to Hell by Cerberus, than she is closely imprisoned.
 288 |     Sigismund came hither, after the ceremonies, he met four married ladies,
 289 |              wearied of the journey, Ceres refreshed her, and Bacchus.~ ~
 290 |              the country to-day, bad cess to him, and never a word
 291 Int|            higher lot awaits you—the Chair of St. Peter. See that you
 292 |            can, shall be alone in my chamber. He must, when he is alone,
 293 |             purity, give myself to a chance-comer—I know not whom—who, when
 294 Int|          maintain it. Besides, other changes had been taking place. The
 295 Int|              tone of his letters was changing, and in 1449 he wrote to
 296 |           pay frequent visits to the chapel of the Blessed Mary, called
 297 |           which is for you to be the charioteer of our love, and see to
 298 |            too noble, his beauty too charming for me to fear betrayal
 299 |        happened, in all the city was chaster than she, no one more modest.
 300 |          better than he does. She is cheerful and very generous, but he
 301 |      Lucretia pondered; and Euryalus cherished no less passion in his breast.~ ~ ~ ~
 302 |           She hates her husband, and cherishes love’s wound, keeping Euryalus’
 303 |                  Now Euryalus rode a chestnut horse, with arching neck
 304 |              kids, but even gives us chickens and trout, and any amount
 305 Ded|        nature with many other gifts, chiefly excelled in this, that he
 306 Int|     miraculous escapes from death in childhood, and from shipwreck in early
 307 |             that is spun in farthest China. And his horses were like
 308 |         waited long, when, through a chink, they saw Lucretia carrying
 309 |              he counts the sprigs of chives and marks them and locks
 310 |            the ranks of carriers and choosing for his companions the sweepings
 311 |              she could kill whom she chose and, when she would, restore
 312 |         assigned to them what I have chosen. I have no country, except
 313 Int|              the Church; it was as a churchman he must maintain it. Besides,
 314 |               Don’t be surprised for Cicero tells us he was shown the
 315 |           foreigner, for I am more a citizen than any born in this town;
 316 Ded|          pupils, but they lacked the civic qualities, and knew nothing
 317 |              and word for word. They clasped each other close; nor were
 318 |                Now young men of this class had been very popular with
 319 |       scorned, and disliked; for the clatter of arms pleased our women
 320 |             longer, Euryalus, all is clear. For no one, all the time
 321 Ded|           could be more faultless or clearer than the codices written
 322 |            as was between Antony and Cleopatra, and many others that a
 323 |              it was only possible to climb up after dark. However,
 324 |            think it easy; nothing so close-shut, but for you it’s open.
 325 |        blushing cheeks, she held him closer, and kissed him full on
 326 |            hand that had grasped the club he guided the thread on
 327 |        daughter, but she ate burning coals.’~ ~ ‘If such a violent
 328 |          posterity would display the coat of arms of a Count, and
 329 Ded|        faultless or clearer than the codices written by his hand; in
 330 |          must have it. And when your coffer is full, you claim a title
 331 |            wish have I got into this coil. What are the joys of Jove,
 332 Not|             seguito Papa Pio secundo col testo latino e la traduzione
 333 |           much fear or too much joy, collapsed in Euryalus’ arms. She grew
 334 |              against it, straightway collapses, so Lucretia fell to Euryalus’
 335 |     confessed her crime, the wife of Collatinus avenged it with the sword.
 336 Int|          Isotta degli Atti, Vittoria Colonna, and la belle Lionnoise.
 337 Not|              lettering with numerous coloured cuts.)~ ~ Storia de due
 338 |             back to all things their colours, brought life to Euryalus,
 339 |             day the Emperor came and comforted him, as he would his own
 340 Ded|             but protects his pupils, comforts the sick, helps the poor,
 341 |            gone, nothing remained to commend a woman: beauty was a pleasant
 342 |            others, stared at her and commended her. Wherever she turned,
 343 |              had a letter from Venus commending you to Mars. Some say, chance
 344 Int|        fulfilled his destiny. In his Commentaries he tells of miraculous escapes
 345 |              not disgraced or murder committed. I’ll go and offer my help.
 346 |      Lucretia answered, ‘but madness compels me to pursue what’s wrong.
 347 |              went to the Emperor and complained, and Pacorus was sent for,
 348 |              is yours, with you I am complete. You only can save me, you
 349 |              body without a wrinkle, concealing neither her breasts nor
 350 Pre|          sources how many evils love conceals, he may learn from this.~ ~
 351 |         advice Lucretia had sent him concerning Pandalus, the cousin of
 352 |            send a bawd. Find another concubine, for no love can reach me
 353 |              I am doing nothing upon conditions. For if I had been able
 354 |            power. I resisted long, I confess it, that I might escape
 355 |            whom Lucretia had already confided her secret; for her burning
 356 |          women, and your fame is not confined to Italy: Germany, Pannonia,
 357 |        enjoys a pure affection, that confines itself within the limits
 358 Pre|          villainy for love’s sake? I conjecture from myself whom love has
 359 |            knowing, hurls itself on. Conquering passion rules me: the all-powerful
 360 |            oppose nature’s law? Love conquers all: Let us give way to
 361 Int|            de’ Sozzini, a Sienese of considerable learning and dissolute habits,
 362 |            mourning and would not be consoled, until the Emperor wedded
 363 Ded|            the sick, helps the poor, consoles the widow, nor ever fails
 364 |             Ferrara, Mantua, Trient, Constance, and Basel; and so at last
 365 Int|         faith, without fear, without constancy, without piety!’ and ‘When
 366 |             the wain of the northern constellation is rolling in its course,
 367 |          drawn towards him, and I am consumed by I know not what passion.
 368 Int|             and Aeneas had a supreme contempt for ‘old age pursuing love,
 369 Int|           the mere responsibility of continentia, a virtue which, as he wrote
 370 |              correspondence might be continued. For he did not hesitate
 371 |             Her nose was straight in contour, evenly dividing her rosy
 372 Pre|             if you hear aught to the contrary, there’s a lie behind it.
 373 |           house to be afflicted with contumely and a great scandal to arise.
 374 Int|              inveneris meae opinioni conveniens.’~ ~ Born in 1405 at Corsignano,
 375 |            the field is free for our conversation, now there is room for our
 376 Int|             words have never carried conviction. When he was Pope, he still
 377 |           the others are asleep, and cool my burning passion.~ ~ ‘
 378 Not|     rhétoriqueur. The very beautiful copy in the B.M. is from the
 379 |            she talked as we are told Cornelia did, the mother of the Gracchi,
 380 |              him by what means their correspondence might be continued. For
 381 Not|             of interest, though very corrupt as to text:~ ~Enee Silvij
 382 Int|      conveniens.’~ ~ Born in 1405 at Corsignano, near Siena, he studied
 383 |        Chastity dwells only in lowly cottages, and poverty alone enjoys
 384 |             concealed as little as a cough can be disguised.’~ ~ ‘You
 385 |           the throat, every time she coughs or laughs. We are determined
 386 |               in all else so grave a counsellor, now in the ranks of carriers
 387 |          sour face, but, with joyful countenance, her honesty. Neither fearful
 388 |      sumptuous tables, marble halls, country-seats, estates and fisheries,
 389 |             over to the next, and he counts the sprigs of chives and
 390 |           the maids. Soon they met a couple of students who, without
 391 |       stature. While the rest of the courtiers were all penniless from
 392 |         reached Lucretia’s house, he covered Euryalus’ eyes with his
 393 |          that flies for the fearful, crawls for those that are full
 394 |              homes adjoined) in time created love? But these had never
 395 Not|          amātibus etc. Bartholomaeus Cremonensis. Venice. 1473?~ ~ Hystoria
 396 Ded|         marrow-bones of the Gods has crept the fiery particle. Farewell.~ ~ ~ ~
 397 |            of Priam, was betrayed by Cressida; Helen deceived Deiphobus;
 398 |            seek battle and, by their cries, reveal the fever that possesses
 399 |              See how their locks are crimped and twisted into soft ringlets.
 400 Int|             not thinking of literary criticism—of which, indeed, the Chancellor
 401 |            pauper that you may die a Croesus. How different is our lady,
 402 |         gifts, I am sending a golden cross, set with pearls: it is
 403 |              any longer, my lily, my crown of roses. Why do you hesitate—
 404 Int|           verse, for which Frederick crowned him Poet Laureate. At Vienna,
 405 |             my time. Cease from such cruelty; be gentler with your lover.~ ~ ‘
 406 |              that we must eat mouldy crusts of black bread, but yesterday’
 407 |        little teeth, that shone like crystal, and between them, running
 408 Ded|             of the lands of Egra and Cubitus; to his especial master,
 409 |           the two houses there was a culvert, concealed from men and
 410 |        though to open the chest, she cunningly pushed it out of the window,
 411 |             them beware to drink the cup of love, that holds far
 412 |            you have brought me under Cupid’s power. I resisted long,
 413 Int|            reconciled with the Roman Curia: thereafter he devoted his
 414 |            like these? Look how well curled they are, how upright and
 415 |              single spirit was being cut in two, a single heart divided.
 416 Not|     lettering with numerous coloured cuts.)~ ~ Storia de due amanti
 417 |          they spread their sails for Cythara; and when Venus wearied
 418 |          Britain and the land of the Dacians.’~ ~ Thus Euryalus, and
 419 |             happiness. With rope and dagger, precipice and poison, we
 420 |             gown did all it could to damage the sword. So when the trick
 421 |      received your letters! Too many dangers must surround me, unless
 422 |           when I’ll not hear it? She dares nothing, who thinks too
 423 Not|      Menschen, Euriolo und Lucretia. Darinnen alle Eigenschafft der Liebe. . .
 424 |            felt they were walking in darkness. Her servants, seeing her
 425 |           wounded by love’s unerring dart, could get no rest for his
 426 Int|             who admire the young and dashing Aeneas, the sceptical author
 427 |          since neither the most holy David, nor the most wise Solomon,
 428 |          back again, we perceive the dawn. What limits are there to
 429 |            thought he was one of the day-labourers.~ ~ ~ ~
 430 |            and the boar sharpens its death-dealing tusks. Roused by love, the
 431 Int|           the Pope, thus dealing the deathblow to the Council that had
 432 |              bitter as you. How many deaths have you brought upon my
 433 Int|           either hypocrisy or senile decay. Voigt, the virtuous German,
 434 |            everything lies with you. Decide what you must do, for you
 435 Int|            and dissolute habits, but dedicated to Gaspar Schlick. For Gaspar
 436 |            filled her mouth. She was deep-bosomed, and her breasts swelled
 437 |           that, she drank every hour deeper of love, and resolved to
 438 |            do so, although to my own deepest sorrow, for the sake of
 439 |               lest you should be too deeply grieved, before it was necessary.
 440 |              for its mate; the timid deer seek battle and, by their
 441 |             and fisheries, power, or deer-forests. Any of these a fool can
 442 Int|             gained his position as a defender of the Church; it was as
 443 Int|            later his tone had become definitely severe.~ ~‘I know what you
 444 Int|             the men who loved Isotta degli Atti, Vittoria Colonna,
 445 |             Cressida; Helen deceived Deiphobus; and Circe all her lovers,
 446 |              not do without a little delay. But Menelaus had dined
 447 |             Emperor. So this journey delayed them for two months. And
 448 Not|         Euryalus verye pleasaunt and delectable unto the reader. 1560. (
 449 Int|             studied and made a name; delighting in his wits and in his body,
 450 Pre|              That is a subject which delights young minds, and demands
 451 Ded|           and long went in fear of a delivery, because his wife had mounted
 452 |               Do I hold you, or am I deluded by empty dreams? No, indeed,
 453 |        reputation, saying their love demanded no more than words and kisses.~ ~
 454 |             penalty.~ ~ ‘Indeed I am demented! It was not foresight freed
 455 Not|             begriffen ist. . . dutch den hochgelerten Nicolaum von
 456 Int|            his wits and in his body, denying neither. In the middle years,
 457 |             your arms. Would I might depart like that, before you leave
 458 |            and my very hope of life, depends on you. I love you more
 459 |            at home? Why seek ever to depress me by your absence? All
 460 |               and went down into the depths; and for a long time, now
 461 Not|           Darinnen alle Eigenschafft der Liebe. . . hoflich angezeigt
 462 |          granary, he was the last to descend, and saw, as he had been
 463 |          well. If you think you will desert me, say so, before my love
 464 |             my own dignity than your deserts, I’d see to it to-day that
 465 |       promise you gave me, if I have deserved any kindness from you, or
 466 |             For your noble character deserves it, and your behaviour merits
 467 |            and Euryalus, full of joy despite the two perils he had encountered,
 468 |            ask of me what must be my destruction. In return for your gifts,
 469 |           and Lucretia was trying to detain her husband there, until
 470 |             coughs or laughs. We are determined to elude him, and we cannot
 471 Int|          woman, think that you see a devil.’~ ~ But to be mediaeval
 472 |         fully recognized her lover’s devotion, she too confessed the love
 473 |          ladies don’t love men; they devour them. And so I was cheated.
 474 |        secret fire ran in his veins, devouring the very marrow of his bones.
 475 |            hair were many pearls and diamonds. I think Helen was not more
 476 |              had expected. Thus must Diana have appeared to Actaeon,
 477 |              to nothing: even hatred dies at love’s command. Love
 478 |            of man, so that he scarce differs from the brutes.~ ~ ~ ~
 479 |            together; but this seemed difficult, almost impossible, for
 480 |         throw ourselves into endless difficulties.~ ~ ‘Look at myself! Now
 481 |          themselves. Then, with much difficulty, she turned the keys, but
 482 |         foresight freed me from this dilemma, but chance. What chance?
 483 |             know, you alone possess, diligence, loyalty, and silence. For
 484 Not|              stretched almost to the dimensions of an epic, is attributed
 485 |           laughed, broke in a little dimple on either side. And all
 486 |          side. And all who saw those dimples longed to kiss them. A small
 487 |          Ganymede, my Hippolytus, my Diomedes,’ said Lucretia.~ ~ ‘And
 488 |         change his hiding-place and, directed by Lucretia, he placed himself
 489 Ded|            moral virtues, ruling and directing the rest.~ ~ I have, in
 490 |         riding about the town in all directions, as was his custom, he often
 491 |         should bring her. Nor was he disappointed, for Lucretia came at last;
 492 |           terrified at such a sudden disaster, and did not know what to
 493 |      undertake an embassy, sometimes discharge an office. Caesar should
 494 |         philosophers, the masters of discipline and preachers how to live?
 495 |        liquified, and the letter was disclosed. And the old women sitting
 496 |         pleasanter or purer than her discourse. She did not, like so many,
 497 |              so loyally prevented my discovery. You are a good fellow,
 498 |           for a long time at his own discretion, and often reproached himself:~ ~ ‘
 499 |           but he is considered least disgraceful who is most cautious.’~ ~
 500 Pre|             yours both offensive and disgusting. For how can it become me,
 501 |         which desired of her nothing dishonourable; for he believed that she
 502 Pre|              towards evening; but it dishonours you who ask no less than
 503 |             laughed at, scorned, and disliked; for the clatter of arms
 504 |               The Emperor would have dismissed me, and punished me for
 505 |             poet, who leads a rather disorderly life. How about the philosophers,
 506 |             palace, he could see her displaying herself at an upper window.
 507 |           confessed the love she had dissembled, and opened her heart to
 508 Int|            considerable learning and dissolute habits, but dedicated to
 509 |              unobserved. No wall, no distance impedes my kisses.’~ ~ Now
 510 |             sun, and only three ells distant from Lucretia’s window,
 511 |          from day to day lessens the distemper. Thus Sosias thought to
 512 |          could have devised a way to distract those that sought me as
 513 |         suspicions, I think Menelaus distrusted the convenient nature of
 514 |             Menelaus and Bertus were disturbed by this accident, and both
 515 |           cut in two, a single heart divided. Part of one mind was going,
 516 |          straight in contour, evenly dividing her rosy cheeks, while nothing
 517 |            his own son, and bade the doctors try all the cures known
 518 |             I might have cursed such doings.~ ~ ‘Or again, suppose her
 519 |               saying to himself:~ ~ ‘Dolt that I am! What brought
 520 Ded|          managing affairs, public or domestic. Paglarensis gaped, and
 521 |            will speak; the dogs, the door-posts, these marble halls will
 522 Pre|            which two fond—not to say doting—lovers burned for one another.
 523 |            and in my old age take to double-dealing, which in my youth I abominated?
 524 Not|        Memoirs of Hippolite Count of Douglas, 1708.)~ ~ Ein Lieblich
 525 |          those flames; for the black dove is always loved by the green
 526 |             jealously guarded by its dragon, nor the approach to Hell
 527 |             this word, now that, she drank every hour deeper of love,
 528 Int|          older, the day of our death draws near, and now we must consider
 529 Int|              till he was over forty, dreading the mere responsibility
 530 |             last, as I have so often dreamed, I may embrace you unobserved.
 531 |     companions the sweepings and the dregs of mankind. What greater
 532 |             so she, with her glance, drew men whither she would.~ ~
 533 |            flames of an unholy love, drive out this horrid evil from
 534 |        passion and herself Just as a dry field burns up at the first
 535 |             nature of old men, whose dryness robs them of sleep so that
 536 |            wedded him to a maiden of ducal rank, most beautiful, and
 537 Not|              Silvij poete Senēsis de duob’ amātibus Euriali & Lucresia.
 538    | during
 539 Not|     angezeigt und begriffen ist. . . dutch den hochgelerten Nicolaum
 540 |         please God—even entrust this duty to you. If he does, and
 541 Ded|               except beauty. He is a dwarf. He should have belonged
 542 |        appear to wiseacres. Chastity dwells only in lowly cottages,
 543 |           now stamped with gold, now dyed with the Tyrian murex, now
 544 |          Thus Euryalus, and Lucretia echoed him. She returned him kiss
 545 Not|       following is the only critical edition catalogued, and on it the
 546 Int|            and can come to me and be educated by me.’ And when we read
 547 |             table, the salt fish and eels of one meal are carried
 548 |           kissed it oftener, but its effect on me is different from
 549 Ded|              captain of the lands of Egra and Cubitus; to his especial
 550 Not|              Lucretia. Darinnen alle Eigenschafft der Liebe. . . hoflich angezeigt
 551 Not|          Count of Douglas, 1708.)~ ~ Ein Lieblich und Warhafftige
 552 |              a man.~ ~ Her dress was elaborate: necklaces and brooches,
 553 Pre|              ask. For as you are the elder, so should you the more
 554 |              our women more than the elegance of learning. Hence arose
 555 |            her. Indeed, I thought so elegant a lady did not deserve that
 556 |           this so beautifully and so elegantly that I can only admire and
 557 Int|            as Aeneas aged, the older element rose to the surface; ‘Woman
 558 Ded|             surpassed. Sometimes the elements of small bodies are the
 559 Ded|              his sow had a litter of eleven. Bonitius of Milan thought
 560 Int|            an English woman, by name Elizabeth, and had by her a son, whom
 561 |              the sun, and only three ells distant from Lucretia’s
 562 Ded|            little men. The fellow is eloquent and skilled in either kind
 563 |         laughs. We are determined to elude him, and we cannot do that
 564 Not|        Braccio. Capolago tipographia elvetica. 1832. (Consulted by Dévay
 565 |          Sometimes I’ll undertake an embassy, sometimes discharge an
 566 Not|              recensuit, illustravit, emendavit, Josephus I. Dévay, etc.
 567 |          bent his neck, and suffered emeralds to be fitted on his fingers
 568 |              and that was due to the emergencies of war. And, if I were to
 569 |             other messenger he could employ: the reason of his message
 570 |             I’m bound to die.~ ~ ‘Oh emptiest and stupidest of all stupid
 571 |              you, or am I deluded by empty dreams? No, indeed, you
 572 Not|         silvye et translate de latin en francois. Antoine Verard.
 573 |           more cautious than he was, enclosing his note in the stem of
 574 |              were eager for a second encounter.~ ~ Now the lane that separated
 575 |        despite the two perils he had encountered, scaled the wall and entered
 576 |              ll throw ourselves into endless difficulties.~ ~ ‘Look at
 577 |             sake even that was worth enduring. Your kisses and your so
 578 Not|              Storia de due amanti di Enea Silvio Piccolimini in seguito
 579 Int|            thereafter he devoted his energies to bringing Germany over
 580 |             they gained strength and energy from their strife.~ ~ When
 581 |            which you bound me to you enjoined upon me to take loyal thought
 582 |            and, for his other limbs, enjoying a certain majesty in proportion
 583 |          have postponed too long the enjoyment of our love.’~ ~ ‘Take care,
 584 |          cottages, and poverty alone enjoys a pure affection, that confines
 585 |              you got it, nobody will enquire, but you must have it. And
 586 |        thought she was ill, and made enquiries what remedy they should
 587 |              for I was imagining you entangled in your country affairs.
 588 Ded|              strong, he was a second Entellus, a master-wrestler. In running,
 589 |              before me? How dare you enter the homes of nobles, tempt
 590 |                 So off he went, and, entering Lucretia’s house, took up
 591 |           and I’ll see to it that he entrusts all that to me. Sometimes
 592 |        beauty. Everyone that saw her envied her husband. Besides her
 593 Not|              to the dimensions of an epic, is attributed to Octavien
 594 |     unfailing efforts, each of us is equally in love. She is on fire,
 595 Int|        impression for the old one to erase it, and even now the metamorphosis
 596 |             can prove her wrong, who errs with so many.’~ ~ Thus Lucretia
 597 |              not have displayed your erudition. For that is not to put
 598 Ded|             Egra and Cubitus; to his especial master, Aeneas Sylvius,
 599 Not|           von Weil Stadtschreiber zu Esslingen verteutscht worden, etc.
 600 |         marble halls, country-seats, estates and fisheries, power, or
 601 Not|      plaisant de lamour indicible de eurialus et de lucresse compose par
 602 Not|        Zweien Liebhabenden Menschen, Euriolo und Lucretia. Darinnen alle
 603 Int|            man of some importance in Europe, but he had gained his position
 604 |             was straight in contour, evenly dividing her rosy cheeks,
 605 |              the briefest labour for ever-lasting joy, but for love, whose
 606 |          Learn what it is to have an ever-present sorrow, the terror of a
 607 |              and displayed her limbs exactly as they were. Her throat
 608 |           wish it. But first we must examine the gates and see that they
 609 |           innkeeper and, when he had examined the whole place, brought
 610 Ded|            many other gifts, chiefly excelled in this, that he let no
 611 |            mistaken, Euryalus has an excellent nag, and he would willingly
 612 |             mind by men called love, excepting leisure. But youth and splendour
 613 |       Embraces followed, kisses were exchanged, and they spread their sails
 614 |            terrified at these words, exclaimed, ‘Lady, restrain the violence
 615 |      wantonness, always pursuing the exotic. Fine homes and noble families
 616 |         persuaded the magistrates to expel the inn-keeper who kept
 617 Pre|       greetings to Marianus Sozinus, expert in either kind of law, and
 618 Int|            the metamorphosis must be explained as either hypocrisy or senile
 619 |          forward his friend’s cause, explored a tavern which stood behind
 620 |        stranger’s love, and will not expose myself to such disasters.
 621 |         thought that what your women expressed with their eyes, they also
 622 |            was praiseworthy, for her exterior witnessed to her inner beauty.
 623 Int|             from birth for something extraordinary, and he fulfilled his destiny.
 624 |             on all men with a kindly eye. It is an art, or rather
 625 |              wrinkle, and her arched eyebrows were dark and slender, with
 626 |             he was well aware of the fact that his wife was pestered
 627 |           pity on your lover, who is fading away like snow in the sun.
 628 Int|               Old age, they say, and failing strength brought out the
 629 Ded|         consoles the widow, nor ever fails the needy. His face is rather
 630 |           the sacred Trojan war, she fainted away; and, when she heard
 631 |            when they know them to be faithful. Nor do the Gods scorn to
 632 |        loveliest, of women, and your fame is not confined to Italy:
 633 |          mature in years, well-read, famed for his judgment, and you
 634 |         exotic. Fine homes and noble families are the haunt of Fortune’
 635 |             country, among Menelaus’ farm-hands, and some were killed who
 636 |             anything either. But the farmers came from Rosalia, bringing
 637 |              days from now, when the farmhands are bringing in the grain,
 638 |           the thread that is spun in farthest China. And his horses were
 639 Ded|              I imagine it, in poet’s fashion.~ ~ Do you know the kind
 640 |             wax in snow and bound it fast, making a ball of it, and
 641 |            sleepless nights, so many fasts. See how thin and pale I
 642 |            killed herself, after the fateful death of Aeneas; nor would
 643 Ded|       Apelles; nothing could be more faultless or clearer than the codices
 644 |           cautious. But, had fortune favoured his plan, then he would
 645 |            no less troubled than he, fearing, as she did, not only for
 646 |            thoughts, rash heart, and fearless spirit! Nothing is so impenetrable,
 647 |             Euryalus, then she spoke fearlessly:~ ~ ‘Is this you, my darling?
 648 |       Menelaus received Paris at his feast, nor Andromache more richly
 649 Int|             due to worldly ambition, feebler powers, or a very natural
 650 |              that, good friend, I’ll feed the horses. Do you, in the
 651 Int|            that he may read it, thus felicitously begins his tale of the two
 652 Pre|          either kind of law, and his fellow-citizen.~ ~ You ask a thing ill-suited
 653 Ded|        Marianus Sozinus of Siena, my fellow-countryman, a man of character as kindly
 654 |             tree has leaves. For the female sex is eager for novelty,
 655 |             and then followed him to Ferrara, Mantua, Trient, Constance,
 656 |            And he was just coming to fetch some more, and his fork
 657 |          long time, he sustained her fevered heart, and only once, that
 658 |          unmanageable animal, false, fickle, and cruel, the slave of
 659 |            not relying on his wife’s fidelity, wished to remove all opportunities.
 660 |             command. Love rouses the fierce flames of youth, restores
 661 Ded|            men who knew you tell how fiercely you burned, and that none
 662 Ded|            of the Gods has crept the fiery particle. Farewell.~ ~ ~ ~
 663 |              was agreed that, at the fifth hour of the night, Euryalus
 664 Pre|             or you, that are in your fifties, to read of it That is a
 665 Int|         Siena and at Florence, under Filelfo the Greek scholar. He made
 666 |           were there, and marvellous fillets about her head, while on
 667 |       immediately, before my husband finds you and gives you the punishment
 668 |          always pursuing the exotic. Fine homes and noble families
 669 |            the whole of the Iliad so finely written that it was kept
 670 |          love-letter, written on the finest parchment.~ ~ Don’t be surprised
 671 |             ring will never leave my finger, where I make it wet with
 672 Not|              De Duobus Amantibus was finished in 1444, and by 1500 thirty-five
 673 |            up at his table, the salt fish and eels of one meal are
 674 |           country-seats, estates and fisheries, power, or deer-forests.
 675 |              snows, the oceans their fishes, and the woods their wild
 676 |          quite broken down; I am not fit to lift heavy weights. Lift
 677 |              not be able to keep you fittingly. While, if I follow the
 678 |            Euryalus. The meeting was fixed for two days later, and
 679 |         loving you. Ask the hills to flatten themselves out, or the rivers
 680 |             me,’ said Euryalus, and, flattening out his body, he pushed
 681 |         noble, but I have no wish to flatter myself. I do not claim that
 682 |            this fellow’s pocket, and flattery that. Some acquire it through
 683 |              more willingly become a flea, in case you shut your window
 684 |         woman as to watch a flock of fleas in the broiling sun. Unless
 685 |         there is not a heart made of flesh but feels, at one time or
 686 |             as years. For time, that flies for the fearful, crawls
 687 |        unwilling woman as to watch a flock of fleas in the broiling
 688 Int|              studied at Siena and at Florence, under Filelfo the Greek
 689 |              we are at war with, the Florentines, are far away. If it is
 690 |     themselves out, or the rivers to flow back to their springs. It
 691 |               as he spoke, his tears flowed in a stream over her brow
 692 Ded|           ass travailed for a single foal, while his sow had a litter
 693 |              to this pass but my own folly? Now I am done for, now
 694 Pre|           incredible, with which two fond—not to say doting—lovers
 695 |              on, Dromo, see that the food is plentiful.’~ ~ ‘I'll
 696 Pre|              request, I’ll not be so foolish as to fear transgression,
 697 |               I do not claim that my forbears were any better than others,
 698 |             I did strive with all my force to inflame her, that my
 699 |         mistresses, and preferred to forego their kin, their home, power,
 700 |              am demented! It was not foresight freed me from this dilemma,
 701 |        Orpheus is said to have drawn forests and rocks after him, to
 702 |          thousand passions. And now, forgetful of my father’s precepts,
 703 |             secret flame, completely forgets that she is a wife. She
 704 |       contain himself no longer, but forgot his fear and cast aside
 705 |             fetch some more, and his fork would have struck Euryalus,
 706    | former
 707 |            he goes.~ ~ ‘Shall I then forsake my mother, my husband, and
 708 |              return your love. Jason forsook Medea, who helped him to
 709 Int|            him a pignus amoris which fortunately died; and in 1443, a year
 710 |           Lord, fourteen hundred and forty-four.~ ~ Here ends Aeneas Sylvius’
 711 |             a lover’s perjury; so he fostered his barren flame the more
 712 |           because it is no good your fostering a stranger’s love, and you
 713 |              Come, my chief delight, fountain of my pleasures, my spring
 714 |           Sicily. And what about the four-footed animals. The horse makes
 715 |             in the year of Our Lord, fourteen hundred and forty-four.~ ~
 716 |              was gone, collected the fragments of the letter, and put each
 717 |              a pleasant quality, but frail, transitory, and of no value
 718 Not|          With woodcuts. Weygand Han. Franckfurt-am-Main. 1560? (Consulted by Dévay
 719 Not|             et translate de latin en francois. Antoine Verard. Paris.
 720 Int|             he played in the Diet of Frankfurt settled it. He was now a
 721 |       demented! It was not foresight freed me from this dilemma, but
 722 |          town? We all enjoy the same freedom here and the same peace,
 723 |           myself to you. Assist this frenzy of ours, for if it is opposed,
 724 |             of Siena are wont to pay frequent visits to the chapel of
 725 |           die, with such a joy still fresh, before any misfortune could
 726 |                 Never have I been so frightened, but for your sake even
 727 Ded|           great virtue should ask so frivolous a thing, I know not. But
 728 Int|      something extraordinary, and he fulfilled his destiny. In his Commentaries
 729 |         Caesar, as usual, and making fun of me,’ Euryalus replied. ‘
 730 |           Emperor was present at her funeral, and knighted her son before
 731 |          angry with you, I should be furious now, because you hid it
 732    | further
 733 |           saying this, he glanced up furtively at Lucretia, and looked
 734 |             thing is to yield to its fury. For if you strive against
 735 |          seen to laugh: no jokes nor gaiety nor any jests could recall
 736 |           you. Work for you is but a game, nothing ever hinders you.~ ~
 737 |             together.~ ~ ‘You are my Ganymede, my Hippolytus, my Diomedes,’
 738 |           alone, was never without a gaoler. Argus did not more diligently
 739 Ded|             or domestic. Paglarensis gaped, and accused his steward
 740 |             am not dazzled by golden garments, horses, dogs, a tribe of
 741 |        thieves.’~ ~ And going to the gate-way, he tried now this lock,
 742 |           years old, not tall but of gay and graceful carriage, with
 743 |           began to burn for her and, gazing at her face, felt he would
 744 Not|        attributed to Octavien de St. Gelais, grand rhétoriqueur. The
 745 |            have sold to me. For this gem is worth as much as your
 746 Ded|            are the more precious, as gems and jewels testify. And
 747 Ded|              greed: my friend is all generosity. His house is ever full
 748 |          Cease from such cruelty; be gentler with your lover.~ ~ ‘For,
 749 Ded|              philosopby as Plato; in geometry a very Boethius; in arithmetic
 750 |          were common report that the Germans surpass all races. I think
 751 Not|           III. 41. Bamberg.~ ~ Codex Gervasii, at Budapesth, and written ‘
 752 |           and opens.’~ ~ Achates was getting tired of wasting his time,
 753 |            saw not Euryalus but some ghost; as though she could not
 754 |            in his hand a violet with gilded petals, and in its stalk
 755 |              necklaces and brooches, girdles and bracelets, all were
 756 |                 And, saying this, he glanced up furtively at Lucretia,
 757 |              equal. All thought them goddesses rather than mortal women,
 758 Not|          1904.~ ~Translations.~ ~The Goodli History of the most noble
 759 |              in his house there is a goodly array of servants. The out-cry
 760 |         further; I hope that of your goodness. Of all the Emperor’s companions,
 761 |              and we know that of two goods we ought to choose the greatest,
 762 Not|          library of Prince Henry: in gothic lettering with numerous
 763 |              that all things are not governed by chance? Who is there
 764 |           and great rivalry, and the gown did all it could to damage
 765 |      Cornelia did, the mother of the Gracchi, or Hortensius’ daughter,
 766 |              not tall but of gay and graceful carriage, with bright eyes,
 767 Ded|      DEDICATION~ ~To the eminent and gracious knight, the lord Gaspar
 768 Not|             postea sūmi Pontificatus gradū adeptus Pius ē appellatus.
 769 |             no more for my love, and gradually suppress your own, and so
 770 |        farmhands are bringing in the grain, he must dress up as a carrier,
 771 Not|              Octavien de St. Gelais, grand rhétoriqueur. The very beautiful
 772 |          with you; if only that were granted, you would no longer despise
 773 |         while with the hand that had grasped the club he guided the thread
 774 |              you reap every blade of grass. Men pile up riches, and
 775 |          Euryalus, ‘I feel this much gratitude towards you, that I will
 776 |          your steeds? Let them still graze. Give me such a night as
 777 Ded|           you will find arrogance or greed: my friend is all generosity.
 778 Int|          Florence, under Filelfo the Greek scholar. He made his name
 779 |          dove is always loved by the green bird, and white pigeons
 780 Pre|           your desire; I’ll make the grey hairs of your sickly lust
 781 |              turn of her head, every groan and clearing of the throat,
 782 |         message.’~ ~ At this, Sosias groaned and said:~ ~ ‘By these white
 783 |           you have them, on whatever grounds; for they will remind you
 784 Ded|         describe him. For nature has grudged him nothing, except beauty.
 785 |          good morning, my hope, sole guardian of my life! At last I have
 786 |           who helped him to slay the guardian-dragon and carry off the golden
 787 |             be warded off by careful guardians.~ ~ And thus they had lost
 788 |         yours. Farewell, my bulwark, guide of my life.’~ ~ ~ ~
 789 |              had grasped the club he guided the thread on the whirling
 790 Ded|            He has some experience of guile, not in practising but in
 791 |           uproar. But she denied her guilt and told him what had happened,
 792 |              sorrow, the terror of a guilty mind, and a soul full of
 793 Not|           Budapesth, and written ‘by Gyarphas at Mantua, at the time of
 794 Int|             well as his ineradicable habit of burning the candle at
 795 |           But Lucretia, when the old hag was gone, collected the
 796 |         reply after this manner:~ ~ ‘Hail, my soul, my Lucretia, who
 797 |           were at that moment in the hall where the household dined,
 798 Not|               With woodcuts. Weygand Han. Franckfurt-am-Main. 1560? (
 799 |              your kin, nor even your hand-maidens. And though your servants
 800 |       murmuring in my mouth, or ever handle those breasts.~ ~ ‘Why,
 801 |              did, and Alexander, and Hannibal? But why speak of warriors?
 802 |           threatens my family. If it happens to benefit you, that is
 803 |            as honey! No one was ever happier than I, no one more fortunate!~ ~ ‘
 804 Int|        taking place. The poverty and hardship of his youth, as well as
 805 |           every danger, and admit no hardships. All a husband’s precautions
 806 |           and keep you like a common harlot in the camp, think how honourable
 807 |            can to enjoy you, without harming you.~ ~ ‘Farewell! live
 808 |             not speech, but sweetest harmonies. And how can I describe
 809 Int|            making every part of life harmonious, and Aeneas had a supreme
 810 |         Julian law for adulterers is harsh, but a husband’s grief demands
 811 |             you, Aurora, why in such haste to leave Tithonus’ bed?
 812 |              Euryalus’ eyes with his hat, saying:~ ~ ‘That you may
 813 |              that she is a wife. She hates her husband, and cherishes
 814 |              denied to nothing: even hatred dies at love’s command.
 815 |           and noble families are the haunt of Fortune’s dire companion,
 816 |             to you? Had I a thousand heads, I’d entrust them all to
 817 |              Lucretia sitting by the hearth, with refreshments ready,
 818 |         where the snow melted in the heat, the wax liquified, and
 819 |              fallen by accident.~ ~ ‘Heavens, my dear,’ cried she, ‘come
 820 |           the ground, till they rang heavily. And when Euryalus saw Lucretia,
 821 |          joined in holy wedlock with Hector.~ ~ Now among them (I mean,
 822 |             you as long as possible, heedless of the future so he could
 823 Not|              Josephus I. Dévay, etc. Heisler. Budapesth. 1904.~ ~Translations.~ ~
 824 |            with blushing cheeks, she held him closer, and kissed him
 825 |          dragon, nor the approach to Hell by Cerberus, than she is
 826 |            interests of your kin but helping me too, and I am almost
 827 Not|           from the library of Prince Henry: in gothic lettering with
 828 |             love busy? They say that Hercules, strongest of men and true
 829    | hers
 830 |             furious now, because you hid it from me that you are
 831 |              my darling, I have been hiding here for you quite half
 832 |      Euryalus had time to change his hiding-place and, directed by Lucretia,
 833 |      Short-bellied and broad-backed, high-spirited and rippling with muscles,
 834 |             stop loving you. Ask the hills to flatten themselves out,
 835 |          half a foot.~ ~ ‘That won't hinder me,’ said Euryalus, and,
 836 |             but a game, nothing ever hinders you.~ ~ Oh, Love that subdues
 837 Not|         bound up with the Memoirs of Hippolite Count of Douglas, 1708.)~ ~
 838 |              You are my Ganymede, my Hippolytus, my Diomedes,’ said Lucretia.~ ~ ‘
 839 |          neither her breasts nor her hips, and displayed her limbs
 840 |           fever that possesses them. Hircanian tigers burn, and the boar
 841 |       shoulder to carry burdens, and hire himself out as a common
 842 Ded|           kind of law; knows all the histories; has practised poetry. He
 843 Not|         begriffen ist. . . dutch den hochgelerten Nicolaum von Weil Stadtschreiber
 844 Not|          Eigenschafft der Liebe. . . hoflich angezeigt und begriffen
 845 |          forward to this day as to a holiday. The time for his departure
 846 |             embraces, bites sweet as honey! No one was ever happier
 847 |              spring of happiness, my honeycomb. Come, my incomparable darling.
 848 |          with the sword. But I, more honourably, will prevent my wrong by
 849 |             shoulder, and its strong hooves pawed the ground, till they
 850 |            was alread scattering the hoped-for day, and soon Apollo, bringing
 851 |              keep her going on false hopes, till either the Emperor
 852 |          these lines:~ ~ ‘Cease from hoping for what cannot be obtained,
 853 |              or, as we say, give him horns.~ ~ This lady was taller
 854 |          unholy love, drive out this horrid evil from your chaste mind.
 855 |            mother of the Gracchi, or Hortensius’ daughter, and nothing could
 856 |             woe is me! how swift the hours. Jealous night, why do you
 857 |        another bolt. Now there was a huge iron bolt, which two men
 858 |            is not right to judge all humanity from the experience of a
 859 |       survived for some time in this humour, she fell ill, and because
 860 |           threatens it, and knowing, hurls itself on. Conquering passion
 861 |              he who gives way to the hurricane, escapes. And since I am
 862 |              who has offended you or hurt you? Oh, my Lucretia, my
 863 Int|          must be explained as either hypocrisy or senile decay. Voigt,
 864 Not|        Cremonensis. Venice. 1473?~ ~ Hystoria Pii Pape de duobus amantibus,
 865 |           you, my Lucretia, put such ideas out of your head, take thought
 866 |            the origin of nobility is ignoble? This man has grown rich
 867 |              rank and powerful, what ignominy for all your race, what
 868 |         youth! Condemn me not for my ignorance! Preserve me, that I may
 869 |           was shown the whole of the Iliad so finely written that it
 870 |             very generous, but he is ill-natured, turbulent, miserly, and
 871 |            if he had sent a woman of ill-repute, for he was a stranger and
 872 Pre|   fellow-citizen.~ ~ You ask a thing ill-suited to my years, to yours both
 873 |          Have you not noticed how he ill-treats our stomachs with his unfair
 874 |            in dealing with dangerous illnesses, are wont to try an uncertain
 875 Not|       Amantibus Historia. recensuit, illustravit, emendavit, Josephus I.
 876 |              youth I abominated? No, illustrious daughter of this city, rather
 877 |         Always before my eyes is the image of that stranger who, to-day,
 878 |            nor he of hers: they both imagined that they loved in vain.
 879 |            have come back, for I was imagining you entangled in your country
 880 |          beyond belief; and I was so immersed in it that I simply had
 881 Ded|         given to this man beauty and immortality, he too had been a god.
 882 |     unobserved. No wall, no distance impedes my kisses.’~ ~ Now although
 883 |       fearless spirit! Nothing is so impenetrable, but you see a way through;
 884 Int|            the surface; ‘Woman is an imperfect creature... without faith,
 885 Int|              pandar to the Emperor’s imperially extravagant desires, Aeneas
 886 |          rather do you cast out such impious flames from your pure breast.
 887 |             passion. I opposed it; I implored her, tried to calm her down,
 888 Int|             He was now a man of some importance in Europe, but he had gained
 889 |           going to talk to you on an important matter, one requiring those
 890 |              within, looks outwardly impregnable, but when the battering-ram
 891 Int|             man had made too deep an impression for the old one to erase
 892 |        Cerberus, than she is closely imprisoned. I know your family, and
 893 |              day, whether because it improved the arch of the roof or
 894 |            love can reach me that is impure. Do as you like with others,
 895 Int|        Cardinal, and the Pope, enemy incarnate of the Infidel, have nothing
 896 |               my honeycomb. Come, my incomparable darling. For all is safe
 897 Not|          Vienna.~ ~ Codex Béldianus (incomplete). Archbishop’s Library,
 898 |             faces took the colour of Indian ivory stained with scarlet,
 899 Not|  tresrecreatif et plaisant de lamour indicible de eurialus et de lucresse
 900 |            me, and your behaviour is indiscreet. You’ll make all the onlookers
 901 Int|            his youth, as well as his ineradicable habit of burning the candle
 902 |            corn? What disgrace, what infamy for me and my posterity!
 903 Int|               enemy incarnate of the Infidel, have nothing to do with
 904 |           but what disgrace you will inflict upon your family! With what
 905 Int|       penniless and without a jot of influence behind him, that the day
 906 |            better than the reward of iniquity.~ ~ My ancestors were considered
 907 |              be doing my husband any injury—he will lose me any way.
 908 |             magistrates to expel the inn-keeper who kept the tavern behind
 909 |            exterior witnessed to her inner beauty. Everyone that saw
 910 |              woman gives way to that insanity, there’s no escape but death.
 911 Pre|              I’ll not invent, as you insist, nor use the poet’s reed,
 912 |              his gift. The Pannonian insists with many prayers. Then
 913 |             the power of a cruel and insolent master, whose yoke, when
 914    | instead
 915 |         Euryalus entered, by Sosias’ instructions, and there awaited the night,
 916 Ded|               there is not a musical instrument be cannot play; he understands
 917 |           the more painful, the more intensely either loved one feels it.
 918 Not|           1566. The following are of interest, though very corrupt as
 919 |             this alone, without some intermediary. How loyal I am to you,
 920 Int|                                      Introduction~ ~ Poet Laureate and imperial
 921 Int|             a wife for him, ‘si quid inveneris meae opinioni conveniens.’~ ~
 922 Ded|            of two lovers: nor have I invented it. For this thing took
 923 |             Why must you, yet again, involve yourself in these trifles?’~ ~
 924 Pre|            nothing, not even when it involves some measure of disgrace.~ ~
 925 |              her, and left her on an island. And what of poor Dido,
 926 Int|           him with the men who loved Isotta degli Atti, Vittoria Colonna,
 927 |            give our love a fortunate issue. While life runs in these
 928 Not|              angezeigt und begriffen ist. . . dutch den hochgelerten
 929 Pre|         hairs of your sickly lust to itch. Nor shall I imagine, who
 930 Int|             enemies of Pope Eugenius IV., but soon betook himself
 931 |            took the colour of Indian ivory stained with scarlet, or
 932 |           golden fleece was not more jealously guarded by its dragon, nor
 933 |             jokes nor gaiety nor any jests could recall her to happiness.
 934 Not|            de duobus amantibus, etc. Jo. Baptistam Sena. Venetiis.
 935 |            more richly adorned, when joined in holy wedlock with Hector.~ ~
 936 Int|             he took these words as a joke, though by that time (1452)
 937 |            was she seen to laugh: no jokes nor gaiety nor any jests
 938 Not|              illustravit, emendavit, Josephus I. Dévay, etc. Heisler.
 939 Int|              penniless and without a jot of influence behind him,
 940 |             well-read, famed for his judgment, and you can make him throw
 941 |          through his portfolios. The Julian law for adulterers is harsh,
 942 |        against love? May I not do as Julius did, and Alexander, and
 943 |                 Vienna, the third of July, in the year of Our Lord,
 944 |            not more diligently guard Juno’s bull than Lucretia was
 945 |          better than others, who are justified only by antiquity, since
 946 |           difficulty, she turned the keys, but the gates were fastened
 947 |           feeds us on veal and young kids, but even gives us chickens
 948 |             I shall die. God grant a kinder fate!~ ~ ‘But shame! shall
 949 |         beautiful wife of Candaules, King of Lydia, was more beautiful
 950 |         would endure as much for the Kingdom of Heaven! Wondrous stupidity
 951 |               I serve Lucretia. Even kings and emperors love their
 952 |             abandoning her home, her kinsmen, and her country. She is
 953 |              saving the life of your kinswoman, and preserving his wife
 954 |              her speechless body and kissing it and raining tears, he
 955 |               I do beseech you on my knees: cease from this madness,
 956 |          present at her funeral, and knighted her son before her tomb,
 957 |              s business, when Sosias knocked at the door. ‘Look out,
 958 |             was safe and sound. This knowledge slightly lessened the fever,
 959 |             put up with the briefest labour for ever-lasting joy, but
 960 Pre|             little town, what family lacks examples? Who, that has
 961 |         easily managed. I’ll bring a ladder. Lock your door. We have
 962 Not|             most noble and beautiful Ladye Lucres of Scene in Tuskan
 963 |              to the storied walls of Lagos. But suppose Lucretia resolved
 964 Pre|            lost her lover, and, amid lamentations, breathed out her sad, indignant
 965 Not|         tresrecreatif et plaisant de lamour indicible de eurialus et
 966 |           Lucretia carrying a little lamp. Then Euryalus leaned towards
 967 Ded|       chancellor, and captain of the lands of Egra and Cubitus; to
 968 |             did not know the Italian language. He desired so ardently
 969 |           said.’~ ~ And she seized a lantern in one hand, her husband
 970 |                WHEN Protesilaus left Laodomia, to go to the sacred Trojan
 971 |             by love, the tawny lions lash their tails, and the wild
 972 Int|             out the mediaeval strain latent in his youth, and certainly
 973 Not|           Papa Pio secundo col testo latino e la traduzione libera di
 974 |              disguised.’~ ~ ‘You are laughing at me, Caesar, as usual,
 975 |             every time she coughs or laughs. We are determined to elude
 976 |             nostrils. Its thick mane lay tossing on its right shoulder,
 977 Int|              was Aeneas Sylvius, the layman. The bishop, the Cardinal,
 978 Not|              de lucresse compose par le pape pie avāt la papaute
 979 |           and that you are among the leading nobles of this city, that
 980 |           little lamp. Then Euryalus leaned towards her and said:~ ~ ‘
 981 |             So when he saw these, he leaped from his horse, and they
 982 Ded|         master-wrestler. In running, leaping, or boxing, be could not
 983 |           many desires as a tree has leaves. For the female sex is eager
 984 |              one, that my beauty has led astray. Many besides you
 985 |           men called love, excepting leisure. But youth and splendour
 986 |               and he would willingly lend it, if you would let me
 987 |            an end to my martyrdom at length. Why torture me so long?
 988 |      postpone the lady’s resolve and lessen her fever, for time often
 989 |              This knowledge slightly lessened the fever, and Euryalus
 990 |         passion, and from day to day lessens the distemper. Thus Sosias
 991 |           human blood, and avenges a lesser crime with a greater! One
 992 |           may all who read it take a lesson from others that will be
 993 Not|              Prince Henry: in gothic lettering with numerous coloured cuts.)~ ~
 994 |               and punished me for my levity and madness. I might have
 995 Not|         testo latino e la traduzione libera di Alessandro Braccio. Capolago
 996 Int|          that the adventurer and the libertine may also, at the end, know
 997 |             and asked of her nothing licentious, nothing that would soil
 998 Not|       Darinnen alle Eigenschafft der Liebe. . . hoflich angezeigt und
 999 Not|       Warhafftige History von Zweien Liebhabenden Menschen, Euriolo und Lucretia.
1000 Not|            of Douglas, 1708.)~ ~ Ein Lieblich und Warhafftige History