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Il pastor fido
by Giovanni Battista Guarini
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Quotation from Hygeiana, a non-medical analysis of the complaints incidental to females, in which are offered some important admonitions on the peculiar debilities attending their circumstances, sympathies and formation, illustrated by cases, intended for the use of females only, and addressed to the youth and maturity of that sex by Goss and Company London, Sherwood and Co. 1834²²

139009Il pastor fidoGiovanni Battista Guarini
Original Italian English Translation

“La misera tacendo
Per soverchio desio tutta si strugge;
Così perde belta, se'l foco dura,
E perdendo stagion, perde ventura”

 

In silent grief absorb'd, the wretched maid,
     By passions too refined, too ardent, lost,
Lets time unheeded pass, her beauties fade,
     And with the present hour her future hopes are lost.

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