Sonnets
SONNET XXXIV
Amore and Mona Lagia and Guido and I
Can give true thanks unto Ser Such-a-one
Who hath now ridded us of Know-you-who?
I’ll name no name for I’d have it forgotten.
And these three people have no wish for it
Though they were servants to him in such wise
That they, in sooth, could not have served him more
Had they mistaken him for God himself.
Let Love be thanked who was first made aware,
And then give thanks unto the prudent lady
Who at Love’s instance hath called back her heart;
Then thanks to Guido[1] who’s not here concerned
And to me too who drove him back to virtue,
If then he please me, think it not perchance.
- ↑ I. e. Guido Orlando.
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