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Non al suo amante più Dïana piacque - Francesco Petrarch, Some Love Songs [1915]

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Some Love Songs of Petrarch, translated and annotated with a Biographical Introduction by William Dudley Foulke (Oxford University Press, 1915).

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Non al suo amante più Dïana piacque

  • When all unclad, within the waters cool
  • By chance he saw her, Dian did not please
  • Her lover1 more than now, when in a pool
  • Washing her dainty veil that from the breeze
  • Confines her golden locks that roam at will,
  • This creature wild doth on my fancy seize,
  • Until, though heaven glows with warmth, I still
  • Do freeze and tremble with an amorous chill.
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[1 ]Actaeon is here incorrectly designated by Petrarch as Diana’s lover.