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GEOFFREY CHAUCER, Troilus and Criseyde, I, 100
Tratto da: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, scelta, introduzione e note a cura di A. Guidi, Mursia, Milano 1962, p. 14
Solomon saith, “Take heed who stands alone,
For if he falls, there’s none to help him rise”.
But since thou hast a friend, to him make known
Thy grief, for we can better ways devise
To win thy love in more effective wise
Than lie and weep, like Niobe the queen,
Whose tears remain in marble to be seen.
