Wonderful Marisa !<br />
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"Be just, I beg you: let the girl who’s lately plundered me,<br />
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either love me, or give cause why I should always love her!<br />
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Ah, I ask too much – enough if she lets herself be loved:<br />
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Cytherea might listen to all these prayers from me!<br />
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Hear one who serves you through the long years:<br />
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hear one who knows how to love in pure faith!<br />
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If no great names of ancient ancestors commend me,<br />
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if the creator of my blood was from the equestrian order,<br />
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if there aren’t innumerable ploughmen to refresh my fields,<br />
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my parents are both temperate and careful with wealth –<br />
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but Phoebus, his nine companions, the creator of the vine,<br />
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they made me as I am, and Amor, who gives me to you,<br />
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and unceasing loyalty, sinless morals,<br />
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naked simplicity, noble honour..."