Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
Original text (Spanish)
Original text (Spanish)
But being women, it is understood
That be they fair or dark, they all are good.
Since after all, it is the crowd who pays,
Why not content them when you write your plays?
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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