Original text (Italian)
What a man sees, Love can make invisible—and what is invisible, that can Love make him see.
Driven raving mad by love—and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.
Reflect, ye gentle dames, that much they know,
Who gain experience from another's woe.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.
Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
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