Original text (French)
Those glorious days, when man said to man,
Let us be brothers, or I will knock you down.
The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.
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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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