Vergogna e Paura
Per lo Schifo trovar ciascun' andava,
Per dirli del misfatto molto male;
E que' s'avëa fatto un capez[z]ale
D'un fascio d'erba e sì son[n]iferava.
Vergogna fortemente lo sgridava;
Paura d'altra parte sì·ll'assale,
Dicendo: «Schifo, ben poco ti cale
Che Gelosïa sì forte ne grava,
E ciò ci avien per te, quest' è palese.
Quando tu, per la tua malaventura,
Tu vuogli intender or d'es[s]er cortese
(Ben sa' ch'e' non ti move di natura!),
Con ciaschedun dé' star a le difese
Per ben guardar questa nostra chiusura».
| Modesty and Fear
Everyone was looking for Resistance
to blame him for his bad mistake;
and that one had made himself a bed
from a bundle of grass, and there he fell asleep.
Modesty was reprimanding him very harshly;
in her turn Fear assails him,
saying: "Resistance, you don't care at all
that Jealousy is so upset with us!
And this happens to us because of you, it's clear.
Whenever you, for your misfortune,
wish to seem or to be courteous
(you well know that it's not your nature!),
you must be, as we all are, on the defensive,
in order to protect this enclosed place of ours."
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