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O poca nostra nobiltà di sangue, |
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O insignificant nobility of blood, |
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se glorïar di te la gente fai |
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if you make us glory in you here below, |
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qua giù dove l'affetto nostro langue, |
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where our affections are ephemeral, |
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mirabil cosa non mi sarà mai: |
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I will not ever think it strange, |
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ché là dove appetito non si torce, |
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for there, where appetite is never warped -- |
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dico nel cielo, io me ne gloriai. |
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in, I mean, the heavens themselves -- I gloried in you too. |
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Ben se' tu manto che tosto raccorce: |
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You are indeed a cloak that quickly shrinks, |
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sì che, se non s'appon di dì in die, |
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so that, if we do not add to it day by day, |