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O poca nostra nobiltà di sangue, | 1 | O insignificant nobility of blood, | |||||
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se glorïar di te la gente fai | 2 | if you make us glory in you here below, | |||||
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qua giù dove l'affetto nostro langue, | 3 | where our affections are ephemeral, | |||||
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mirabil cosa non mi sarà mai: | 4 | I will not ever think it strange, | |||||
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ché là dove appetito non si torce, | 5 | for there, where appetite is never warped -- | |||||
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dico nel cielo, io me ne gloriai. | 6 | in, I mean, the heavens themselves -- I gloried in you too. | |||||
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Ben se' tu manto che tosto raccorce: | 7 | You are indeed a cloak that quickly shrinks, | |||||
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sì che, se non s'appon di dì in die, | 8 | so that, if we do not add to it day by day, | |||||
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