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per ch'io guardava a loro e a' miei passi, |
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so that I watched them and my footsteps,
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compartendo la vista a quando a quando. |
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dividing my attention, now there, now here.
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Appresso il fine ch'a quell' inno fassi, |
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After the hymn was sung through to its end
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gridavano alto: "Virum non cognosco"; |
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they cried aloud: 'Virum non cognosco,'
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indi ricominciavan l'inno bassi. |
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then, in softer tones, began the hymn again.
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Finitolo, anco gridavano: "Al bosco |
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When it was finished, next they cried:
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si tenne Diana, ed Elice caccionne |
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'Diana kept to the woods and drove Callisto out
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che di Venere avea sentito il tòsco." |
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for having felt the poisoned sting of Venus.'
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Indi al cantar tornavano; indi donne |
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Then they again began to sing, |
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gridavano e mariti che fuor casti |
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calling on wives and husbands who were chaste, |
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come virtute e matrimonio imponne. |
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even as virtue and matrimony urge. |
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E questo modo credo che lor basti |
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And this way they go on, I think, |
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per tutto il tempo che 'l foco li abbruscia: |
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for as long as the fire burns them. |
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con tal cura conviene e con tai pasti |
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With such treatment and with just such diet
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che la piaga da sezzo si ricuscia. |
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must the last of all the wounds be healed.
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