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Com' io divenni allor gelato e fioco, | 22 | Then how faint and frozen I became, | |||||
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nol dimandar, lettor, ch'i' non lo scrivo, | 23 | reader, do not ask, for I do not write it, | |||||
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però ch'ogne parlar sarebbe poco. | 24 | since any words would fail to be enough. | |||||
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Io non mori' e non rimasi vivo; | 25 | It was not death, nor could one call it life. | |||||
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pensa oggimai per te, s'hai fior d'ingegno, | 26 | Imagine, if you have the wit, | |||||
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qual io divenni, d'uno e d'altro privo. | 27 | what I became, deprived of either state. | |||||
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