| 66v¶ Ma se la vora vivere cum ragione
E governare el corpo cum mesura
Secondo la divina ispiratione
In cosse basse pora puoco cura
Ne beni eterni fia la sua intentione
Perche nel mondo niuna cossa dura
E sopra tute queste cosse in cielo
Volando andara cum amoroso çelo
[rubric: beni temporali.]
¶ Queste cosse composte corruptibile
Che non posson durare e crescer tanto
Ch'empian la voglia egli animi sensibili
Con gran faticha se ne aquista alquanto
Et con tremor li tiene che sum fluxibile
E poi li lassa cum dolor e pianto
Che vede ben cio ch'elle sano fare
Puoco vora per epse a faticare
¶ Elle ci son prestate per nostro uxo
Son facte e poste sotto el nostro piede
Chi non a l'ochio de la mente obtuso
Li pregia tanto quanto se richiede
Ma s'enton a se arai el cor confuso
Fia come quel che a pie del scuro scende
Che per vil cossa che summa pacia
Se priva de la sua gran signoria
TranslationBut if the soul wants to live by reason
and rule the body with measure,
according to the divine inspiration,
It [=the soul] will care little for trivial matters.
It will fix its attention on eternal goods,
since nothing in the world lasts forever.
And, it [=the soul] will go, flying, to the heavens,
above all these things, with loving zeal.
[rubric: temporal possessions/worldly goods.]
These compound, corruptible things
That cannot last and [also] grow enough/ever
To fulfill the greed to (agli?) impressionable minds [1475 edition: animal sensibili... living beings with a sensitive soul],
With great effort one can acquire quite much [of them],
And with trembling one keeps those passing ones
And then leaves them, with sorrow and tears,
Once he sees well what those can cause,
He will want to trouble little for those.
Those are things we borrow:
They are made, and made available to us.
Those who do not have a biased view
[Can] Appreciate them just as needed,
But if within you, your heart is befuddled,
It will be like when one walks at the bottom of the dark (?),
That for a vain thing that is a great madness,
He deprives himself of his own control. | 66v¶ Ma se la vora vivere cum ragione
E governare el corpo cum mesura
Secondo la divina ispiratione
In cosse basse pora puoco cura
Ne beni eterni fia la sua intentione
Perche nel mondo niuna cossa dura
E sopra tute queste cosse in cielo
Volando andara cum amoroso çelo
[rubric: beni temporali.]
¶ Queste cosse composte corruptibile
Che non posson durare e crescer tanto
Ch'empian la voglia egli animi sensibili
Con gran faticha se ne aquista alquanto
Et con tremor li tiene che sum fluxibile
E poi li lassa cum dolor e pianto
Che vede ben cio ch'elle sano fare
Puoco vora per epse a faticare
¶ Elle ci son prestate per nostro uxo
Son facte e poste sotto el nostro piede
Chi non a l'ochio de la mente obtuso
Li pregia tanto quanto se richiede
Ma s'enton a se arai el cor confuso
Fia come quel che a pie del scuro scende
Che per vil cossa che summa pacia
Se priva de la sua gran signoria
TranslationBut if the soul wants to live by reason
and rule the body with measure,
according to the divine inspiration,
It [=the soul] will care little for trivial matters.
It will fix its attention on eternal goods,
since nothing in the world lasts forever
And, above all these things, to the heavens
It [=the soul] will go, flying, with loving zeal.
[rubric: temporal possessions/worldly goods.]
These compound, corruptible things
That cannot last and [also] grow enough/ever
To fulfill the greed to (agli?) impressionable minds [1475 edition: animal sensibili... living beings with a sensitive soul],
With great effort one can acquire quite much [of them],
And with trembling one keeps those passing ones
And then leaves them, with sorrow and tears,
Once he sees well what those can cause,
He will want to trouble little for those.
Those are things we borrow:
They are made, and made available to us.
Those who do not have a biased view
[Can] Appreciate them just as needed,
But if within you, your heart is befuddled,
It will be like when one walks at the bottom of the dark (?),
That for a vain thing that is a great madness,
He deprives himself of his own control. |
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