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La viįiosa delicadeza.

Ottava rhima.

Muestra el Armiņo la delicadeza
Viįiosa,[1] mas la causa no se dello.
Por aventura es porque en su terneza
Se halla luxuria? ō porque el tierno vello
D’el orna de las damas la belleza?
Llamaron ā la Marta unos zibello,[2]
Por ser de la luxuria afęminada
(Como el Almizque) seņal apropiada.

Notes:

1.  The ‘white mouse’ of the original Latin is here given as ‘armiņo’ = ermine.

2.  marta / zibello, ‘civet cat’, one source of musk, an ingredient in many perfumes.


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    Nil reliqui.

    Nothing left

    LXXX [=81] .

    Scilicet hoc deerat, post tot mala denique nostris
    Locustae ut raperent, quidquid inesset, agris.[1]
    Vidimus innumeras Euro[2] duce tendere turmas,
    Qualia non Atylae castrave Xerxis erant.[3]
    Hae foenum, milium, corda omnia consumpserunt.
    Spes & in angusto est, stant nisi vota super.

    This was all it needed - that after so many misfortunes, finally locusts should seize whatever was in our fields. We have seen countless squadrons encamped, led by Eurus, hosts such as Attila and Xerxes never had. These creatures have eaten up all hay, millet and later crops. There is little scope for hope unless our prayers prevail.

    Notes:

    1.  Referring to a plague of locusts in North Italy in 1541/2 .

    2.  Eurus was the wind from the East.

    3.  Attila the Hun and Xerxes, King of Persia, were leaders who invaded the Roman Empire and Greece with vast armies in mid fifth century AD and 480 BC respectively. Xerxes’ invasion and Attila’s first invasion both came from the east.


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