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Las alianças.

TERCETOS.

Lute lying on a couch with books beside it.
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Este laud que de su forma arguye
Llamarse en Gręcia barca pescadora
Que la Musa Latina à si atribuye.
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [B2v p19] Recibe yllustre Duque en esta hora
Que à juntar voluntades te forçejas
En harmonia estable y muy sonora.
Y pues que al tañedor te me semejas
Sabe que es menester mano açertada
Para regir las cuerdas que aparejas.
Por que una sola qu’estè destemplada
O estè rompida haze aquel concierto
Bolverse en harmonia desconcertada.
Ansi para mover un desconcierto
Solo uno basta estar desconcertado,
Mas si el amor de todos te es abierto
Noay por que temas son mal conçertado.

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FOEDERA ITALORUM.[1]

The Italians’ Alliances.

Lute lying in a room
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Hanc cytharam à lembo [=lembi] , quae forma halieutica[2] fertur.
Vendicat, & propriam musa latina sibi.
Accipe Dux, placeat nostrum hoc tibi tempore munus
Quo nova cum sociis foedera inire paras.
Difficile est nisi docto homini tot tendere chordas,
Unaque si fuerit non bene tenta fides.
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [A3r]Ruptave (quôd facile est) perit omnis gratia conchae,
Illeque praecellens cantus ineptus erit.
Sic Itali coëunt proceres in foedera, concors,
Nil est quod timeas, si tibi constet amor.
At si aliquis desciscat (uti plerunque videmus)
In nihilum illa omnis solvitur harmonia.

This lute, which from its boat shape is called “halieutica”, my Latin Muse now claims for her own service. Receive it, O Duke. May this offering of mine be pleasing to you at this moment when you are preparing to enter into fresh agreements with your allies. It is difficult, except for a man of skill, to tune so many strings, and if one string is out of tune or broken, which so easily happens, all the music of the instrument is lost and its lovely song disjointed. In like manner the leaders of Italy are now forming alliances. There is nothing for you to fear if affection lasts for you and stays in concord. But if any one should slide away, which we often see, that harmony is all dissolved into nothing.

Notes:

1.  In later editions the title is merely Foedera.

2.  A Greek word meaning ‘fishing’ (boat).

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