Ah, cruel Love! What is the reason why You seldom make our … - Ludovico Ariosto

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Ah, cruel Love! What is the reason why
You seldom make our longings correspond?
How is it, traitor, you rejoice to spy
Two hearts discordant, one repelled, one fond?

Ludovico Ariosto

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Ludovico Ariosto (8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet, author of the epic poem Orlando Furioso (1516), "Orlando Enraged".

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Fu il vincer sempremai laudabil cosa,
Vincasi o per fortuna o per ingegno.

To arm a hand more powerful than your own
Is an ill method to maintain the throne.

Orlando Furioso: Part One, trans. Barbara Reynolds (Penguin Books, 1975),

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