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Era il giorno ch'al sol si scolararo per la pieta del suo fattore i rai quando i' fui preso, et non me ne guardai, che i be' vostr'occhi, Donna mi legaro. Tempo non mi parea da far riparo contr' a colpi d'Amor; pero m'andai secur, senza sospetto, onde I mieie guai nel commune dolor s'incominciaro. Trovommi Amor del tutto disarmato, et aperta la via per gli occhi al core che di lagrime soon fatti uscio et varco. Pero al mio parer non li fu onore ferir me de saetta in quello stato, a voi armata non mostrar pur l'arco ENGLISH TRANSLATION It was the day when the sun's rays turned pale with grief for his Maker when I was taken, and I did not defend myself against it, for your lovely eyes, Lady, bound me. It did not seem to me a time for being on guard against Love's blows; therefore I went confident and without fear, and so my misfortunes began in the midst of the universal woe. Love found me altogether disarmed, and the way open through my eyes to my heart, my eyes which are now the portal and passageway of tears. Therefore, as it seems to me, it got him no honour to strike me with an arrow in that state, and not even to show his bow to you, who were armed Aus Songtexte Mania