“(Come si dice volgarmente) il giuocare non e male, ma e male il perdere.”
“As the saying goes, there is no harm in playing, but great harm in losing.”
“Il giusto
Povero suUe nude assi addorraenta;
E sulle molli porpore a’ malvagi
Di terribili larve empie la notte.”
“The honest poor
Upon the naked ground do calmly sleep;/
While for the wicked on soft couch reclined
The night is full of phantoms horrible.”
“Il gran nemico dell’ umane genti.”
“Of all mankind the chiefest enemy.”
“(Che) il lasciare impunito un delinquente
Spesse volte e cagion d’altri delitti.”
“For he who leaves the criminal unpunished
Is oftentimes the cause of other crimes.”
“Deir impunita reitk gli esempi
Spesso accrescono il numero degli empi.”
“’Tis certain that when crimes unpunished go
Full oft the criminals in number grow.”
“Pochi impuniti
Danno ai molti licenzia.”
“A few unpunished
Are ofttimes cause of license in the many.”
“(Che) il leon non combatte con la mosca.”
“For never doth the lion fight with flies.”
“Non si sdegna un leon con l’agnelletta.”
“The lion shows not anger to the lamb.”
“(Ma) il libro di natura
Ha l’entrata e l’uscita:
Tocca a loro la vita,
E a noi la sepoltura.”
“’Tis writ in nature’s book
How each man comes and goes:
She took their life from those,
From us she bvirial took.”
