“0 bene, o mal, che la fama ci apporti,
Signer, di sempre accrescere ha in usanza.”
“When fame, monarch! good or evil tells,
Evil or good beyond the truth she dwells." -(Hoole.)
“*’ che lieve e ingannar chi s’ assecura!”
“Who naught suspects is easily deceived.”
“ciechi, il tanto affaticar che giova?
Tutti tornate alia gran madre antica,
E 'l nome vostro appena si ritrova.”
“Ye blind, what boots it thus to toil and slave?
Ye all must to great Mother Earth return,
And e’en your names shall scarce survive the grave.”
“O coronate teste,
Chi per Dio sorge, di cader non tema.”
“ye crowned heads,
Who rises by God’s help, need fear no fall.”
“de gli uomini inferma e instabil mente,
Come siam presti a variar disegno!
Tutti i pensier mutiamo facilmente;
Più quei, che nascon d’amoroso sdegno.”
“Behold the state of man’s unstable mind,
Still prone to change with every changing wind!
All our resolves are weak, but weakest prove
Where sprung from sense of disappointed love."—(Hoole.)
“O del latino
Stipite trionfal figli maggiori,
Non de’ vinti e peggior sempre il destine.”
“O ye, the first
Offshoot of the victorious Latin stock,
Not always is the vanquished’ s fate the worst.”
“dignitosa coscienza et netta,
Come t’ e picciol fallo amaro morso!”
“conscience honourably pure, to thee
How is a little fault most bitterly shrived!"—(J". 7, Minchin. )
“*’ O donne, donne, cervelli di vento,
Se l’uom per voi non vigilasse attento!”
“woman, woman, brains as light as air.
Watched not man for you with unceasing care!”
