“Al magnanimo spirto non bisogna
La vista altrui, per arrossir di scoruo:
Ma di se si vergogna talhor, ch’ erra,
Se ben no ’l vede altro che cielo e terra.”
“The noble spirit doth not need the gaze
Of others to bring blushes to his cheek:
But swift his error doth to shame give birth,
Though he be seen of none save heaven and earth.”
“Al mio tempo non si trovavano virtù è costumi se non in corte.”
“In my time it was only at court that virtue and good manners were to be
found."[1]
“Al mondo mal non e senza rimedio.”
“No evil ’s in the world but may be cured.”
“(Il proverbio
Dice che) al sol in oriente si rivolgon gl’ uomini,
Perchè il ponente si lascia tosto.”
“The proverb says
That men turn ever to the rising sun,
Because the setting sun is lost too soon.”
“Al tempo faro ben dalle magliate,
Quando le micce saran cavriuoli.”
“All in good time a warrior’s fame I’ll earn,
So soon as donkeys into goats do turn.”
“Al vincitor tutte soccorrono.”
“The ladies all help to the victor bring.”
“Alcun non può saper da chi sia amato
Quando felice in su la ruota siede;
Pero c’ ha i veri e finti amici a lato,
Che mostran tutti una medesima fede.
Se poi si cangia in tristo il liete stato,
Volta la turba adulatrice il piede;
E quel che de cor ama, riman forte,
Ed ama il suo signer dopo la morte.”
“None see the heart, while placed in prosperous state
On Fortune’s wheel, such numbers round them wait
Of true and seeming friends; when these no less
By looks declare that faith, which those possess.
But should to lair succeed tempestuous skies,
Behold how soon each fawning suppliant flies!
While he who truly loved, unmoved remains,
And to his patron dead his love maintains."—(Hoole.)
- ↑ Cf. Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act III. Sc. II.—“Wast ever at court, shepherd," etc.
