Condicions d'amor: De fi e d'amor
The Greater End
A greater end of love makes lovers greater.
A greater end of love makes greater lovers.
The Fruits of Love's End
The end of love brings both suffering and pleasure to the lover.
ii. Through the end of love, sighs and tears, languishings and pleasures follow in the lover.1
The Lesser End
A lesser end of love fails to make the lover go eagerly to the beloved.
iii. No lesser goal of love makes the lover go eagerly to his beloved.2
Read the original Catalan
Major fi damor fa majors amadors.
ij. Per la fi damor segualen, en lamic, suspirs e plors, languiments e plaers.
iij. Neguna menor fi damor fa anar hivasosamcnt lamic a son amat.
Notes
- 1 ↩fi damor: teleological 'end/purpose of love' (cf. neighboring 1.28.1 and 1.28.3), not chronological finish. languiments: lovesick languor/fainting of longing.
- 2 ↩Source surface hivasosamcnt is corrupt; the same witness elsewhere reads hivasosament (LlullArbreAmor.1.81.16), where it is paired with going quickly (tost) and opposed to going slothfully and negligently (pereosament e negligentment). Rendered as 'eagerly'.
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