Qüestions d'amor: De glòria e amor
The Question of Glory
The friend asks Love what it is full of, and the Beloved's squires ask the Lover about the glory of lover and Beloved.
Question. "Love," said the Friend, "what are you full of?" ii. The Beloved's squires asked the Lover what the glory of Lover and Beloved is.
Fear and Hope in Love
Fear seizes the Friend as Justice and Charity ask why he hopes for glory from his Beloved despite great labors.
iii. The Friend was seized by fear at the thought of enduring great labors for love; Justice and Charity asked him why he hoped to receive glory from his Beloved.1
Patience, Humility, and the Withdrawal of Love
Patience and Humility ask if pain can lead to glorious love, while Imagination and Feeling seek the Lover's withdrawn love.
iv. Patience and Humility asked the Lover whether, through the pain of love, he could begin to love gloriously.2 v. The Lover's love withdrew to Imagination and Feeling, and Imagination and Feeling asked the Lover where they could find it, for without it they did not want to stay or live.3
The Apple of Love
The Lover eats a beautiful apple of love, and Sight and Hearing ask where he picked it, wanting to destroy the tree that bore it.
vi. The Lover was eating. i.4 A beautiful apple of love: Sight and Hearing asked him where he had picked it, because they wanted to destroy the tree that had produced it.
The Eagle of Love
Lovers ask the eagle of love, by which the Beloved captures the greatest lovers, whether it flies through the air of love.
7. Lovers asked the eagle of love—the one the Beloved uses to capture the greatest lovers—whether it flew through the air of love.
The Greyhound and the Merchant
The greyhound of love asks his lord if he needs anything, and the Lover asks a merchant of love about his knowledge of merchandise.
viii. . 1.5 The greyhound, with which the Lover caught the hares of love, asked his lord if he needed anything. ix. The Lover asked a merchant of love, who was buying jewels for his Beloved, if he knew a lot about merchandise.6
Read the original Catalan
Qüestió. Amor, dix lamic: de que estàs plena?
jj. Escuders del amat demanaren al amic, de que es glòria d amic e damat.
iij. Paor ac lamic a sostenir grans trebayls per amor: demanarenli justícia e caritat, per que esperava aver glòria de son amat.
iiij. Demanaren a lamic, pasciencia e humilitat, si per pena damor pot comensar gloriós amar. V. A ymagenar e sentir sabsentà lamar de lamic, e demanaren a lamic, ymagenar' e sentir, en qual loc lo porien atrobar, car sens él no volien estar ne viure.
vj. Menjava lamic . j. bela poma damor: demanaren li veer e oir on la avia cuylida, car els volien larbre destruir qui la avia engenrada.
vij. A làguila damor, ab que lamat pren los majors amadors, demanaren amadors, si volava per aer damor.
viij. . 1. lebrer, ab que lamic prenia les lebres damor, demanà a son senyor, si avia de res fretura. viiij. A mercader damor, qui comprava joyesf a son amat, demanà lamic, si sabia molt de mercaderia.
Notes
- 1 ↩Old Catalan «Paor ac lamic» is the recurrent Llull idiom «fear had/seized the Friend» (ac = hac, from haver), not «fear and the Friend». Parallel: LlullArbreAmor.1.39.5; 1.72.2–3. «a sostenir» taken as the feared undertaking (bearing the labors).
- 2 ↩pasciencia is read as paciència (patience); gloriós amar rendered as 'to love gloriously' (substantival infinitive: glorious loving).
- 3 ↩A ymagenar e sentir sabsentà lamar de lamic is read as personified Love withdrawing to the faculties Imagination and Feeling; alternate parse (withdrawal from those faculties) is less likely in this allegory. ymagenar' treated as ymagenar. Catalan ne = nor (not Latin ne).
- 4 ↩Source 'j.' read as medieval numeral 'i.' (1); may be a segmentation artifact rather than a true numbered item.
- 5 ↩Isolated '1.' is likely a remnant of the corrupt source sequence '.1.' between 'viij.' and 'lebrer', not a true numbered item.
- 6 ↩Source 'joyesf' treated as corrupt 'joyes' (jewels); the final -f is almost certainly OCR/print error.
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