Qüestions d'amor: De concordansa e amor
The Antidote and Poison of Love
The Friend is asked about the antidote and poison of love.
Question. They asked the Friend if he knew what the antidote of love and the poison of love are.1
The Beginning of Sighs and Tears
The Friend is asked with what he begins to sigh and weep.
ii. "Friend," said the secrets of love, "with what do you begin to sigh and weep?"
The Peaceful City of Love
The virtues ask Love about the peaceful city where the Friend and Beloved dwell.
iii. The virtues asked Love in which peaceful city the Friend and the Beloved live.2
The Struggle to Love Virtues
A man who cannot love the virtues asks Love for the reason behind his inability.
iv. Wanted.3 one4 man to love the virtues and he could not love them, and he asked Love what was the reason that he could not love.56
The Lily and the Rose
The Lover asks the lily and the rose how he may have greater love.
v. The Lover asked the lily and the rose how he could have greater love.7
Equal Loves
Two loves ask Love how they can become equal.
6. Two loves asked Love how they could make themselves equal.
The Nature of Love's Detachment
The Lover asks the Beloved if he has any nature allowing him to put his loving away.
vii. The Lover asked the Beloved whether he had in himself any nature by which he could put his love away from himself.8
Read the original Catalan
Qüestió. Demanaren a lamic, si sabia què es triacle damor e verí damor. íj. Amic, dixeren secrets damor: ab que comenses suspirar e plorar?
iij. A lamor demanaren vertuts, en qual sciutat pascifica lamic e lamat.
iiij. Volia . j. home amar vertuts e no les podia amar, e demanà a lamor, què era occasió que cl no podia amar. v. Al liri e la rosa demanà lamic, ab que poria aver major amar.
vj. Dos amars demanaren a lamor, ab ques porien egualar.
vij. Demanà lamic a lamat, si avia en si metex neguna natura per ques pogués del lunyar son amar.
Notes
- 1 ↩Catalan triacle is the medieval theriac (a compound antidote). Rendered here as "antidote," the clear sense opposite verí ("poison").
- 2 ↩Catalan is elliptical after 'en qual sciutat pascifica'; no finite verb of dwelling is written. English supplies 'live' for the intended sense.
- 3 ↩Segmenter fragment. Continuous witness reads: «Volia .j. home amar vertuts e no les podia amar...» = «A man wanted to love the virtues and could not love them...»
- 4 ↩Medieval Catalan .j. here is the numeral standing for the indefinite article un («a/one»), not a free-standing section number.
- 5 ↩Reading corrupt «cl» as «el/ell» («he»), the ordinary Old Catalan pronoun; e→c is a likely print/OCR fault.
- 6 ↩Continuous s2–s4 sense: «A man wanted to love the virtues and could not love them, and he asked Love what was the reason that he could not love.» «occasió» taken as cause/reason.
- 7 ↩«amar» here is Llull’s nominal sense (the act/measure of loving); «major amar» = greater love/loving. «lamic» rendered as the personified Lover.
- 8 ↩Old Catalan 'del lunyar' (del·lunyar) = distance/remove/alienate; rendered as 'put … away from himself' to keep the self-alienation sense implied by 'en si metex'.
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