Qüestions d'amor: De comensament e amor

The Birds' Question

The birds of love ask the Lover where love begins its loving.

Question. As they sang, the birds of love asked the Lover if he knew where love began its loving.¹

The Flowers' Question

Roses and violets ask the Lover what love's greatest beginning is.

ii. Roses and violets asked the Lover if he knew what love's greatest beginning is.

The Minstrel's Question

A minstrel of love asks the Lover what the greatest necessities of love are.

iii. A minstrel of love asked the Lover if he knew what the greatest necessities of love are.

The King and Queen's Dialogue

A king and queen of love exchange fragments and a question about how greater love begins.

iv. To. One. A king of love asked. One. A queen of love asked a king of love whether he knew with what greater love begins.

The Wedding Feast

At the wedding feast of greater love, lesser love eats and the widow asks about the sleep of love.

5. At the wedding feast of greater love, lesser love ate; the widow asked her what the sleep of love was.²

Read the original Catalan

Qüestió. En cantant demanaren aucels damor a lamic, si sabia on comensava amor son amar.

ij. Roses e violes demanaren a lamic, si sabia qual es lo major comensament damor.

iij. Demanà un jucglar damor a lamic, si sabia quals son les majors necessitats damor.

iiij. A . j. rey damor demanà . j. regina damor, si sabia ab que comensa major amor.

v. A les noces de major amor menjà menor amor, a la qual demanà la viula, de que era lo son damor.

Notes

1 ↩lamic rendered as 'the Lover' (Llull's amic); 'son amar' as 'its loving' (love's act of loving).
2 ↩Old Catalan son damor is rendered as "the sleep of love" (son = sleep/slumber), fitting the surrounding allegory of love’s rest; dream is a possible alternate sense.

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