Qüestions d'amor: De fi e d'amor
The Apples' Question on the Means of Love
The apples of love ask Love by what means he makes lovers greater.
The apples of love asked Love by what means he made greater lovers.
The Lily, Ruby, and Intention
The lily and ruby ask about love's couriers, and the cross-reference 'Intention: Love 8' is noted.
ii. The lily and the ruby of love asked the Friend which couriers carry letters for love.12 Intention: Love 8.
The Bowstring and the Arrow's Flight
The bowstring of love asks the arrow why it does not fly swiftly when wounding the Friend for love.
iii. The bowstring of love asked the arrow of love why it didn't fly swiftly when it went to wound the Friend for love.3
Read the original Catalan
Pomes d amors demanaren a l amor, ab que fahia majors amadors.
ij. Lo liri cl rubís damor demanaren a lamic, quals son los correus qui porten letres per amor. Intenció: Amor 8.
iij. Demanà la corda d amor a la sageta d amor, per que no corria tost quan anava ferir lamic per amor.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source «cl» read as OCR/print fault for «e·l» / «el» («and the»), matching the acquisition note that bare «c» often stands for the conjunction «e», and paralleling «Al liri e la rosa» earlier in the same Questions cycle.
- 2 ↩«lamic» rendered as the personified Friend, matching the next section in this chapter; «correus» kept as couriers (letter-carriers), not generic messengers.
- 3 ↩corda d'amor rendered as 'bowstring of love' (the string that looses the arrow); sageta = arrow. amic kept as 'Friend', Llull's standard interlocutor in this allegory.
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