Pregueres d'amor: De veritat e amor
Let False Love Perish
The Friend opens by asking true Love to banish false love, then, lit by love, the Lover begs the Beloved to reveal the truth of His love to His lovers.
True love, said the Friend: don't let false love live, for it keeps its lovers under the wrath of my Beloved. ii. With lit candles and illuminated by love, the Lover went to beg his Beloved to show the truth of his love to his lovers.
Truth and Concordance in Love
Servants of love pray that truth and concordance may dwell in the mutual love shared by the Lover and the Beloved.
iii. Servants of love prayed that truth and concordance would go and dwell in the love of the Lover and the Beloved.
True Sighs and Honest Works
The Lover asks for true sighs of love to overcome his adversaries and prays that his hands and feet be placed in true love's works and paths, unlike hypocrites who feign tears for false love.
iv. The Lover prayed his Beloved to fill his heart with true sighs of love, so that he might be master of his adversaries.1 v. "True Love," said the Lover, "put my hands in your works and my feet in your paths, so that I may not be like the hypocrites who sigh and weep falsely for false love."
Clothed in Truth and True Signs
The friend asks Truth and Love to adorn his loving, and the true signs of love ask the Beloved to defend the Lover from deceptive false signs that would rob him of rest.
vi. The friend prayed that Truth and Love would adorn and clothe his loving, heal and beautify it, so that he could dwell among them. vii. True signs of love prayed the Beloved to send them to his Lover, because false signs of love wanted to deceive him and clothe his true loving in false love, so that he would always be without rest.
Increasing Truth in Love
In the final petitions, the friend prays for ever-greater truth in love—clothing, balancing, and increasing it—so that false love and the false man are overcome.
viii. The friend prayed that his love would clothe itself in greater truth, so that it would make him lord over false love, which destroys its lovers. ix. The friend prayed that truth and love would be equal in his loving, so that he would be a bold fighter against sins and false love. x. Beloved, said the friend: give me a greater truth of love, for a lesser truth of love makes me afraid of the false man.
Read the original Catalan
Amor vera, dix lamic: no lexets viure falsa amor, qui fa estar sos amadors en la ira de mon amat.
ij. Ab ciris enceses e il·luminats d amor anava lamic pregar son amat que mostràs veritat de sa amor a sos amadors.
iij. Servidors damor pregaren veritat e concordansa que anassen estar en lamor damic e damat.
iiij. Pregava lamic son amat que li complís son cor de vers suspirs d amor, per so que fos senyor de sos contraris. V. Vera amor, dix lamic: mit les mies mans en les tues obres, els meus peus en les tues carreres, per so que no sia semblant als ypòcrites qui falsament suspiren e ploren per falsa amor.
vj. Veritat e amor, pregà lamic, que li ornassen e vestissen, sanassen e enbelissen son amar, per so que enfre eles pogués estar.
vij. Vers senyals d amor pregaren lamat quels trameses a son amic, car falses senyals d amor lo volien enganar, e son ver amar, de falsa amor vestir, per so que tostemps fos sens repòs.
viij. Pregava lamic sa amor ques vestís de major veritat, per so quel feés senyor de falsa amor, a la qual destruís sos amadors. viiij. Lamic pregava veritat e amor ques egualassen en son amar, per so que fos, contra peccats e falsa amor, ardit combatedor. X. Amat, dix lamic: donam major veritat damor, car menor veritat damor me fa paor de fals home.
Notes
- 1 ↩Old Catalan "vers suspirs": rendered as "true sighs" (vers = true); not "toward" or "verse."
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