Pregueres d'amor: De comensament e amor
The Prayer of Beginning
The friend prays that Love itself would begin its loving, and the lover prays not to begin loving until he remembers his Beloved.
The friend prayed to Love that Love would begin its loving from its beginnings and within itself. ii. The lover prayed to his Love not to begin loving until he remembered his Beloved.
The Prayer for Penance
The friend asks Love to begin in him contrition, confession, penance, and satisfaction so that his Beloved may grant pardon.
iii. "Love," said the friend, "begin in me greater contrition, confession, penance, and satisfaction, so that my Beloved may send me greater pardon."
The Prayer for Equality and Humility
The lesser lover prays for equality with the Beloved in virtues, and the lover seeks a lesser beginning so that his love may be clothed with greater love.
iv. The lesser lover prayed the greater equality of lover and Beloved, so that in his loving he might begin equality of doing good, magnifying, lasting, understanding, verifying, and virtue.1 v. The lover fled to a lesser beginning of love, so that his loving might clothe itself with greater love.
Read the original Catalan
Pregava lamic amor que de sos comensaments, e en mig de sí metexa, comensàs son amar.
ij. Pregà lamic sa amor que no comensàs son amar, tro que membràs son amat.
iij. Amor, dix lamic: comensa en mi major contricció confessió penitencia e satisfacció, per so que mon amat me trameta major perdó.
iiij. La major egualtat d amic e damat pfegà lamic menor, que en son amar comensàs egaltat de bonificar magnificar durar entendre verificar e vertut. V. Fugia lamic a menor comensament d amor, per ço que s vestís de major amor son amar.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reading «pfegà» is treated as corrupt for «pregà» (“prayed”), matching the chapter’s repeated prayer formula («X, pregà lamic…»).
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