Love
Comment on a Text
Translated by J. H. Wiffen (1823) · From The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega (1823)
"Why, what calumnious charge is this
That you against him would advance?
All that the good knight did amiss
Was, that he ever joined the dance."
Count they then this a great offence?
I do not think it such; his sin
Is quite excused by the defence
That 'twas the woman drew him in.
She, she it was that caused his fall
More, much more than the having set
His mind upon surpassing all
In the fantastic pirouette.
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Vega, Garcilaso de la. “Comment on a Text.” Translated by J. H. Wiffen. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/garcilaso/53/.
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Vega, Garcilaso de la. “Comment on a Text.” Translated by J. H. Wiffen. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/garcilaso/53/.
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