About How Love Came to the Archpriest and about Love\u2019s Debate with the Said Archpriest<\/b><\/p>\n
The argument we had one night I\u2019ll tell you to the end:
\nAs I was pondering my fate, enraged\u2014but not from wine\u2014
\nA tall and handsome man appeared, prudent not to offend.
\nI asked him who he was. He said, \u201cI\u2019m Love, your next-door friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then I began to pour out all the fury I could spill,
\nAnd said, \u201cIf you are Love, you can\u2019t be here beside me still.
\nYou\u2019re false, a cheat, a liar, who tricks mankind against his will.
\nYou can\u2019t save one last person, although millions you can kill.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith ruses, wiles and flattery, and subtle lies to boot,
\nYou poison people\u2019s tongues\u2014you dip your darts in poison, too.
\nWhoever serves you most, you wound, and hurt most when you shoot.\u00a0You part sweetheart and swain, by anger that is born in you.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou drive a lot of people mad with bad arts you know well,
\nYou take away their sleep, their appetite and wish to drink,
\nMany you cause to dare so much with you, they\u2019re on the brink
\nOf losing both their body and their soul, unless they think.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou keep no rigid rules and show no sympathetic ties.
\nSometimes you seize with pure brute force and take men by surprise.
\nOr sometimes, bit by bit, with countless subtle masteries.
\nYou know that what I\u2019m telling you is not a pack of lies.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou trap people, and from then on you give them no relief,
\nYou drag them day by day into a worried, troubled life.
\nHim who had trusted you, you chain into your gang of grief,
\nAnd make him slave through endless days for just a joy too brief.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou strike with such a venom that, when you have shot your prey,
\nNo medicine, no poultice, and no doctor\u2019s potion heals.
\nNo strong, robust young man comes out on top with you, I know,
\nFor you will knock him down, however much he squirms or feels.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve many books on how you weaken people and deceive,
\nAnd leave them thin and hurt, and how you hoax them like a quack,
\nWith fawning courtesies and all your clever wicked tricks.
\nYou sap the strength of men\u2014all tales of you make this attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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