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 特罗伊利情歌

 杰弗里·乔叟

 如果无爱，天哪，为何我会感到如此癫狂？

 如果有爱，那爱又是什么模样？

 如果爱情美好，为何我会如此忧伤？

 如果爱情邪恶，那就更加令人难以想象：

 尽管充满痛苦折磨，

 却又让我神清气爽；

 爱的泉水喝得越多，越是干渴难当。

 既然爱是发自内心的欲望，

 为何我又痛断肝肠？

 既然习惯了遭受伤害，我又为何悲愤满腔？

 不曾劳累却会昏厥，着实令人疑惑迷茫。

 死去又活来，甜蜜抚创伤，多么奇妙酣畅；

 如果不是心甘情愿，

 你在我的心里怎会占有如此的分量？

 既然心甘情愿，

 再去诉苦岂不冤枉；

 大海无边，风起八方，

 我是无舵的小船四处飘荡，

 从此五心不定，晕头转向。

 天哪，我这是得了什么怪病？

 高烧寒颤，寒颤高烧，命不久长。

Cantus Troili

Geoffrey Chaucer

If Love lives not, O God, what feel I so?

And if Love lives, what thing and which is He?

If Love is good, from where has come my woe?

If it be bad, it's a wonder, thinks me,

since every torment and adversity

which comes from it savors of joys distinct

and still I thirst, the more of it I drink.

And if it's from my own desire I burn,

what spring gives forth my wailing and complaint?

If hurt pleases, why should my plaint return?

I know not, nor why, in health, I grow faint.

O live death! O strange hurt with Love's sweet taint,

how might you fester in such quantity

unless I give consent for it to be?

If I consent, I wrongfully devote

my heart to sorrow. Thus tossed, to and fro,

quite rudderless, I sit within a boat

in a sea which two winds must undergo;

each blasts against its contrary echo.

Alas! what strange malady have I got?

I die from heat when cold, from cold when hot.

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