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Blandus quippe incautis sese offert et placidus intuitu primo; et si recipiatur spe leta, primo delectat ingressu, suadet ornatus corporum, mores, compositos, facetias urbicas choreas cantus et carmina, ludos et commessationes atque similia. Postquam vero approbatione stolida totum occupaverit hominem et, libertate subacta, mentibus catenis iniectis et vinculis, differentibus preter spem votis, suspiria excitat, premit in artes ingenia, nullum discrimen faciens inter virtutes et vitia, dummodo consequatur optatum, in numero ponens hostium quecunque obstantia.

To the unwary, love presents itself at first sight as gentle and caressing, If love is received joyously and happily, it gives pleasure at its first appearance and encourages us in attractive dress, refined behavior, sophisticated witticism, dancing, song, verse, games, conviviality, and other things of this kind. But after love has completely subdued a man through his own foolish consent, taken away his freedom, chained and bound his mind; when desires have been deferred beyond hope; then love awakens sighs and implants cunning stratagems in our thoughts; it does not discriminate between vices and virtues so long as it achieves its goal - all the while numbering among its enemies any obstacles it may encounter.

English translation by Virginia Brown.

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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