“Who himself cannot control
Why should he o'er others rule?”
Quem não é senhor de si
Porque o será de ninguém?
Farsa dos Físicos (1512?), tr. Aubrey F. G. Bell
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Viera estar rosal florido,
cogí rosas con sospiro:
vengo del rosale.<p>Del rosal vengo, mi madre,
vengo del rosale.
Del rosal vengo, mi madre — "I Come from the Rose-grove, Mother", as translated by J. Bowring in Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824), p. 317
“The pursuit of love
is like falconry.”
La caza de amor
es de altanería.
Epigraph attributed to Gil Vicente by Gabriel García Márquez in Crónica de una muerte anunciada ["Chronicle of a Death Foretold"] (1981), first page.
En la huerta nasce la rosa:
quiérome ir allá
por mirar al ruiseñor cómo cantavá.
En la huerta nace la rosa — "The Nightingale", as translated by John Bowring in Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824), p. 316
