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II
ITALAIN LUTE



Take this Lute. It is shaped like a fishing boat
and used by the Muses.It is difficult to tune
and if any string is untuned or brokenall of the beauty of the
song is lost.Thus it is with the union of Italian princes:
If any one withdraws, nothing is left.


 

 

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, ed. and trans., Selected Writings of Christine de Pisan

 

Peggy Knapp, Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's