“Tis our bent
To sin, and thine to pardon who repent.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Proprio è a noi peccar sovente,
A voi perdonar sempre a chi si pente.
Canto XXXIII, stanza 114 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Tis sin,
Nay, profanation to keep in.”
— Robert Herrick, book Hesperides
"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
Hesperides (1648)
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