Christine de Pizan book The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Source: The Treasure of the City of Ladies
“In youth alone, unhappy mortals live;
But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive:
Discolored sickness, anxious labor, come,
And age, and death's inexorable doom.”
Book III, lines 66–68 (tr. John Dryden).
Georgics (29 BC)
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