“And I no other fancy have but this,
To ’scape from servitude and poverty;
Naught else in all the world is bad, I wis.”
Act II (Filoro).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 327.
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Original: (Et) io daltro non tengo fantasia
Che uscir de servitù, de povertate;
Niuna altra cosa credo al mondo ria.
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(Et) io daltro non tengo fantasia Che uscir de servitù, de povertate; Niuna altra cosa credo al mondo ria.
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