“You, Honor, you first veiled
The fountains of delight,
Denying those waves to the thirsting lovers.”
Tu prima, Onor, velasti
La fonte dei diletti,
Negando l'onde a l'amorosa sete.
Act I, Choro, line 358.
Aminta (1573)
“Be rather delighted with those that reprove, than with those that flatter you.”
— Stobaeus
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