“Cruel Love! You bear our death in murderous vials,
filled now with gall, now with your honeyed treasure—
equally fatal all that you ensure,
whether it be the sickness or the cure.”

Canto IV, stanza 92 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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Ahi crudo Amor! ch' egualmente n'ancide L'assénzio, e'l mel, che tu sra noi dispensi, E d'ogni tempo egualmente mortali Vengon da te le medicine e i mali.

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Italian poet 1544–1595

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