Interlocutors:
Liberio. Laodonio.
Lib. Reclining in the shade of a cypress-tree, the enthusiast finding his mind free from other thoughts, it happened that the heart and the eyes spoke together as if they were animals and substances of different intellects and senses, and they made lament of that which was the beginning of his torment and which consumed his soul.
Lao. Repeat, if you can recollect, the reasons and the words.
Lib. The heart began the dialogue, which, making itself heard by the breast, broke into these words:
55.
First proposition of the heart to the eyes.