“In moderation Love is praised and prized,
Loss and dishonour in excess it brings:
In burning warmth how fail its boasted wings,
As simple butterflies in light chastised.”
D’AMOR SOVERCHIO.
Giovio and Symeoni, 1561.
Il moderato amor ſi loda & prezza,
Ma il troppo apporta danno & diſhonore,