Saudades. To have

saudades

of anything is to yearn with desire towards it.

Saudades da Patria

is home sickness. To say

Tenho Saudades

without naming an object would be taken to mean I am all yearning to call a certain gentleman or lady mine.

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[Footnote 2:]

In Act I. sc. 3, of Congreve's