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A madrigal relates to the same theme.

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PER NON S’AVERE A RIPIGLIAR DA TANTI

That perfectness of beauty free from peer

Might be reclaimed and garnered without fail,

Upon a lady excellently clear

Was it bestowed beneath a shining veil;

The heavenly boon had hardly been repaid,

If scattered among all that Heaven had made.