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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: OF AN ILL-FAVORED LADY, by GUIDO CAVALCANTI Poet's Biography
First Line: Just look, manetto, at that wry-mouth'd minx
Last Line: Either thou'dst die, or thou must run away.
First Line: Just look, manetto, at that wry-mouth'd minx
Last Line: Either thou'dst die, or thou must run away.
JUST look, Manetto, at that wry-mouth'd minx;
Merely take notice what a wretch it is;
How well contrived in her deformities,
How beastly favored when she scowls and blinks.
Why, with a hood on (if one only thinks)
Or muffle of prim veils and scapularies,—
And set together, on a day like this
Some pretty lady with the odious sphinx;—
Why, then thy sins could hardly have such weight,
Nor thou be so subdued from Love's attack,
Nor so possessed in Melancholy's sway,
But that perforce thy peril must be great
Of laughing till the very heart-strings crack:
Either thou'dst die, or thou must run away.
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