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发表于 2007-4-23 12:48

CANTUS TROILI

By Geoffrey Chaucer

If Love lives not, O God, what feel I so?
And if Love lives, what thing and which is He?
If Love is good, from where has come my woe?
If it be bad, it's a wonder, thinks me,
since every torment and adversity
which comes from it savors of joys distinct
and still I thirst, the more of it I drink.
And if it's from my own desire I burn,
what spring gives forth my wailing and complaint?
If hurt pleases, why should my plaint return?
I know not, nor why, in health, I grow faint.
O live death! O strange hurt with Love's sweet taint,
how might you fester in such quantity
unless I give consent for it to be?
If I consent, I wrongfully devote
my heart to sorrow. Thus tossed, two and fro,
quite rudderless, I sit within a boat
in a sea which two winds must undergo;
each blasts against its contrary echo.
Alas! what strange malady have I got?
I die from heat when cold, from cold when hot.

特罗勒斯情歌

[英]乔叟 (1340-1400)

假使爱不存在，天哪，我所感受的是什么？
假使爱存在，他究竟是怎样一件东西？
假使爱是好的，我的悲伤何从而降落？
假使爱是坏的。我想却有些希奇，
哪管它带来了多少苦难和乖戾，
好似生命之源，竟能引起我无限的快感；
使我愈喝得多，愈觉得口里干燥。
如果我已在欢乐中活跃，
有何处来这愁诉和悲号？
如果灾难能与我相容，何不破涕为笑？
我要请问，既未疲劳，何以会晕倒？
啊，生中之死，啊，祸害迷人真奇巧，
若不是我自己给了你许可
你怎敢重重叠叠压在我心头。
可是我若许可了，我就不该再作苦诉。
我终日飘荡，象在无舵的船中浮海，
无边无岸，吹着相反的风向，
永远如此漂逐，忽上又忽下。
呀，这是一种什么奇特的病症，
冷中发热，热中发冷，断送我生命