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Song About an Insistent Sweetheart
- You saw, my gentle ladies, when
- my sweetheart came to talk with me,
- how he insisted endlessly
- until I offered him my belt.
- Now he's demanding something else.
- You also saw (I wish you hadn't!)
- how, ladies, he kept insisting
- until I removed my shirt's string
- and handed it over. Now he's demanding
- something absolutely damning.
- Sir João de Guilhade will always obtain
- presents from me, if that's his pleasure,
- for he gives me good things as well,
- and my loyalty will never wane,
- but now he's demanding something insane.
[English version by Richard Zenith]
