Guarini untitled verse

Il pastor fido by Giovanni Battista Guarini

Quotation from Hygeiana, a non-medical analysis of the complaints incidental to females, in which are offered some important admonitions on the peculiar debilities attending their circumstances, sympathies and formation, illustrated by cases, intended for the use of females only, and addressed to the youth and maturity of that sex by Goss and Company London, Sherwood and Co. 1834²²

Original Italian		English Translation
“La misera tacendo Per soverchio desio tutta si strugge; Cosi perde belta, se'l foco dura, E perdendo stagion, perde ventura”		In silent grief absorb'd, the wretched maid,      By passions too refined, too ardent, lost, Lets time unheeded pass, her beauties fade,      And with the present hour her future hopes are lost.