Récit de la beauté
Lyrics
If Love subjects you to his inhumane laws, choose in your love an object full of charms;
If you must bear chains, bear attractive ones, and, since you must die, die a lovely death.
If the object of your desire does not merit your pains, Do not enlist love’s empire.
If you must bear chains, bear attractive ones, and, since you must die, die a lovely death.