Merciles Beaute Comments

A Modern Day Translation of Merciless Beauty by Sarah Burke l. Your two bright eyes will slay me suddenly; The beauty of them I cannot sustain, So throughout my eager heart is wounded.   Unless your word will heal hastily My heart’s wound while the wound is green, Your two bright eyes will slay me suddenly; The beauty of them I cannot sustain.   Upon my truth I say to you faithfully, That you have been the queen of my life and death, For with my death the truth shall be seen, Your two bright eyes will slay me suddenly, The beauty of them I cannot sustain, So throughout my eager heart is wounded. II...So has your Beauty from your heart chased Pity, that to complain would not benefit me, For Danger restrains your mercy in his chain.   My death, guiltless, so that I could obtain your hand; I say to you the truth, I have no need to pretend; So has your Beauty from your heart chased Pity, that to complain would not benefit me.   Alas, that Nature you have plotted inside Beauty so great that no man shall attainTo Mercy, though he may starve for the pain. So has your Beauty from your heart chased Pity, that to complain would not benefit me, For Danger restrains your mercy in his chain. III...Since from Love I have escaped so fat, I never think to be in his lean prison; Since I am free, I count him to not have been.   He may reply, and say this and that; I do not repudiate, I speak just as I mean.Since from Love I have escaped so fat, I never think to be in his lean prison;   Love has stricken my name from his slate, And he is stricken from my books completely Forevermore, there is no other one.Since from Love I have escaped so fat, I never think to be in his lean prison; Since I am free, I count him to not have been.