Worthy lady, I am sure that someone as intelligent as you must have already been aware for some time now how much I am in love with you, not only because of your beauty, which without any doubt surpasses that of any other woman I have ever seen, but also because of your praiseworthy manners and your intrinsic singular virtues, any of which would have the power to captivate the noblest heart of any man- and thus, it is not necessary for me to prove to you with words that this love will continue as long as my wretched life will contain this body and even longer, for if we are able to love in the afterlife as we do in this world, I shall love you throughout eternity. Because of this, you can rest assured that you possess nothing, be it precious or of little value, that you can regard more as your own and, thus, depend upon in every instance than my very self, whatever I may be worth, and upon everything I possess as well. And to convince you that what I say is true, let me assure you that I would consider it a far greater honor for you to order me to do something which pleases you than to have the whole world under my control and ready to obey me immediately. Thus, as you will see for yourself, I belong entirely to you; it is not without reason that I yearn to offer my prayers to you on high, the only source from which, and from nowhere else, I derive all my peace, my every good, and my salvation: as your most humble of servants I beg you-my dearly beloved, sole hope of my soul, which hoping in you, is nourished in the flame of love-to show me ssome kindness and mitigate your past harshness towards me, whom am entirely yours, that comforted again by your mercy I shall be able to claim that I once fell in love with your beauty, so, too, did I receive from it my life, which, if your proud spirit does not not yield to my entreaties, will, without a doubt, be so diminished that I shall die, and you will be accused of my murder. Putting aside that my death would do you no honor, I nevertheless do believe that your conscience would sometimes suffer remorse, you would grieve from having brought it about, and when, occasionally, you found yourself more compassionately disposed you will say to yourself, "Ah, how wrong it was for me to have not taken pity on my James," but this repentance of yours having never occurred, would cause you even greater distress. Therefore, so this may not happen, that I may not die, while there is still time to help me, take pity on me, for in you alone resides the power to make me either the happiest or the most miserable manalive. I hope your graciousness will such that you will allow me to receive death as my reward for so great a love as mine, but rather that with a joyous and passionate reply you will restore my spirits, which now, terrified, tremble in the uncertainty of your absence.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 06:42:13 +0000
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