1. If it were asked, “Is there a man whose affliction has lasted long?”

    my eye would well with tears until I said, “I.”

  2. And if a passion-maddened, lovesick man could die of grief,

    I would be the first grief-stricken man to die of sorrow.

  3. This is the letter of a youth whose ardent longing has lasted long—

    fettered by love, forever given over to every wasting affliction.

Sol 5.6