Note 354 — Chapter III · INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCE
George Herbert Ely translation
O main polye, main divine, Main qui n’as ta pareille en terre, Main qui tient la paix et la guerre ... Main portant la clef pour fermer Et ouvrir l’huys de bien aymer, Main plaisante, main délicate, Je n’oserois te dire ingrate. Tu peulx blesser, tu peulx guérir, Tu peulx faire vivre et mourir.
[O fair smooth hand, O hand divine, Hand never match’d on earth before, The arbiter of peace and war, That bears the key to lock or loose The door for happy lover’s use, O pleasant hand and dainty, ne’er To call thee thankless could I dare. ’Tis thine to wound and thine to heal, And thine both life and death to deal.]