"Mesment de ceste amour Li plus sages n'y sceunt tour Maiz ou entent je te diray Une aût (outre) amour te descriray De celle veuil je que pour t'ame Tu aimes la tres-doulce dame. Si com dist la ste escripture Amours est fors, amours est dure, Amours soustient, amours endure, Amours revient, et tousjours dure; Amours met en amer sa cure; Amours loyal, amours seure Sert, et de servise nacure. Amours fait de propre commun, Amours fait de deux cuers un; Amours enchace, ce me semble, Amours rent cuers, amours les emble, Amours despiece, amours refait, Amours fait paix, amours fait plait, Amours fait bel, amours fait lait, Toutes heures quant il lui plaist Amours attrait, amours estrange Amours fait de prive estrange; Amours seurprent, amours emprent, Amours reprent, amours esprent, Il n'est riens qu'amours ne face; Amours tolt cuer, amours tolt grace, Amours delie, amours enlace, Amours ocist, amours efface, Amours ne craint ne pic ne mace: Amours fist Dieu venir en place, Amours lui fist ûre (notre) char prendre, Amours le fist devenir mendre, Amours le fist en la croix pendre, Amours le fist illec extendre, Amours le fist le coste fendre, Amours le fist les maulx reprendre, Amours lui fist les bons aprendre, Amours le fist a nous venir, Amours nous fait a lui tenir." These descriptions of the two kinds of noble love are both given in the part of the Romance of the Rose which was written by Jean de Meung. [84] Chaucer translated the first, and I have partly again translated his translation into more familiar English. I leave the original French of the other for you to work at, if ever you care to learn French;--the first is all that I want you to read just now; but they should not be separated, being among the most interesting expressions extant of the sentiment of the dark ages, which Mr. Applegarth is desirous of eliminating from modern business. The two great loves,--that of husband and wife, representing generally the family affections, and that of mankind, to which, at need, the family affection must be sacrificed,--include, rightly understood, all the noble sentiments of humanity. Modern philosophy supposes these conditions of feeling to have been always absurd, and at present, happily, nearly extinct; and that the only proper, or, in future, possible, motives of human action are the three wholly unsentimental desires,--the lust of the flesh, (hunger, thirst, and sexual passion), the lust of the eyes, (covetousness), and the pride of life, (personal vanity).