Amor, tu vedi, e non hai duolo o sdegno, &c. "Love! canst thou look on without grief or indignation, to see my gentle lady bow her fair neck to the yoke of another?" The expression in the 6th strophe is very unequivocal-- "Nor let my mistress, though she suffer her bosom to be invaded by a newer flame, forget the _former_ bond." Nè la mia Donna, perchè scaldi il petto Di nuovo amore, nodo _antico_ sprezzi. In one of his Sonnets, this jealous pain is yet more strongly expressed:-- Io sparso, ed altri miete! &c. "I sow, another reaps! I water a lovely blossom, unworthy, alas! to tend it; and another gathers the fruit. O rage!--yet must I, through coward fear, lock my grief within my own bosom!" &c. This intended marriage never took place; and Tasso, relieved from his fears, and restored to the confidence of Leonora, was again comparatively blessed. He sometimes ventured to name her openly in his poems,--as in the little Madrigal, Cantava in riva al fiume Tirse di LEONORA, E rispondean le selve, e l'onde, _onora_. Sometimes he disguised her name as l'Aurora, l'Aura, Onor, le onora,[129] Dell' Onor simulacro e'l nome vostro. To these the preceding Madrigal is a sort of _key_; or the better to conceal the true object of his adoration, he carried his apparent homage, and often his poetical gallantry, to the feet of other fair ladies. Lucretia d'Este, the elder sister of Leonora; Tarquinia Molza, a beauty and a poetess; and Lucretia Bendidio, another most accomplished woman, who numbered all the poets and literati of Ferrara in her train, frequently inspired him.