There are two things about love: One, it's natural, and two, the sexual fantasies it causes us to have make us crazy. God made it this way so that humans can continue populating... without these fantasies that make us crazy, we would all die. James Mabbe, Ed. Dorothy Severin, 1631 CELEST. I would have thee to know, Parmeno, that Calisto is love-sick, sick even to the death. Nor art thou for this to censure him to be a weak and foolish man: for unresistable love subdueth all things. Besides, I would have thee to know, if thou knowest it not already, that there are these two conclusions that are evermore infallibly true. The first is, that every man of force love a woman, and every woman love a man. The second is, that he who truly loves, must of necessity be much troubled and moved with the sweetness of that superexcellent delight which was
the way that I would translate the words of Rojas. This difference of "time" is the most distinctive feature of each translation. APPENDIX James Mabbe Ed. Dorothy Severin, 1631 Italics signify material added by Mabbe to the translation [Brackets] signify material from the Mabbe manuscript CELEST. I would have thee to know, Parmeno, that Calisto is love-sick, sick even to the death. Nor art thou for this to censure him to be a weak and foolish man: for unresistable love subdueth all things. Besides, I would have thee to know, if thou knowest it not already, that there are these two conclusions that are evermore infallibly true. The first is, that every man of force love a woman, and every woman love a man. The second is, that he who truly loves, must of necessity be much troubled and moved with the sweetness of that superexcellent delight which was