Iucundum, mea vita, mihi proponis amorem

hunc nostrum inter nos perpetuumque fore.

Di magni, facit ut vere promittere possit,

atque id sincere dicat et ex animo,

ut liceat nobis tota perducere vita

aeternum hoc sanctae foedus amicitiae.

My love, you promise a happy love

for us to share in eternity.

Good Lord, may she speak sincerely

directly from her heart,

so we can spend our life in entirety

with this sacred pact of friendship.

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Dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,

in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.

So she speaks: but what a woman tells to a man which is crazy for her,

you have to engrave it in the wind, or in the swift flowing water.