For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
From Marie de France
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.
There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
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