English poem
Albanio
by Garcilaso de la Vega (1503–1536)
Salicio, cease this language; curb thy tongue; I feel the grief, the insult, and the wrong: Whence these fine words? what schoolman did commit To thee this pomp of philosophic wit, A shepherd of the hills? with what light cheer The careless lip can learn to be severe, And oh, how easily a heart at ease Can counsel sickness to throw off disease!