Friendly, Sweet and Honored Crowd

Gaspara Stampa

Friendly, sweet and honored crowd, crowd
of courtesy and honesty, sojourn of valor and
beauty, true mother of entertainments and of
graces, I pray Love and heaven chat they may
preserve you united, whole, in happy and long
age , and that these games and this liberty may
see late or never its last evening. . . . To me
may it be granted by grace to rejoice with you
for many years, and with my flame which
makes me go proudly above the heavens.





Last updated February 24, 2023