:20:01
You've written it?
:20:03
I've written it...
:20:04
...not confidently,
but as you commanded.
:20:08
Show me.
:20:17
Read it.
:20:21
It says...
:20:25
"To adore one whom we see
another adore is envy...
:20:28
...if we would not
otherwise...
:20:30
...for if we had
no mind to adore before...
:20:33
...we could not after,
through another's eyes.
:20:38
But when love sees
what it admires...
:20:40
...among another's trophies,
it's provoked to speak...
:20:44
...for what offfends the heart
leaps to the tongue.
:20:48
I say no more, for fear,
as an inferior...
:20:50
...to offend one far superior,
though it may well seem remiss.
:20:57
All I know and seek to show
is this.
:20:59
If I acknowledged
what I hope is true...
:21:01
...I'd seem to claim much more
than is my due."
:21:07
How properly you put it.
:21:09
You jest?
:21:12
Would I didn't!
:21:13
What's that?
:21:14
That yours
is the better version.
:21:17
I'm sorry. If a servant's known
to know more than his master...
:21:21
...he'll surely fall
from favour.
:21:23
Not so, Teodoro...
:21:25
...for though I say
yours is the cleverer...
:21:27
...the point is that
it follows my intention...
:21:30
...not that you need presume,
when your pen pleases...
:21:34
...that I cease to trust
the sharpness of my own.
:21:37
Though as a woman
I am prone to error...
:21:40
...and not too wise,
as may appear.
:21:42
You fear, as an inferior,
to offend one far superior...
:21:45
...in loving.
:21:48
You are mistaken.
:21:49
In love that cannot be.
Inferiors can't offend by loving.
:21:53
I think that only hating
gives offence.
:21:57
That's Nature's logic.
:21:59
The painter shows Phaeton
and Icarus hurtling down...