haute bourgeoisie

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if i understand nothing about love-

perhaps i am learning from the wrong sources, these ideals too lofty:

(from The Goodman of Paris, c1392)

"...in God's name, i believe that when two good honest folk be wed, all other loves be put afar off, destroyed and forgotten, save the love of each other; meseems that when they are in each other's presence they look upon each other more than upon others, they press each other, they hold each other, and they do not willingly speak or make sign save to each other.  and when they be parted they think of each other, and say in their hearts: When i see him, i shall do thus, i shall say this to him, i shall beseech him concerning this or that.  and all their special pleasures, their chief desires and their perfect joys be to do pleasure and obedience unto each other, and if they love each other, they care naught for obedience and reverence beyond the common, which is too small for many."

an idealism from sometime forever ago, a mythical standard of something pure and insatiable

without warning and without fail, a reality in texts and admonitions,

and nothing more.

if i understand nothing about love-

 still i prefer to learn from none other than this,

from such great [untenable, unreachable, unquenchable] heights

xx.rc

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