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2 6 2 I n t e r p r e t a t i o n Volume 41 / Issue 3but, conversing with her limbs,my lost virtue was soon recovered.130 And not being shy anymore,after a gentle sigh, speaking I said:“Blessed be your beauties!Blessed be the time when I steppedfoot in the forest, and if ever I did or wrote things,135 things which touched your heart.”And full of amorous gestures and words,wrapped up in those angelic beauties,which made me forget human things,about my heart I felt so many joys140 with so much sweetness, that I faintedenjoying the finest of all sweetnesses,all prostrate on her sweet breast.Chapter FiveAlready the cold night was coming to an end:the stars were fleeing, one by oneand everywhere the heavens were turning white;the light of the moon ceded to that of the sun5 when my lady said: “It is necessarysince such is the will of Fortune,if I do not want to acquire some shameto return to my flock, and lead itwhere it longs to take its usual food.10 You will remain alone in this cell,and this evening, upon my return, I will lead youwhere you can in your own way see it.Do not go out, this reminder I give you;do not respond if someone calls, because many15 of the others this error has misled.”Then she departed, and I, who had turnedall my thoughts to the loving face,which shone more than all the other faces,being all alone in the room,20 I got up from the bed, to mitigatethe great fire that burned in my chest.