By God's grace, the affair of beauty and love continues to flourish as before; neither is the beloved remiss in inflicting cruelty, nor is there any shortage of heart's blood here.
The poet speaks here with charming irony, treating the game of romance like a thriving business blessed by the divine. The beloved never slacks in her artful cruelties, and the lover never runs short of heartfelt sorrow to endure it all. Rather than lamenting this endless cycle of pain, the verse celebrates it as the very lifeblood that keeps the flame of love perpetually burning.
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