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I assume you mean Rossetti's translation of Dante's original To Certain Ladies:

Whence come you, all of you so sorrowful?

An' it may please you, speak for courtesy.

I fear for my dear lady's sake, lest she

Have made you to return thus fill'd with dule.

O gentle ladies, be not hard to school

In gentleness, but to some pause agree,

And something of my lady say to me,

For with a little my desire is full.

Howbeit it be a heavy thing to hear:

For love now utterly has thrust me forth,

With hand for ever lifted, striking fear.

See if I be not worn unto the earth:

Yea, and my spirit must fail from me here,

If, when you speak, your words are of no worth.

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