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Quote #7
But you must try your fortune
among the valiant few who love the good;
tell them: "Who will protect me?
I go my way beseeching: Peace, peace, peace." (119-122)
Here's one way to get a medieval lord to think kindly of your poem: dress it up like a damsel in distress. Petrarch does just that in his congedo when he tells the poem that it's going to have to work hard to convince the nobility to grow up and step up.