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When the story is ended, Hircan, instead of showing himself affected, cries: 'Then there are more fools and mad women than there ever were! 'Do you call it folly, says Oisille, 'to love honestly in youth and then to turn all love to God? ... 'And yet I have the opinion, says Parlemente, 'that no man will ever love God perfectly who has not perfectly loved some creature in this world. 'What do you by loving perfectly? asks Saffredant; 'do you call perfect lovers who are bashful and adore ladies from a distance, without daring to express their wishes? 'I call those perfect lovers, replies Parlemente, 'who seek some perfection in what they love—whether goodness, beauty or kindness—and whose hearts are so lofty and honest that they would rather die than perform those base deeds which honor and conscience forbid; for the soul which was created only to return to its Sovereign Good cannot, while it is in the body, do otherwise than desire to win thither; but because the senses, by which it can have tidings of that which it seeks, are dull and carnal on account of the sin of our first parents, they can show it only those visible things which most nearly approach perfection; and the soul runs after them, believing that in visible grace and moral virtues it may find the Sovereign Grace, Beauty and Virtue.
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