Marcela's Reply (from Don Quixote)

Marcela, fairest in the land, has been accused of causing a shepard's death-of-heartbreak by rejecting that student-shepard's affections. This is the begining of her response:
"Heav’n, you’re pleas’d to say, has made me beautiful, and that to such a
Degree, that you are forc’d, nay, as it were compell’d to love me, in
spite of your Endeavours to the contrary; and for the sake of that Love,
you say I ought to love You again.  Now, tho’ I am sensible, that whatever
is beautiful is lovely, I cannot conceive, that what is lov’d for being
handsome, sho’d be bound to love that by which ‘tis lov’d, meerly because
‘tis lov’d."
 
A more recent translation:
                            Heaven has made me, so you say,
beautiful, and so much so that in spite of yourselves my beauty
leads you to love me; and for the love you show me you say, and even
urge, that I am bound to love you. By that natural understanding which
God has given me I know that everything beautiful attracts love, but I
cannot see how, by reason of being loved, that which is loved for
its beauty is bound to love that which loves it;

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