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tanto m’ aggrada il tuo comandamento, che l’ ubidir, se già fosse, m’ è tardi; più non t’ è uo’ ch’ aprirmi il tuo talento.
So much does your command please me that to obey it, were it already done, would still feel slow; you need only disclose your wish to me.
So pleasing is her command that to obey it, were it already done, would still feel slow. She need say no more of her wish.
Virgil's eagerness is total. Obedience already accomplished would still feel too slow — a courtly hyperbole that turns duty into desire. He wants no reasons, only the wish.
The exchange models what Dante lacks. Where the pilgrim deliberated a good impulse into nothing, Virgil answers grace instantly. The contrast is the canto's quiet argument: the cure for cowardice is prompt love.
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