'If you don't hound me'
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se me não perseguires com a tua má lingua, como principias a fazer,
if you do not hound me with your wicked tongue, as you are beginning to do,
Isaura's one condition, offered almost gently: leave me alone. 'A tua má lingua,' your wicked tongue, names the weapon precisely, and 'como principias a fazer,' as you are starting to do, notes that the hounding has only just begun. She is asking for a peace she already suspects she will not get.
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