Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend
Suspect I may, but not directly tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell:
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
兩個愛人像精靈般把我誘惑,
一個叫安慰,另外一個叫絕望:
善的天使是個男子,豐姿綽約;
惡的幽靈是個女人,其貌不揚(yáng)。
為了促使我早進(jìn)地獄,那女鬼
引誘我的善精靈硬把我拋開,
還要把他迷惑,使淪落為妖魅,
用骯臟的驕傲追求純潔的愛。
我的天使是否已變成了惡魔,
我無法一下子確定,只能猜疑;
但兩個都把我扔下,互相結(jié)合,
一個想必進(jìn)了另一個的地獄。
可是這一點(diǎn)我永遠(yuǎn)無法猜透,
除非是惡的天使把善的攆走