Verba tua super mel et favum Boncompagnus de Signa transcription by Francesca Battista main editor Fulvio Delle Donne BUP - Basilicata University Press Potenza 2026 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Boncompagno da Signa, Rota Veneris La Rota Veneris di Boncompagno da Signa. Edizione critica, ed. Luca Core. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Padova, 2015, p. 39. Boncompagnus-22

The nun accepts to grant the man her friendship. His words are sweeter than honey. Furthermore, he served up an irrefutable argument. She asks him to meet her and exchange kisses and ardent embraces. Yet they should act secretely and pretend to quarrel each other, so that the purity of their love will be prevented to be known.

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Verba tua super mel et favum michi dulcia fuerunt nec audeo denegare quod postulas quoniam necessarium proponis et irrefragabile argumentum.

Venias igitur et cupitis fruamur amplexibus, conferendo pariter grata, gratiora et gratissima basia que dulciter permisceri solent, labella suaviter comprimendo. Quod autem sequitur sit secretissimum et fingamus nos ad invicem pro re aliqua rixari, quatenus nostri amoris integritas occultetur. Hoc tandem amicitie tue precipere proposui ut si Sponsus meus te aliquo tempore molestaverit in me penam refundas, sciens quod quandocumque potero, dabo tibi locum ut tuam valeas iniuriam vindicare.