“The Dream of the Virgin by Bolognese master Simone dei Crocefissi”

From mine life of monotony I falleth,

Mine eyes fail as I journey forth to a new world,

A world of adventure, promise and mystery

A world like nothing I know

I come alive hither, as I step forth,

My heart opens to the freedom I findth

In the hundred, streams of morrow and valleys of eventide

I verily breathe away expectation,

The demands of perfection no longer bind me,

My reeve is not known by all,

My fortune and inheritance not envied,

I am me, aye, who I am is who I am,

Anon to distrain I am pulled again,

Mine eyes flutter open and

The truth settleth in,

Nay, ‘tis life I leadth, ‘tis life I partake.