Familiar letters and poems on several occasions | ||
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CATULLUS to LESBIA.
My Lesbia swears she would Catullus wed,Tho' Jove himself should come and ask her Bed:
True, this she swears by all the Pow'rs above,
But she's a Woman talking to her Love;
That single Thought my growing Faith defeats,
'Tis necessary for them to be Cheats:
They must be false, they must their Oaths forget,
So pleasing is the Lechery of Deceit:
What Women tell their Servants fade like Dreams,
And should be Wrote in Air, or running Streams.
Familiar letters and poems on several occasions | ||