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The Works of Tibullus

Containing his Love-Elegies. Translated by Mr Dart. To which is added, The Life of the Author; with Observations on the Original Design of Elegiack Verse; and the Characters of the most Celebrated Greek, Latin and English Elegiack Poets
  

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On the Baseness of his Mistress. XIV.

Report relates the Baseness of my Fair,
O! I could wish I had no Pow'r to hear,
Those Crimes with Torture do my Bosom fill;
Why do you vex me then? Report, be still.