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"Mater sæva Cupidinum"

Venus, the cruel mother of

The Cupids (symbolising Love),

Bids me to muse upon and sigh

For things to which I've said "Good-bye!"

Believe me or believe me not,

I give this Glycera girl a lot:

Pure Parian marble are her arms—

And she has eighty other charms.

Venus has left her Cyprus home

And will not let me pull a pome

About the Parthians, fierce and rough,

The Scythian war, and all that stuff.

Set up, O slaves, a verdant shrine!

Uncork a quart of last year's wine!

Place incense here, and here verbenas,

And watch me while I jolly Venus!