VIII.

To Himself recounting Lesbia's Inconstancy.

Woe-full Catullus! cease to play the fool

And what thou seest dead as dead regard!

Whilòme the sheeniest suns for thee did shine

When oft-a-tripping whither led the girl

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By us belovèd, as shall none be loved.

There all so merry doings then were done