Quam quoniam poenam misero proponis amori,

Numquam iam posthac basia surripiam.

LXXXXVIIII.

To Juventius.

E'en as thou played'st, from thee snatched I (O honied Juventius!)

Kisslet of savour so sweet sweetest Ambrosia unknows.

Yet was the theft nowise scot-free, for more than an hour I

Clearly remember me fixt hanging from crest of the Cross,

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