Non horrebitis admovere nobis,

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XIIII.

To Calvus, acknowledging his Poems.

Did I not liefer love thee than my eyes

(Winsomest Calvus!), for that gift of thine

Certès I'd hate thee with Vatinian hate.

Say me, how came I, or by word or deed,

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To cause thee plague me with so many a bard?