In Callimachus occurs Juliet’s very expression, “at lovers’ perjuries Jove laughs,”—
“Nulla fides inerit: periuria ridet amantum
Juppiter, & ventis irrita ferre iubet:”
and from Tibullus we learn, that whatever silly love may have eagerly sworn, Jupiter has forbidden to hold good,—
“Gratia magna Ioui: vetuit pater ipse valere,
Iurasset cupidè quidquid ineptus Amor.”
The English lines in Otho van Veen are,—
“The louer freedome hath to take a louers oth,
Whith if it proue vntrue hee is to be excused,
For venus doth dispence in louers othes abused,