Effice per motum luminaque ipsa fidem.

Quod juvet: et voces et anhelitus arguat oris.

Ah pudet! arcanas pars habet ista notas.

Gaudia post Yeneris quæ poscet munus amantem,

Ipsa suas nolet pondus habere preces.

And admit not the light in your chamber with the windows wide open; many blemishes of your person more becomingly lie concealed.

My pastime draws to a close; 'tis time to descend from the swans, [1128] that have borne my yoke upon their necks. As once the youths did, so now the fair, as my audience, may inscribe, "Naso was our preceptor," upon their spoils.


FOOTNOTES BOOK ONE