[4440]———Id sibi negoti credidit solum dari,
Populo ut placrent, quas fecissit fabulas,
[4442]Castum esse decet pium poetam
Ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est,
Qui tum denique habent salem et leporem.
[4451]Cogor———retrorsum
Vela dare, atque literare cursus
Olim relictos———
And thus much I have thought good to say by way of preface, lest any man (which [4453]Godefridus feared in his book) should blame in me lightness, wantonness, rashness, in speaking of love's causes, enticements, symptoms, remedies, lawful and unlawful loves, and lust itself, [4454]I speak it only to tax and deter others from it, not to teach, but to show the vanities and fopperies of this heroical or Herculean love,[4455]and to apply remedies unto it. I will treat of this with like liberty as of the rest.
[4456]Sed dicam vobis, vos porro dicite multis