Si qua Corinna mihi, si quis Alexis erit.
Wanton Propertius and witty Callus,
Subtile Tibullus, and learned Catullus,
It was Cynthia, Lesbia, Lychoris,
That made you poets all; and if Alexis,
Or Corinna chance my paramour to be,
Virgil and Ovid shall not despise me.
[5544]Non me carminibus vincet nec Thraceus Orpheus,
Nec Linus.
With tokens, hearts divided, and half rings,