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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight

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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Age Birth Birthday Cake Surprise Taste
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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Chaste God Himself Poem Poet
Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
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Darkness Path Return Travel
So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
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Chaste Herself Lost Maid Sex Women
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Laughter One Liner Silly
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Foolish Laugh One Liner
What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Lover Myself Running Water Women Writing
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Book Little Myself One Liner
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate Love Myself
We see not our own backs.
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Back Mistake One Liner Ourselves
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Destruction Water Wine Yourself
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Live Myself Relationship Togetherness
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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Fond Promise Stream Vow Woman
My mind’s sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn’t like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
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Love Low Mindset Stop Women Wreck Yourself
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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Civil Culture Greatness Imagination Misfortune People Power Religious Ruler
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Lover Relationship Water Woman Writing

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