Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "Varium et Mutabile" (Catullus, 70) MY Ladye sayes ther's nonne with whome she'd rather wedde Than me, though e'en Jove's selfe from Heaven sough te. her; She sayes, but Womanne's Wordes to eager Lover sedde Wer better writte in Wynde or runnynge Water.Love's Mathematics (Catullus, 5) LESBIA mine, If life and love be ours one little day, We'll laugh at strait-laced dotards' idle prating, Its foolish worth a single farthing rating — If life and love be ours one little day! Though suns may set, they sink to rise anew, But once our life's brief light hath found its setting, There falls the Night that brings one long forgetting, Though suns may set, and sink to rise anew. Give me a thousand kisses, Sweet, again A hundred more, the thousand then repeated, A hundred yet, and when the sum's completed, Give me a thousand kisses, Sweet, again. When we have reached our rapturous thousands' We '11 mix the number, lest we may be knowing, Or envious folk their evil spells be throwing When we have reached our rapturous thousands' end — 0 Lesbia mine! St. Venus' Eve ("Pervigilium Veneris") SOON shall love who knows not loving; who hath loved shall love again. Spring new-born! Spring comes with singing! All the world is young with Spring! Springtime brings fond lovers' meetings; birds in Spring their spousals sing. E'en the woodland flings her tresses wide to greet the bridegroom shower. With the morrow Love's Appointress, neath her shaded sylvan bower Twines her many a verdurous arbor of the tender myrtle spray, For tomorrow Queen Dione high enthroned shall hold her sway. Soon shall love who knows not loving; who hath loved shall love again. She, her flowery jewels strewing o'er the crimsoning lap of earth, With the ...