TO AUFILENA.Aufiléna! for aye good lasses are lauded as loyal:Price of themselves they accept when they intend to perform.All thou promised'st me in belying proves thee unfriendly,For never giving and oft taking is deed illy done.Either as honest to grant, or modest as never to promise, Aufiléna! were fair, but at the gifties to clutchFraudfully, viler seems than greed of greediest harlotWho with her every limb maketh a whore of herself.

TO THE SAME.Aufiléna! to live content with only one husband,Praise is and truest of praise ever bestowed upon wife.Yet were it liefer to lie any wise with any for lover,Than to be breeder of boys uncle as cousins begat.

ON NASO.Great th'art (Naso!) as man, nor like thee many in greatnessLower themselves (Naso!): great be thou, pathic to boot.

TO CINNA.Pompey first being chosen Consul, twofold (O Cinna!)Men for amours were famed: also when chosen againTwo they remained; but now is each one grown to a thousandGallants:—fecundate aye springeth adultery's seed.

ON MAMURRA'S SQUANDERING.For yon Firmian domain not falsely Mentula hight isRichard, owning for self so many excellent things—Fish, fur, feather, all kinds, with prairie, corn-land, and ferals.All no good: for th' outgoing, income immensely exceeds.Therefore his grounds be rich own I, while he's but a pauper.Laud we thy land while thou lackest joyance thereof.

OF THE SAME.Mentula! masterest thou some thirty acres of grasslandFull told, forty of field soil; others are sized as the sea.