Why? such outfuttered flank thou ne'er wouldst showHad not some fulsome work by thee been wrought.Then what thou holdest, boon or bane be pleased Disclose! For thee and thy beloved fain would IUpraise to Heaven with my liveliest lay.
TO LESBIA STILL BELOVEDThou ask'st How many kissing bouts I boreFrom thee (my Lesbia!) or be enough or more?I say what mighty sum of Lybian-sandsConfine Cyrene's Laserpitium-lands'Twixt Oracle of Jove the SweltererAnd olden Battus' holy Sepulchre,Or stars innumerate through night-stillness kenThe stolen Love-delights of mortal men,For that to kiss thee with unending kisses