Carmina

Catullus

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.

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