Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. By mattress, bolsters, here, there, everywhere
  2. Deep-dinted, and by quaking, shaking couch
  3. All crepitation and mobility.
  4. Explain! none whoredoms (no!) shall close my lips.
  5. Why? such outfuttered flank thou ne'er wouldst show
  6. Had not some fulsome work by thee been wrought.
  7. Then what thou holdest, boon or bane be pleased