The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 7/Catullus de Lesbia

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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 7
(c. 1713)
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

Catullus de Lesbia

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Jonathan Swift1560462The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 7
— Catullus de Lesbiac. 1713Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

CATULLUS DE LESBIA^[1].

LESBIA for ever on me rails,
To talk of me she never fails.
Now, hang me but for all her art,
I find, that I have gain'd her heart.
My proof is this: I plainly see,
The case is just the same with me;
I curse her every hour sincerely,
Yet, hang me but I love her dearly.

↑ Lesbia mî dicit semper male; nec tacet unquam
De me. Lesbia me, dispeream, nisi amat.
Quo signo? quia sunt totidem mea: deprecor illam
Assiduè; verum, dispeream, nisi amo.

[1] Lesbia mî dicit semper male; nec tacet unquam
De me. Lesbia me, dispeream, nisi amat.
Quo signo? quia sunt totidem mea: deprecor illam
Assiduè; verum, dispeream, nisi amo.

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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 7/Catullus de Lesbia

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