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DE QUINTIA ET
LESBIA. EP. 87.
Quintia formosa est multis, mihi
candida, longa,
Recta est; haec ego sic singula
confiteor:
Tota illud formosa nego: nam multa
venustas;
Nulla in tam magno est corpore mica salis.
Lesbia formosa est quae, cum pulcherrima tota est,
Tum omnibus una omneis surripuit veneres.
ENGLISHED.
Quintia is handsome, fair, tall,
straight: all these
Very particulars I grant with
ease:
But she all ore 's not handsome; here's her
fault:
In all that bulk there's not one corne of
salt,
Whilst Lesbia, fair and handsome too all ore,
All graces and all wit from all hath bore.
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