So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.