| VIVAMUS mea Lesbia, atque
amemus, |
1 |
Let us live, my Lesbia,
and love, |
| rumoresque senum seueriorum |
2 |
and value at one farthing |
| omnes unius aestimemus
assis! |
3 |
all the talk of crabbed
old men. |
| soles occidere et redire
possunt: |
4 |
Suns may set and rise
again. |
| nobis cum semel occidit
breuis lux, |
5 |
For us, when the short
light has once set, |
| nox est perpetua una dormienda. |
6 |
remains to be slept the
sleep of one unbroken night. |
| da mi basia mille, deinde
centum, |
7 |
Give me a thousand kisses,
then a hundred, |
| dein mille altera, dein
secunda centum, |
8 |
Then another thousand,
then a second hundred, |
| deinde usque altera mille,
deinde centum. |
9 |
then yet thousand, then
a hundred. |
| dein, cum milia multa
fecerimus, |
10 |
Then, when we have made
up many thousands, |
| conturbabimus illa, ne
sciamus, |
11 |
we will confuse our counting,
that we may not know the reckoning, |
| aut ne quis malus inuidere
possit, |
12 |
nor any malicious person
blight them with evil eye, |
| cum tantum sciat esse
basiorum. |
13 |
when he knows that our
kisses are so many. |