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| QVAENAM te mala mens, miselle Rauide, | 1 | What infatuation, my poor Ravidus, |
| agit praecipitem in meos iambos? | 2 | drives you headlong in the way of my iambics? |
| quis deus tibi non bene aduocatus | 3 | What god invoked by you amiss |
| uecordem parat excitare rixam? | 4 | is going to stir up a senseless quarrel? |
| an ut peruenias in ora uulgi? | 5 | Is it that you wish to be talked about ? |
| quid uis? qualubet esse notus optas? | 6 | What do you want? would you be known, no matter how? |
| eris, quandoquidem meos amores | 7 | So you shall, since you have chosen to love my lady, |
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cum longa uoluisti amare poena. |
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and long shall you rue it. |