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SVRRIPVI tibi, dum ludis, mellite Iuuenti,
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I STOLE a kiss from you, honey-sweet Juventius, while you were playing,
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suauiolum dulci dulcius ambrosia.
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a kiss sweeter than sweet ambrosia.
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uerum id non impune tuli: namque amplius horam
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But not unpunished; for I remember how for more than an hour
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suffixum in summa me memini esse cruce,
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I hung impaled on the top of the cross,
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dum tibi me purgo nec possum fletibus ullis
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while I was excusing myself to you, yet could not with all my tears
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tantillum uestrae demere saeuitiae.
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take away ever so little from your anger;
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nam simul id factum est, multis diluta labella
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for no sooner was it done, than you washed your lips clean
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guttis abstersisti omnibus articulis,
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with plenty of water, and wiped them with all your fingers,
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ne quicquam nostro contractum ex ore maneret,
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that no contagion from my mouth might remain,
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tamquam commictae spurca saliua lupae.
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as if my salive was as dirty as a she-wolf's urine.
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praeterea infesto miserum me tradere amori
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Besides that, you made haste to deliver your unhappy lover to angry Love,
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non cessasti omnique excruciare modo,
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and to torture him in every manner,
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ut mi ex ambrosia mutatum iam foret illud
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so that that kiss, changed from ambrosia,
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suauiolum tristi tristius elleboro.
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was now more bitter than bitter hellebore.
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quam quoniam poenam misero proponis amori,
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Since then you impose this penalty on my unlucky love,
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numquam iam posthac basia surripiam.
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henceforth I will never steal any kisses.
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