Catul

________________________________________________
Title:     Catul
Author: Richard Lovelace [More Titles by Lovelace]

DE PUERO ET PRAECONE. CATUL.

Cum puero bello praeconem qui videt esse,
Quid credat, nisi se vendere discupere?

CATUL.

With a fair boy a cryer we behold,
What should we think, but he would not be sold?<1>

Note:
<1> Lovelace has made nonsense of this passage. We ought to read rather, "but that he would be sold!"

[The end]
Richard Lovelace's poem: Catul

________________________________________________



GO TO TOP OF SCREEN