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a translation:

Let us live my Lesbia, and let us love,

And may we value all the rumors of too strict old men

As but one assis/penny.

The suns are able to rise and to fall,

For us, when the brief light once falls

It is an everlasting night for sleeping.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,

Then another thousand, then a second hundred,

Then continuously another thousand, then a hundred.

Then when we will have made many thousands,

We will confuse them so that we may not know,

Or so that anyone evil is not able to envy,

When he knows how great (a number) of our kisses.

summary: expresses his love to his mistress, Lesbia. Says that although they should be forbidden to kiss, they should still continue their love and ignore those who disapprove

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