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I have beheld the wearied lover go<br />
From the fair dame ridiculoufly flow,<br />
His fides all faint, exhaufted all below. 1<br />
Catullus, in epigram vii.—<br />
Quur non tam latera exfututa pendas?<br />
Why not difplay thy dry, thy laplefs fides ?<br />
Priapus, in the libertine verfes, epigram xv.—<br />
Jfi cernitis exfututus ut Jim,<br />
Confellufque, marcerque, vrl duique, &c.<br />
Defecit latus, &pericianfam<br />
Cum tylt miler expuo falivam.<br />
You fee how dryly drained I fail,<br />
All wafted, meagre, thin, and pale ;<br />
My fides are fpent, a fhort drawn breath,<br />
And bloody cough portend my death.<br />
Suetonius, in the life of Caligula, chap. 26, has this<br />
remarkable paffage—"Valerius Catullus, a youth of<br />
41 a confular family, faid publicly, that Caligula was<br />
endorfed by him, and that his fides were quite tired<br />
41 with the ufe of his bedfellow." Apuleius, book<br />
VIII., recites this manner of falutation—" May you<br />
"live
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