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For me be nought but myrtle twined; The modest myrtle, meet to bind Alike thy brows and mine; While thus I quaff the bowl, reclined Beneath the o'erarching vine.

Persicos odi, puer, apparatus: Displicent nexæ philyrâ coronæ: Mitte sectari, rosa quo locorum Sera moretur. Simplici myrto nihil allabores Sedulus, curo. Neque te ministrum Dedecet myrtus, neque me sub arcta Vite bibentem.