Antonio Beccadelli, The Hermaphrodite 2.2:
TO CHASTE GIRLS:
“I warn you again, chaste maidens, don’t learn these lascivious poems as my mouth sings them. There is no legitimate business between you and me – go honor serious poets. But let charming Thais read me in the middle of the brothel.”
AD PUELLAS CASTAS
Vos iterum moneo, castae nolite puellae
Discere lascivos ore canente modos.
Nil mihi vobiscum est. Vates celebrate severos.
Me Thais medio fornice blanda legat.
