Let others sing his pious deeds and bold-
And wars Eneas did in Latium wage,
Whence empire and the city rose, of old,
That to the World gave laws in after age:
The feats of mighty Kings let these unfold;
A pleasing face, or beauty, those engage;
Far other tales must by the Muse be told:
Nor dreadful Mars nor Love employs her page.
This is the subject matter of my lay
Chbtsophilus one time Three Groats me lent,
And for them ask’d me a hundred times a day:
He kept on asking, and I would not pay:
And this importunate Dun ’tis my intent
Herein in various fashion to display.
(Giovanni Battista Casti)
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