Love
An Epigram out of Alphaeus Mitylenaeus. To Mr. Humphry Lind
From Poems and Translations (1689)
Love
WE envy not, Philaphelus! the Great,
Nor would pull down their Pinacles of State:
Nor prop them up, projecting to aspire:
A Competency only we desire.
Yet Poverty we would not hug as such,
Lest ne quid nimis we should love too much.
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Codex Note
Translated from Alphaeus of Mytilene. Printed sub-heading: Mediocrity.
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Goodall, Charles. “An Epigram out of Alphaeus Mitylenaeus. To Mr. Humphry Lind.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goodall/57/.
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Goodall, Charles. “An Epigram out of Alphaeus Mitylenaeus. To Mr. Humphry Lind.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goodall/57/.
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