Social Commentaries
Book III, Epigram 33: Qualem puellam velit
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
I'de rather have the gentile lass,
But if she be denyd?
The Libertine shall freely pass,
And with my fancy side.
The hand-maid which excels them both,
Comes in the latest place:
If that she have in very troth,
But an ingenious face?
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 33: Qualem puellam velit.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/63/.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 33: Qualem puellam velit.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/63/.
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