APPENDIX TO the CHAPITRE IV
Ovide speaks about not many preciousness that in the XIVth Elegy of the book _III, Des the Amur ._
« Not, I do not defend ( forbid ? ) you any weaknesses, because you are beautiful.
« It is a place made for the debauchery; there, do not redden to deprive of the light tunic which veils your charms and to support on your thigh that of your lover; there, that he ( it ? ) slides between your lips of pink ( rose ? ), his ( its ? ) language up to the bottom of your mouth, and that the love varies in one thousand manners the games of Venus. There, do not save ( spare ? ) either the sweet words, or the provocating caresses, and make your coat ( layer ? ) tremble by lascivious movements. But make at least that I ignore it; that I do not see your hair in a mess and the track of a tooth marked on your neck.
« If I came to surprise you bare in the arms of the other one, I would believe rather the mouth than my eyes. »
Proleak out, deliver III, Élégie VIII.
Bites between lovers.
« What a sweet quarrel you made me in torches yesterday! With what a pleasure I saw your brightness, heard ( understood ? ) your curses!
« Warmed by the wine, you push away ( repel ? ) your table and you throw ( launch ? ) me, of a misled hand, still full cups ( cuttings ? ). Well, pursue, seize my hair, tear my figure, threaten my eyes, tear away ( extract ? ) my clothes and dish to bare my breast, here is certain marks ( brands ? ) of tenderness.
« Never of furious anger at a woman without a violent love.
« When a beautiful becomes enraged in the courtship, that it crosses ( goes through ? ) streets as a bacchante, that empty dreams often frighten him ( it ? ) or that it is moved at the sight of a girl, these marks ( brands ? ) betray a real love; to believe in the allegiance, she ( it ? ) has to show itself by insults.
« God de Cythère, gives to my enemies an insensible mistress.
« That my rivals count on my breast the teeth of my mistress ( teacher ? ).
« That bleuâtres tracks show to all that I like ( love ? ) him ( it ? ) near me.
« I want to complain about her or to hear ( understand ? ) his ( her;its ? ) complaints.
« I shall be, ô Cynthie, always at war with you or for you with my rivals.
« I love you too much to want some armistice; enjoy the pleasure to have no equal in beauty.
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