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Seek not in borrowed hues your cheeks to dress,
Naked is Love, and loveth nakedness.

— Johannes Secundus

Mitte peregrinis opplere coloribus ora.
Nudus Amor nudae munera frontis amat.

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You are not to sing of the victorious arms of your caesar.

Would'st know men's greatest dangers? They are three:
Woman the first, then fire, and then sea.

The wary Lover learns by measure
To circumscribe his greatest joy;
Lest, what well-husbanded yeilds pleasure,
Might by the Repetition cloy.

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