O blandos oculos et o facetos
et quadam propria nota loquacis!
illic et Venus et leues Amores
atque ipsa in medio sedet Voluptas.
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O blandos oculos et inquietos
et quadam propria nota loquaces!
illic et Venus et leves Amores
atque ipsa in medio sedet Voluptas.
O lovely restless eyes, that speak
In language's despite!
For there sits Beauty, and the little Loves:
Between them dwells Delight.
—Helen Waddell, Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (1929), p. 23
O sweet and pretty speaking eyes,
Where Venus, love, and pleasure lies.
—Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1638)
Bright star of beauty, on whose eyelids sit
A thousand nymph-like and enamour'd Graces,
The Goddesses of Memory and Wit,
Which there in order take their several places.
—Michael Drayton, Idea (1619), IV