sunt sidera coelo,

Istis purpureis genis,
Istis turgidulis labris,
Ocelisque loquaculis,
Figam continuo impetu;
O formosa Neaera. (As Catullus to Lesbia.)

Da mihi basia mille, deindi centum,
Dein mille altera, da secunda centum,
Dein usque altera millia, deinde centum."

[5271] ------"first give a hundred,
Then a thousand, then another
Hundred, then unto the other
Add a thousand, and so more," &c.

Till you equal with the store, all the grass, &c. So Venus did by her
Adonis, the moon with Endymion, they are still dallying and culling, as so
many doves, _Columbatimque labra conserentes labiis_, and that with
alacrity and courage,

[5272] "Affligunt avide corpus, junguntque salivas
Oris, et inspirant prensantes dentibus ora."

[5273]_Tam impresso ore ut vix inde labra detrahant, cervice reclinata_,
"as Lamprias in Lucian kissed Thais, Philippus her [5274]Aristaenetus,"
_amore lymphato tam uriose adhaesit, ut vix labra solvere esset, totumque
os mihi contrivit_; [5275]Aretine's Lucretia, by a suitor of hers was so
saluted, and 'tis their ordinary fashion.

------"dentes illudunt saepe labellis,
Atque premunt arete adfigentes oscula"------

They cannot, I say, contain themselves, they will be still not only joining
hands, kissing, but embracing, treading on their toes, &c., diving into
their bosoms, and that _libenter, et cum delectatione_, as [5276]
Philostratus confesseth to his mistress; and Lamprias in Lucian, _Mammillas
premens, per sinum clam dextra_, &c., feeling their paps, and that scarce
honestly sometimes: as the old man in the [5277]Comedy well observed of his
son, _Non ego te videbam manum huic puellae in sinum insere_? Did not I see
thee put thy hand into her bosom? go to, with many such love tricks.
[5278]Juno in Lucian _deorum, tom. 3. dial. 3._ complains to Jupiter of
Ixion, [5279]"he looked so attentively on her, and sometimes would sigh and
weep in her company, and when I drank by chance, and gave Ganymede the cup,
he would desire to drink still in the very cup that I drank of, and in the
same place where I drank, and would kiss the cup, and then look steadily on
me, and sometimes sigh, and then again smile." If it be so they cannot come
near to dally, have not that opportunity, familiarity, or acquaintance to
confer and talk together; yet if they be in presence, their eye will