non hederae, neque vincant oscula conchae."

"Gentle youths, go sport yourselves betimes,
Let not the doves outpass your murmurings,
Or ivy-clasping arms, or oyster-kissings."

And in the morn betime, as those [5977]Lacedaemonian lasses saluted Helena
and Menelaus, singing at their windows, and wishing good success, do we at
yours:

"Salve O sponsa, salve felix, det vobis Latona
Felicem sobolem, Venus dea det aequalem amorem
Inter vos mutuo; Saturnus durabiles divitias,
Dormite in pectora mutuo amorem inspirantes,
Et desiderium!"------

"Good morrow, master bridegroom, and mistress bride,
Many fair lovely bairns to you betide!
Let Venus to you mutual love procure,
Let Saturn give you riches to endure.
Long may you sleep in one another's arms,
Inspiring sweet desire, and free from harms."

Even all your lives long,

[5978] "Contingat vobis turturum concordia,
Corniculae vivacitas"------

"The love of turtles hap to you,
And ravens' years still to renew."

Let the Muses sing, (as he said;) the Graces dance, not at their weddings
only but all their days long; "so couple their hearts, that no irksomeness
or anger ever befall them: let him never call her other name than my joy,
my light, or she call him otherwise than sweetheart. To this happiness of
theirs, let not old age any whit detract, but as their years, so let their
mutual love and comfort increase." And when they depart this life,

------"concordes quoniam vixere tot annos,
Auferat hora duos eadem, nec conjugis usquam
Busta suae videat, nec sit tumulandus ab illa."

"Because they have so sweetly liv'd together,
Let not one die a day before the other,
He bury her, she him, with even fate,
One hour their souls let jointly separate."

[5979] "Fortunati ambo si quid mea carmina possunt,
Nulla dies unquam memori vos eximet aevo."

Atque haec de amore dixisse sufficiat, sub correctione, [5980]quod ait
ille, cujusque melius sentientis. Plura qui volet de remediis amoris, legat
Jasonem Pratensem, Arnoldum, Montaltum, Savanarolum, Langium, Valescum,
Crimisonum, Alexandrum Benedictum, Laurentium, Valleriolam, e Poetis
Nasonem, e nostratibus Chaucerum, &c., with whom I conclude,

[5981] _For my words here and every part,
I speak hem all under correction,