Libello tamen apologorum antetuli paucos epodos, studio in te observantiae meae impudentissimo, paucos quidem, ut ego loquax iudico; verum tu, cum tegeris, etiam nimium multos putabis.
To the little book of Fables, however, I have, in the zeal of my respect for you, taken the extreme liberty of prefixing a few verses'few at least as I judge, who am a man of words; though you, when you have read them, will think them all too many.
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