istud, da veniam, fingere vatibus priscis difficile est, difficile et mihi, ut diversa sonans os epigrammata nil crebras titubet propter epistulas, quas cantu ac modulis luxuriantibus lascivire vetat mascula dictio.
But you must pardon me; there is one thing difficult for the old poets and difficult also for me'to contrive that the lips, in uttering poems which are so different, should not falter through having written great numbers of prose-letters, whose manly diction forbids them to unbend in song and sportive measures.
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