tenebimus igitur quippiam medium et sicut epigrammata recentia modo nulla dictabo, ita litteras, si quae iacebunt versu refertae, scilicet ante praesentis officii necessitatem, mittam tibi, petens, ne tu sis eatenus iustitiae praevaricator, ut me opineris numquam ab huiusmodi conscriptione temperaturum.
So I shall keep a sort of middle course; I shall not now write any new poems, but if there happen to be any letters lying about containing verses'written, of course, before the constraint imposed by my present profession'I will send them to you, begging you at the same time not so far to pervert justice as to imagine that I shall never abstain from this kind of composition.
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