contendat mecum ingenio, contendat et arte, in primis una discat amare domo: si libitum tibi erit, Lernaeas pugnet ad hydras et tibi ab Hesperio mala dracone ferat, taetra venena libens et naufragus ebibat undas, et numquam pro te deneget esse miser: (quos utinam in nobis, vita, experiare labores!) iam tibi de timidis iste protervus erit, qui nunc se in tumidum iactando venit honorem: discidium vobis proximus annus erit.
Let the man compete with me in wit and art, and of all things learn to confine his love to a single house: if you so wish, let him fight with Lernaean hydras and fetch you apples from the serpent of the Hesperides; let him cheerfully drink foul poisons and the waters of shipwreck, and never shirk misery for your sake (ah, darling, would you might test me in these ordeals!), and soon your dashing hero will become a coward, for all that his boasts have brought him such proud honour: next year will see you parted.
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