si qua tibi in his versiculis videbuntur (nam vereor, ut multa sint) fucatius concinnata quam verius et plus coloris quam suci habere, ipse sciens fluere permisi, venustula ut essent magis, quam forticula, instar virginum, quas matres student demissis umeris esse, vincto pectore, ut graciles sient- nosti cetera.
If any passages in these verses shall appear to you (and I fear that there are many such) to be composed with more brilliance than truth, and have more colour than vigour, know that I deliberately allow them to run on smoothly, so that these little bits may be attractive rather than forceful, like those marriageable daughters' whom their mothers seek to make Low-shouldered and tight-laced, to seem more trim 'you know the rest.
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