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[2060] must one not, sweet pet?
[2061] When you hold me in your arms, and I you
in mind [place = margin left] e, it naturally does not amount to much, compared to the
transports of youth, and even middle age.
[2062] But all is relative, let
us bear that in mind, stags and hinds have their needs and we have
ours.
[2063] It is even astonishing that you manage so well, I can hardly
get over it, what a chaste and sober life you must have led.
[2064] I do [place = margin left] too,
you must have noticed it.
[2065] Consider moreover that the flesh is not
the end-all and the be-all, especially at our age, and name me the
lovers who can do with their eyes what we can do with ours, which
will soon have seen all there is to s for them to see and have often
great difficulty in remaining open, and with their tenderness, with-
out the help of passion, what by this means alone we realize daily,
when separated by our respective obligations.
[2066] Consider furthermore,
since there is nothing more for us to hide, that I was never beautiful
or well-proportioned, but ugly and even misshapen, to judge by the
testimonies I have received.
[2067] Papa notably used to say that people
would run a mile from me, I have not forgotten the expression.
[2068] And
you, sweet, even when you were of an age to quicken the pulse of
beauty, did you exhibit the t [place = overwritten] other requisites?
[2069] I doubt it.
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