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		<title>Martial -- Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book  1, epigram  64 (1.64) (AD 85-86) [tr. Pott &#038; Wright (1921), &#8220;The Boaster&#8221;]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’re rich and young, as all confess, And none denies your loveliness; But when we hear your boastful tongue You’re neither pretty, rich, nor young. [Bella es, novimus, et puella, verum est, Et dives, quis enim potest negare? Sed cum te nimium, Fabulla, laudas, Nec dives neque bella nec puella es.] &#8220;To Fabulla.&#8221; (Source (Latin)). [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You’re rich and young, as all confess,<br />
<span class="tab">And none denies your loveliness;<br />
But when we hear your boastful tongue<br />
<span class="tab">You’re neither pretty, rich, nor young.</p>
<p><em>[Bella es, novimus, et puella, verum est,<br />
Et dives, quis enim potest negare?<br />
Sed cum te nimium, Fabulla, laudas,<br />
Nec dives neque bella nec puella es.]</em></span></span></p>
<br><b>Martial</b> (AD c.39-c.103) Spanish Roman poet, satirist, epigrammatist [Marcus Valerius Martialis]<br><i>Epigrams [Epigrammata]</i>, Book  1, epigram  64 (1.64) (AD 85-86) [tr. Pott &#038; Wright (1921), &#8220;The Boaster&#8221;] 
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"To Fabulla." (<a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi1294.phi002.perseus-lat1:1.64">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>



<blockquote>Of beautie braue we knowe thou art, <br>
<span class="tab">and eke a maide beside:<br>
Abounding eke in wealthe and store, <br>
<span class="tab">this ne maie bee denied.<br>
But while to much you praise your self,<br>
<span class="tab">and boste you all surmount:<br>
Ne riche, ne faire, Fabulla, nor<br>
<span class="tab">A maide we can you counte.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialinenglish00mart/page/8/mode/2up?q=%22of+beautie+braue%22">Kendall</a> (1577)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>You're fayre, I know't; and modest too, 't is true;<br>
<span class="tab">And rich you are; well, who denyes it you?<br>
But whilst your owne prayse you too much proclame,<br>
<span class="tab">Of modest, rich, and fayre you loose the same.<br>
[<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_Martial/LzXgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA58">17th C Manuscript</a>]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Faire, rich, and yong? how rare is her perfection,<br>
<span class="tab">Were it not mingled with one soule infection?<br>
I meane, so proud a heart, so curst a tongue,<br>
<span class="tab">As makes her seeme, nor faire, nor rich, nor yong.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_Sir_John_Harington/hZ03AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22her%20perfection%22">Harington</a> (fl. c. 1600), ep. 291; Book 4, ep. 37 "Of a faire Shrew"]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>Th' art faire Fabulla, tis most true,<br>
<span class="tab">Rich, yongue, there's none denies thy due.<br>
But whilest thy selfe dost too much boast,<br>
<span class="tab">Thy youth, thy wealth, thy beautie's lost.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A07090.0001.001/1:5.19?rgn=div2;view=fulltext">May</a> (1629)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>Genteel 't is true, O nymph, you are;<br>
<span class="tab">You're rich and beauteous to a hair.<br>
But while too much you praise yourself,<br>
<span class="tab">You've neither air, nor charms, nor pelf.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_Martial/LzXgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA58">Gent. Mag.</a> (1746)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Pretty thou art, we know; a pretty maid!<br>
<span class="tab">A rich one, too, it cannot be gainsay'd.<br>
But when thy puffs we hear, thy pride we see;<br>
<span class="tab">Thou neither rich, nor fair, nor maid canst be.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_M_Val_Martial/vksOAAAAQAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22pretty%20thou%20art%22">Elphinston</a> (1782), Book 6, Part 3, ep. 48; Bohn labels this as Anon.]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You are pretty, -- we know it; and young, --it is true; and rich, -- who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabulla, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book01.htm#:~:text=You%20are%20pretty%2C%2D%2D%2D%2Dwe%20know%20it%3B%20and%20young%2C%2D%2D%2D%2Dit%20is%20true%3B%20and%20rich%2C%2D%2D%2D%2Dwho%20can%20deny%20it%3F%20But%20when%20you%20praise%20yourself%20extravagantly%2C%20Fabulla%2C%20you%20appear%20neither%20rich%2C%20nor%20pretty%2C%20nor%20young.">Bohn's Classical</a> (1859)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fabulla, it's true you're a fair ingénue,<br>
And your wealth is on every one's tongue:<br>
<span class="tab">But your loud self-conceit<br>
<span class="tab">Makes people you meet<br>
Think you neither fair, wealthy, nor young.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/romanwitepigrams00mart/page/6/mode/2up?q=fabulla">Nixon</a> (1911), "The Egoist"]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You are beautiful, we know, and young, that is true, and rich -- for who can deny it? But while you praise yourself overmuch, Fabulla, you are neither rich, nor beautiful, nor young.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams/w4ZfAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA69">Ker</a> (1919)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>You’re beautiful, oh yes, and young, and rich; <br>
But since you tell us so, you’re just a bitch.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialinenglish00mart/page/306/mode/2up?q=%22beautiful%2C+oh+yes%22">Humphries</a> (1963)]</blockquote><br>





<blockquote>It's true enough, Fabulla, you are<br
a beautiful and rich young woman.<br
Who could fail to see that?<br
But since these praises of yourself are sung<br
<span class="tab">by you, Fabulla, you aren't rich, or beautiful, or young.<br
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/epigramsofmartia0000mart_q2h6/page/60/mode/2up?q=fabulla">Bovie</a> (1970)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>That you're young, beautiful and rich,<br>
<span class="tab">Fabulla, no one can deny.<br>
But when you praise yourself too much,<br>
<span class="tab">None of the epithets apply.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/epigrams0000mart/page/8/mode/2up?q=%22fabulla%22">Michie</a> (1972)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You're beautiful, oh yes, and young, and rich;<br>
But since you tell us so, you're just a bitch.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams_of_Martial/fZWq0MP5XQUC?gbpv=1&bsq=%22just%20a%20bitch%22">Humphries</a> (<1987)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>You are pretty: we know. You are young: true. And rich: who can deny it? But when you praise yourself too much, Fabulla, you are neither rich nor pretty nor young.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://dokumen.pub/martial-epigrams-spectacles-books-1-5-1-0674995554-9780674995550.html#:~:text=are%20pretty%3A%20we%20know.%20You%20are%20young%3A%20true.%20And%20rieh%3A%20who%20ean%20deny%20it%3F%20But%20wh~n%20you%20praise%20yourself%20too%20mueh%2C%20Fabulla%2C%20you%20are%20neither%20rieh%20nor%20pretty%20noryoung.">Shackleton Bailey</a> (1993)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>You're rich, and young, and beautiful!<br>
<span class="tab">It's true, and who can doubt it?<br>
But less and less we feel that pull<br>
<span class="tab">The more you talk about it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martialed_arguments/dhQIAAAAQAAJ">Ericsson</a> (1995)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Of debutantes you are beyond compare --<br>
<span class="tab">So wealthy, beautiful, and debonair.<br>
Yet you make all this matter not a whit:<br>
<span class="tab">Your beauty to undo -- you boast of it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martial_s_Epigrams/13X80r3_zQIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=1.64">Wills</a> (2007)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You’re lovely, yes, and young, it’s true,<br>
and rich -- who can deny your wealth?<br>
But you aren’t lovely, young or rich,<br>
Fabulla, when you praise yourself.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://books.google.ie/books?id=SQwwBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&pg=PR7#v=snippet&q=%22you%20praise%20yourself%22&f=false">McLean</a> (2014)] </blockquote><br>						</span>
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