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		<title>Johnson, Samuel -- Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we observe the lives of those whom an ample inheritance has let loose to their own direction, what do we discover that can excite our envy? Their time seems not to pass with much applause from others, or satisfaction to themselves: many squander their exuberance of fortune in luxury and debauchery, and have no [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When we observe the lives of those whom an ample inheritance has let loose to their own direction, what do we discover that can excite our envy? Their time seems not to pass with much applause from others, or satisfaction to themselves: many squander their exuberance of fortune in luxury and debauchery, and have no other use of money than to inflame their passions, and riot in a wide range of licentiousness; others, less criminal indeed, but surely not much to be praised, lie down to sleep, and rise up to trifle, are employed every morning in finding expedients to rid themselves of the day, chase pleasure through all the places of publick resort, fly from London to Bath, and from Bath to London, without any other reason for changing place, but that they go in quest of company as idle and as vagrant as themselves, always endeavouring to raise some new desire, that they may have something to pursue, to rekindle some hope which they know will be disappointed, changing one amusement for another which a few months will make equally insipid, or sinking into languor and disease for want of something to actuate their bodies or exhilarate their minds.</p>
<br><b>Samuel Johnson</b> (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic<br>Essay (1753-11-27), <i>The Adventurer</i>, No. 111 
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		<title>Colton, Charles Caleb -- Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 226 (1820)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The liberty we obtain by being members of civilized society, would be licentiousness, if it allowed us to harm others, and slavery, if it prevented us from benefiting ourselves. True liberty, therefore, allows each individual to do all the good he can to himself, without injuring his neighbor.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The liberty we obtain by being members of civilized society, would be licentiousness, if it allowed us to harm others, and slavery, if it prevented us from benefiting ourselves. True liberty, therefore, allows each individual to do all the good he can to himself, without injuring his neighbor.</p>
<br><b>Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton</b> (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist<br><i>Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words</i>, Vol. 1, § 226 (1820) 
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		<title>Martial -- Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book  7, epigram  30 (7.30) (AD 92) [tr. Bohn&#8217;s (1871)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You grant your favours, Caelia, to Parthians, to Germans, to Dacians; and despise not the homage of Cilicians and Cappadocians. To you journeys the Egyptian gallant from the city of Alexandria, and the swarthy Indian from the waters of the Eastern Ocean; nor do you shun the embraces of circumcised Jews; nor does the Alan, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You grant your favours, Caelia, to Parthians, to Germans, to Dacians;<br />
and despise not the homage of Cilicians and Cappadocians.<br />
To you journeys the Egyptian gallant from the city of Alexandria,<br />
and the swarthy Indian from the waters of the Eastern Ocean;<br />
nor do you shun the embraces of circumcised Jews;<br />
nor does the Alan, on his Sarmatic steed, pass by you.<br />
How comes it that, though a Roman girl,<br />
no attention on the part of a Roman citizen is agreeable to you? </p>
<p><em>[Das Parthis, das Germanis, das, Caelia, Dacis,<br />
nec Cilicum spernis Cappadocumque toros;<br />
et tibi de Pharia Memphiticus urbe fututor<br />
navigat, a rubris et niger Indus aquis;<br />
nec recutitorum fugis inguina Iudaeorum,<br />
nec te Sarmatico transit Alanus equo.<br />
qua ratione facis cum sis Romans puella,<br />
quod Romana tibi mentula nulla placet?]</em></p>
<br><b>Martial</b> (AD c.39-c.103) Spanish Roman poet, satirist, epigrammatist [Marcus Valerius Martialis]<br><i>Epigrams [Epigrammata]</i>, Book  7, epigram  30 (7.30) (AD 92) [tr. Bohn&#8217;s (1871)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LzXgAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA338&dq=martial%20everywhere%20nowhere&pg=PA319#v=onepage&q=xxx&f=false" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0506%3Abook%3D7%3Apoem%3D30">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:

<blockquote>For Parthians, Germans thou thy nets wilt spread;<br>
<span class="tab">Wilt Cappadocian or Cilician wed; <br>
From Memphis comes a whipster unto thee,<br> 
<span class="tab">And a black Indian from the Red Sea;<br>
Nor dost thou fly the circumcised Jew; <br>
<span class="tab">Nor can the Muscovite once pass by you;<br>
Why being a Roman lass dost do thus? tell <br>
<span class="tab">Is't cause no Roman knack can please so well?<br> 
[tr. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LzXgAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA338&dq=martial%20everywhere%20nowhere&pg=PA319#v=onepage&q=xxx&f=false">Fletcher</a>]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You grant your favours to Parthians, you grant them to Germans, you grant them, Caelia, to Dacians, and you do not spurn the couch of Cilicians and Cappadocians; and for you from his Egyptian city comes sailing the gallant of Memphis, and the black Indian from the Red Sea; nor do you shun the lecheries of circumcised Jews, and the Alan on his Sarmatian steed does not pass you by. What is your reason that, although you are a Roman girl, no Roman lewdness has attraction for you?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=w4ZfAAAAMAAJ&vq=xxx&pg=PA443#v=snippet&q=xxx&f=false">Ker</a> (1919)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Caelia, you love a Teuton swain,<br>
An Asiatic stirs your pity,<br>
For you swart Indians cross the main,<br>
<span class="tab">Copts flock to you from Pharos' city.<br>
A Jew, a Scythian cavalier,<br>
Can please you -- but I can't discover<br>
Why you, a Roman, are austere<br>
<span class="tab">To none except a Roman lover.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/AFE5993.0001.001/228?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=xxx">Pott & Wright</a> (1921)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You give your favors to Parthians, you given them to Germans, Caelia, you give them to Dacians, nor do you despise the beds of Cilicians and Cappadocians; and to you comes sailing the fornicator of Memphis from his Pharian city and the black Indian from the Red Sea. Nor do you shun the loins of circumcised Jews nor does the Alan pass you by with his Sarmatian horse. Why is it, sinc eyou are a Roman girl, that no Roman cock is to your liking?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://dokumen.pub/martial-epigrams-books-6-10-2-0674995562-9780674995567.html">Shackleton Bailey</a> (1993)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You do Germans, and Parthians, and Dacians, Caelia,<br>
you don’t scorn Cappadocian, Cilician beds;<br>
and fuckers from Memphis, that Pharian city,<br>
and Red Sea’s black Indians sail towards you.<br>
You’d not flee the thighs of a circumcised Jew,<br>
not an Alan goes by, with Sarmatian horse too.<br>
What’s the reason, then, since you are a Roman,<br>
not one Roman member pleases you, woman?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Martial.php#anchor_Toc123798978:~:text=You%20do%20Germans,pleases%20you%2C%20woman%3F">Kline</a> (2006), "Hard to Please"]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>Barbarian hordes <i>en masse</i> you fuck,<br>
<span class="tab">Odd types into your bed you tuck.<br>
You take on blacks and Asian forces,<br>
<span class="tab">And Jews, and soldiers, and their horses.<br>
Yet you, voracious Roman chick,<br>
<span class="tab">Have never known a Roman dick.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=13X80r3_zQIC&lpg=PT15&ots=255W3rqbYV&dq=%22Odd%20types%20into%20your%20bed%20you%20tuck%22&pg=PT15#v=onepage&q=%22Odd%20types%20into%20your%20bed%20you%20tuck%22&f=false">Wills</a> (2008)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>You sleep with Germans, Parthians, and Dacians;<br>
Cilicians and Cappadocians get a screw;<br>
a Memphian fucker sails to you from Pharos;<br>
<span class="tab">a coal-black Indian from the Red Sea, too.<br>
You don't shun the pricks of circumcised Judeans;<br>
a Scythian on his horse won't pass you buy.<br>
Since you're a roman girl, why is it, Caelia,<br>
<span class="tab">you won't give any Roman cock a try?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/selectedepigrams0000mart_b6d3/page/58/mode/2up?q=Germans">McLean</a> (2014)] </blockquote><br>




<blockquote>You grant your favours, Caelia, to all races -- <br>
<span class="tab">Parthians, Germans, Dacians share your graces.<br>
Cilicians, Cappadocians in your bed be,<br>
<span class="tab">And even a swarthy Indian from the Red Sea!<br>
From Egypt's Memphis one sails to your door,<br>
<span class="tab">And Jews, though circumcised, you'll not ignore,<br>
And that's not all! On his Samartian steed<br>
<span class="tab">No Scythian ever passed your door at speed.<br>
You are a Roman girl, so tell me true,<br>
<span class="tab">Do Roman weapons have no charms for you?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams_of_Martial_Englished_by_Divers/ZLDoDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22sharp+vinegar+improves+the+appetite%22&pg=PA269&printsec=frontcover">Pitt-Kethley</a>]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You'll fuck a Frog, a Kraut, a Jew,<br>
<span class="tab">A Gippo, a Brit, a Pakki too;<br>
Niggers and Russkies all go in your stew<br>
<span class="tab">But my prick's a Wop -- Caelia, fuck you!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams_of_Martial/fZWq0MP5XQUC?gbpv=1&bsq=kraut">Sullivan</a>]</blockquote><br>

For more detailed commentary on the explicitly sexual nature of the epigram, see <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QTfjPEC4g6UC&lpg=PP1&dq=Gal%C3%A1n%20Vioque%20martial&pg=PA214#v=onepage&q=30&f=false">Vioque</a>, <em>Epigrammaton Liber VII</em>.

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		<title>Porter, Cole -- &#8220;Anything Goes&#8221; (1934)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In olden days, a glimpse of stocking<br />
Was looked on as something shocking,<br />
But now, God knows,<br />
Anything goes.</p>
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<br><b>Cole Porter</b> (1891-1964) American composer and songwriter<br>&#8220;Anything Goes&#8221; (1934) 
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		<description><![CDATA[King David and King Solomon Led merry merry lives, With many, many lady friends, And many many wives; But when old age crept over them &#8212; With many, many qualms! &#8212; King Solomon wrote the Proverbs And King David wrote the Psalms.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>King David and King Solomon<br />
Led merry merry lives,<br />
With many, many lady friends,<br />
And many many wives;<br />
But when old age crept over them &#8212;<br />
With many, many qualms! &#8212;<br />
King Solomon wrote the Proverbs<br />
And King David wrote the Psalms.</p>
<br><b>James Ball Naylor</b> (1860-1945) American physician, writer, poet, politician<br>&#8220;King David and King Solomon&#8221; (1935) 
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