To read my book the virgin shy
May blush while Brutus standeth by,
But when he’s gone, read through what’s writ,
And never stain a cheek for it.Robert Herrick (1591-1674) English poet
“Another [To His Booke],” Hesperides, # 4 (1648)
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A translation (if not so labeled) of the concluding lines of Martial ep. 11.6. Brutus stands as a paragon of moral rectitude.
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