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nostra    non nimium casti carmina plena ioci, versibus obscenis
offendi desine: non est    mentula subducti nostra supercilii.
Thou, who art 'customed to view around the walls of our temple
Verse of a strain jocose rather than modest and chaste, Cease to
be hurt by the song obscene, for verily ne'er was Wont our
mentule to wear eyebrow up-drawn in surprise.  Thou who seest
the walls of my temple covered round with jocose poems, not too
chaste, cease to be shocked at the obscene verses: mine is not a
mentule with raised eyebrow.  Next: 50. A certain person, an
thou please (Priapus!)