A friend sent me the following, which I will delight some of you, I'm
sure...Original Latin below the translation:
Charles Fitzgeoffrey of Cornwall, Epigram 75
ON ANTHONY HOLBORNE'S MUSIC SCHOOL
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http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/spacer.gif Why not seek out
the Cittern School, o youth for whom your Cytherea
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name, the school which Holborne, adroit at teaching, a master of the
lyric art, has opened for you? And you, boy, who still wears the look
of the youthful, smooth-cheeked, beardless lads, and you whose swifter,
loftier chariot has attained the roads of manhood, why not seek out the
Cittern School, o youth? And you too, o bittersweet bevy who have just
now dedicated your dolls to Venus, you maidenly chorus, why not seek
out Cittern School, o youth? Why draw back your timid feet, you sweet
little boys and girls? Here no hairy Master Orbilius
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fearful for his gloomy expression, but much more fearful for his rod,
as he wields the stick with a menacing hand, o Jupiter, a dire and evil
stick, which with its mighty blow savagely rends tender skin and draws
blood; why not seek out the Cittern School, o youth? Here no golden rod
repels you, but the liquid honey attracts you. For here there is no
stick, save that which caresses the sonorous cittern's strings. And
here there are no blows, save those which strike the harmonious
cittern's strings. And here there are no murmurs, save those which the
sounds of the noble cittern emits. Why not seek out the Cittern School,
o youth? You whose heart is scourged with seething grief, wasting away
with anxious sorrow, if your care is to tame the oppressive passion of
a heart [5]http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/blsqr01.gif that
ebbs and flows, why not seek out the Cittern School, o youth?
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/spacer.gif But you,
Holborne, who attracts the Graces, the Dicae, and the Horae with your
seductive quill, of a musician of the melodious lute, you will win the
prize of a blooming garland. If perchance deaf Cerberus should bark at
you with his triple-jawed grin, with the power of your harmony you will
break the fierce dog's wretched teeth in his tooth-breaking mouth.
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/spacer.gif But you to whom
the musical juice is delightsome, why not seek out the Cittern School,
o youth?
75. IN SCHOLAM MUSICAM ANTONI HOLBORNI
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Quin petis cytharae scholam, iuvenus,
Cui nomen Cytherea vestra fecit,
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Quam vobis aperit catus docendi
Holbornus, melicae magister artis?
Et qui impubes adhic genasque leves
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Imberbesque puer refers ephebos,
Et cui fortior altioris aevi
Currus attigit orbitas virilis,
Quin petis cytharae scholam, iuventus?
Tuque o dulcacidus puellularum 10
Quae pupas Veneri modo dicarunt
Caetus, virgineus chorus, venusta
Quin petis cytharae scholam, iuventus?
Quid pedes removetis hinc timenteis,
Puellique puelluluaeque dulces?
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Non hic Orbilius sedet magister
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Hirsutus tetrico tremendus ore,
Sed multo ferula magis timendus,
Dum dextra quatit imminente virgam,
Diram, Iupiter, improbamque virgam,
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Quae plaga teneram potente pellem
Saevum lancinat extrahitque sanguen;
Quin petis cytharae scholam, iuventus?
Hic nullos ferula aurea repellit,
Sed cunctos melica allicit saliva.
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En hic virgula nulla, praeter illam
Quae mulcet cytharae fides sonorae.
En hic verbera nulla praeter illa
Quae pulsant cytharae fides canorae.
En hic murmura nulla, praeter illa
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Quae reddic Cytharae sonus decorae.
Quin petis cytharae scholam, iuventus?
Tu cui vapulat aestuante luctu
Pectus, anxifero dolore squallens,
Si curae est iecoris tibi gravantem
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Edomare reciprocantis aestum,
Quin petis Cytharae scholam iuventus.
At tu qui Charites Dicas et Horas,
Holborne, allicis attrahace plectro,
Argutae fidicen lyrae virentis
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Reportabis adoream coronae.
Si rictu tibi forsitan trifauci
Ausit Cerberus oblatrare surdus,
Tu vel harmoniae tuae potenti
Dentifrangibulo canis ferocis
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Contundes miseros in ore dentes.
At tu musica cui saliva grata est
Quin petis cytharae scholam, iuventus?
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References
1. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/notes1.html#II.75
2. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/2lat.html#75
3. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/notes1.html#II.75.2
4. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/notes1.html#II.75.16
5. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/notes1.html#II.75.35
6. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/notes1.html#II.75
7. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/2eng.html#75
8. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/notes1.html#II.75.2
9. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/appcrit.html#II.75.5
10. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/notes1.html#II.75.16
11. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/notes1.html#II.75.35
12. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/affaniae/notes1.html#II.75.45
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