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Horace: Epode 14 / _"Mollis inertia cur tantam diffuderit imis"_
Maecenas, you fret me, you worry me / Demanding I turn out a rhyme; / Insisting on reasons, you hurry me; / You want my iambics on time.
You say my ambition's diminishing; / You ask why my poem's not done.
The god it is keeps me from finishing / The stuff I've begun.
Be not so persistent, so clamorous.
Anacreon burned with a flame / Candescently, crescently amorous.
You rascal, you're doing the same!
Was no fairer the flame that burned Ilium.
Cheer up, you're a fortunate scamp, / . Consider avuncular William / And Phryne, the vamp.