If, Cupid, Heaven is your home, you 
are the child of Venus, Nectar and 
Ambrosia are your food, then why 
do you spend days and nights with 
me? Why burn me with your flame, 
and quench my thirst with tears? 
Why destroy me? You are indeed 
descended from wild beasts. Are you 
worthy of such descent and of 
heaven? But I, I am merely 
a shadow, why do you torture me? 



 Ad amorem. 

Si coelum patria est puer beatum, 
Si vero peperit VENUS benigna, 
Si Nectar tibi Massicum ministrat; 
Si sancta Ambrosia est cibus petitus, 
Quid noctes habitas, diesque mecum? 
Quid victum face supplicemque aduris? 
Quid longam lachrimis sitim repellis? 
Quid nostrae dape pasceris medullae? 
O vere rabidum genus faerarum: 
O domo stipe patriaque digne: 
Jam levis sumus umbra, quid lacessis?