Richard Lovelace

Here you will find the Poem De Inconstantia Foeminei Amoris of poet Richard Lovelace

De Inconstantia Foeminei Amoris

CATUL. EP. 71.

 DE INCONSTANTIA FOEMINEI AMORIS.

Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere velle,
 Quam mihi: non, si Jupiter ipse petat;
Dicit; sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,
 In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.

 FEMALE INCONSTANCY.

My mistresse sayes she'll marry none but me;
No, not if Jove himself a suitor be.
She sayes so; but what women say to kind
Lovers, we write in rapid streams and wind.