APPENDIX TO the CHAPITRE VI

Art to like ( love ? ) (Ovide, book ( pound ? ) II).

« I do not condemn you for the allegiance, but hold secrets your thefts of love.

Do not make for a woman of presents which can be recognized by the other one [25].

[ Note 25: the general Lecourbe enjoyed making present of the same suit for the employers' holiday for a dozen farmers whom he had for mistresses ( teachers ? ) in the village in which he lived in the department of Ain; it is not the most beautiful of its exploits there.]

« If your mistress ( teacher ? ) discovers an infidelity, be not afraid of denying; be neither more subjected, nor more affectionate than of custom; it would be to admit you culprit, but prove he by your vigour that you are everything to her.

« But if your, mistress cools, let him ( her ? ) believe in an infidelity. Happy the one from which the offended mistress ( teacher ? ) faints, to whom she tears away ( extracts ? ) hair, bruises the face of the nails, which she sees only by sheding tears, and without whom ( which ? ) she would want, but cannot live.

« Hurry however to terminate his ( her;its ? ) sadness, his ( her;its ? ) anger could become embittered ( turn sour ? ) by going on.

« Sign the peace in its bed: it is there that were born these two twins, the forgiveness and the reconciliation.

« See these doves which have just fought, they béquètent tenderly, they caress ( cherish ? ) and express themselves their love by of sweet cooings.

The Infidelity (Proleak out, deliver IV, Élégie VIII).

The quarrel of Progimlet with Cynthie is the model of the kind ( genre ? ).

« An elegant harness had led ( driven ? ) to Lavinium my Cynthie to make it for Venus some sacrifices.

« Irritated by his ( her;its ? ) infidelities, I wanted to change coat ( layer ? ). I invite a certain little attractive Phillis on an empty stomach, but in whom everything pleases when she ( it ? ) is drunk; and, with her Théia, pleasant ( kind ? ) woman, but for whom, in the wine, a single man is not enough.

« I wanted to cross ( spend ? ) the night with them, to forget my sorrows and wake my senses ( directions ? ) by the novelty.

« A single bed was raised ( drawn up ? ) for us three, on a lawn aside.

« I was between Théia and Phillis, Lydgamus paid ( poured ? ) us to drink a Greek wine of the most delicious Métymne.

« An Egyptian played the flute, Phillis of castanets, and the rose rained at random on our heads, whereas a dwarf collected in his short thickness waved the sound of instruments.

« However our exhausted lamps gave only a weak light. The table had overturned; dices brought me only knocks of the most sad fortune-teller.

« In vain Théia and Phillis sang and confided the breast; I was a deaf person and a blind person, or rather I was alone near Lanuvium.

« Suddenly, my door shouts on its hinges and I hear ( understand ? ) to the entrance ( entry ? ) a light noise.

« Soon, Cynthie throws back ( rejects ? ) the tongue with violence; his ( her;its ? ) glance strikes us; it is all the fury of a woman; it is the spectacle of a city taken by assault.

« In his ( her ? ) wrath, Cynthie throws ( casts ? ) the nails to Phillis's face; and Théia, seized with dismay, calls to the fire the neighborhood which wakes up, and the lights shine; in the street, rises a hideous tumult; both women, scattered hair, take refuge with the first inn which opens.

« Cynthie, quite proud of his ( her ? ) victory, returns then near me, strikes me, to the face mercilessly, prints the nails in my breast, bites me and wants to blind ( fill ? ) me.

« Tire finally of beating myself, she ( it ? ) seizes Lygdamus, hidden in the alley of the bed and which implores in knees my protection.

« Finally, myself implore my forgiveness in its feet; if you want, she says, that I forget your fault, never in the future spread ( display ? ) an empty finery, neither in the portico of Pumped, nor with the loose eyes of the Forum; you will never arrest in front of a half-opened litter.

« I accuse especially Lygdamus of my sorrows; that it is sold, and that he ( it ? ) drags in his ( its ? ) feet a double chain ( channel ? ).

« Then, she ( it ? ) cleanses the place which Phillis and Théia had got ( touched ? ); she ( it ? ) makes me change completely clothes; and three times she ( it ? ) walks at the edge of my head the ardent breath; after we had exchanged the linen of my coat ( layer ? ), we cemented the peace by burning caresses.