In Other Words/Roman Innuendo

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Roman Innuendo

Martial: Book I, Epigram 72.
O Fidentinus, when you steal— My words are chosen and impartial—My stuff, it is a phony deal You put across on M. V. Martial.
Thus Aegle thinks the teeth she wears, So sozodontalish and pearly,Are hers; thus black Lycoris swears, Daubed with white lead, she is Some Girlie.
Bard of the Mrs. Harris school, (This stanza should be double-leaded),As you’re a poet now, so you’ll Have lots of hair when you’re bald-headed!
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