Eclogues

Virgil

Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.

  1. Matched with a heifer, who would prate of cups?
MENALCAS
  1. You shall not balk me now; where'er you bid,
  2. I shall be with you; only let us have
  3. for auditor—or see, to serve our turn,
  4. yonder Palaemon comes! In singing-bouts
  5. i'll see you play the challenger no more.
DAMOETAS
  1. Out then with what you have; I shall not shrink,
  2. nor budge for any man: only do you,
  3. neighbour Palaemon, with your whole heart's skill—
  4. for it is no slight matter—play your part.