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Canon 89Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus,rumoresque senum severiorumomnes unius aestimemus assis.soles occidere et redire possunt:nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,nox est perpetua una dormienda.da mi basia mille, deinde centum,dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum,dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,aut ne quis malus invidere possit,cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.Let’s live, and love, my darling fair!And not a single farthing careFor age’s babbling spite;Yon suns that set again shall rise;But, when our transient meteor dies,We sleep in endless night: Then first a thousand kisses give,An hundred let me next receive,Another thousand yet;To these a second hundred join,Still be another thousand mine,An hundred then repeat:Such countless thousands let there be,Sweetly confus’d; that even weMay know not the amount;That envy, so immense a storeBeholding, may not have the pow’rEach various kiss to count.(Nott l795:I, 17)Nott’s first stanza possesses considerable fluency, with its continuoussyntax woven through a moderately intricate rhyme scheme, but in thesecond stanza the false rhymes proliferate, and the third fairly creakswith syntactical inversions and suspensions and the jarring rhyme on“store”/“pow’r.” Nott’s suggestive revisions of the Latin text stress theopposition between the morality of age (“babbling spite”) and thepassion of youth (“transient meteor”) and include a couple of mildly