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The lewd tavern and you tentmates,
the ninth pillar from the capped brothers,
you think that you alone have mentulas, do you think
that it is permitteds for you alone to have sex with whatever
girls there are and that it is permitted to think that the others are goats?
or, in an unbroken mind, because you fools sit, and 100 or 200
don't you think that I will dare
to rape orally the 200 loungers at the same time?
Moreover think, for I shall write on the front of the
whole tavern with sopiones for you.
For my girl, who has fled from my embrace
loved as much as no other will be loved,
for whom great wars were fought by me,
has settled down there, all of you fine and well to do men
love her, and indeed, which is undeserved,
all the punks and alleyway sex maniacs;
son of the Geltiberia abounding in rabbits,
Ignatius, whom a dark beard makes good
and tooth scoured with Iberian urine.
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