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The golden ass
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Author: Apuleius (fl. 155)
Year: n.a.
Then I unable to sustaine the broylinge heate that I was in, ran upon her and kissed the place where she had thus laid her heare, whereat she turned her face and cast her rolling eies upon me, saying, O schollar, thou hast tasted now both hony and galle, take heede that thy pleasure do not turne to repentance. Tushe (quoth I) my sweete harte, I am contented for such another kiss to be broiled here upon this fier. Wherewithal I embraced and kissed her more often, and she embraced and kissed me likewise, and moreovcer her breath smelt like sinnamome...
Tr. Wm. Aldington (1566)
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