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And we shall establish the joys on the future day with certainty.
Venus said these things and more in long digressions,
which the hour would not allow to be spread out again.
But I, Cupid, enter to fulfill the commands,
I move forward with the gait of the descendant of Atlas Hermes/Mercury, known for his swiftness, which he gave to the quiet,
and which the Goddess nurtured in the grove and among the poppies,
until a great part of my imposed labor was perfected,
just as in the second stage,
by the nod of the Mother from Mount Acidalius Venus, so named after the spring in Boeotia, I have now done most things,
I approached the commanded places, and I sought the man with a greeting,
I persuaded him, and I pierced his breast with my weapons:
He bore the fire I sent in chaste manner, and he did not refuse it.
And since I believe and judge that he is praised by the Nymph,
may he secure the upcoming marriage with a holy bond.
Whence there remains only this sum of my labor,
because of which, with the whirring of my wings moved,
I glided down to your household gods, and by chance I turned my path hither,
about to warn you in a friendly manner and shining before your face,
so that you may play the Hymen hymn of that one at the altars,
and may you modulate the bridal chambers with cheerful applause.
His mind, free from stain, desires this honor not ungratefully,
for the merits with which your teacher here has loved you,
the torch and study of your life, the norm and confidence.
If any praise consists in your verses, it ought to be referred
to the author who applied the spur to these things,
for he is indeed a poet who also constrains words with meters.
It is therefore right that the pact of this sacred marriage be celebrated,
or that vows be carried by your modulation.
And since you meditate on a song with a thin reed a humble or simple poetic instrument,