Dear Venantius
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Thank you for the flattery:
Dear Augosto,
In appreciation, admiration and mischief.
venantius
Extol ye all, Augusto -- he of critical voice through splendid lament
Hast penned a poem that
Dear Augusto,
Truly meant what I said. It would have been flattery on my part, had you
written something trivial, but you did not. Your verse was sincere, and was
my mischievious response, besides which I was not being ingratiating. Of
course the word, sincere does not conjoin with flattering.