De Puero Et Praecone. Catul.

A poem by Richard Lovelace

De Puero Et Praecone. Catul.

Cum puero bello praeconem qui videt esse,
Quid credat, nisi se vendere discupere?


CATUL.

With a fair boy a cryer we behold,
What should we think, but he would not be sold?[99.1]