Cupid, Find Me Somebody to Love
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Name: [Unknown] Date: 12th – 13th century CE Region: [Unknown, Europe] Citation: Ellis, R. Epigrammata
Codicis Bodleiani Rawl. BN 109 #2 [1] |
Cupid, hold your fire!
For neither my boyfriend
Nor my girlfriend
Stays true to me.
Hold your fire, hold your fire!
What’s my type? A person who loves!
May I find one soon.
But should I date someone
Who ghosts me? NOPE!
Hold your fire, hold your fire!
For I will not cherish a person
Who I’d “love that I had dated once.”
Did I just say, “a person I love”?
Nope! I’m not in love.
Hold your fire, hold your fire,
Please don’t do this—I’m telling you—please stop!
Or, Cupid,
find me an equal.
[1] Published in Anecdota
Oxoniensia Vol 1, Part 5. (1885) p.
17.
Latin Text:
Tela, Cupido, tene, quoniam non ille nec illa
sustinet esse meus, vel mea. Tela tene,
tela tene! Quid amo? Quod amat?
Non absit. At huius
quod fugit, huius ero? Non ero. Tela tene,
tela tene! Quia non teneo quod amo tenuisse.
An dixi quod amo? Non amo! Tela tene,
tela tene, vel tange parem. Nec feceris imo,
dico tibi, sine! Vel tange, Cupido, parem.
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