1. If you wish to guard against being talked of, my friend,
Then never enter a public bath.

2. And if you go out unveiled, no empty house
Will comfort you at dawn, with bracelet and bridle.

3. How many decent women and forbidden ones
Have you exposed, uncles and cousins!

4. Nothing protected you but husbands
While from the first I tired myself out, anxious.

5. I did not weep for a flirt when she held back,
Though I knew the ropes of union knotted.

6.
If she turns away in estrangement and disdain