Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.
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Hippolytus of Rome
AD 235
He shows also, by the mention of the creature [the hind], the purity of that pleasure; and by the doe he intimates the quick responsive affection of the wife. And whereas he knows many things to excite, he secures them against these, and puts upon them the indissoluble bond of affection, setting constancy before them. And as for the rest, wisdom, figuratively speaking, like a stag, can repel and crush the serpentine doctrines of the heterodox. .
