Ille cubans gaudet mutata forte, bonifque " I have a thousand thanks to give- For your damn'd Stucco has no chink.) "An't please your Honour, quoth the Peafant, 210 215 220 I' LIBER IV. O DE I. Ad VENEREM. NTERMISSA, Venus, diu Rurfus bella moves? parce precor, precor. Non fum qualis eram bonae Sub regno Cynarae. define, dulcium Mater faeva Cupidinum, Circa luftra decem flectere mollibus Jam durum imperiis: abi Quo blandae juvenum te revocant preces. Tempeftivius in domum Paulli, purpureis ales oloribus, Comiffabere Maximi; Si torrere jecur quaeris idoneum. Namque et nobilis, et decens, Et pro folicitis non tacitus reis, Et centum puer artium, Late figna feret militiae tuae. Et, quandoque potentior A BOOK O DE I. TO VENUS. IV. GAIN? new Tumults in my breast? Ah spare me, Venus! let me, let me reft! I am not now, alas! the man As in the gentle Reign of My Queen Anne. Ah found no more thy foft alarms, Nor circle fober fifty with thy Charms. Mother too fierce of dear Defires! Turn, turn to willing hearts your wanton fires. To Number five direct your Doves, There fpread round MURRAY all your blooming Loves; Noble and young, who ftrikes the heart With ev'ry sprightly, ev'ry decent part: Equal, the injur'd to defend, To charm the Mistress, or to fix the Friend. He, with a hundred Arts refin'd, Shall stretch thy conquefts over half the kind : To him each Rival shall submit, Make but his Riches equal to his Wit. Then fhall thy Form the Marble grace, (Thy Grecian Form) and Chloe lend the Face: Largi muneribus riserit aemuli, Albanos prope te lacus Ponet marmoream fub trabe citrea. Illic plurima naribus Duces thura; lyraque et Berecynthia Delectabere tibia Mixtis carminibus, non fine fiftula. Illic bis pueri die Numen cum teneris virginibus tuum Laudantes, pede candido In morem Salium ter quatient humum. Me nec femina, nec puer Jam, nec fpes animi credula mutui, Nec certare juvat mero, Nec vincire novis tempora floribus. Sed cur, heu! Ligurine, cur Manat rara meas lacryma per genas? Cur facunda parum decoro Inter verba cadit lingua filentio? Nocturnis ego fomniis Jam captum teneo, jam volucrem fequor Te per gramina Martii Campi, te per aquas, dure, volubiles. |