Thy rage the Phrygian felt, who durst aspire
T excel the music of thy heav'nly lyre;
Thy shafts aveng'd leud Tityus' guilty flame,
Th' immortal victim of thy mother's fame;
Thy hand flew Python, and the dame who loft
Her num'rous off-spring for a fatal boaft.
In Phlegias' doom thy just revenge appears,
Condemn'd to furies and eternal fears

He views his food, but dreads, with lifted eye,
The mouldring rock that trembles from on high.

Propitious hear our pray'r, O Pow'r divine!
And on thy hospitable Argos shine.
Whether the style of Titan please thee more,
Whose purple rays th' Achæmenes adore;
Or great Ofyris, who first taught the swain
In Pharian fields to fow the golden grain;

Tu Phryga fubmittis cythara. Tu matris honori
Terrigenam Tityon Stygiis extendis arenis.

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Te viridis Python, Thebanaque mater ovantem,
Horruit in pharetris. Ultrix tibi torva Megæra 850

Jejunum Phlegyam fubter cava faxa jacentem
Æterno premit accubitu, dapibusque profanis
Inftimulat: fed mifta famem faftidia vincunt.

Adfis ó memor hofpitii, Junoniaque arva

Dexter ames.

Seu te rofeum Titana vocari

Gentis Achameniæ ritu, seu præftat Ofyrin

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Or Mitra, to whose beams the Perfian bows,
And pays, in hollow rocks, his awful vows;
Mitra, whose head the blaze of light adorns,
Who grasps the struggling heifer's lunar horns.

Frugiferum, feu Perfei fub rupibus antri
Indignata fequi torquentem cornua Mitram.

JANUARY

JANUARY and MAY:

OR,

The Merchant's Tale.

FROM

CHAUCER.

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HERE liv'd in Lombardy, as authors write,
of old, a wife and worthy Knight;

Of gentle manners, as of gen'rous race,
Bless'd with much sense, more riches, and some grace.

Yet led astray by Venus' soft delights,

He scarce could rule some idle appetites:
For long ago, let Priests say what they cou'd,
Weak finful laymen were but flesh and blood.
But in due time, when fixty years were o'er,
He vow'd to lead this vicious life no more;
Whether pure holiness inspir'd his mind,
Or dotage turn'd his brain, is hard to find;
But his high courage prick'd him forth to wed,
And try the pleasures of a lawful bed.

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* This Tranflation was done at fixteen or seventeen

Years of Age.

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