Ille cubans gaudet mutata forte, bonisque 210 “ I have a thousand thanks to give My Lord alone knows how to live." 215 22@ " A Cruft of Bread, and Liberty ! IN Et, quandoque potentior L I B E R IV. ор Ad VENEREM. Rursus bella moves ? parce precor, precor. Sub regno Cynarae, define, dulcium Mater saeva Cupidinum, Circa luftra decem flectere mollibus Jam durum imperiis: abi Quo blandae juvenum te revocant preces. Tempestivius in domum Paulli, purpureis ales oloribus, Si torrere jecur quaeris idoneum. folicitis non tacitus reis, Et centum puer artium, Late figna feret militiae tuae. 1 В оок IV. TO VENUS A GAIN? new Tumults in my breast? Ah spare me, Vénus ! 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 soft alarms, Nor circle Tober fifty with thy Charms. Mother too fierce of dear Desires ! Turn, turn to willing hearts your wanton fires, Loves ; With ev'ry sprightly, ev'ry decent part: To charm the Mistress, or to fix the Friend. He, with a hundred Arts refin’d, Shall stretch thy conquests over half the kind; To him each Rival shall submit, Make but his Riches equal to his Wit, Then shall thy Form the Marble grace, (Thy Grecian Form) and Chloe lend the Face : Largi muneribus riserit aemuli, Albanos prope te lacus Ponet marmoream sub 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 sequor Te per gramina Martii Campi, te per aquas, dure, volubilos. |