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Ille cubans gaudet mutata forte, bonifque
Rebus agit laetum convivam: cum fubito ingens
Valvarum ftrepitus lectis excuffit utrumque.
Currere per totum pavidi conclave; magifque
Exanimes trepidare, fimul domus alta Moloffis
Perfonuit canibus. tum rufticus, Haud mihi vitą
Eft opus hac, ait, et valeas: me fylva, cavusque
Tutus ab infidiis tenui folabitur ervo,

" I have a thousand thanks to give-
"My Lord alone knows how to live."
No fooner faid, but from the Hall
Rush Chaplain, Butler, Dogs and all:
“A Rat, a Rat! clap to the door
The Cat comes bouncing on the floor.
O for the heart of Homer's Mice,
Or Gods to fave them in a trice!
(It was by Providence they think,

For your damn'd Stucco has no chink.)

"An't please your Honour, quoth the Peafant,
"This fame Deffert is not so pleasant :
"Give me again my hollow Tree,
A Cruft of Bread, and Liberty!

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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

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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.

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