The revel now proceeds apace,

Deftly they frisk it o'er the place,

They fit, they drink, and eat ; The time with frolic mirth beguile,

And poor Sir Topaz hangs the while 'Till all the rout retreat.

By this the ftars began to wink,
They skriek, they fly, the tapers fink,
And down ydrops the knight.

For never spell by fairie laid

With ftrong enchantment bound a glade,
Beyond the length of night.

Chill, dark, alone, adreed, he lay,

Till up the welkin rose the day,

Then deem'd the dole was o'er:

But wot ye well his harder lot?
His feely back the bunch had got
Which Edwin loft afore.

This tale a Sybil-nurse ared;

She foftly ftroak'd my youngling head,

And when the tale was done,

<< Thus

"Thus fome are born, my fon, fhe cries,

"With base impediments to rise,

"And fome are born with none.

"But virtue can itself advance

"To what the fav'rite fools of chance
"By fortune seem design'd;

"Virtuè can gain the odds of fate,
"And from itself shake off the weight
"Upon th' unworthy mind."

PER VIGILIUM

VENERIS.

RAS amet, qui numquam amavit; quique amavit,

CRAS

cras amet.

Ver novum, ver jam canorum: vere natus orbis eft,

Vere concordant amores, vere nubent alites,

Et nemus comam refolvit de maritis imbribus.

Cras amorem copulatrix inter umbras arborum
Implicat gazas virentes de flagello myrteo.

Cras Dione jura dicit, fulta fublimi throno.

Cras amet, qui numquam amavit; quique amavit,

cras amet.

Tunc

THE

VIGIL of VENU S.

Written in the Time of JULIUS CAESAR, and by fome afcribed to CATULLUS.

LET those love now, who never lov'd before;

Let thofe who always lov'd, now love the more.

The spring, the new, the warb'ling fpring appears, The youthful season of reviving years;

In fpring the loves enkindle mutual heats,

The feather'd nation chuse their tuneful mates,
The trees grow fruitful with descending rain
And dreft in diff'ring greens adorn the plain.
She comes; to-morrow beauty's emprefs roves
Thro' walks that winding run within the groves;
She twines the shooting myrtle into bow'rs,
And ties their meeting tops with wreaths of flow'rs,
Then rais'd fublimely on her easy throne
From nature's pow'rful dictates draws her own.
Let thefe love now, who never lov'd before;
Let thofe who always lov'd, now love the more.

Tunc liquore de fuperno, fpumeo ponti e globo,

Cærulas inter catervas, inter & bipedes equos,

Fecit undantem Dionen de maritis imbribus.

Cras amet, qui numquam amavit; quique amavit

cras amet.

Ipfa gemmas purpurantem pingit annum floribus, Ipfa furgentis papillas de Favonî spritu,

Urguet in toros tepentes; ipfa roris lucidi,

Noctis aura quem relinquit, fpargit umentis aquas,
Et micant lacrymæ trementes decidivo pondere.
Gutta præceps orbe parvo fuftinet cafus fuos.
In pudorem florulentæ prodiderunt purpuræ.
Umor ille, quem ferenis aftra rorant noctibus.
Mane virgines papillas folvit umenti peplo.
Ipfa juffit mane ut udæ virgines nubant rofæ

Fufæ prius de cruore deque amoris ofculis,

Deque gemmis, deque flammis, deque folis purpuris.

Cras