QUI LATIN A CARMINA SCRIPSERUNT. 3/ji 



Errabant pueri , quales pinguntnr Amores , 

 Reginam circum purpureumque torum. 

 Pars arcnm pharetramque gerit , pars aurea vibrat 



* Spicula : pars Dominae spargit in ora rosas. 



Quid memorem ut culUe Nympharum more puellae 



Nautarum subeant arte manuquc vices? 



* Ut feriant illae ductis ad pectora rcmis 



jEquora, propulsam dirigat ilia ratoni? 



Hire faciles captat ventos , tractatquc rudentes , 

 Et modo dat Zephyris et modo vela notis. 



- Ilia sedet , citharamque tenet , remisqae canendo 



Imperat, et pulsas carmine mulcet aquas. 

 > Pars philyra flores et serta fragrantia nccth : 



> Ilia coronandis puppibus, ilia Deis. 

 Pars tibi votivas pingunt , Neptune , tabellas 



Quas tibi pro salva munera puppe ferant. 



Felicem ingenii ubertatem!<juod,agro fertili simile, accepta 

 scmina tanto cum foenore reddit. Locum Plutarchi etiam ele- 

 gantissime expressit Catsius nostras, cujus Carmina in omnium 

 manibus sunt. Adde Shakesperium in Antonio et Cleopatra, 

 act. II, sc. II. 



The barge she sat in , like a burnish'd throne , 



Burnt on the water : the poop was beaten gold : 

 " Purple the sails, and so perfum'd , that 



a The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver, 

 Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke , and made 

 . The water , which they beat , to follow faster, 

 As amorous of their strokes. For her own person , 



It beerear'd all description : she did lie 



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In her pavilion (cloth of gold , of tissue). 



C'er-picturing that vcnus , where we see 



The fancy out-work nature : on each side her , 



Stood pretty-dimpled boys , like simling Cupids , 

 With divers-colour'd fans , whose wind did seem 



To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool , 

 And what they undid , did. 



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