PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 5I 



'* May the brothers of Helen, flars radiant like 

 " yourfelves, and may the Ruler of the winds, di- 

 " reft your courfe; binding up every ruder blaft, 

 " and filling your fails only with the breath of the 

 " Zephyr." 



I engraved the following line, from Firgi/, on 

 the rind of a tatamaque, under the fhade of which 

 Paul fometimes fat down, to contemplate, from 

 afar, the agitated Ocean : 



Fortunatus & ille deos qui novit agrefles ! 



** Happy, too, is he, in knowing no deities but 

 thofe who make the plains their care 1" 



And that other, over the door of Madame de la 

 Tour's cottage, which was the place of general ren- 

 dezvous : 



At fecura quies, & nefcia fallere vita. 

 *' Peace undilturbed, and hearts devoid of guile.'' 



"^MX. Firginia à\i\ not approve of my Latin; (he 

 faid, that the infcription which I had placed be- 

 low her weathercock, was too long, and too learned. 

 I fhould have rather preferred this, added fhe ; 



ALWAYS AGITATED, BUT EVER CONSTANT. 



That device, replied I, is flill better adapted to 



E a virtue. 



