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pcrfonal attraflions and external charms, and founded in nobler motives, 

 than meer fenfual defircs ; he too, is perhaps the firft, who intermixes 

 grave morality with the language of paflion. Speaking of the accora- 

 pliflimeats quaque Venus quaque Minerva probat, he fays, 



His tu femper eris noflraj gratiflima vitje, 

 Tasdia dum miferse fint tibi luxuris. 



By thefe alone, fupreme and uncontroul'J, 

 Thy foft dominion o'er my fpirit hold. 



Me laudent doflse folum placuifle puellse. 



Mine, mine the boaft to pleafe a learned fair, 



Non ego fum forraas tantura mirator honeflx, 

 Nee fi qua illuftres foemina jaftet avos. 

 Me juvat, in gremio doflse legifle puellae : 

 Auribus et puris fcripta probaffe mea. 



My bofom burns not for external grace ; 

 Nor flames, at fplendors of a noble race. 

 I prize the charms, that wit and tafte difpenfe ; 

 When joys of reafon heighten thofe of fenfe. 

 I woo the mufe, on Cynthia's bread reclin'd. 

 In Cynthia's fmile mature applaufe I find. 



Carmina tarn fan6>e nulla puella colit. 



No maid with fuch a high and facred awe. 

 The treafures of the heavenly mufe reveres. 



In that beautiful elegy, the feventh of the fourth book, where he 

 defcribes the Ihade of Cynthia appearing to him after her death : he 

 makes her addrefs him with this tender and benevolent requeft. 



Sed tibi nunc mandata damns, (i forte moveris, 

 Si te Don totuni Chloridos herba tenet, 

 Nulrix in tremulis ne quid defideret annis, 

 Parlhenie .■ patuit, nee tibi avara fuit. 

 Vol. IX. X Delitiseqie 



