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Why are thy locks with fo much labour drefl ? 



What ftudied care reveals the fnowy breafl: ? 



Why wafts Arabia clouds of fragrance round ? 



Why feek in foreign toys the power to wound .' 



Oh why (hould art the boaft of nature hide ? . 



And charms like thine be facrific'd to pride ?— 



Truft me, thy beauties aflc no heightening pains ; 



And naked love the borrow'd charm difdains. 



Speaking of the native and unafFefted lovelinefs of the beauties of 

 antiquity, he fays, 



Sed facies aderat nullis obnoxia gemmis, 

 Qualis ylptlkis color eft tabulis, 

 Non illis ftudium vulgo conquirere amantes, 

 Illis ampla fatis forma pudicitia. 



No glare of gems obfcur'd the native grace, 

 A rofeate hue adorn'd the blooming face. 

 No ftudy theirs, to lure th'unguarded heart. 

 Virtue their charm, and nature all their art. 



In elegy the eleventh. Book the firft, addreffed to Cynthia at Baitz, 

 a famous vratering place, the Brighton of clafTical times, the poet ad- 

 dreffes that lady, in a ftraia of anxious and tender folicitude, mixed with 

 ferious reflexion. 



Tu modo quamprimura corruptas defere Baias, 

 Multis ifta dabunt littora diflidium, 

 Littora qua fuerunt caftis inimica puellis. 

 Ah ! pereant Bala crimen amoris aquas ! 



Oh fly the guilty (hore, th'envenom'd air. 

 That wafts divorces to the wedded pair ; 

 Ye heavens, from Baiic, modeft virgins guide. 

 Left drowning honour perifh in the tide ! 



He moralifes thus, on the indecent paintings with which the falhion- 

 ables, and opulent voluptuaries of Rome, in his time, were accuftomed 

 to cover their walls. 



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