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Epigrams, Fragments, l^cfrom the Greek. [Ndv. I 



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Did I not warn thcq, Rol'aline, that Time 

 Would foot) divide tiiee from the yoiithiul 

 throng, 

 Feed on the aania/k of thy blooming prime, 



And Icatter wrinkles as iie pafs'd aiorig ? 

 The hour 15 coni? ; fof who with amorous 

 fong . ■ 



Now woos thy fmile or celebrates thy 

 b'ooiii ? 

 See from thy prcfence how the gay and young 

 Rething cum, and ihrinlc as ftomatumb. 



Cold Rhodope, of beauty vain, replies, 

 Vviiene'cr 1 grett her, with difdainfui eyes. 

 The wrcjthe I wove, and on her dour-poft 



hour.d, • 

 Enraged >liE tore, and fcUter'd on the ground, 

 Rrmorfelfl's A^e, and wrinkles, to my aid, 

 Fly, fwiuly fly, and Rhodope perfuide ! 



Atld to thele the following lively Tally 

 of Nicarchus, who appe:u> to have been 

 jilted, and to have taicen the method ul'ii- 

 ally praiSlifed by deipil'cd posits of aveng- 

 ing hinjieW . 



Of beauty I-ydia may have boaftej 



With reafon in her prime, 

 Perhaps by all the young was toafte4 



^ ho liv'd ill Noah's time. 

 But now her days of love ate ever. 



Of ogling and of fighing, 

 'Twe.e wile no moie to ftelt a lover, 



But th.nlc at la!l of dying. 



From the cruel fair tliemlUves it fs but 

 ratiir'l toexpeflthat the abiifeof the pott 

 would be transferred to the god who cauf* 

 ed his diicjuiet. Hence he is born on 

 rocks, nr 11: idled by li<nelu:s, and re- 

 jifnacired as a coward for entering the lilts 

 Vvitli ninitals. 



1 hate thee, Love ! On tygers try 



The terrors of thy archery ; 



A mor''jl I, and ti-ou aivine — 



What rriighty vift-.iry is thine ? 



The (juict of my hijrt is loft ; 



Eat thou (Iiould'll rather blulh thanboaft. 



The an. ien:s bad ce.-tain'y no i.leis of 

 any coriipofition ?pproaclii''g to th; form 

 ol the model n romance. Tiie fir.t regular 

 t.ile which vvts formed on the fuhjeil of 

 love is, I btiicve, arknowiedged to be ih.t 

 rf Thespifnfs and Cliaridea, written by 

 a ChnlVian bilnip, Heliodoius. Yet 

 th.-ir popu'.ar traditions were probably as 

 full ot annoroiis incidnits as tn die of any 

 )Tiod;^vn nat'on ; andralirs of crutl nymphs 

 nnJ " de'.pis'd lovc" were as frtqutntly 

 j»;uidi.d by the Qiecian as by the Jiiiti.1i 



peafint«. Even the rougheft and njoft ujj- ' 

 couth of men were repiefented as fubdiied • 

 by the power of love, and fufFering thoft 

 tortures which are ulually confidered as' 

 the lot of fol^ter and more refined (pirits ' 

 aione. Wu are ficlcened with the lame- 

 ntfs of imagery accompanying the pictures ' 

 of love-fick fiiepherds and complaining 

 boys, and turn from thenuwith wonder 

 and a«e to the gloomy figure of the fiei'ce' 

 and gigantic Cyclops oi uring out'fo the' 

 wild rocks and c.iveins of his native 

 y£(na the deep grams and lamentations • 

 of a favage love. ■ . ■ • 1 



Yet will T go befiJe the founding main. 

 And to yon folitary crags complain ; 

 And, onward forrowing by the fandy (hore, 

 The fcorii of Galaiaja's brow deploie : 

 But fweeteft Hope fhall ever fill my heart. 

 Nor with my lateil, fetbleft age Oepart. 



The ludicrous inirofluftiun of the fifli- 

 tlous nymph Echo, with her courteous im- 

 plies to the qutftions of defpairing Iwains, 

 is of very ancitnt l^ibrication, and fuits 

 well with the giotefque image of the fyl- 

 van deity. It is thus tiiat Pauradas re- 

 prefents a converfatioii between the nymph 

 And the god : 

 PAN^^tpho, attend the humble fuit \ 



move !— 

 Echo. move ! 



What makes Cotifca render fcorn for love ?-- 



Her love. 

 What, gentle Echo, may Corifca bribe ?-t- 



A bribe. 

 Wilt thou to her my painful toil defenbe ?r— . 



I'll defcribe. 

 I leek occalion — but flie flies me ftill— 



Be 11.11. 

 And can you promife that Ihe'll grant my 

 will ? ■ I will. 



The following ft^ry ih Panf^inia* is as 

 romantic in its circum!lance<, and, if 

 woiked-up in the palioral ftyle of the 

 writers of la^er days, iiiit'ht mske as inte- 

 refting an Arcadian drama as the Aminfa 

 of I hII) or ihe Pallor Fido of Guarini. 



Among the prie.is of Bacchus, while 

 the city of Calydon yet Hojd, was ore 

 named Coroelus, who loved the beauti'ij 

 virgin Cilli'hoe with tl;e moft ardent paf- 

 fiun. He long wooed lier v,ith unremitting 

 perCeveianre ; he eiuploytd every art of 

 jjirlujf.on, he exhaulted every effort of 

 fancy, to win her heart ; but the more 

 violent his afachnicnt grew, the mr>re 

 averfe was flie to lillen to his prayers j 

 and the move eanielJ the folicitstious he 

 ufcd, tiie more cruel and determined wa« 

 her repuife. In vaiu did he purfue her 



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