$2 on the •writings of Buchanan, Jan. iB, 



Tuam nequitiam et procacitatem, 

 Poftquam tc propiiis, Nea?ra novi. 

 At tu si penitus perire me vis, 

 Si vis perdite amcm, et magis maglsqiic 

 Totis artubus imbibam furoreni. 

 Sis nequani magis, et magis proterva. 

 Nam quo nequior es, proterviorque, 

 Tamto impensius urorinquieto 

 Ventilante odio faces amoris, 

 Et lentas iterum cientc flammas. 

 Quod si sis melior, modestiorque, 

 Odero minus, et minus te amabo. 



« As much as I loved thy charms, twice as much 

 «« more have I hated thy pride and wantonnefs, after O 

 «« Neaera ! I knew thee better. — But if thou canst wifh 

 " me utterly undone, if thou desirest that 1 fhould 

 *' love to distraction, that madnefs fhould more and 

 ** more burn in every vein, be still more haughty, and 

 ** ftill more wanton. For the more haughty and the 

 *' more wanton thou art, by so much more deeply am 

 ** I inflamed with restlefs hatred fanning the torch of 

 «' love, and again kindling its decaying flames. Wert 

 *« thou more modest, and more worthy, I fliould hate 

 *' thee lefs, but I fhould love thee lefs." 



We have also some Ihort and beautiful addrefses to 

 Theodore Beza, and other men of letters, which must 

 have been infinitely pleasing and flattering to the au- 

 thor's literary afsociates. We cannot wonder that 

 wit, and learning, and valour, and beauty, whatever 

 is amiable, or venerable in human nature, crouded into 

 the correspondence of a poet, prodigal of immortality 

 The last article in this fection proves that Buchanan 

 pofsefsed the art of raising, into importance, a subject 



