j^p2. on the "vrit'tngs of Buchanan: 38 



in itself trifling. I speak of verses on a diamond cut 

 into the fliape of a heart, and set in a ring, which 

 Queen Mary, in 1564, sent as a present to Elizabeth. 

 To forbear their insertion, is an injury to the author. . 



6. This section consists, like the last, of eleven articles- 

 The first is inscribed to Walter Haddon. The remainder 

 consist of four satires addrefsed to Leonora, a Portu- 

 guese bawd ; four pieces of the same nature, inscribed to 

 a profefsor in Coimbra ; and two translations from the 

 Greek, one of which is the satire of Simonides upon 

 women. This poem, the Spectator has pretended to 

 translate entire, but has omitted the last twenty-five 

 lines, which, as the poet's parting blow, contain a 

 furious invective against the whole sex. After this honest 

 piece of management the Spectator praises the Greek 

 poet for his delicacy in forbearing to cast out any ge- 

 neral reflections against women. I return to Buchanan, 

 His firs-t addrefs to Leonora begins thus : 



Matre impudica fiUa impudicior, 



Et lena mater filiae, 

 Vcs me putastisefse ludumque ct jocum, 



O Scorta triobolaria, 

 Sacrificiilorum paupcrum fastidia 

 .^ Relifla mendicabulis ? 



Vos ne videret gurgitcs, ne pafccrct 



Vir filife usque ad ultimos 

 Profugit Indos : nee via; longinqultas, 



Ncc nota fcritas gentium, 

 Nee belluofi rapida sajvitics frcti 



Ab institute tcrruit. 

 Nullum periculum, nulla monstri est vastitas 



Quam perpcti non mahiit, 

 Quani vos viderc duplicc"; voragi^jcs 



famse rcique prodigas. • 



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