66 THE HISTORY AND ART 



the fingularity of the thoughts, and turn of the ex- 

 ipreffion, I venture to infert it, with an attempt of a 

 verfion of it, for the Englifh reader. 



retus infer ipt to Roma, 



D. M. 



fluifquls leBurus accedis, caveji amas, 



Etji non amas^ penjicula. Mifer quijine amore 



Fivitf duke exit nihil. Aji ego tarn 



Duke anbelans, me incautet 



Perdidi, & amor f nit. Equodum 



^/peHui Durmionia formojij/ima puella: \ 



Firguncula, fumma cum pohoria placer e 



Cuperem, cafu dejiliens, pes ha/it Jiapia, 



TraBus interii : in rem tuam mature^ propera. 



Vale, 



If love's fvveet paiHon ever touch'd your heart. 

 Or if your bofom never felt his dart ; 

 Whoe'er thou art, approach ; behold this tomb f 

 And heedful read a lover's haplefs doom ! 

 Unconfcious of love's joys, the wretch who lives. 

 No pleafure ever knows, no pleafure gives : 

 Love is the life of life — yet from it flow 

 Various difafters, and a world of woe. 

 By love I perifh'd ; from the bounding horfc, 

 When I had call'd forth all his adlive force, 

 In fondeft hopes to pleafe a beauteous maid, 

 Whofe charms infpir'd the feats which fhe furvey'd, 



My 



