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this loquacious nymph ; of whose compla- 

 cency and decent reserve more may be said 

 than can with truth of every individual of 

 her sex • since she is 



quae nee reticere loquenti. 



" Nee prior ipsa loqui didicit resonabilis echo.** 



I am, &c. 



P. S. The classic reader will, I trust, 

 pardon the following lovely quotation, so 

 finely describing echoes, and so poetically 

 accounting for their causes from popular 

 superstition : 



" Quae bene quom videas, rationem reddere possis 

 " Tute tibi atque aliis, quo pacto per loca sola 

 " Saxa pareis fonnas verborum ex ordine reddant, 

 " Palanteis comites quom monteis inter opacoa 

 " Quaerimus, et magnd dispersos voce ciemus. 

 " Sex etiam, aut septem loca vidi reddere voces 

 " Unam quom jaceres : ita colles colHbus ipsis 

 '^ Verba repulsantes iterab$nt dicta ref(^re. 

 " Haec loca capripedes Satyros, Nymphasque tenere 

 " Finitimi fingunt, et Faunos esse loquuntur ; 

 " Quorum noctivago strepitu, ludoque jocanti 

 ^' Affirmant volgo tacituma silentia rumpi, 

 " Chordarumque sonos fieri, dulceisque querelas, 

 " Tibia quas fundit digitis pulsata canentum : 

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