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» Errabant pueri, quales pinguntur Amores , 
» Reginam circnm purpureumque torum. 
» Pars arcum pharetramque gerit, pars aurea vibrât 
» Spicula : pars Dominæ spargit in ora rosas. 
» Quid memorem ut cultæ Nympharum more puellæ 
» Nautarum subeant arte manuque vices ? 
» Ut feriant illæ ductis ad pectora remis 
» Æquora, propulsant dirigat ilia ratent? 
» Hæc faciles captat ventos , tractatque rudentes , 
» Et modo dat Zepbyris et modo vêla nolis® 
» Ula sedet, citharamque tenet, remisque canendo 
» Imperat, et puisas carminé mulcet aquas. 
» Pars philyra flores et serta fragrantia nectit : 
» Ilia coronandis puppibus, ilia Deis. 
» Pars libi votivas pingunt, iNeptune , tabellas 
» Quas tibi pro salva munera puppe ferant. » 
Felicem ingenii ubertatem! quod,agro fertili simile, accepta 
semina tanto cum fœnore reddit. Locum Plutarchi etiam ele- 
gantissime expressif Catsius nostras, cujus Carminain omnium 
manibus sunt. Adde Shakesperium in Antonio et Cleopatra, 
act. II, sc. II. 
« The barge she sat in, like a burnisli’d throne, 
» Burnt on the water : the poop was beaten gold; 
» Purple the sails, and so perfum’d, that 
* The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver, 
» Which to the tune of flûtes kept stroke, and made 
» The water , which they beat, to follow faster, 
» As amorous of their strokes. For her owtt person, 
» It beggar’d ail description : she did lie 
» In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue). 
v> C’er-picturing that venus, where we see 
» The fancy out-work nature : on eaeh side her, 
Stood pretty-dimpled boys, like simling Cupids , 
» With divers-colour’d fans, whose wind did seem 
» To glow the délicate cheeks Which they did cool, 
wbat they undid, did. 
