1804.]  LExtraéis from the Port-folip of a Man of Letters. 
*T was thus at noon, as fings the fwain,* 
Who tun’d the fimple Doric ftrain, 
Shepherds retiring lay, 
And, while in awe they dropp’d the reed, 
And carelefs left their flocks to feed, 
To Pan would reverence pay. 
Thus, too, on Mona’s fecret heights, 
The Druid paid his myftic rites, 
And vervain duly fpread ; . 
And thus, while Silence liften’d round, 
Encircling wide the facred ground, 
In meek devotion prayed. 
T, too, with wearied fteps and flow 
For I have reach’d this green hill’s brow, 
Now reft, at eafe reclin’d, 
Feafting, while round I turn my eyes, 
And view the mingling hills arife, 
With folemn thoughts my mind, 
Oh! Parent bleft of young delight, 
Fair Health, now glide before iny fight 
In more than mortal grace, 
With rofes, blufhing on thy cheek, 
In iadiant fmile, and dimple fleek, 
And harmony of face. 
Let Love ill move thy matron breaft, 
And let thy flowery-cin&ur’d veft 
In folds majettic flow ;— 
Splendent as funbeams be thy hair, 
dn braids bright waving in the air, 
And bright thy neck as fnow. 
Wet what avails? To thee in vain 
J pour the pious-warbled ftrain, 
The fruitlefs incenfe burn: 
I fee thee fmiling ftill and {weet, 
Yet haftening far from my retreat, 
Ah! never to return. 
: ~ * Theocritus. 
* 
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Enflav’d to love, confum’d by thought, 
With books, and verfe, and follies fraught, 
Too long I flighted thee 5 
Oh! how my youth has pafs’d away, 
And now I feel my ftrength decay, 
And now thou flighteft me. 
Ah! flowers, which look, in vain, fo gay 5 
Ah! gales, to me which idly play ; 
Ah! birds, that vainly fing: 
The bloom of Spring, the Summer’s flow’ry 
And golden Autumn’s milder ftore, 
To me no pleafure bring. 
Go, then, more kind, to Stella go 5 
Give her the pure vermilion glow, 
And ftreak her eye with fire ; 
Still the dire throbbings of her heart, 
Bid Languor’s liftlefs form depart, . 
And all her foul refpire. 
And let her drink th’ ambrofial gales, 
Which by thy fprings, and-hills, and vales, 
Their balmy influence fhed ; 
There haleft herbs luxurious grow, 
And flowers with brighteft colours glow, 
And daintieft odours {pread. 
Then thall the feas, and earth, and fkies, 
With double fplendors feaft her eyes, | 
Her breaft- with rapture fill ; , 
Then fhall fhe bid her founding lyre, 
(For Stella has the poet’s fire) 
With ardent numbers thrill. 
Thus deign, oh Health! to hear my prayer, 
And oft-times here will I repair 5 
For fhouldf thou not impart 
Thy healing genuine warmth to me, 
Still fhall my incenfe rife to thee, 
. And that fhall warm my heart. 
G, Ds. 
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| Extrads from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
SANTO ZAGO. . 
a Bie: paintings of this famous {cholar 
of the great Titian are but little 
known, any more than the work of Bo/- 
chiat, who informs us, that he followed 
fo clofely the rules of his matter, that 
any one who had feen his Angel conduét- 
ing Tobias in the church of St. Catherine, 
in Venice, at the firft view would doubr- 
Jefs give it to Titian; and were it not to 
a certain degree inferior in point of ten- 
dernefs, even the beft-informed judges 
might be deceived. 
Bofchini, p. 19 and 430. + 
Query. Are any one of thismafter’s works 
in England? The writer has feen one in 
Jialy that fully anfwered this charaéter. 
BOCCACCIO. 
In the Vatican library; bequeathed by 
that great .colle&tor of beoks, Capponi, 
4 
are the following editions of the Deca- 
merone of our author, a/l ornamented 
ewith cuts, and fome of which are now never 
met with, viz. 
Decamerone 1472 Fol. 
1525 Do, Venice, Bernadino de 
viano de Lexona vercellefe. 
1537 Ven. 8vo. Niccolo di Sab- 
, bio. 
1538 Do. con ritratti d’Autore. 
1546 Gifleto, gto. 
1552 Do. 8vo, 
1552 Ven, Walgrifi, 4to. 
1555 Lyons. Rovillius, 12mo, 
1557 Wen. Valgrifi, 4to, 
1590 Ven. Fabio & Augs. Teps 
Pino, “pian iy 
1554 Ven. Marcolini, gto. 
"ANDREA MELDOSSA, 
Whofe works have been fo often miftaken 
H2 ; fer 
