LIBER IV. O DE I. Ad VENEREM. NTERMISSA, Venus, diu Rurfus bella moves ? parce precor, precor. Non fum qualis eram bonae Sub regno Cynarae. define, dulcium Mater faeva Cupidinum, Circa luftra decem flectere mollibus Jam durum imperiis : abi Quo blandae juvenum te revocant preces. Tempeftivius in domum Paulli, purpureis ales oloribus, Comiffabere Maximi; Si torrere jecur quaeris idoneum. Namque et nobilis, et decens, Et pro folicitis non tacitus reis, Et centum puer artium, Late figna feret militiae tuae. Et, quandoque potentior A BOOK IV. O DE I. TO VENU S. GAIN? new Tumults in my breaft? Ah spare me, Venus! let me, let me reft! I am not now, alas! the man As in the gentle Reign of My Queen Anne. Ah found no more thy foft alarms, Nor circle fober fifty with thy Charms. Mother too fierce of dear Defires! Turn, turn to willing hearts your wanton fires. To Number five direct your Doves, There spread round MURRAY all your blooming Loves; Noble and young, who strikes the heart With ev'ry sprightly, ev'ry decent part: Equal, the injur❜d to defend, To charm the Mistress, or to fix the Friend. He, with a hundred Arts refin'd, Shall stretch thy conquests over half the kind : To him each Rival shall submit, Make but his Riches equal to his Wit. Then shall thy Form the Marble grace, (Thy Grecian Form) and Chloe lend the Face; Largi muneribus riferit aemuli, Albanos prope te lacus Ponet marmoream fub trabe citrea. Illic plurima naribus Duces thura; lyraque et Berecynthia Delectabere tibia Mixtis carminibus, non fine fiftula. Illic bis pueri die Numen cum teneris virginibus tuum Laudantes, pede candido In morem Salium ter quatient humum. Me nec femina, nec puer Jam, nec fpes animi credula mutui, Nec certare juvat mero, Nec vincire novis tempora floribus. Sed cur, heu! Ligurine, cur Manat rara meas lacryma per genas? Cur facunda parum decoro Inter verba cadit lingua filentio ? Nocturnis ego fomniis Jam captum teneo, jam volucrem fequor Te per gramina Martii Campi, te per aquas, dure, volubiles. His Houfe, embosom'd in the Grove, Where Thames reflects the vifionary scene: Shall call the fmiling Loves, and young Defires; There, ev'ry Grace and Mufe fhall throng, Exalt the dance, or animate the fong; There Youths and Nymphs, in confort gay, Shall hail the rifing, close the parting day. With me, alas! those joys are o'er ; For me the vernal garlands bloom no more. Adieu! fond hope of mutual fire, The ftill-believing, ftill renew'd defire; Adieu! the heart-expanding bowl, And all the kind Deceivers of the foul! Steals down my cheek th' involuntary Tear? Absent I follow thro' th' extended Dream ; And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms; And swiftly shoot along the Mall, Or foftly glide by the Canal, Now shown by Cynthia's filver ray, And now, on rolling waters fnatch'd away. N LIBER IV. O DE IX. E forte credas interitura, quae Longe fonantem natus ad Aufidum Verba loquor focianda chordis; Non, fi priores Maeonius tenet Stefichorique graves Camenae : Nec, fi quid olim lufit Anacreon, Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona |