Then dance, perhaps, or fondling fpread Or on his Lyre repofe to Reft,' While Dreams of Mufick footh my Breaft.. Adieu, dear Stranger! pr'ythee go, You've all that you defir'd to know. Hence, I entreat you, hence away! 35 40 COROM O DE Χ. 4 A On a Waxen Image of CUPID. YOUTH, expofing to be fold, A Waxen Love of beauteous Mold, With wing'd Demand I ask'd the Price: Ev'n what you lift, the Ruftick cries, I practife creon very elegantly makes his Youth fpeak in this manner, to ridicule the Unpoliteness of a Person, who could be fo ignorant of the Charms of Love, as to defire to part with it. VER. 10. Ὁ δ' εἶπε Δωριάζων, Δὸς ἦν, δὸς αὐτὸν ἡμῖν Πύρωσον εἰ ἢ μή, σύ Κατὰ φλογὸς τακήσῃ. ΤΟ 15 ΩΔΗ VER. 10. Here's Gold! --- Give me the heavnly Boy.] The Price offer'd in the Original, is a Drachm, which was an Attic Coin, worth about Seven-pence Halfpenny of our Money. VER. 13 & 14. That Infant you fall melt away, To more ignoble Flames a Prey. It was no unusual thing with the Ancients to threaten their Gods, as well as to pray to them. Herodotus informs us, that Xerxes was fo enrag'd for the Lofs of his Bridge of Boats on the Hellefpont, that he order'd the Sea to be fcourg'd, to revenge himfelf on Neptune. And the modern Indians, when any Misfortune befalls them, whip their Idols. Theocritus has a very remarkable Paf fage to this Purpose, in his feventh Idyllium, where he makes a Shepherd addrefs his God in this manner: Κἂν μ' ταῦθ ̓ ἕρδοις, ὦ Παν φίλε, μή τύ τι παῖδες Αρκαδικοὶ σκίλλαισιν ὑπὸ πλευράς τε καὶ ὤμος Τανάκα μαςίσδοιέν, όκκα κρέα τυτθὰ παρείη EX I practise not the mimick Arts, Nor form'd this Potentate of Hearts; Then let him sport on mine, faid I, 5 10 ODE Εἰ δ ̓ ἄλλως νάσαις, και μ' χρέα παν ̓ ὀνύχεσι ΔακνόμυΘ κνάσαιο, καὶ ἐν κνίδαισι καθεύδεις. Εἴης δ ̓ Ἠδωνῶν μὲ ἐν ὤρεσι χείματι μέσῳ, βρον παρ' ποταμὸν τετραμμένΘ, ἐγγύθεν ἄρκικο Ἐν ἢ θέρει πυμάτοισι πὰρ Αἰθιόπεωι νομεύοις, Πέτρᾳ ὑπὸ Βλεμύων, ὅθεν ἐκέτι ΝελΘ ὁρατός. O Sacred Pan! if thou indulge my Pray'r May no Arcadian Youths their Scourges rear, Nor for neglected Flocks thy Shoulders tear. But may'st thou, if thy Suppliant thou deny, Torn by revengeful Nails, on Nettles lie! On Edon's Hills, where lazy Heber flows, May'st thou all Winter freeze 'midst chilling Snows; And with black Ethiops curfe the Summer-heats, Where, under Blemyan Rocks, fcorch'd Nile retreats. VER. 4. VER. 4. Fall'n is thy Hair, quite fall'n away!] The Hair was very much regarded amongst the Ancients, and esteem'd by them as a principal Part of Beauty. Petronius defcribes the Lofs of it in the following elegant manner : Quod fummum forma decus eft, cecidere capilli, O fallax natura Deum! quæ prima dedifti Infelix, modo crinibus nitebas, Horti M often by the Women told, I'Mao anderen, thou grow'st old: Here, in this Glass thyself survey, 5 But Horti tubere, quod creavit unda, Beauty is fall'n'! thy Hair's foft Vernal Grace, The |