SIMILE AGIT IN SIMILE. Psittace, ait Thais, fingitque sonantia molle Psittace mi pulcher pulchelle, hera dicit alumno ; 127 Nunc tremulum illudit fratrem, qui suspicit, et pol! THE PARROT. TRANSLATED BY COWPER. IN painted plumes superbly drest, Poll gains at length the British shore, Belinda's maids are soon preferr'd But 'tis her own important charge To qualify him more at large, Sweet Poll! his doating mistress cries, She next instructs him in the kiss, 'Tis now a little one like miss, And now a hearty smack. THE PARROT. At first he aims at what he hears And listening close with both his ears, A querulous old woman's voice Belinda and her bird! 'tis rare To meet with such a well match'd pair, The language and the tone, Each character in every part Sustain'd with so much grace and art,, And both in unison. When children first begin to spell And stammer out a syllable, We think them tedious creatures; But difficulties soon abate, When birds are to be taught to prate, 129 AGENS ET PATIENS SUNT SIMUL. DUXIT Acon Leonillam haud una atque altera luna Interiit, male cum se nova nupta tulit : Os pallet, languent oculi, stomachoque fit ista Nausea, quæ gravidas denotat esse nurus. Esto fides dictis; eadem quoque nausea Aconti est, Pallidus est pariter vultus, ocellus hebes. Nutrix, sedula anus, fomenta utrique ministrat, Cardiacum uxori, cardiacumque viro. Quis novus hic, nutrix, morbus? socii unde dolores? Quave sumus gravidi conditione viri? Nutrix, callida anus, fuit, inquit, utrique voluptas ; Equa satis lex est, ut sit utrique dolor. ITER PER TAMISIN. URBEM cum volui crassumque relinquere fumum, Plaustrorumque vagos strepitus currusque crepantes; Nunc vocem stridentis anus, nunc murmura rauca Audire invitus fusæ per compita turbæ, ( Quam miser emittit vates et sordida musa; L |