Properantis ævi circulum nympha expleat
Has inter elegantias,
Prætermeare quæ fugam vitæ siniť,
Brevemque summam negligit.
Quos ire et interire permittunt dies
Indiligens, incogitans
Vulgus puellarum, Melissa computat
Feliciore calculo.
Tuas in ædes nuptiali cum face,
Et cum Melissa conjuge,
Intrare pronubas videbis Gratias,
Sacrumque Virtutum chorum.
Sine arte compta, et elegans sine tædio,
Aderit Venustas ; et Salus
Suo rubore rosea; et Innocentia
Cadente purior nive;
Aderit Amor, Risus, Voluptas, Gaudium,
Et litium fugax Quies.
Aderit labella comprimens Taciturnitas,
Et fœderis servans Fides;
Et omnis eventus memor Prudentia,
Divesque rerum Industria :
Accedet his virtutibus pia Humilitas,
Nunquam immemor Dei aut sui.
Regina Gratiarum aderit Humanitas,
Perferre facilis et pati,
Humana si natura quid deliquerit,
Aut caverit si quid parum :
Calumniantium susurros improbans,
Paucisque notam infamiam ;
Since Envy makes with rumour'd lies
Friends and brethren enemies.
Grood-breeding shall her handmaid be,
Join'd with chast-look'd Modesty ;
While open heart, and hand and face,
Hospitality displays.
If e'er Melissa grace your home,
These attendants with her come.
Whate'er can good or ill befall,
Faithful partner she of all.
Whose wisdom, teaching well to bear,
Sooths the bitterness of care;
Whose joy, if prosp'rous fate you meet,
Adds new sweetness to the sweet.
These ties will nuptial love engage,
Down from youth to hoary age,
If e'er Melissa, lovely spouse!
Life's companion! crown your vows. Such, such a consort choose to wed, Worthy of your board and bed.
Memor, invidi rumoris ut Malignitas,
Inimicat urbes et domos.
Famulabitur castum intuens Modestia,
Et docta cultu Urbanitas ;
Et advenis præsens domi Hospitalitas,
Aperta vultus et manum.
His cum sodalibus Melissa gratiis
Ducetur ad tuam domum ;
Fidelis, ægrum quicquid aut lætabile est,
Et vera tecum particeps;
Solando quæ curarum amara leniat,
Et consulendo temperet ;
Fruendo quæ felicitates augeat,
novis addat novas.
Irrupta copula hisce contiac bitur,
His vinculis firmabitur,
Validis ab annis ad senectam, si tuæ
Melissa sit vitæ comes;
Quam, Marce, cum ducetur uxor, elige,
Mensæque consortem et tori.
TABLES OF ANCIENT COINS, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES;
By MR. CHARLES ARBUTHNOT,
STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD.
GREAT name *, which in our rolls recorded stands,
Leads, honours, and protects the learned bands,
Accept this offering to thy bounty due,
And Roman wealth in English sterling view.
Read here, how Britain, once despis'd, can raise
As ample sums, as Rome in Cæsar's days;
Pour forth as numerous legions on the plain,
And with more dreadful navies awe the main.
The king's name stands first in the buttery-book of Christ-Church, 1727.
AUGUSTUM nomen, nostro qui primus in albo
Præfulges, doctasque auges, quas protegis, artes;
Externas digneris opes, veterumque monetam,
Et Romæ Angliaea librare numismata lance.
Hic lege, quas, olim neglecta, Britannia jactet,
Queis neque, devicti spoliis Orientis onusta,
Roma recensebat plures sub Cæsare gazas ;
Quot campum agminibus stipet, quo fulmine, quantis
Per mare diffusas classes terroribus armet,
Et tua quam late pan at vexilla per orbem.
Clausa licet terras spatiis brevioribus, udum,
Qua pontus patet usque ambos porrectus ad Indos,
Vindicat imperium: nec passim, nt Roma, rapinis
Omnia divexans, armis sua furta tuetur,
Audax grassatrix; sed cultu divitis arvi
Proventus, peregrino auro, telæque labores
Mutat lanificæ, vestire et pascere gentes
Læta magis, quam vi nudare, et perdere ferro.
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