’Restore, my charms,
My lingering Daphnis to my longing arms.’
(Dryden).
604. HOR. 1 Od. xi. 1.
’Ah, do not strive too much to know,
My dear Leuconoe,
What the kind gods design to do
With me and thee.’
(Creech).
605. VIRG. Georg. ii. 51.
’They change their savage mind,
Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature’s
part,
Obey the rules and discipline of art.’
(Dryden).
606. VIRG. Georg. i. 293.
’Mean time at home
The good wife singing plies the various
loom.’
607. OVID, Ars Amor. i. 1.
’Now Ioe Paean sing, now wreaths
prepare,
And with repeated Ioes fill the air;
The prey is fallen in my successful toils.’
(Anon.)
608. OVID, Ars Amor. i. 633.
’Forgiving with a smile
The perjuries that easy maids beguile.’
(Dryden).
609. JUV. Sat. i. 86.
‘The miscellaneous subjects of my book.’
610. SENECA.
’Thus, when my fleeting days, at
last,
Unheeded, silently, are past,
Calmly I shall resign my breath,
In life unknown, forgot in death:
While he, o’ertaken unprepared,
Finds death an evil to be fear’d,
Who dies, to others too much known,
A stranger to himself alone.’
611. VIRG. AEn. iv. 366.
’Perfidious man! thy parent was
a rock,
And fierce Hyrcanian tigers gave thee
suck.’
612. VIRG. AEn. xii. 529.
’Murranus, boasting of his blood,
that springs
From a long royal race of Latin kings,
Is by the Trojan from his chariot thrown,
Crush’d with the weight of an unwieldy
stone.’
(Dryden).
613. VIRG. Georg. iv. 564.
‘Affecting studies of less noisy praise.’
(Dryden).
614. VIRG. AEn. iv. 15.
’Were I not resolved against the
yoke
Of hapless marriage; never to be cursed
With second love, so fatal was the first,
To this one error I might yield again.’
(Dryden).
615. HOR. 4 Od. ix. 47.
’Who spend their treasure freely,
as ’twas given
By the large bounty of indulgent Heaven:
Who in a fixt unalterable state
Smile at the doubtful tide
of fate,
And scorn alike her friendship and her
hate:
Who poison less than falsehood
fear,
Loath to purchase life so
dear;
But kindly for their friend embrace cold
death,
And seal their country’s love with
their departing breath.’
(Stepney).
616. MART. Epig. i. 10.
‘A pretty fellow is but half a man.’
617. PER. Sat. i. 99.
’Their crooked horns the Mimallonian
crew
With blasts inspired; and Rassaris, who
slew
The scornful calf, with sword advanced
on high,
Made from his neck his haughty head to
fly.
And Maenas, when, with ivy-bridles bound,
She led the spotted lynx, then Evion rang
around,
Evion from woods and floods repeating
Echo’s sound.’