EQUES ACADEMICUS.

CALCARI instruitur juvenis; geminove vel uno, Haud multum, aut ocreis cujus, et unde, refert; Fors fortasse suo, fortasse aliunde, flagello;

Quantulacunque sui, pars tamen ipse sui. Sic rite armatus, quinis (et forte minoris) Conductum solidis scandere gestit equum. Lætus et impavidus qua fert fortuna (volantem Cernite) quadrupedem pungit et urget iter: Admisso cursu, per rura, per oppida fertur: Adlatrant catuli, multaque ridet anus.

Jamque ferox plagis, erectâ ad verbera dextrâ Calce cruentatâ lassat utrumque latus. Impete sed tanto vixdum confecerit ille

Millia propositæ sexve novemve viæ,

Viribus absumptis, fessusque labore, caballus

Sternit in immundum seque equitemque lutum

Vectus iter peraget curru plaustrove viator?

Proh pudor et facinus! cogitur ire pedes. Si, nec inexpertum, seniorem junior audis, Quæ sint exiguæ commoda disce moræ. Quam tibi præcipio, brevis est, sed regula certa; Ocyus ut possis pergere, lentus eas

boren wiltin De Los mira emo id eldout it woⱭ Cetuer abd Balan of Hade betoda so achogu s al Joc no fi THE CANTABolobusa i do

WITH
ITH two spurs or one; and no great matter

Boots bought, or boots borrow'd, a whip or a

zinswitch,d yam Tourooj srey asvord W mog

Five shillings or less for the hire of his beast,

Paid part into hand;—you must wait for the rest.
Thus equipt, Academicus climbs up his horse,
And out they both sally for better or worse;
His heart void of fear, and as light as a feather;
And in violent haste to go not knowing whither:

Through the fields and the towns, (see !) he scam

pers along, now urinates robing don't

And is look'd at, and laugh'd at, by old and by

young.

Till at length overspent, and his sides smear'd

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Down tumbles his horse, man and all in the mud. In a waggon or chaise shall he finish his route? // Oh! scandalous fate! he must do it on foot.

Young gentlemen, hear!I am older than

you!

The advice, that I give, I have prov'd to be true. Wherever your journey may be, never doubt it, The faster you ride, you're the longer about it. I YOU TO JAW Joum joy---buni ojinog ul

JOY

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THE winter-night now well-nigh worn away, s The wakeful cock proclaim'd approaching day, When Simulus, poor tenant of a farm

about A Of narrowest limits, heard the shrill alarm,

Yawn'd, stretch'd his limbs, and anxious to pro

Against the pangs of hunger unsupplied,22
By slow degrees his tatter'd bed forsook,
And poking in the dark explor'd the nook,
Where embers slept with ashes heap'd around,
And with burnt fingers-ends the treasure found.
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It chanc'd that from a brand beneath his broddi presa eid edam or ad olidTMN

nose,odal

Sure proof of latent fire, some smoke arose;

When trimming with a pin th' incrusted tow,
And stooping it towards the coals below,

He toils, with cheeks distended, to excite

The ling'ring flame, and gains at length a light. With prudent heed he spreads his hand before The quiv'ring lamp, and opes his gran'ry door." Small was his stock, but taking for the day, f A measur'd stint of twice eight pounds away, W With these his mill he seeks. A shelf at hand,) Fixt in the wall, affords his lamp a stand

Then baring both his arms-a sleeveless coat
He girds, the rough exuviæ of a goat; maleg
And with a rubber, for that use design'd,
Cleansing his mill within-begins to grind
Each hand has its employ; lab'ring amain,

This turns the winch, while that supplies the grain.
The stone revolving rapidly, now glows,
And the bruis'd corn a mealy current flows;
While he, to make his heavy labour light,

Tasks oft his left hand to relieve his right;