I remember, fays Cynthio, Juvenal rallies Creticus, that was otherwife a brave rough fellow, very handsomely, on this kind of garment.

-fed quid

Non facient alii cum tu multitia fumas,

Cretice? et hanc veftem populo mirante perores
In Proculas et Pollineas.

Juv. Sat. 2.

Acer et indomitus Libertatifque magifter, · Cretice, pelluces

Nor, vain Metellus, fhall

Ibid.

From Rome's Tribunal thy harangues prevail
'Gainft harlotry, while thou art clad fo thin,
That thro' thy Cobweb-robe we fee thy fkin,
As thou declaim'ft-
Mr. Tate.
Can't thou restore old manners, or retrench
Rome's pride, who com'ft tranfparent to the
Bench?

Idem,

But pray what is the meaning that this tranfparent Lady holds up her train in her left-hand? for I find your women on Medals do nothing without a meaning. Befides, I fuppofe there is a moral precept at least couch'd under the fi gure fhe holds in her other hand. She draws back her garment, fays Philander, that it may not incumber her in her march. For fhe is always drawn in a pofture of walking, it being as natural for Hope to prefs forward to her proper objects, as for Fear to By from them.

Ut canis in vacuo leporem cum Gallicus arvo
Vidit, et hic prædam pedibus petit, ille falutem :
Alter inbafuro fimilis, jam jamque tenere
Sperat, et extento ftringit veftigia roftro ;

Alter

Alter in ambiguo eft an fit comprenfus, et ipfis
Morfibus eripitur, tangentiaque ora relinquit :
Sic deus et virgo eft: hic fpe celer, illa timore.

De Apol. et Daph. Ov. Met. Lib. r.

As when th' impatient Greyhound flipt from far,
Bounds o'er the glebe to catch the fearful Hare,
She in her speed does all her fafety lay:
And he with double fpeed purfues the prey;
Q'er-runs her at the fitting turn, and licks
His chaps in vain, and blows upon the flix:
She 'fcapes, and for the neighb'ring covert strives,
And gaining shelter doubts if yet the lives :-
Such was the god, and fuch the flying fair,
She, urg'd by Fear, her feet did swiftly move,
But he more swiftly who was urg'd by Love.
Mr. Dryden.

This beautiful fimilitude is, I think, the prettieft emblem in the world of Hope and Fear in extremity. A flower or bloffom that you fee in the right-hand is a proper ornament for Hope, fince they are these that we term in poetical language the Hopes of the year.

Vere novo, tunc herba nitens, et roboris expers
Turget et infolida eft, et Spe delectat agreftes.
Omnia tum florent, florumque coloribus almus
Ridet ager
Ov. Met. Lib. 15.

The green ftem grows in ftature and in fize,
But only feeds with Hope the Farmer's eyes;
Then laughs the childish year with flowrets
crown'd,

And lavishly perfumes the fields around.

Mr. Dryden.

The

The fame Poet in his De faftis, fpeaking of the Vine in flower, expreffes it,

In fpe vitis eratOv. de Faft. Lib. 5. The next on the Lift is a Lady FIG. 9. of a contrary character, and therefore in a quite different pofture. As Security is free from all pursuits, she is represented leaning carelefly on a pillar. Horace has drawn a pretty metaphor from this posture.

Nullum

me à labore reclinat otium.

No ease doth lay me down from pain.

Mr. Creech.

She refts herself on a pillar, for the fame reafon as the Poets often compare an obftinate refolution or a great firmness of mind, to a rock that is not to be moved by all the affaults of winds

or waves.

Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus inftantis tyranni,

Mente quatit folida, neque Aufter

Dux inquieta turbidus Adria, &c.

The man refolv'd, and fteady to his truft,
Inflexible to ill, and obftinately just,

Hor.

May the rude rabble's infolence defpife,
Their fenfelefs clamours and tumultuous cries;
The tyrant's fiercenefs he beguiles,

And the stern brow and the harsh voice defies,
And with fuperior greatness fmiles.

Not the rough whirlwind that deforms Adria's black gulf———&r.

Mr. Creech,

I am apt to think it was on Devices of this nature that Horace had his Eye in his Ode to Forjune. It is certain he alludes to a pillar that figured out Security, or fomething very like it; and till any body finds out another that will ftand better in its place, I think we may content ourselves with this before us.

Te Dacus afper, te profugi Scythe
Urbefque gentefque et Latium ferox,
Regumque matres barbarorum, et
Purpurei metuunt tyranni :

Injuriofo nè pede proruas

Stantem columnam: neu populus frequens
Ad arma ceffantes, ad arma
Concitet, imperiumque frangat.

Ad Fortunam. Hor. Lib. 1, Od, 35

To thee their vows rough Germans pay,
To thee the wandring Scythians bend,
The mighty Rome proclaims a friend:
And for their Tyrant fons

The barb'rous Mothers pray

To thee, the greateft guardian of their Thrones.

They bend, they vow, and ftill they fear,
Left you fhould kick their Column down,
And cloud the glory of their Crown;
They fear that you would raise
The lazy crowd to war,

And break their Empire, or confine their praife.

Mr. Creech.

know

I must however be fo fair as to let you that Peace and Felicity have their pillars in feveral Medals as well as Security, fo that if you do not like one of them, you may take the other.

The

The next Figure_is_that_of

FIG. 10. Chastity, who was worshipped as

a Goddess, and had her Temple.

-deinde ad fuperos Aftræa receffit

Hâc comite, atque duæ pariter fugere forores.

De Pudicitia. Juv. Sat. 6.

At length uneafy Juftice upwards flew,
And both the Sifters to the Stars withdrew.
Mr. Dryden.

Templa Pudicitia quid opus ftatuifje puellis,
Si cuivis nuptæ quidlibet effe licet? Tib. Lib. 2.

Since wives whate'er they please unblam'd can be,
Why rear we ufelefs Fanes to Chastity?

How her pofture and drefs become her, you may fee in the following verfes.

Ergo fedens velat vultus, obnubit ocellos,
Ifta verecundi figna Pudoris erant.

Alciat.

She fits, her vifage veil'd, her eyes conceal'd,
By marks like these was Chastity reveal'd.

Ite procul vittæ tenues, infigne Pudoris,
Quæque tegit medios inftita longa pedes.

Ov. de Art. Aman.

-frontem limbo velata Pudicam.

Claud. de Theod. Conf.

Hence!