The Caitive upward flung; There like a Tortoise in a Shop

He dangled from the Chamber-top,

Where whilome Edwin hung.

The Revel now proceeds apace,
Deffly they frisk it o'er the Place,

They fit, they drink, and eat;
The time with frolick Mirth beguile,

And

poor Sir Topaz hangs the while

'Till all the Rout retreat.

By this the Starrs began to wink,

They skrick, they fly, the Tapers fink,

And down ydrops the Knight.

For never Spell by Faerie laid

With ftrong Enchantment bound a Glade

Beyond the length of Night.

Chill, dark, alone, adreed, he lay,

Till up the Welkin rose the Day,

Then deem'd the Dole was o'er:

But wot ye well his harder Lot?

His feely Back the Bunch has got

Which Edwin lost afore.

This Tale a Sybil-Nurse ared;

She foftly ftrok'd my youngling Head,

And when the Tale was done,

Thus fome are born, my Son (fhe cries)
With base Impediments to rise,

5 And fome are born with none.

But Virtue can it felf advance

To what the Fav'rite Fools of Chance

By

'By Fortune seem'd defign'd;

Virtue can gain the Odds of Fate,

And from it self shake off the Weight Upon th' unworthy Mind.

Ver novum, ver jam canorum: vere natus orbis eft,
Vere concordant amores, vere nubent alites,
Et nemus comam refolvit de maritis imbribus.
Cras amorem copulatrix inter umbras arborum
Implicat gazas virentes de flagello myrtco.
Cras Dione jura dicit, fulta fublimi throno.

Cras

THE

VIGIL of VENUS.

Written in the Time of JULIUS CASAR, and by fome afcrib'dto CATULLUS.

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ET thofe love now, who never lov'd before,

Let thofe who always lov'd,now love the more.

The Spring, the new, the warb'ling Spring appears,
The youthful Season of reviving Years;

In Spring the Loves enkindle mutual Heats,
The feather'd Nation chuse their tuneful Mates,

The Trees grow fruitful with defcending Rain
And dreft in diffring Greens adorn the Plain.

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