Anxius? ô quam fæpe oculis muliebria paffim Siqua forent? libuit folio mihi fæpe relicto Dum fremeret trepidante diu fub pectore luctans, Et magis atque magis fervefceret Æftus Amoris; Evicit tandem fines; Rationis habenas Audire impatiens, rapido fefe impete volvit, Molliaque indignans Naturæ fædera rupit. Montibus haud aliter fummis,quorum antra coercent Concava congeftafque nives pluviafque tumentes, Dum fpatiis nimis anguftis negat unda teneri; Sefe præcipitem Torrens agit, ut fuga nulla Prævertat curfu, vis nulla retardet euntem: Quin urbes rapiens fylvafque armenta virosque Obruit; horrefcit communi funere tellus, Et referunt procul ingeminatum Saxa dolorem. Jam How oft, with Sighs, view'd every Female Face, When thus the gather'd Storms of wretched Love, In my fwoln Bofom, with long War had ftrove; At length they broke their Bounds; at length their Force Bore down whatever met it's stronger Course: Lay'd all the Civil Bonds of Manhood waste; And scatter'd Ruin as the Torrent past. So from the Hills, whofe hollow Caves contain In vain would Speed avoid, or Strength oppose: And Jamque, furor quocunque rapit, Quæ turpiter aufi, Oblitus decorifque mei Soliique paterni! Ut falfis acclivem animum per mille fecutus Vel feri tantum compendia parva Nepotes Et fcelerum figna accipiant, quibus undique Gentes Cognofcant monitæ, vitiis Opprobria nafci, Et certos Levitate animi fluxiffe Dolores. Defidiâ languens penitùs luxuque folutus, Noctem epulis ludifque, & fomno perdere lucem Confuêram: tandem oppressas nova pabula flammas Accumulata necant; aciefque hebetatur amori Mutato toties; propriâ vi fracta libido Decidit, & laffam fubierunt tædia mentem. Quin And now, what impious Ways my Wishes took; How they the Monarch, and the Man forfook; And how I follow'd an abandon'd Will, Thro' crooked Paths, and fad Retreats of Ill; HOW JUDAH's Daughters now, now foreign Slaves, Thro' Tribes of Women how I loosely rang'd To black Oblivion, and eternal Shade! Or let their fad Epitome alone, And outward Lines to future Age be known, Enough to propagate the fure Belief, That Vice engenders Shame; and Folly broods o'er Grief. Bury'd in Sloth, and loft in Ease I lay:" The Night I revell'd; and I flept the Day. L No Quin Animus prifcum queritur periiffe vigorem, Jàm neque Judicii fanum mihi reftat acumen, Imperium extendunt deliria noftra puellis; Succubui, facilis votis, patienfque minarum ; Nympha fuperba jubet nunc Perfica fyrmate longo Verrere humum & lento fpectandum incedere paffu; Jamque Syra (indignum!) cantus interque Choreas Crure tenùs medio veftes fuccingere cogit. Illecebris captus, ritufque & diffona Sacra, Quidlibet infanum fuadente fequebar Amicâ. Dira Philiftina vereor dum juffa, Dagonis Invifi ante aras adolefcit flamma; regente Pellice Chaldaica, Chaldææ altaria fumant, Affyrioque Deo fervent redolentia Thura. Ufq; novæ meretrici aræ rubuere recentes, Quot |