Supplicis ancillæ feries miferanda dolorum
Si fortè attentas intrabant Principis aures,

Ah! ne, dum referat, vultum indue, quo trepidantes
Per populos das jura; Superciliique minacis
Abfint horrentes rugæ, frontifque verenda
Majeftas; & amica exporrige mitiùs ora.

Eft mandare Tuum; mihi Juffa capeffere fas eft: Et quanquam ah! renovem crudelia vulnera fando; Si modò Tu facilem vultum præbere querenti Digneris, luctus fi Rex miferetur obortos, Perfruar his lacrymis & fundam fræna dolori.

Te, Tellus, & Vos, ô confcia fydera, teftor,
Celari neque enim fas eft; incendor amore:
Si fit amor, venis effrænem agitare furorem,
Et fine Spe miferum nutrire in pectore vulnus.

Magne Parens, animas hominum qui numine torques Occulto, varioque doces fe flectere motu; Cur blanda avertens morbo medicamina, tantis Abjungis fpatiis caufam finemque dolorum? Ille, meo fævos qui pectore fufcitat ignes, Splendentique oculo neglectam heu! perculit Abram;

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If the great Mafter will defcend to hear The humble Series of His Hand-maid's Care;

O! while She tells it, let him not put on

The Look, that awes the Nations from the Throne: O! let not Death fevere in Glory lye

In the King's Frown, and Terror of his Eye.

Mine to obey; Thy Part is to ordain:
And tho' to mention, be to fuffer Pain;
If the King smiles, whilft I'my Woe recite;
If weeping I find Favor in His Sight;

Flow faft my Tears, full rifing his Delight.

O! Witness Earth beneath, and Heav'n above; For can I hide it? I am fick of Love:

If Madness may the Name of Paffion bear;

Or Love be call'd, what is indeed Despair.

Thou Sov'reign Pow'r, whofe fecret Will controlls The inward Bent and Motion of our Souls! Why haft Thou plac'd fuch infinite Degrees Between the Cause and Cure of my Disease? The mighty Object of that raging Fire, In which unpity'd ABRA must expire,

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Obscurâ fi ftirpe fatus, fi Patre Bubulco
Vixiffet Cuftofve boum, pecorifve magister;
Manè comes fummos fuperâram fedula montes,
Ardentesque æstus temnens, brumamque rigentem;
Ufque rogans, mediam quâ falleret arbore lucem.
Ille ubi nocte domum fperatus venerat hofpes,
Condideram dulci convivia inempta labore;
Anxia & impatiens, humilis de culmine tecti,
Obvia venturo mififfem ardentia longè

Lumina per campos; trepida inter fpemq; metumque,
Gaudia dum secum ferret rediviva, canisque
Blandulus adventum Domini monftraret amati.
Illum Ego, cervici teneræ nudifque papillis
Acclinem, dulces fuafiffem carpere fomnos:
Et capite à molli, Phæbi redeuntis ad ortum,
Sollicita elapfum fubducere lene lacertum,
Exieram, fætus ftabulo miffura coactos,
Et Pecori blanda, & Paftoris amica quieti.

Sin vultu meliore Deus, flammæque benignus, (Nec mihi vana fides tam puram in pectora flammam Cœlitus immitti) natalem ornaverat horam Splendore imperii & Proavorum Stemmate longo,

Cor

Had He been born fome fimple Shepherd's Heir,
The lowing Herd, or fleecy Sheep his Care;
At Morn with him I o'er the Hills had run,
Scornful of Winter's Froft, and Summer's Sun,
Still asking, where He made his Flock to reft at Noon.j
For him at Night, the dear expected Guest,
I had with hafty Joy prepar'd the Feaft;
And from the Cottage, o'er the distant Plain,
Sent forth my longing Eye to meet the Swain;
Wav'ring, impatient, tofs'd by Hope and Fear;
'Till He and Joy together should appear;
And the lov'd Dog declare his Mafter near.
On my declining Neck, and open Breast,
I should have lull'd the lovely Youth to Reft;
And from beneath his Head, at dawning Day,
With foftest Care have ftol'n my Arm away;
To rife, and from the Fold release the Sheep,
Fond of his Flock, indulgent to his Sleep.

Or if kind Heav'n propitious to my Flame
(For fure from Heav'n the faithful Ardor came)
Had bleft my Life, and deck'd my natal Hour
With Height of Title, and Extent of Pow'r:

Cor impunè altùm fe evexerat, & mea vota
Spirâram faciles dilecti in Principis aures.

Sic nata, attigeram has terras prior ipfa Sabæâ Principe, fpectandum Formâ magis omnibus unum Luftratura Virum; molles avidâ aure Poetæ Exceptura fonos & ab ore fluentia mella. Libaffem fimul à rofeis redolentia labris Ofcula, quæ dulces viciffent thuris odores. Ut vultus atque ora Viri laudare juvâffet Singulaque eximiæ miracula pingere formæ ! Quam radii mites oculorum; Solis adinftar, Pura repercuffos ignes cum temperat unda! Quam rubet aureus ora; finumque argenteus albet! Flexibus intorti placidis nigredine crines Cornicis plumam exfuperant; certare labellis Coccineus metuat rubor, Hefperiumque corallum. Ut dentes nitido ftant ordine, more coævi Jam tonfi Gregis, emerfique à flumine vivo, · Candida in aprico ficcantis vellera faxo! Sapphiris ut fiquis ebur rutilantibus ornet, Vena fuper niveam turgefcens cærula dextram Effulget. Quas Crura oftentant fortia vires, Quamque decora nitent, Parias imitata Columnas !

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