XCVII.

In Scaturiginem.

CERNIS inaudito campum ut secet undique cursu, Et tacite humectet lympha perennis agros?

Disce, (nec indignum) monitus ; — quæ donat egenti, Unde sit, et cujus, nesciat ille manum.

XCVIII.

W. L.

HIC, ubi potat ovis, luteam torrentis ab alveo,
Tu nimis hanc tepidam sperne, viator, aquam:
Trans juga montivagis, brevis est mora, nota juvencis,
Rustica qua viridem pinus obumbrat humum,
Murmurat e riguis saliens ubi rupibus humor,

Fonte leva nivibus frigidiore sitim.

B.

XCIX.

To a Lady singing a Song of his composing.

CHLORIS, yourself you so excel,

When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought, That, like a spirit, with this spell

Of my own teaching I am caught.

That eagle's fate and mine are one,

Which on the shaft that made him die

Espied a feather of his own,

Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

Had Echo with so sweet a grace

Narcissus' loud complaints returned,

Not for reflection of his face,

But of his voice, the boy had burned.

Waller.

C.

Hope.

HOPE, heav'n-born cherub, still appears,
Howe'er misfortune seems to lower;
Her smile the threatening tempest clears,
And is the rainbow of the shower.

TE

XCIX.

Encautus Magister.

superas tantum, me judice, Chlori, canoris Cum mea dignaris reddere verba modis ;

Quem docui, cantu ut tenear quoque captus eodem,
Ipse sua qualis victus ab arte magus.

Una mihi sors est aquila communis et illi,
Quo periit, miserum trajiciente latus,

In calamo propriam quæ vidit conscia pennam,
Ibat in ætherium qua prius illa polum.

Si juvenum questus potuisset amabilis Echo
Tam bene blandito grata referre sono ;
Ille puer geminæ vocis, nec imagine formæ
In liquidæ visa fonte flagrasset aquæ.

B.

C.

Spes.

IMMINEAT gravida quamvis fortuna procella,
Dulcis adhuc claro spes micat orta polo:
Ore renidenti nimbos fugat illa minantes,

Lætus ut imbriferas arcus inaurat aquas.

B.

CI.

Alonzo the Brabe and Fair Imogine.

A WARRIOR so bold and a virgin so bright
Conversed as they sat on the green;

They gazed on each other with tender delight,
Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight,
The maid's was the Fair Imogine.

"And, oh!" said the youth, "since to-morrow I
To fight in a far distant land,

Your tears for my absence soon ceasing to flow, Some other will court you, and you will bestow On a wealthier suitor your hand."

"Oh! hush these suspicions," Fair Imogine said, "Offensive to love and to me!

For if you be living, or if you be dead,

I swear by the Virgin, that none in your
Shall husband of Imogine be.

stead

"And if e'er for another my heart should decide,

Forgetting Alonzo the Brave,

go

God grant, that, to punish my falsehood and pride, Your ghost at the marriage may sit by my side, May tax me with perjury, claim me as bride,

And bear me away to the grave!"

66

CI.

Alonzo et Emogena.

IMPIGER ad bellum miles, formosaque virgo,
Ponebant viridi membra decora toro;
Alter in alterius vultu figebat ocellos,
Alternosque dabant mollius ore sonos.
Fortis habebatur dux fortes inter Alonzo,

Atque inter pulcros pulcra Imogena choros.

Jamque," inquit juvenis, "quoniam me buccina Martis
Cogit in amotos heu! procul ire locos,
Lacryma mutatum linquet male perfida vultum,
Quæ dolet absentem lacryma prima virum ;
Et lingua alterius gratum prætendet amorem,
Alterius vincent mobile pectus opes."
"Desine me dubiis tandem vexare querelis,

Quas ego, quas refugit non bene læsus amor;
Nam mihi, seu grato vescaris munere terræ,
Seu corpus cæsi frigida celet humus,
Virgineum testor numen, tu solus amorem
Servabis, fidam tu sine fraude manum.
Perfida sin alii jungatur dextra marito,
Si tuus a nostro corde recedat amor,
Colestes reddat perjura superbia pœnas;
Assideas nuptæ tu levis umbra mihi,
Assideas rapiasque tuo me fœdere vinctam,
Inque Orci tenebras et loca cæca feras!"