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Illa cantat: nos tacemus: quando ver venit

meum ?

Quando faciam ut celidon, ut tacere definam ?

Perdidi mufam tacendo, nec me Phoebus refpicit.
Sic Amyclas, cum tacerent, perdidit filentium.

Cras amet, qui numquam amavit; quique amavit,

Gras amet.

How long in coming is my lovely spring? And when shall I, and when the swallow fing? Sweet Philomela ceafe, Or here I fit,

And filent lofe my rapt'rous hour of wit :
'Tis gone, the fit retires, the flames decay,
My tuneful Phoebus flies averfe away.
His own Amycle thus, as ftories run,
But once was filent, and that once undone.
Let thofe love now, who never lov'd before,
Let those who always lov'd, now love the more-

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HOME R's

BATRACHOMUOMACHIA:

OR, THE

BATTLE

OF THE

FROGS and MICE.

Names of the MICE. | Names of the FROGS.

PSYCARPAX, One who PHYSIGNATHUS, One

plunders granaries. Troxartas, A bread-eater. Lychomile, A licker of meal. Pternotractas, A bacon

eater.

Lychopinax, A licker of difbes. Embafichytros, A creeper into pots.

Lychenor, A name for licking. Troglodytes, One who runs into holes.

Artophagus, Who feeds on bread.

Tyroglyphus, A cheefe

fcooper. Pternoglyphus, A bacon. Scooper.

Pternophagus, A bacon

eater.

Cniffiodortes, One who follows the team of kitchens. Sitophagus, An eater of wheat. Meridarpax, One who plunders his fhare.

who fells his cheeks. Pelus, A name from mud. Hydromedufe, A ruler in

the waters.

Hypfiboas, A loud bawler. Pelion, From mud. Scutlæus, Called from the bees. Polyphonus, A great babler. Lymnocharis, loves the lake. Crambophagus, CabbageCalled from

eater.

One who

Lymnifius, the lake. Calaminthius, From the berb. Hydrocharis, Who loves the water. & Borborocates, o es in the mud. Praffophagus, An eater of garlick. Pelufius, From mud. Pelobates, Who walks in the dirt. Preffæus, Called from garlick.

Craugafides, From croaking.

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