Ad GULIELMUM LAUDERUM, P. P.

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A SEUS pinguis, pyra, mala, neðar
Te manent mecum, Gulielme, fextam
Occidens quum Sol properabit horam
Axe fugaci.

Diligit pullos nitidumque nidum
Uxor, at tecum gradiatur audax :
Filio quifquam nec erit venusto

Gratior umbra.

Rifus & mufæ comitentur almae,
Innocens et te jocus & lepores :

Linque fed curas, & amara vitae

Linque feverae.

Hanc moram rugis fapiens futuris
Ponito quamvis viridem fenectam

Cautus arceto, remorare vitae

Gaudia blandae.

Vive

TO WILLIAM LAUDER, P. P.

EARS, apples, cheese, dear WILL, and wine,
If thou wilt grace my house, are thine

(For these are in my pow'r.

When the last ray of yon bright fun,

Shall round its whirling axle run,
And haften the fixth hour.

Thy wife delights in her neat home
And babes, but let her boldly come,
Provided she's at leisure.

Thy beauteous boy fhall also find,
Altho' unafk'd, a welcome kind,

And be receiv'd with pleasure.

And with thee hafte the virgin Muse,
And jeft that laughter shall diffuse,

And mirth that cheers the foul:

Banish afar corroding care,
Severity with gloomy air,

That might our joys control.

More wifely thou procraftinate

These evils to a wrinkled ftate,

When life's no more inviting:

F'er age comes on, while yet thy blood
Flows in a sprightly vig'rous flood,

Be cheerful and delighting.

Live!

Vive nunc ætas fugit impotentis
Fluminis ritu, volucrifve venti :
Vis ftitit nulla, et revocavit horas

Nulla volantes.

Umbra feu pulvis fumus, aut inanis
Fumus, et noftrum remanebit olim
Nil nifi virtus, monumenta facra

Ingeniique.

CARMEN

Live! live, my WILL, for now's the day;
Time, like a current, glides away,
Or th' evanefcent wind;

Unftaid by stout Herculean force,
Nought can protract its rapid course,
And fleeting moments bind.

Shadows we are, or empty duft,
And vapour-like diffolve we must,
Nor are we more secure;

Nought can escape the dreary pit
But virtue and immortal wit,
Which endless fhall endure.

A PASTORAL

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CARMEN PASTORALE.

TRBS colitur prifcis quondam celeberrin

URBS

Scotis,

Incumbens faxo folido, cui nomen Edinae.
Venerat huc Phyllis pulcherrima Scotigenarum
Montibus ex patriis, ubi Oreadas inter agreftes
Prima fuit, denos bis non afpexerat annos
Gloria deliciaeque patris: quam forte vagantem
Viderat Urbanus fubitoque exarfit, at illa
Munere nec pretio potuit precibusve moveri.
Hunc igitur vanis fundentem vota querelis
Audiit Arcturi rupes et inhofpita faxa:

Audiit, et planctus gemebunda remurmurat Echo.
Echo fola meos miferata eft, inquit amores;
Triẞra nam moeftis ex faxis affonat imis,
Flebile luctifonis refponfat et ufque cicutis.
Me miferum quoties exclamo, lugubris illa
Me miferum ingeminat gelidis e vallibus: Eheu
Clamanti exclamat, repetitis vocibus, Eheu!

O rupes!