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Horatii Ode.

Ille & nefasto te posuit die &c.

Ἑλληνισί.

Ὥρα σε κεῖνος θῆκεν ἀποφράδι
Ὁ πρῶτος ὅσις, χειρὶ τε βώμακι
Ἔθρεψε, δένδρον, τῆς τε κώμης
Αἴτιον, ἐσσομένων τ ̓ ἔλεγχος.

Κεῖνος τοκῆος θρύψε καὶ ἀυχένα,
Κεϊνός γε φαίην) ἁίματι ξεινίῳ
Μυχώτατον κοιτῶνα ρἅινε
Νύκτιος, ἀμφαφάασε κεῖνος

Τὰ δῆτα κόλχων φάρμακα, καὶ κακοῦ
Πᾶν χρῆμα, δώσας μοι ἐπιχώριον
Σὲ συγνὸν ἔρνος, δεσπότου σε
Ἔμπεσον ἐς κεφαλὴν ἀεικώς.

Πάσης μὲν ὥρης πᾶν ἐπικίνδυνον.
Τίς οἶδε φεύγειν; δείδιο βοσφόρον
Λιβὺς ὁ πλωτὴρ, οὐδ ̓ ἀνά[γ]κην
Τὴν κρυφίην ἑτέρωθεν ὀκνεῖ.

Πάρθων μάχημον Ρωμαϊκος φυγήν,
Καὶ τόξα· Πάρθος Ῥωμαίκην βίαν,
Καὶ δεσμὰ· λάους ἀλλὰ μοίρας
Βάλλε, βαλεῖ τ ̓ ἀδόκητος ὁρμή.

Σχέδον σχέδον πῶς Περσεφόνης ἴδον
Αὔλην μελαίνην, καὶ κρίσιν Αἰακοῦ,
Καλήν τ ̓ ἀπόςασιν μακαίρων,
Αἰολίαις κινύρην τε χορδαίς.

Σαπφὼ πατρίδος μεμφομένην κόραις,
Ἠχούντα και σε πλεῖον ἐπιχρύσῳ,
Αλκαίε, πλήκτρῳ σκληρὰ νῆος,
Σκληρὰ φυγῆς, πολέμου τε σκληρά.

Ευφημέουσαι δ ̓ ἀμφοτέρων σκιαὶ
Κλύουσι θάμβει, τὰς δὲ μαχὰς πλεόν,
̓Αναςάτους τε μὲν τυράννους
Ωμιὰς ἔκπιεν ὦσι λᾶος.

Τί θαῦμ ̓; ἐκείναιρ θὴς ὅτε τρίκρανος
*Ακην ἀοιδαῖς, ούατα κάββαλε,
Εριννύων τ ̓ ἡδυπαθοῦσι

Βότρυχες, ἡσυχίων ἐχιδνών.

Καὶ δὴ Προμηθεύς, καὶ Πέλοπος πατὴρ
Εὕδουσιν ἠχεῖ τῷ λαθικήδεϊ

*Αγειν λεόντας Ωρίων δὲ

Οὐ φιλέει, φοβεράς τε λύγκας.

P

In Revd. Dre. Brooke Epitaphium.

Osuit sub istâ (non gravi) caput terrâ
Ille, ipsa quem mors arrogare vix ausa
Didicit vereri, plurimumque suspenso
Dubitavit ictu, lucidos procul vultus,
Et sydus oris acre procul prospectans.
Cui literarum fama cùm dedit lumen,
Accepit, atque est ditior suis donis.
Cujus serena gravitas faciles mores
Muliere novit; cujus in senectute
Famaeque riguit, & juventa fortung.
Ita brevis ævi, ut nec videri festinus;

Ita longus, ut nec fessus. Et hunc mori credis ?

ER

In obitum Rev. V. Dris Mansell,
Coll. Regin. Mri qui ven. Ds Brooke,
interitum proximè secutus est.

Rgo iterum in lacrymas, & sævi murmura planctus
Ire jubet tragicâ mors iterata manu?

Scilicet illa novas quæ jam fert dextra sagittas,
Dextra priore recens sanguine stillat adhuc.
Vos ô, quos sociâ Lachesis propè miscuit urnâ,
Et vicina colus vix sinit esse duos;

Ite ô, quos nostri jungunt consortia damni;
Per nostras lacrymas ô nimis ite pares!
Ite per Elysias felici tramite valles.

Et sociis animos conciliate viis.
Illic ingentes ultrò confundite manes,

Noscat & æternam mutua dextra fidem.
Communes eadem spargantur in otia curæ,
Atque idem felix poscat utrumque labor.
Nectaræ simul ite vagis sermonibus horæ :
Nox trahat alternas continuata vices.

Una cibos ferat, una suas vocet arbor in umbras.
Ambobus faciles herba det una toros.

Certum erit interea quanto sit major habenda,
Quàm quæ per vitam est, mortis amicitia.

LUKE 2. Quærit Jesum suum Maria, &c.

AND

Nd is he gone, whom these armes held but now?
Their hope, their vow?

Did ever greife, & joy in one poore heart

Soe soone change part?

Hee's gone. the fair'st flower, that e're bosome drest,

My wombes

Hee's gone.

My joyes, &

My soules sweet rest.

chast pride is gone, my heaven-borne boy; And where is joy?

& his lov'd steppes to wait upon,

My joy is gone.

hee are gone; my greife, & I
Alone must ly.

not leaving with me, till he come,
One smile at home.

Hee's gone.

Oh come then.

bring Thy mother her lost joy: Oh come, sweet boy.

Make hast, & come, or e're my greife, & I

Make hast, & dy.

Peace, heart! the heavens are angry. all their spheres Rival thy teares.

I was mistaken.

some faire sphære, or other Was thy blest mother.

What, but the fairest heaven, could owne the birth

Yet sure thou

Oft have these

Of soe faire earth?

did'st lodge heere. this wombe of mine
Was once call'd thine.

armes thy cradle envied,
Beguil'd thy bed.

Oft to thy easy eares hath this shrill tongue

Trembled, & sung.

Oft have I wrapt thy slumbers in soft aires,
And stroak't thy cares.

Oft hath this hand those silken casements kept,
While their sunnes slept.

Oft have my hungry kisses made thine eyes

Too early rise.

Oft have I spoild my kisses daintiest diet,
To spare thy quiet.

Oft from this breast to thine my love-tost heart
Hath leapt, to part.

Oft my lost soule have I bin glad to seeke
On thy soft cheeke.

Oft have these armes alas! show'd to these eyes
Their now lost joyes.

Dawne then to me, thou morne of mine owne day, And lett heaven stay.

Oh, would'st thou heere still fixe thy faire abode,
My bosome God:

What hinders, but my bosome still might be
Thy heaven to Thee?

Whosoever shall loose his life &c.

MATH. 16. 25.

Oe I may gaine thy death, my life I'le give. (My life's thy death, & in thy death I live.) Or else, my life, I'le hide thee in his grave, By three daies losse æternally to save.

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