(Vol. viii, p. 563.)
I cannot furnish BALLIOLENSIS with the translation from Sheridan he
requires, but I am acquainted with that from Goldsmith. It is to be found
somewhere in Valpy's _Classical Journal_. As that work is in forty volumes,
and not at hand, I am not able to give a more precise reference. I
recollect, however, a few of the lines at the beginning:
"Incola deserti, gressus refer, atque precanti
Sis mihi noctivagæ dux, bone amice, viæ;
Dirige quà lampas solatia luce benigna
Præbet, et hospitii munera grata sui.
Solus enim tristisque puer deserta per agro,
Ægre membra trahens deficiente pede,
Quà, spatiis circum immensis porrecta, patescunt
Me visa augeri progrediente, loca."
"Ulterius ne perge," senex, "jam mitte vagari,
Teque iterum noctis, credere, amice, dolis:
Luce trahit species certa in discrimina fati,
Ah nimium nescis quo malefida trahat!
Hic inopi domus, hic requies datur usque vaganti,
Parvaque quantumvis dona, libente manu.
Ergo verte pedes, caliginis imminet hora,
Sume libens quidquid parvula cella tenet ..."
No doubt there is a copy of the _Classical Journal_ in the Bodleian; and if
BALLIOLENSIS can give me volume and page, I in turn shall be much obliged
to him.