To th'Fountaines talk'd, and streames ran by,
And after, seekes the great Creator out
By these faire traces of his foot.
But if a lightsome Country house that's free
From care, such as _Luciscu's_ bee,
Or _Nemicini's,_ if _Besdan_'s fruitfull field
Can Grace to his rude table yeild,
To his plaine board with country dainties set,
In _August_'s dry and parching heat;
Jam tunc sub ipsum limen, aut domestica
Lenis sub umbra populi,
Expectat omnis hospitem suum penses,
Et concha sinceri salis,
Pressiq; meta lactis, & purus calix,
Et hospitalis amphora,
Et fraga, raris verna quae dumis legit,
Jucunda panis praemia.
Non me scari tunc, non Lucrinorum gravis
Sagina mulorum juvet:
Sed cereus palumbus, aut turtur niger;
Aut anser amnis accola,
Et eruditam quae fugit gulam faba,
Laetumque nec simplex olus,
Et quae suprema colligitur, ac gravi
Patella nil debet foro.
Even at his dore, under a private shade
By a thick pleasant Poplar made,
Provision of all sorts, expect their guest,
A shell with salt, pure and the best,
New bread, for which, 'midst the thin bryars, the Mayd
Picks Strawberries, and's gladly payd.
Cheese newly press'd, close by, the friendly Cann
With Cup cleane wash'd, doth ready stan'.
With me the _Lucrine_ dainties will not downe,
The Scare, nor Mullet that's well growne;
But the Ring-dove plump, the Turtle dun doth looke,
Or Swan, the sojourner o'th' brooke,
A messe of Beanes which shuns the curious pallet,
The cheerfull and not simple sallet;
Clusters of grapes last gathered, that misse
And nothing owe to th'weighty presse.
Post haec vel inter laeta quercetis juga,
Vel inter amneis juverit
Vitare tristeis post meridiem Notos
Sub aesculo vel ilice;
Nigrumve littus, aut opaca lubricis
Tranare stagna lintribus,
Jactaque fruge ludibundum ducere
Tremente piscem linea.
Remugit ingens interim tauris nemus,
Umbrosa balant flumina;
Et aut in antris garriunt acanthides,
Aut in rubis luscinia.
Then after noone he takes a kind of pride
To th'Hills to walke, or River side,
And 'midst the pleasant Okes, a shade doth find,
T'avoyd the blasts o'th' Southern wind;
To th'darksome shore, by the deep poole he goes,
And through, with nimble Boat he rowes;
Sometimes the sporting fish, his baite thrown in,
Hee plucks up with his trembling line.
Meane while th' spacious woods with ecchoing note
Doe answer to the Bulls wide throat,
The shady rivers bleat; the Nightingale
I'th' bushes chirps her dolefull tale.
Hinc per rubeta pastor errantes capras
Vocante cogit fistula:
Illinc herili messor e campo redux
Alterna plaudit carmina;
Et pressa sectos plaustra per sulcos gemunnt
Ruptura ruris horrea.
At nec tacemus pone considentium
Dulcis manus sodalium;
Nec infaceta sermo differtur mora,
Sed innocentibus jocis,
Multoq; tinctus, sed verecundo sale,
Innoxium trahit diem.
Haec si videret faenerator Alphius,
Olim futurus rusticus,
Quam collocarat Idibus pecuniam,
Nollet Kalendis ponere.
With's hastning pipe the sheapheard drives away
His flocke, which through the thickets stray:
To which as from the field they passe along,
Each mower sings by course, his song;
O're yeilding furrowes, carts full press'd with corne
Groane, and are like to breake the barne.
Our worke once done, we doe not silent sit,
When knots of our good fellowes meet;
Nor is our talke prolong'd with rude delay;
In harmlesse jests we spend the day;
Jests dip'd in so much salt, which rubbing shall
Onely make fresh our cheeks, not gall.
If that rich churle, this had but seen, when hee
A Country man began to be,
The money which i'th' Ides hee scraped in
Next month hee'd not put out agen.
[Decoration]
_Epig._ 4. _Ex Lib. Ep._
Veniat delectus meus in hortum suum. _Cant._ 5.
Pulcher Amor sumpsit rudis instrumenta coloni,
Et sua deposuit tela suasque faces:
Et manibus stivam rapuit; castique laboris
Ad sua ruricolas junxit aratra boves.
Ilicet, ut facili subvertit vomere corda,
Castaque virginibus Gratia crevit agris;
Flos, ait, unus abest: sunt cetera millia florum;
Ut nullus possit, _Christe_, deesse, Veni.
[Decoration]
Epig. 4.
_Let my beloved come into his Garden._ Cant. 5.
Love takes the tooles of a rude Country clowne,
His owne Artill'ry, and his torch layes down;
With staffe in's hand, Oxen to th'Plow he set
For tillage, and such honest labour fit;
Straight, as he turn'd up hearts with easie share,
And grace i'th' virgin-furrowes did appeare,
'Mongst thousand others, one flower, quoth he, is mist:
That none may wanting be, come thou, O Christ.
Qualis est Dilectus tuus? ex _Cant._ 5.
Ex Lib. Epig. 37.
Qualis erat, tuus ille? tuus pulcherrimus ille?
Dicebat nuper barbara turba mihi.
Arripio dextra pennam, laevaque tabellam,
Et noto, _Christe_, tuo quicquid in orbe noto.
Pingo rosas, aurum, gemmas, viridaria, silvas,
Arva, lacus, celeri sidera pingo manu;
Et tabulam monstrans, Noster pulcherrimus, inquam,
Qualis erat, vultis discere? talis erat.
Who is thy Beloved? _Out of Cant._ 5.
_Lib. Epig._ 37.
What is that Spouse of thine? that fairest Hee?
The barb'rous people said, of late, to mee.
A Pen I tooke, and in a Tablet drew
Whatsoe're, O Christ, in thy blest orbe I view.
Roses, and Gold I paint, Gems, Groves, Corne-land,
Green Gardens, Lakes, and Stars with nimble hand;
Would you needs learne, what might my fairest bee?
Looke o're this tablet, pray, O such was Hee.
_Epig. 40. Lib. Ep._
Veni de Libano sponsa.
Et fugis, & fugiens clamas, quid sponsa moraris?
Non fugis, ut fugias: ut capiare, fugis.
Epig. 40.
Thou run'st, & running cry'st, why dost thou stay
My Spouse? thou would'st be ta'ne, not get away.
Ex lib. Epi. 48.
---- Lilia manu praeferenti.
Haec, quae virgineis nituntur lilia culmis,
Unde verecundas explicuere comas?
Non generant similes Paestana rosaria flores,
Nec simili Pharius messe superbit ager:
Non haec purpureis mater Corcyra viretis,
Nec parit aequoreis pulsa Carystos aquis.
Cum nullas habeant natales lilia terras,
Qui neget e casta lilia nata manu?
Ep. 48.
_To ---- bearing Lillyes in her hand._
These Lillyes which on virgin stalks doe bend,
From whence do they their chaster leaves extend?
The _Paestan_ beds such flowres did ne're bring forth,
Nor _Pharian_ fields e're gloried in such worth:
_Alcinous_ purple banks, ne're teem'd with these,
Nor rich _Carystos_ watred by the Seas.
Since then these flow'res no native place do know,
Who can deny from her chast hand they grow.
Ex Lib. Ep. 51.
_Iohanni de Lugo_, dum post morbum ad intermissam de Poeenitentia
doctrinam rediret.
Fertur inornatis nuper Metanoea capillis
Flesse, repentina cum raperere febri:
Fertur & indomito fraenos laxasse dolori,
Et lacrymis madidos exhibuisse sinus:
Cum rursus domito repetis tua pulpita morbo,
Fertur inornatas disposuisse comas:
Et domitos hilari risu fraenasse dolores,
Et lacrymis vacuos explicuisse sinus.
Quis, Pater, incolumi de te non gaudeat, ipsae
Si gaudent Lacrymae, ridet & ipse Dolor?
Ex. Lib. Ep. 51.
To _Iohan de Lugo_, when after a long sicknesse,
he returned to his intermitted Lecture of Repentance.
With hairs unkemb'd Repentance late did mourn,
When with so feirce a Feaver thou wert torne:
Shee's said, to let loose raynes t'untamed griefe,
To'affoord her moyst'ned bosome, no reliefe,
But when th'desks agen, thy sicknesse tam'd,
Thou mountd'st, she's said her careless haire t'have kemb'd
T'have bridled in her conquer'd griefe, and smile,
Of teares, her open'd bosome to beguile.
Who cannot then be glad, thou being safe?
When teares rejoyce, and griefe it selfe doth laugh.
Christi in Cruce vox. Ep. 110.
SITIO.
Ah sitio, clamas, Princeps pulcherrime rerum:
Non habeo pro te dulcia vina, siti.
Tu tamen, ah sitio, clamas: dabo pocula, Sponse:
Heu mihi! sed misto pocula felle dabo.
Haec mi Sponse, bibe: quaeris cui forte propines?
Ad me pro mundi, _Christe_, salute bibe.
_The voyce of Christ upon the Crosse._
I THIRST.
Alas I thirst, great King, thou loude dost grone,
I have no pleasant Wine for Thee, thirst on.
Yet oh I thirst, thou cry'st: a Cup to thee
Woes mee! I'le give: but mix'd with gall't must be.
Drink this, my Spouse: perhaps thou'lt ask to whom?
To me, O Christ, to th'health o'th'world let't come.
_FINIS._
_Imprimatur_, Na. Brent.
_Feb._ 10. 1645.
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY
[Where available, Project Gutenberg e-text numbers are shown in
brackets.]
FIRST YEAR (1946-1947)
Numbers 1-6 out of print.
[Titles:
1. Blackmore, Essay upon wit [13484]
2. Flecknoe, On wit; Warton, The adventurer [14973]
3. Letter to A. H. Esq., concerning the Stage (1698),
and Richard Willis' Occasional Paper No. IX (1698). [14047]
4. Cobb, Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From
Poems On Several Occasions (1707) [14528]
5. Samuel Wesley's _Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry_ (1700)
and _Essay on Heroic Poetry_ (1693). [16506]
6. _Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage_ (1704)
and _Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage_ (1704). [15656] ]
SECOND YEAR (1947-1948)
7. John Gay's _The Present State of Wit_ (1711): and a section on Wit
from _The English Theophrastus_ (1702). [14800]
8. Rapin's _De Carmine Pastorali_, translated by Creech (1684). [14495]
9. T. Hanmer's (?) _Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet_ (1736).
[14899]
10. Corbyn Morris' _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit,
etc._ (1744). [16233]
11. Thomas Purney's _Discourse on the Pastoral_ (1717). [15313]
12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood
Krutch. [16335]
THIRD YEAR (1948-1949)
13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), _The Theatre_ (1720). [15999]
14. Edward Moore's _The Gamester_ (1753). [16267]
15. John Oldmixon's _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley_
(1712); and Arthur Mainwaring's _The British Academy_ (1712).
[IN PREPARATION]
16. Nevil Payne's _Fatal Jealousy_ (1673). [16916]
17. Nicholas Rowe's _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William
Shakespeare_ (1709). [16275]
18. "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719);
and Aaron Hill's Preface to _The Creation_ (1720). [15870]
FOURTH YEAR (1949-1950)
19. Susanna Centlivre's _The Busie Body_ (1709). [16740]
20. Lewis Theobold's _Preface to The Works of Shakespeare_ (1734).
[16346]
21. _Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela_
(1754).
22. Samuel Johnson's _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two
_Rambler_ papers (1750). [13350]
23. John Dryden's _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681). [15074]
24. Pierre Nicole's _An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which from
Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting
Epigrams_, translated by J. V. Cunningham. [IN PREPARATION]
FIFTH YEAR (1950-1951)
25. Thomas Baker's _The Fine Lady's Airs_ (1709). [14467]
26. Charles Macklin's _The Man of the World_ (1792). [14463]
27. Frances Reynolds' _An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste,
and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc._ (1785). [13485]
28. John Evelyn's _An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); and
_A Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661). [17833]
29. Daniel Defoe's _A Vindication of the Press_ (1718). [14084]
30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper's _Letters Concerning
Taste,_ 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's _Miscellanies_ (1770).
[13464]
SIXTH YEAR (1951-1952)
31. Thomas Gray's _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751); and
_The Eton College Manuscript_. [15409]
32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudery's Preface to _Ibrahim_
(1674), etc. [14525]
33. Henry Gally's _A Critical Essay_ on Characteristic-Writings (1725).
[16299]
34. Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).
35. James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. _Critical
Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch_
(1763). [15857]
36. Joseph Harris's _The City Bride_ (1696). [22974]
SEVENTH YEAR (1952-1953)
37. Thomas Morrison's _A Pindarick Ode on Painting_ (1767).
[IN PREPARATION]
38. John Phillips' _A Satyr Against Hypocrites_ (1655).
39. Thomas Warton's _A History of English Poetry_.
40. Edward Bysshe's _The Art of English Poetry_ (1708).
41. Bernard Mandeville's "_A Letter to Dion_" (1732).
42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.
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ERRATA (Noted by transcriber)
_As printed:_
_Introduction:_ The editor's name, printed "Roestvig", is more
correctly Rostvig.
_Latin:_ The use of oe and ae in words such as "moestus" is in the
original. Accents are variously acute ', grave ` or circumflex ^,
with no apparent difference in meaning. Some do not even mark long
syllables.
_English:_ Variation between -w- and -vv- is as in the original.
_Typography:_ In both languages, titles were randomly Italic or Roman.
Italicization (or de-italicization) of 's in possessives is also
random.
_Introduction_
an interesting combination of Stoic and Platonic ideas
[_"of / of" at line break_]
_Odes_
_All headers were in the form "Ode 2, Lib. 1" with the poem number
given before the Book number. They have been conventionalized for
this Errata list._
Lib. 1 Ode 1
Cum infestae Thracum Copiae Pannonia excessissent.
[_"Co./piae" for "Co-/piae" at line break_]
The threats of cruell Warre now cease:, [_punctuation unchanged_]
Lib. 1 Ode 2
[title] de adversa fortuna [adverfa]
Unmanly howlings, _Lycuas_, leave,
[_error for Lycas or Lycus (English title has "Lycas"; Latin has
"Lycus")_]
Lib. 1 Ode 13
Fortune a double ball doth often throw. [doulble]
Lib. 2 Ode 5
Regna procul, populosque vastos [porcul]
Lib. 2 Ode 8
... that fortune flings
[_final "s" missing at end of long line_]
Lib. 2 Ode 24
And _Nereus_ with his Quicksands Boyling o're: [Nerens]
Lib. 2 Ode 25
[_The title of this Ode is printed in anomalous small capitals
on both the Latin and the English sides_]
Donec Lucicer aureus [_text unchanged: probably "Lucifer"_]
Silvarumq; super colla comantium, [comantnium]
Magnorumq; salit terga cacuminum, ac [cacumium] ac
[_These words appear in consecutive indented lines_]
Lib. 3 Ode 6
I kingdome, _Marcus_, of my selfe I find
[_Text unchanged: error for '1 kingdome' or 'A kingdome'?_]
Lib. 3 Ode 12
The best would choose, from Heav'n must learne the right.
[_comma at end_]
Lib. 4 Ode 3
With swift applause; Hee's blest whose sprite, [sptite]
Lib. 4 Ode 44
_Ode 44. Lib. 4._
[_Number shown as printed on both Latin and English sides. The
error may have been in the source text._]
But Jesu! where art thou? what region's blest [where at]
Lib. 4 Ode 15
Immune taedi. Clarus olim [_first word illegible_]
Lib. 4 Ode 30
_Ad Ianussium Skuminum._ : To _Ianusius Skuminus_.
[_inconsistent spelling (ss:s) in original_]
Haec ego si nullos fallunt insomnia maneis, [insomia]
Her owne and Nephew's temples crown'd. [Nepew's]
Lib. 4 Ode 32
With nimble finger neat division; [nible]
And if I write, my secure chaire holds mee. [_comma at end_]
Lib. 4 Ode 34
Splendidam vera sine luce gazam [fine luce (f for long s)]
Lib. 4 Ode 35
[_"Vilna" is the city (modern Vilnius, Wilna in Polish), "Vilia"
the river (modern Vilnia)_]
Epode 1
His beames, doth guild the Moutaines cleare [_spelling unchanged_]
Epode 3
Thus spake he to the neighbouring trees, thus he [neigbouring]
_Long "s"_
Lib. 1, Odes 2 and 13 (Latin pages 10, 12):
Moestum sol hodie caput ... [Moestum fol ...]
_At the beginning of p. 10 there appears to have been an accident
with the Italic type trays. Almost all long s's ([s]) on p. 10
(signature 5v), and many on p. 12 (signature 6v), are misprinted as f,
except in the -st- and -ss- ligatures. The last two lines of Ode 1.2,
top of p. 12:_
Quod fi de[s]uerit [s]alix
Fafces pauperibus [s]ubjiciet focis.
_Note the s-for-f error. In Italic fonts--used for all Latin poems
in this text--long "s" is generally _easier_ to distinguish from "f"
than it is in Roman fonts._
_Page Numbering_
In Lib. 1 Ode 2, English, page 13 is misprinted as page 31.
In Lib. 4 Ode 12, Latin, page 68 is misprinted as page 98.
In Lib. 4, Ode 30, page numbers 95-96 are repeated, and the setback
in numbering continues to the end of the text. The folio numbers
(in duodecimo, or sets of 24 pages) remain correct.