[Dec. 5, 1784 *.]

SUMME Deus, cui cæca patent penetralia cordis;
Quem nulla anxietas, nulla cupido fugit ;
Quem nil vafrities peccantum fubdola celat;
Omnia qui fpectans, omnia ubique regis;
Mentibus afflatu terrenas ejice fordes

Divino, fanctus regnet ut intus amor :
Eloquiumque potens linguis torpentibus affer,
Ut tibi laus omni femper ab ore fonet:
Sanguine quo gentes, quo fecula cuncta piavit,
Hæc nobis Chriftus promeruiffe velit !

ANNI

PSALMUS CXVII.

qua volucris ducitur orbita,

Patrem cœlicolûm perpetuo colunt

Quovis fanguine cretæ

Gentes undique carmine.

Patrem, cujus amor blandior in dies

Mortales miferos fervat, alit, fovet,

Omnes undique gentes,

Sancto dicite carmine.

The day on which he received the facrament for the laft

time; and eight days before his decease.

SEU

*

SEU te fæva, levitas five improba fecit, Mufca, meæ comitem, participemque dapis, Pone metum, roftrum fidens immitte culullo, Nam licet, et toto prolue læta mero. Tu, quamcunque tibi velox indulferit annus, Carpe diem, fugit, heu non revocanda dies! Quæ nos blanda comes, quæ nos perducat eodem, Volvitur hora mihi, volvitur hora tibi! Una quidem, fic fata volunt, tibi vivitur æftas, Eheu, quid decies plus mihi fexta dedit! Olim præteritæ numeranti tempora vitæ, Sexaginta annis non minor unus erit.

+HABEO, dedi quod alteri;
Habuique, quod dedi mihi;
Sed quod reliqui, perdidi.

*The above is a verfion of the fong, " Bufy, curious, thirsty fy."

†Thefe lines are a verfion of three fentences that are faid in the manufcript to be "On the monument of John of Doncafter;". and which are as follow:

What I gave that I have;

What I fpent that I had;
What I left that I loft.

E WAL

*E WALTONI PISCATORE PERFECTO

EXCERPTUM.

NUNC, per gramina fufi,

Denfa fronde falicti,

Dum defenditur imber,
Molles ducimus horas.

Hic, dum debita morti
Paulum vita moratur,

* These Lines are a Tranflation of part of a Song in the Complete Angler of Ifaac Walton, written by John Chalkhill, a friend of Spenfer, and a good poet in his time. They are but part of the laft ftanza, which, that the reader may have it entire, is here given at length.

If the fun's exceffive heat

Make our bodies fwelter,
To an ofier hedge we get
For a friendly fhelter !
Where in a dike,
Pearch or pike,

Roach or dace,

We do chase,

Bleak or gudgeon,
Without grudging,

We are still contented.

Or we fometimes pafs an hour
Under a green willow,
That defends us from a fhower,

Making earth our pillow;

Where we may

Think and pray,
Before death

Stops our breath :

Other joys

Are but toys,

And to be lamented.

Nunc

Nunc refcire priora,

Nunc inftare futuris,

Nunc fummi prece fanctâ
Patris numen adire eft.
Quicquid quæritur ultra,
Cæco ducit amore,
Vel fpe ludit inani,

Luctus mox pariturum.

QUISQUIS iter tendis, vitreas qua lucidus undas Speluncæ latè Thamefis prætendit opacæ; Marmoreâ trepidant quæ lentæ in fornice guttæ, Crystallifque latex fractus fcintillat acutis; Gemmaque, luxuriæ nondum famulata nitenti Splendit, et incoquitur tectum fine fraude metallum; Ingredere O! rerum purâ cole mente parentem ; Auriferafque auri metuens fcrutare cavernas. Ingredere! Egeriæ facrum en tibi panditur antrum! Hic, in fe totum, longe per opaca futuri Temporis, Henricum rapuit vis vivida mentis: Hic pia Vindamius traxit fufpiria, in ipfâ Morte memor patriæ; hic, Marmontî pectore prima Cœleftis fido caluerunt femina flammæ.

Temnere opes, pretium fceleris, patriamque tueri Fortis, ades; tibi fponte patet venerabile limen.

*The above Lines are a verfion of Pope's verfes on his own grotto, which begin, "Thou who fhalt ftop where Thames' tranflucent wave."

GRÆ

192

GRÆCORUM EPIGRAMMATUM VERSIONES

METRICÆ.

Pag. 2. Brodæi edit. Baf. Ann. 1549

NON Argos pugilem, non me Meffana creavit ;

Patria Sparta mihi efti, patria clara virum. Arte valent isti, mihi robo revivere folo eft, Convenit ut natis, inclyta Sparta, tuis.

Br. 2.

QUANDOQUIDEM paffim nulla ratione feruntur,

Cuncta cinis, cuncta et ludicra, cuncta nihil.

Br. 5.

PECTORE qui duro, crudos de vite racemos
Venturi exfecuit, vascula prima meri,
Labraque conftrictus, femefos, jamque terendos
Sub pedibus, populo prætereunte, jacit.
Supplicium huic, quoniam crefcentia gaudia læfit,
Det Bacchus, dederat quale, Lycurge, tibi.

Hæ poterant uvæ læto convivia cantu,
Mulcere, aut pectus trifte levare malis.

Br. 8.

FERT humeris claudum validis per compita cæcus, Hic oculos focio commodat, ille pedes.