NO SORROW PECULIAR TO THE THE lover, in melodious verses, LIMAX. FRONDIBUS, et pomis, herbisque tenaciter hæret Colligit, in proprios contrahiturque lares. THE SNAIL. To grass, or leaf, or fruit, or wall, Together Within that house secure he hides, Of weather. Give but his horns the slightest touch, Where'er he dwells, he dwells alone, Whole treasure. Thus, hermit-like, his life he leads The faster. Who seeks him must be worse than blind, (He and his house are so combin'd,) If, finding it, he fails to find Its master EQUES ACADEMICUS. CALCARI instruitur juvenis; geminove vel uno, Haud multum, aut ocreis cujus, et unde, refert; Fors fortasse suo, fortasse aliunde, flagello; Quantulacunque sui, pars tamen ipse sui. Sic rite armatus, quinis (et forte minoris) Conductum solidis scandere gestit equum. Lætus et impavidus qua fert fortuna (volantem Cernite) quadrupedem pungit et urget iter : Admisso cursu, per rura, per oppida fertur: Adlatrant catuli, multaque ridet anus. Jamque ferox plagis erecta ad verbera dextra Calce cruentata lassat utrumque latus. Impete sed tanto vixdum confecerit ille Millia propositæ sexve novemve viæ, Viribus absumptis, fessusque labore, caballus Sternit in immundum seque equitemque lutum Vectus iter peraget curru plaustrove viator? Proh pudor et facinus! cogitur ire pedes. THE CANTAB. WITH two spurs or one; and no great matter which Boots bought, or boots borrow'd, a whip, or a switch, Five shillings or less for the hire of his beast, Paid part into hand ;-you must wait for the rest. Thus equipt, Academicus climbs up his horse, And out they both sally for better or worse; His heart void of fear, and as light as a feather, And in violent haste to go not knowing whither; Through the fields and the towns, (see !) he scampers alone, And is look'd at, and laugh'd at by old and by young, Till at length overspent, and his sides smear'd with blood, Down tumbles his horse, man and all, in the mud. Young gentlemen hear! I am older than you! THE SALAD BY ་ VIRGIL. [June 8th, 1799.] THE winter-night now well-nigh worn away, Of narrowest limits, heard the shrill alarm, It chanc'd that from a brand beneath his nose, Sure proof of latent fire, some smoke arose When trimming with a pin th' incrusted tow, The ling'ring flame, and gains at length a light. From Afric she, the swain's sole serving maid, Whose face and form alike her birth betray'd. With woolly locks, lips tumid, sable skin, Wide bosom, udders flaccid, belly thin, Legs slender, broad and most misshapen feet, Chapp'd into chinks, and parch'd with solar heat. Such, summon'd oft, she came; at his command Fresh fuel heap'd, the sleeping embers fann'd, And made in haste her simmering skillet steam, Replenish'd newly from the neighbouring stream The labours of the mill perform'd, a sieve The mingled flour and bran must next receive, |