45 The watery glimmerings of a fainter day 55 Which soon the parent sun's warm powers refine, 65 And paint the margin of the costly stream, 1738. Et. 22. POEMATA. HYMENEAL ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. * IGNARE nostrûm mentes, et inertia corda, Scilicet ignorant lacrymas, sævosque dolores, Dura rudimenta, et violentæ exordia flammæ ; 4 *Printed in the Cambridge Collection, 1736, fol. In this Collection is also a Latin Copy of Hendecasyllables, by Horace Walpole; a short Copy by Thomas Ashton, the friend of Walpole, &c.; and there are some Greek verses by Richard Dawes, the author of Miscellanea Critica.' V. 1. “Heu, vatum ignaræ mentes!" Virg. Æn. iv. 65. "Teucrûm mirantur inertia corda,' "En. ix. 55. V. 2. "Sortemque animo miseratus iniquam," Æn. vi. 332. V. 4. "Dono divûm gratissima serpit," En. ii. 269. V. 6. "Nec dulces natos, Veneris nec præmia noris?" Æn. iv. 33. V. 7. "Vide Hor. Od. iv. i. 35. And Pope. Homer, b. xiv. ver. 252: "Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." And Fairfax. Tasso, iv. 85: "Dumb eloquence, persuading more than speech." Scilicet ignorant, quæ flumine tinxit amaro 10 Tela Venus, cæcique armamentaria Divi, Irasque, insidiasque, et tacitum sub pectore vulnus; Namque sub ingressu, primoque in limine Amoris Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Intus habent dulces Risus, et Gratia sedem, 15 Et roseis resupina toris, roseo ore Voluptas: Regibus huc faciles aditus; communia spernunt Ostia, jamque expers duris custodibus istis Panditur accessus, penetraliaque intima Templi. Tuque Oh! Angliacis, Princeps, spes optima regnis, 20 Ne tantum, ne finge metum: quid imagine captus 25 Affatu fruitur tacito, auscultatque tacentem Immemor artificis calami, risumque, ruboremque V. 10. "Bis flumine corporat tinguat," Ovid. Met. xii. 413. V. 11. " Quidquid habent telorum armamentaria coli,” Juv. Sat. xiii. 83. V. 12. This line, which is unmetrical, is so printed in the Cambridge Collection; and in Park's edition, without remark. The fault is probably in the author, and not in the printer; as the line is composed of two hemistichs of Virgil; Æn. xii. 336, "Iræque, Insidiæque, Dei comitatus, aguntur; and En. iv. 67," Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus." Or perhaps a line is omitted, which should intervene. V. 14. This line is from Virgil, Æn. vi. 274: دو V. 18. "Quos dura premit custodia matrum," Hor. Ep. i. i. 22. 28 Aspicit in fucis, pictæque in virginis ore: Nascere, magna Dies, qua sese AUGUSTA Bri tanno Committat Pelago, patriamque relinquat amonam; 40 [tanno Nascere, Lux major, qua sese Augusta BriCommittat juveni totam, propriamque dicabit; V. 22. Atque animum picturâ pascit inani," Æn. i. 464. V. 23. "Nec longum tempus et ingens," &c. Virg. Georg. ii. 80. V. 30. “Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo," Virg. Ecl. iv. 5. V. 31. "Commisit pelago ratem," Hor. Od. i. iii. 11. V. 33. " Subitoque accensa furore," En. iv. 697. V. 35. "Virum qui sic comitatur euntem?" Æn. vi. 863. V. 36. This line is from Virgil, Æn. iii. 514: Explorat ventos, atque auribus aëra captat." V. 37. From Virg. Georg. iv. 495: "Crudelia retro Fata vocant." Æn. v. 138: "Laudumque arrecta cupido." V. 41. "Nascere, præque diem veniens age, Lucifer, almum," Virg. Ecl. viii. 118. V. 42. "Connubio jungam stabili, propriamque dicabo," Virg. Æn. i. 73. At citius (precor) Oh! cedas melioribus astris; Nox finem pompæ, finemque imponere curis Possit, et in thalamos furtim deducere nuptam; 45 Sufficiat requiemque viris, et amantibus umbras : Adsit Hymen, et subridens cum matre Cupido Accedant, sternantque toros, ignemque ministrent; Ilicet haud pictæ incandescit imagine formæ Ulterius juvenis, verumque agnoscit amorem. 50 Sculptile sicut ebur, faciemque arsisse venustam Pygmaliona canunt: ante hanc suspiria ducit, Alloquiturque amens, flammamque et vulnera nar rat; 54 Implorata Venus jussit cum vivere signum, Foemineam inspirans animam; quæ gaudia surgunt, Audiit ut primæ nascentia murmura linguæ, V. 44. So in Gray's Epistle from Sophonisba: 66 Pompæ finis erat. Totâ vix nocte quievi." 6 V. 46. "On the position of the que,' see Burman. Virgil, En. vi. 395. V. 47. "Prô Venus, et tenerâ volucer cum matre Cupido," Ov. Met. ix. 481. V. 50. "Veros exponit amores," Ovid. Met. x. 439. "Veros parce profitemur amores," Ovid. Art. Am. ii. 639. V. 51 is from Ovid. Met. x. 247: "Interea niveum mira feliciter arte Sculpit ebur; formamque dedit, qua foemina nasci V. 56. "Sed parvæ murmura linguæ," Ov. Met. xii. 49. |