Forti atque impavido suprema ubi venerit hora, Aut siccum aut madidum, Pope, videbo parem. Quam fortuna dedit, fabella ubi rite peracta Me nil solicitat, saxone an cespite signer, Æquo animum imperio, etc. Si tamen hos versus, siquem legisse juvabit, Hoc addo optatis, et superaddo nihil: 1 n -Precor, integra Cum mente, nec turpem senectam Degere, nec cithara carentem. HOR. • The poet presumes he shall have a very short and modest epitaph, if any; only the two first letters of his name. -Non, ut me miretur turba, laboro, May I leave a good fame a, and a sweet-smelling name. Amen. Here an end of my wishes I make. CHORUS. May I govern my passion with an absolute sway, And grow wiser and better, as my strength wears Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay. [away; MART. 4 Quæ post fata venit gloria, sera venit. Though fame will not concern me, after I am dead, yet I wish for it, because it will be a pleasure to my surviving friends: Si quos superesse volunt dî. HOR. If I do not (which has happened to many old men) outlive all my friends. Dulcis honor virtutum, et odoræ gratia famæ, CHORUS. Equo animum imperio subigam, prudentior usu, SWEET WILLIAM'S FAREWELL TO BLACK-EY'D SUSAN. BY GAY. ALL in the Downs the fleet was moor'd, William, who high upon the yard, Rock'd with the billows to and fro; Soon as her well-known voice he heard, He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below. The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high pois'd in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, GULIELMUS SUSANNE VALEDICENS. IN statione fuit classis, fusisque per auras Cum navem ascendit Susanna; "O dicite, nautæ, Dicite vos, animi fortes, sed dicite verum, Pendulus in summi Gulielmus vertice mali Sic alto in cœlo tremulis se librat ut alis, Navarcha optârit maximus esse sua. |