VOTUM. Mille ubi transierint anni, quæ tanta sequetur Gloria, si forsan litera bina legar? Equo animum imperio, &c. Si tamen hos versus, si quem legisse juvabit, Hoc addo optatis, et superaddo nihil : Dulcis honor virtutum, et odoræ gratia famæ, Votique et vitæ terminus esto meæ. 35 CHORUS. Equo animum imperio subigam, prudentior usu, Ut carptim attenuor, rex dominusque mei. Nec podagræ, nec lithiasis cruciatibus urar, Sed sensim extinctus devehar ad tumulum. MART. 39 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 Dii. HOR. If I do not (which has happened to many old men) outlive SWEET WILLIAM'S FAREWELL TO BLACK-EYED SUSAN. A LL in the Downs the fleet was moor'd, The streamers waving in the wind, When black-eyed Susan came on board; Oh! where shall I my true love find? Tell me, ye jovial sailors, tell me true, Does my sweet William sail among the crew? 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 poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, The noblest captain in the British fleet GULIELMUS SUSANNÆ VALEDICENS. IN N statione fuit classis, fusisque per auras Cùm navem ascendit Susanna; o dicite, nautæ, Nostræ ubi deliciæ sunt? ubi noster amor? Dicite vos, animi fortes, sed dicite verum, Pendulus in summi Gulielmus vertice mali Hinc agitabatur fluctibus, inde, maris; Protinus, ut vocem bene notam audivit, ad infrà Præmisit gemitum, nec piger ipse sequi: Vixque manu tangens funes, et præpete labens Descensu, alati fulguris instar, adest. Sic alto in cœlo tremulis se librat ut alis, 38 BLACK-EYED SUSAN. O Susan, Susan, lovely dear! We only part to meet again. Change as ye list, ye winds, my heart shall be The faithful compass that still points to thee. Believe not what the landmen say, Who tempt with doubts thy constant mind; They'll tell thee sailors, when away, In every port a mistress find: Yes, yes, believe them when they tell thee so, For thou art present wheresoe'er I go. If to far India's coast we sail, Thy eyes are seen in diamonds bright: Thy breath is Afric's spicy gale; Thy skin is ivory so white: Thus every beauteous object that I view Wakes in my soul some charms of lovely Sue. Though battle call me from thy arms, Let not my pretty Susan mourn; Though cannons roar, yet safe from harms William shall to his dear return; Love turns aside the balls that round me fly, Lest precious tears should drop from Susan's eye. SUSANNE VALEDICENS. 39 39 Suave meum, et vitâ Susanna ô charior ipsâ, Sunt mea, quæ vovi, sunt tibi vota rata; Pendentem ex oculo da gemmam exosculer illam : Gratior ut reditu sit, Gulielmus abit. Quò velit, inclinet ventus; te verget ad unam Cor meum, ut ad Boream nautica vergit acus. Terrâ degentes vitam, tua pectora fida In quovis portu, sed noli ô! credere, dicent, Sive Indus gemmarum, eboris seu fertilis Afer, Occurret quiddam, quod memorabo, Tui. Nec, mea lux, doleas; patriæ si causa requirat, |