COROLLA.

At neque longam
Sic redimitæ
Phyllidi gratiam
Mille potestis
Addere flores,

Addere flosculi.

Quotquot odores,
Quotquot honores
Ver breve vobis
Impetrat, idem

Sol aperitque,
Claudit et idem :

Quosve recludit

Forsan et alter, et
Alter ab altero,
Proximus, et qui
Nascitur illo,
Urit, adurit.

Interit annus,
Et subit alter,

Quem novus urget,
Et novus alter,

Intereuntem

Interiturus.

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86

THE WREATH.

But, all the while
Her beauties smile,

And tempt the lover's care:
A year consumes,

Another comes,

And Phyllis still is fair.

To all one date

Assigns not fate,

As plain, too plain, appears ;

Your glories live

Days four or five,

But hers as many years.

Yet, gentlest race,

Your fleeting grace

To blooming Phyllis lend:

And, as you fade,

Remind the maid,

That years like days must end.

D. LEWIS.

MELISSA.

F, friend, a wife you mean to wed
Worthy of your board and bed,

That she be virtuous be your care,

Not too rich, and not too fair; One who nor labours to display New complexions every day, Nor, studying artificial grace, Out of boxes culls a face.

Nor, livelong hours for dressing spares,
Placing to displace her hairs,

And straight replace; an idle pin
Ten times shifting out and in.
Nor daily varies, vainly nice,

Thrice her silks, and colours thrice:
Fond o'er and o'er her suits to range,
Changing still, and still to change.
Nor gads to pay, with busy air,
Trifling visits here and there;
Long rapping at each door aloud,

MELISSA.*

HANC, Marce, cùm ducetur uxor, elige

Mensæque consortem et tori;

Benè moribus morata, quæ formâ placet,
Nec dote dotatur nimis.

Non elaborat illa, de die in diem,

Se fingere et refingere; Vultumve curiosa sumit artifex

Ab hac, ab illâ pyxide.

Nec dislocandis et locandis crinibus,
Quos iterum et iterum dislocet,

Absumit horas, unam ineptulam aciculam
Deciesque figens et movens.

Nec exuendis induendis vestibus,

Diversa ter, ter discolor,

Jubar evehit cùm Phoebus, et cùm devehit,

Mutatur et mutabitur.

Nec visitando pulsat has et has fores,

Ut portet importunum Ave, Meam inquietans et tuam viciniam

* This Poem first appeared in ed. 1734, p. 82.