Suo rubore rofea; & Innocentia

Cadente purior nîve ;

Aderit Amor, Rifus, Voluptas, Gaudium,

Et litium fugax Quies;

Aderit labella comprimens Taciturnitas,
Et fœderis fervans Fides;

Et omnis eventus memor Prudentia,

Divefque rerum Industria.

Accedet his virtutibus pia Humilitas,
Nunquam immemor Dei aut fuí;

Regina Gratiarum aderit Humanitas,
Perferre facilis & pat i,
Humana fi natura quid deliquerit,
Aut caverit fiquid parùm";
Calumniantium fufurros improbans,

Paucifque notam infamiam;

Memor, invidi rumoris ut malignitas

Inimicat urbes & domos.

FA

With her bright Innocence fhall go,
Purer than the falling Snow;

Quiet that far from quarrels flies;

Mirth and Pleasure, Love and Joys;

Firm Faith that plighted Promise keeps,
Silence watching o'er her Lips;
Prudence that ponders all Events,
Wealth-increasing Diligence.
Religion, mindful what is ow'd
To herself and to her God.

Patient to bear to pardon free,
Lovelieft Grace! Humanity;

If erring Nature chance to fail,
Feeble, inadvertent, frail.

Who hates low-whisper'd spight conceal'd,

Scandal yet to few reveal'd;

Since Envy makes with rumour'd Lies

Friends and Brethren Enemies.

Good

Famulabitur caftum intuens Modeftia,

Et docta cultu Vrbanitas;

Et advenis præfens domi Hofpitalitas,

Aperta vultus & manum.

His cum fodalibus Meliffa Gratiis
Ducetur ad tuam domum,

Fidelis, agrum quicquid aut lætabile eft,

Et vera tecum particeps:

Solando que curarum amara leniat,
Et confulendo temperet ;

Fruendo que felicitates augeat,

Et quæ novis addat novas.

Irrupta copula hifce continebitur,

His vinculis firmabitur,

Validis ab annis ad fenectam, fi tuæ

Meliffa fit vita comes;

Quam, Marce, cùm ducetur uxor, elige

Menfæque confortem & tori.

Good-Breeding fhall her Handmaid be,
Join'd with chaft-look'd Modesty ;
While open Heart, and Hand and Face

Hospitality displays.

If e'er Melissa grace your Home,

These Attendants with her come.

Whate'er can good or ill befall

Faithful Partner fhe of all.

Whose Wisdom teaching well to bear,
Sooths the Bitterness of Care.

Whose Joy, if profp'rous Fate you meet,
Adds new Sweetness to the Sweet.

These Ties will nuptial Love engage,
Down from Youth to hoary Age,

If e'er Melissa, lovely Spouse!

Life's Companion! crown your Vows. Such, fuch a Confort chufe to wed, Worthy of your Board and Bed.

The

The LOVE R.

Y, deareft Clio, have you never seen,

SAY

Never obferv'd the Lover by the Mien? The Body wrap up in a gentle Trance, The Step imperfect, and the flow Advance, The languid Look, the fweetly-melting Eye, And faintly now and then the rifing Sigh; Still by your Side, for ever in your Way, And always wanting some soft thing to say, With fault'ring Accent, and with Words half told, And the fwoln Bofom burning to unfold; 'Till many tender Hours the Paffion prove, And flowly melt it to familiar Love. Say, dearest Clio, ever-charming Fair!

Sighing I ask you, is not fuch my Air?

And are not all Men fuch, when you they fee?

Surely they are, All Lovers are like me,