Part 5
Love takes the tooles of a rude Country clowne, His owne Artill'ry, and his torch layes down; With staffe in's hand, Oxen to th'Plow he set For tillage, and such honest labour fit; Straight, as he turn'd up hearts with easie share, And grace i'th' virgin-furrowes did appeare, 'Mongst thousand others, one flower, quoth he, is mist: That none may wanting be, come thou, O Christ.
Qualis est Dilectus tuus? ex _Cant._ 5.
Ex Lib. Epig. 37.
Qualis erat, tuus ille? tuus pulcherrimus ille? Dicebat nuper barbara turba mihi. Arripio dextra pennam, laevaque tabellam, Et noto, _Christe_, tuo quicquid in orbe noto. Pingo rosas, aurum, gemmas, viridaria, silvas, Arva, lacus, celeri sidera pingo manu; Et tabulam monstrans, Noster pulcherrimus, inquam, Qualis erat, vultis discere? talis erat.
Who is thy Beloved? _Out of Cant._ 5.
_Lib. Epig._ 37.
What is that Spouse of thine? that fairest Hee? The barb'rous people said, of late, to mee. A Pen I tooke, and in a Tablet drew Whatsoe're, O Christ, in thy blest orbe I view. Roses, and Gold I paint, Gems, Groves, Corne-land, Green Gardens, Lakes, and Stars with nimble hand; Would you needs learne, what might my fairest bee? Looke o're this tablet, pray, O such was Hee.
_Epig. 40. Lib. Ep._
Veni de Libano sponsa.
Et fugis, & fugiens clamas, quid sponsa moraris? Non fugis, ut fugias: ut capiare, fugis.
Epig. 40.
Thou run'st, & running cry'st, why dost thou stay My Spouse? thou would'st be ta'ne, not get away.
Ex lib. Epi. 48.
---- Lilia manu praeferenti.
Haec, quae virgineis nituntur lilia culmis, Unde verecundas explicuere comas? Non generant similes Paestana rosaria flores, Nec simili Pharius messe superbit ager: Non haec purpureis mater Corcyra viretis, Nec parit aequoreis pulsa Carystos aquis. Cum nullas habeant natales lilia terras, Qui neget e casta lilia nata manu?
Ep. 48.
_To ---- bearing Lillyes in her hand._
These Lillyes which on virgin stalks doe bend, From whence do they their chaster leaves extend? The _Paestan_ beds such flowres did ne're bring forth, Nor _Pharian_ fields e're gloried in such worth: _Alcinous_ purple banks, ne're teem'd with these, Nor rich _Carystos_ watred by the Seas. Since then these flow'res no native place do know, Who can deny from her chast hand they grow.
Ex Lib. Ep. 51.
_Iohanni de Lugo_, dum post morbum ad intermissam de Poeenitentia doctrinam rediret.
Fertur inornatis nuper Metanoea capillis Flesse, repentina cum raperere febri: Fertur & indomito fraenos laxasse dolori, Et lacrymis madidos exhibuisse sinus: Cum rursus domito repetis tua pulpita morbo, Fertur inornatas disposuisse comas: Et domitos hilari risu fraenasse dolores, Et lacrymis vacuos explicuisse sinus. Quis, Pater, incolumi de te non gaudeat, ipsae Si gaudent Lacrymae, ridet & ipse Dolor?
Ex. Lib. Ep. 51.
To _Iohan de Lugo_, when after a long sicknesse, he returned to his intermitted Lecture of Repentance.
With hairs unkemb'd Repentance late did mourn, When with so feirce a Feaver thou wert torne: Shee's said, to let loose raynes t'untamed griefe, To'affoord her moyst'ned bosome, no reliefe, But when th'desks agen, thy sicknesse tam'd, Thou mountd'st, she's said her careless haire t'have kemb'd T'have bridled in her conquer'd griefe, and smile, Of teares, her open'd bosome to beguile. Who cannot then be glad, thou being safe? When teares rejoyce, and griefe it selfe doth laugh.
Christi in Cruce vox. Ep. 110.
SITIO.
Ah sitio, clamas, Princeps pulcherrime rerum: Non habeo pro te dulcia vina, siti. Tu tamen, ah sitio, clamas: dabo pocula, Sponse: Heu mihi! sed misto pocula felle dabo. Haec mi Sponse, bibe: quaeris cui forte propines? Ad me pro mundi, _Christe_, salute bibe.
_The voyce of Christ upon the Crosse._
I THIRST.
Alas I thirst, great King, thou loude dost grone, I have no pleasant Wine for Thee, thirst on. Yet oh I thirst, thou cry'st: a Cup to thee Woes mee! I'le give: but mix'd with gall't must be. Drink this, my Spouse: perhaps thou'lt ask to whom? To me, O Christ, to th'health o'th'world let't come.
_FINIS._
_Imprimatur_, Na. Brent.
_Feb._ 10. 1645.
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY
[Where available, Project Gutenberg e-text numbers are shown in brackets.]
FIRST YEAR (1946-1947)
Numbers 1-6 out of print.
[Titles: 1. Blackmore, Essay upon wit [13484]
2. Flecknoe, On wit; Warton, The adventurer [14973]
3. Letter to A. H. Esq., concerning the Stage (1698), and Richard Willis' Occasional Paper No. IX (1698). [14047]
4. Cobb, Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) [14528]
5. Samuel Wesley's _Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry_ (1700) and _Essay on Heroic Poetry_ (1693). [16506]
6. _Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage_ (1704) and _Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage_ (1704). [15656] ]
SECOND YEAR (1947-1948)
7. John Gay's _The Present State of Wit_ (1711): and a section on Wit from _The English Theophrastus_ (1702). [14800]
8. Rapin's _De Carmine Pastorali_, translated by Creech (1684). [14495]
9. T. Hanmer's (?) _Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet_ (1736). [14899]
10. Corbyn Morris' _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc._ (1744). [16233]
11. Thomas Purney's _Discourse on the Pastoral_ (1717). [15313]
12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. [16335]
THIRD YEAR (1948-1949)
13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), _The Theatre_ (1720). [15999]
14. Edward Moore's _The Gamester_ (1753). [16267]
15. John Oldmixon's _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley_ (1712); and Arthur Mainwaring's _The British Academy_ (1712). [IN PREPARATION]
16. Nevil Payne's _Fatal Jealousy_ (1673). [16916]
17. Nicholas Rowe's _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare_ (1709). [16275]
18. "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hill's Preface to _The Creation_ (1720). [15870]
FOURTH YEAR (1949-1950)
19. Susanna Centlivre's _The Busie Body_ (1709). [16740]
20. Lewis Theobold's _Preface to The Works of Shakespeare_ (1734). [16346]
21. _Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela_ (1754).
22. Samuel Johnson's _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two _Rambler_ papers (1750). [13350]
23. John Dryden's _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681). [15074]
24. Pierre Nicole's _An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams_, translated by J. V. Cunningham. [IN PREPARATION]
FIFTH YEAR (1950-1951)
25. Thomas Baker's _The Fine Lady's Airs_ (1709). [14467]
26. Charles Macklin's _The Man of the World_ (1792). [14463]
27. Frances Reynolds' _An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc._ (1785). [13485]
28. John Evelyn's _An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); and _A Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661). [17833]
29. Daniel Defoe's _A Vindication of the Press_ (1718). [14084]
30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper's _Letters Concerning Taste,_ 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's _Miscellanies_ (1770). [13464]
SIXTH YEAR (1951-1952)
31. Thomas Gray's _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751); and _The Eton College Manuscript_. [15409]
32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudery's Preface to _Ibrahim_ (1674), etc. [14525]
33. Henry Gally's _A Critical Essay_ on Characteristic-Writings (1725). [16299]
34. Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).
35. James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. _Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch_ (1763). [15857]
36. Joseph Harris's _The City Bride_ (1696). [22974]
SEVENTH YEAR (1952-1953)
37. Thomas Morrison's _A Pindarick Ode on Painting_ (1767). [IN PREPARATION]
38. John Phillips' _A Satyr Against Hypocrites_ (1655).
39. Thomas Warton's _A History of English Poetry_.
40. Edward Bysshe's _The Art of English Poetry_ (1708).
41. Bernard Mandeville's "_A Letter to Dion_" (1732).
42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.
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ERRATA (Noted by transcriber)
_As printed:_
_Introduction:_ The editor's name, printed "Roestvig", is more correctly Rostvig.
_Latin:_ The use of oe and ae in words such as "moestus" is in the original. Accents are variously acute ', grave ` or circumflex ^, with no apparent difference in meaning. Some do not even mark long syllables.
_English:_ Variation between -w- and -vv- is as in the original.
_Typography:_ In both languages, titles were randomly Italic or Roman. Italicization (or de-italicization) of 's in possessives is also random.
_Introduction_
an interesting combination of Stoic and Platonic ideas [_"of / of" at line break_]
_Odes_
_All headers were in the form "Ode 2, Lib. 1" with the poem number given before the Book number. They have been conventionalized for this Errata list._
Lib. 1 Ode 1 Cum infestae Thracum Copiae Pannonia excessissent. [_"Co./piae" for "Co-/piae" at line break_] The threats of cruell Warre now cease:, [_punctuation unchanged_]
Lib. 1 Ode 2 [title] de adversa fortuna [adverfa] Unmanly howlings, _Lycuas_, leave, [_error for Lycas or Lycus (English title has "Lycas"; Latin has "Lycus")_]
Lib. 1 Ode 13 Fortune a double ball doth often throw. [doulble]
Lib. 2 Ode 5 Regna procul, populosque vastos [porcul]
Lib. 2 Ode 8 ... that fortune flings [_final "s" missing at end of long line_]
Lib. 2 Ode 24 And _Nereus_ with his Quicksands Boyling o're: [Nerens]
Lib. 2 Ode 25 [_The title of this Ode is printed in anomalous small capitals on both the Latin and the English sides_] Donec Lucicer aureus [_text unchanged: probably "Lucifer"_] Silvarumq; super colla comantium, [comantnium] Magnorumq; salit terga cacuminum, ac [cacumium] ac [_These words appear in consecutive indented lines_]
Lib. 3 Ode 6 I kingdome, _Marcus_, of my selfe I find [_Text unchanged: error for '1 kingdome' or 'A kingdome'?_]
Lib. 3 Ode 12 The best would choose, from Heav'n must learne the right. [_comma at end_]
Lib. 4 Ode 3 With swift applause; Hee's blest whose sprite, [sptite]
Lib. 4 Ode 44 _Ode 44. Lib. 4._ [_Number shown as printed on both Latin and English sides. The error may have been in the source text._] But Jesu! where art thou? what region's blest [where at]
Lib. 4 Ode 15 Immune taedi. Clarus olim [_first word illegible_]
Lib. 4 Ode 30 _Ad Ianussium Skuminum._ : To _Ianusius Skuminus_. [_inconsistent spelling (ss:s) in original_] Haec ego si nullos fallunt insomnia maneis, [insomia] Her owne and Nephew's temples crown'd. [Nepew's]
Lib. 4 Ode 32 With nimble finger neat division; [nible] And if I write, my secure chaire holds mee. [_comma at end_]
Lib. 4 Ode 34 Splendidam vera sine luce gazam [fine luce (f for long s)]
Lib. 4 Ode 35 [_"Vilna" is the city (modern Vilnius, Wilna in Polish), "Vilia" the river (modern Vilnia)_]
Epode 1 His beames, doth guild the Moutaines cleare [_spelling unchanged_]
Epode 3 Thus spake he to the neighbouring trees, thus he [neigbouring]
_Long "s"_
Lib. 1, Odes 2 and 13 (Latin pages 10, 12): Moestum sol hodie caput ... [Moestum fol ...]
_At the beginning of p. 10 there appears to have been an accident with the Italic type trays. Almost all long s's ([s]) on p. 10 (signature 5v), and many on p. 12 (signature 6v), are misprinted as f, except in the -st- and -ss- ligatures. The last two lines of Ode 1.2, top of p. 12:_
Quod fi de[s]uerit [s]alix Fafces pauperibus [s]ubjiciet focis.
_Note the s-for-f error. In Italic fonts--used for all Latin poems in this text--long "s" is generally _easier_ to distinguish from "f" than it is in Roman fonts._
_Page Numbering_
In Lib. 1 Ode 2, English, page 13 is misprinted as page 31. In Lib. 4 Ode 12, Latin, page 68 is misprinted as page 98. In Lib. 4, Ode 30, page numbers 95-96 are repeated, and the setback in numbering continues to the end of the text. The folio numbers (in duodecimo, or sets of 24 pages) remain correct.