XXXII.

INFANS.

DUM tibi vix nato laeti risere parentes,

Vagitu implebas tu lacrymisque domum : Sic vivas, ut summa tibi cum venerit hora, Sit ridere tuum, sit lacrymare tuis.

IDEM GRAECE.

ΑΡΤΙ γεγώς κλαίθμων ἐξήρχεο δακρυοέντων, Γηθοσύνη δὲ φίλοι, σός τ ̓ ἐγέλασσε πατήρ Ὣς δὲ βίον διάγοις, ὡς δὴ θανάτοιο παρόντος, Εἶναι σοὶ τὸ γελᾶν, αμμὶ δὲ δακρυχέειν.

XXXIII.

ARIOSTO.

ALCUN non puo saper da chi sia amato,

Quando felice in su la rota siede;

Pero c' ha i veri, e i finti amici a lato,

Che mostran tutti la medesma fede.
Se poi si cangia in tristo il lieto stato,
Volta la turba adulatrice il piede ;
E quel che di cor ama, riman forte,
Ed ama il suo signor dopo la morte.

XXXIII.

THE FRIEND.

NONE ever learnt 'midst fortune's smiles

The undissembling heart to know;
When faith sincere, and flattery's wiles,

Alike in outward seeming show.

"Tis when her giddy wheel goes round,

Scattering aloof the servile train,

That friends are proved, and faithful found,

And even in death unchanged remain.

XXXIV.

COLLINS.

To fair Fidele's grassy tomb

1.

Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom,

And rifle all the breathing spring.

2.

No wailing ghost shall dare appear,
To vex with shrieks this quiet grove;
But shepherd lads assemble here,
And melting virgins own their love.

XXXIV.

HYLAS.

1.

HUC, misellus Hylas ubi
Molli in cespite conditur,
Vos flentes pueri rosis
Mixta lilia, flentes

Vos adferte puellulae

Ruris primitias breves,
Quot ver spirat odoribus,

Quos dat Flora colores.

2.

At Larvae procul, horridique Absistent Lemures, neque huic

Luco dulce silentium

Rumpent dira querentes :

Sed canet bene mutuis

Pastor laetus amoribus,

Sed puella fatebitur

Queis aduritur ignes.