Quem fugis? Ah demens!---- Et fortunatam, si nunquam armenta fuissent, Pasiphaën nivei solatur amore juvenci. Oh, virgo infelix, quæ te dementia cepit? Proetides implêrunt falsis mugitibus agros: At non tum turpes pecudum tamen ulla secuta est Concubitus: quamvis collo timuisset aratrum, Et sæpe in levi quæsisset cornua fronte. Ah, virgo infelix, tu nunc in montibus erras! NOTES. Time, however, effects strange things, as the poet says, and many have been the passions which have since agitated, and have been also quelled in the bosom of ROSCIUS. [3] NYKY is a half-pay officer of marines. A horse-marine is a kind of _meretricious_ HOBBY-HORSE, _modò vir modò fæmina_. Yet to Euryalus as Nisus true, So shall thy ROSCIUS, NYKY, prove to you; Whether by impulse mov'd, itself divine, Or so I'm bound to call it, as it's mine, A mighty feat presents itself to view, Which for our mutual gain I yet will do. Mean-time do thou beware, while I bemoan, How far thou trustest seas or lands unknown. To Tyber's stream, or to the banks of Po, Safe in thy love, safe in thy virtue, go; Yet even there with caution be thou kind, And look out sharp and frequently behind. But ah, beware, nor trust, tho' native Mud,[4] The banks of Liffy, or of Shannon's flood; Or there, if driv'n by fate, be hush'd thy strain? Nor of thy wayward lot, nor mine complain. IMITATIONS. Nisus ait, "Diine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt Euryale? An sua cuique deus sit dira Cupido? Aut pugnam, aut aliquid jamdudum invadere magnum Mens agitat mihi---- Hàc iter est; tu ne qua manus se attollere nobis A tergo possit, custodi et consule longè." NOTES. [4] NYKY it seems was born and bred in Ireland; where his christian name was _John_. How he came by the Jewish appellation of _Isaac_ is not generally known. Whether it was bestowed upon him for his resemblance to the chosen _people_, or given him by poetical licence, may possibly be a matter of disquisition for future scholiasts. Lest female Bacchanals, when flush'd with wine, Serve thee, like Orpheus, for thy song divine; Nay back return, lest my too plaintive verse Entail on me the same Orphean curse; Lest Venus' train of Drury and the Strand Attack my house by water and by land; Hot with their midnight orgies, madly tear My little limbs, and throw them here and there; Casting, enrag'd at my provoking theme, Th' inditing brain into the neighbouring stream: When, as my skull shall float the tide along, Thy much-lov'd name, the burthen of my song, Shall still be stutter'd, later than my breath; NYKY---NYK----NY----till stopt my tongue in death: Through London-bridge shall Wapping NYKY roar, And NYK be even heard to Hampton's shore.[5] IMITATIONS.