Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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Credit: Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a Corydon finging to him in the Woods, prefently wrote the following Anfvver, under the Name of Alexis, as follows : ALE XIS Corydoni fuo fumme colendo, S. T, D. SIT, quondam Paftor Corydon ardebat Alexin, Delicias Domini, nec quid fperaret habebat, Lantum inter denfas umbrofa Cacumina fagos Affidue veniebat, ibi Jua carmina folus Montibus & Sylvis ftudio jail ah at inant. 0 Corydon! fi non flans in contraria Ventus Obftiterat, dulcifq; tua modulamina vocis Audiffet, voto tile tuo certe obvius ejfet. Non formofus erat, tali fed fretus Amove Candidas efl, fperat qiioque fe fore candidiorem: Quis te defpircet ? tu quis fis queer it Alexis. Qudm dives nivei pecoris, qudm laBis abundans Nil dubitat, nunquam deerit tibi copia mellis. Mille tibi Siculis errant in montibus agna. Lac tibi non reflate novum non f rigore defit. Cant as qua folitus Ji quando armenta vocabai Amphion Dir cans in AElao Aracyntho. Quod fis formofus, faciant te littora cerium Dum placidum ventis flabit Mare, nec tibi Daphnin fudice fe prafert, te nunquam fallet imago. O tantuni lice at mihi tecum fordida rara Atque humiles habit are cajas, & figere cervos> Hadorumq; gregem viridi compellere hibyfco, Lecum und in fylvis imitari Pana canendo. Pan primus calamos cerd conjungere plures Infiituit, Pan curat eves oviumque magiflros. Nec me paniteat calamo trivjjfe Labellum, Mac eadem ut fa ret, quid non faBurus Alexis ?