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Tarde, quid cessas? Age Rozinantis
Terga conscendas eques [1] ingementis,
Tenè ruralis Galatæa duris
Detinet Ulnis?

Digne succendi meliore flammâ!——
Sive [2]Clarissam, Juvenumvè curam
Philliden mavis, placeatvè, quondam
Pulchra, Lycoris.

Tarde, quid cessas? tibi multa Virgo
Splendidos lædit lachrymis ocellos,
Et tibi frustrà ad Speculum comarum
Circinat orbes!

Te frequens votis revocat Sophistes,
Dum Johannensi madidus Lyæo,
De tubis haurit, revomitque dulcem
Undique nubem.

Quin

  1. Obeso fuit corpore.
  2. Tres elegantes apud Cantabrigiam Puellæ.