415 FAMILIAR COLLOQUIES.
Urticaj viridi graveolentem junge cicutam ;
Talia iiarn tali debentur pneniia vatL
Aimue, Barbaries, tuque hanc sine cornua circuni
Inter candidulas laurum tibi nectier aures.
Jia. This makes me ready to spue ; I cannot bear to hear such silly stuft'. Do I loiter away my time here, and do not go to Z voll to see what my friends are doing there ? Th. Make haste, and let a block- head visit the blockheads; your coming to them will be very acceptable : I see I spend my breath upon you in vain : you will never be a change- ling. I very aptly applied to you that verse of Virgil,
Non ilium nostri possunt mutare labores. " Ve do but endeavour to wash a blackamoor white."
Me. At the beginning of this contention, as soon as ever we espied this monster, we all grew sick at the stomach. Th. I believe so truly. Ca. Mistress, let us leave this beastly creature, and betake ourselves to the airy top of Parnassus hill, and the Heliconian fountain. Th. Lot us do so.
FINIS.
BELL AND BAIN, PRINTERS, 41 MITCHELL STREET, GLASGOW
