Hinc et hinc nocturnus herbis it reditque spiritus, At virebit, at vigebit otio saltus sacro ; Surge, mater, et voca me, mane quam maturrime, Mica, Mica. MICA, mica, parva Stella; C. M. Then you shew your little light, In the dark blue sky you keep, For Till the Sun is in the sky. Reciprocity I NE'ER could any lustre see But where my own did hope to sip. Taylor. Mox ostendis lumen purum, Neque carpseris soporem, H. D. Disce meo exemplo formosis posse carere. PHYLLIDIS effugiunt nos lumina: dulcia sunto: Parque rosis tenero vernat in ore color; Sed nihil ista juvant; forsan tamen ista juvabunt, Pura manus mollisque fluit: neque credere possum : Ecce, movent pectus suspiria! quid moror uri? I will do so, when I see That anxious bosom sigh for me. Sheridan. The Cobbler. A WAGGISH Cobbler issued once in Rhodes a proclamation, That he was willing to disclose, for a due consideration, A secret, which the cobbling world could not afford to lose; The way to make in one short day a hundred pair of shoes! From every quarter to the sight there ran a thousand fellows, Tanners, Cobblers, Boot-professors, jolly Leather-sellers; All redolent of beer and smoke and cobbler's wax and hides; Each man he pays his thirty pence, and calls it cheap besides. Silence!-the Cobbler enters in, and casts around his eyes; Then curls his lips, the rogue! then frowns, and then looks wondrous wise: 'My friends,' he says, 'it is a simple plan I shall propose, And every one of you, I think, might learn it, if you chose ; To make the hundred pairs of shoes,-just go back to your shops And take a hundred pair of boots, and cut off all their tops!' Δ. Si nostri modo cura memor, nostrique caloris, Μ. L. Amphora cœpit Enstitui currente rota cur Arceus exit ? ΔΕΞΙΟΣ τις Βυρσοδέψης θαῦμα δηλώσειν μέγα ἐν Ρόδῳ ποτ' ἠγόρευσεν, ἀργύριον ἤν τις διδῷ, κἀνύσειν ἑκατὸν κατ ̓ ἦμαρ σάνδαλ ̓ εὖ πεπηγμένα. μυρίοι δὲ πρὸς θέαμα πάντοθεν κατέῤῥεον, δερμάτων ὄζοντες ἡδὺ καὶ πίνου τε καὶ πότου, σκυτόδεψαι, σκυτόπωλαι, σανδαλίσκων ἔργαται, θαυμάσαντες καὶ τελοῦντες δύο δραχμάς θεωρικάς. κατα τήνδ' ὁ βυρσοδέψης προσβλέπων ὁμήγυριν, καὶ γελῶν ἅμ ̓ οὐπιτριπτὸς, κἂν ξυναίρων τὰς ὀφρυς, ῥαδία μέν ἐστιν, εἶπεν, ἣν διδάξομεν τεχνὴν, ῥάδιον δὲ τοῦτο πρᾶγμα μανθάνειν, ὃς ἂν θέλῃ, κἀνύειν ἑκατὸν κατ ̓ ἦμαρ σάνδαλ ̓ εὖ πεπηγμένα— εἴ γε τἄκρ ̓ ἑκατὸν κοθόρνων ̓κτεμεῖ καττύματα. H. D. |