PER VIGILIUM

VENERIS.

RAS amet, qui numquam amavit ;

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Quique amavit, cras amet.

Ver novum, ver jam canorum: vere natus orbis eft,
Vere concordant amores, vere nubent alites,
Et nemus comam refolvit de maritis imbribus.
Cras amorem copulatrix inter umbras arborum
Implicat gazas virentes de flagello myrteo.
Cras Dione jura dicit, fulta fublimi throno.

Cras

THE

VIGIL of VENUS.

Written in the Time of JULIUS CESAR, and by fome afcrib'd to CATULLUS.

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ET thofe love now, who never lov'd before;

Let those who always lov'd, now love the more.

The Spring,the new,the warb'ling Spring appears,
The youthful Season of reviving Years;

In Spring the Loves enkindle mutual Heats,
The feather'd Nation chufe their tuneful Mates,
The Trees grow fruitful with defcending Rain
And drest in diff'ring Greens adorn the Plain.

She

Cras amet, qui numquam amavit; quique ama

vit, cras amet.

Tunc liquore de fuperno, fpumeo ponti e globo, Cærulas inter catervas, inter & bipedes equos,

Fecit undantem Dionen de maritis imbribus.

Cras amet, qui numquam amavit; quique ama

vit, cras amet.

She comes; to-morrow Beauty's Empress roves Thro' Walks that winding run within the Groves; She twines the shooting Myrtle into Bow'rs,

And ties their meeting Tops with Wreaths of Flow'rs,

Then rais'd fublimely on her easy Throne

From Nature's pow'rful Dictates draws her own. Let thofe love now, who never lov'd before; Let those who always lov'd, now love the more.

'Twas on that Day which faw the teeming Flood Swell round, impregnate with celestial Blood; Wand'ring in Circles flood the finny Crew, The midft was left á void Expanse of Blue, There Parent Ocean work'd with heaving Throes, And dropping wet the fair Dione rofe.

Let thofe love now, who never lov'd before;

Let those who always lov'd, now love the more."

Ipfa gemmas purpurantem pingit annum floribus,

Ipfa furgentis papillas de Favonî fpiritu,

Urguet in toros tepentes; ipfa roris lucidi,

Noctis aura quem relinquit, fpargit umentis aquas,

Et micant lacrymæ trementes decidivo pondere.
Gutta præceps orbe parvo fuftinet cafus fuos.
In pudorem florulentæ prodiderunt purpuræ.
Umor ille, quem ferenis aftra rorant noctibus.
Mane virgines papillas folvit umenti peplo.
Ipfa juffit mane ut udæ virgines nubant rofæ

Fufæ prius de cruore deque amoris ofculis,

Deque gemmis, deque flammis, deque Solis purpuris.