Sine arte compta, et elegans sine tædio, Aderit venustas; et salus Suo rubore rosea; et innocentia Cadente purior nive; Aderit amor, risus, voluptas, gaudium, Et litium fugax quies. Aderit labella comprimens taciturnitas, Et omnis eventus memor prudentia, Accedet his virtutibus pia humilitas, Humana si natura quid deliquerit, Memor, invidi rumoris ut malignitas Famulabitur castum intuens modestia, Et docta cultu urbanitas ; His cum sodalibus Melissa gratiis Fidelis, ægrum quicquid aut lætabile est, Whose wisdom, teaching well to bear, Whose joy, if prosp'rous fate you meet, Life's companion, crown your vows. DEDICATION PREFIXED TO TABLES OF ANCIENT COINS, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES, IN THE YEAR 1727; BY MR. CHARLES ARBUTHNOT, STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD. TO THE KING. GREAT name, which in our rolls recorded stands, r The king's name stands first in the buttery book of Ch. Ch. Solando quæ curarum amara leniat, Et consulendo temperet ; Et quæ novis addat novas. His vinculis firmabitur, Validis ab annis ad senectam, si tuæ Melissa sit vitæ comes; Quam, Marce, cum ducetur uxor, elige, DEDICATIO AD REGEM; IN IPSIUS GRATIAM LATINE REDDITA. AUGUSTUM nomen, nostro qui primus in albo Pour forth as numerous legions on the plain, From Thetis' stores, and not her neighbours' spoils, Rome sack'd, and plunder'd; Britain clothes and feeds s; Acquires their riches, but supplies their needs. Sweet seat of freedom! be thy happier doom, To 'scape the fate, as well as guilt of Rome : Where riot, offspring of unwieldy store, Enerv'd those arms, that snatch'd the spoil before ; Then with ill-gotten gold she bought a lord. Down sunk the far-fam'd mistress of mankind. Hear, righteous prince! O hear us loud invoke Thy worth unblemish'd, to avert this stroke: Yourself so free from ev'ry lawless view, You scarce admit the homage that is due. Roma recensebat plures sub Cæsare gazas ; Quot campum agminibus stipet, quo fulmine, quantis Per mare diffusas classes terroribus armet, Et tua quam late pandat vexilla per orbem. Clausa licet terras spatiis brevioribus, udum, Esto tibi, o libertatis pulcherrima sedes, Obscœna, in tantum nervos animosque resolvit, O pater! o princeps! nec frustra assuete vocari: Audi, obtestamur majestatemque fidemque Virtutemque tuam, nobisque averte malorum Hanc faciem; ipse adeo procul ambitionis ab œstro, |