XIII. On a Stone, by a Chalybeat Spring. FONS FERRVGINEVS. DIVAE QUAE SECESSV ISTO FRVI CONCEDIT. XIV. On a Stone Seat, making part of a Cave. INTVS AQVAE DULCIS, VIVOQUE SEDILIA SAXO; NYMPHARVM DOMVS. XV. On two Seats, to two of his moft particular Friends. The firft thus, AMICITIAE ET MERITIS RICHARDI GRAVES: IPSAE TE, TITYRE, PINVS, IPSI TE FONTES, IPSA HAEC ARBVSTA VOCABANT. The other, AMICITIAE ET MERITIS RICHARDI JAGO. XVI. On a Statue of Venus de Medicis. "T "Semi educta Venus." O Venus, Venus here retir'd, "Not her on Paphian plains admir'd, << Not Not her whofe amorous leer prevail'd "To bribe the Phrygian boy; "Not her who, clad in armour, fail'd "To save difaftrous Troy. "Fresh rifing from the foamy tide, "She every bosom warms; "While half withdrawn fhe feems to hide, "And half reveals, her charms. “Learn hence, ye boastful fons of taste, "Who plan the rural shade; "Learn hence to fhun the vicious wafte "Let fweet concealment's magic art Let coy referve with coft unite "Of China's vain alcoves. "'Tis bafhful beauty ever twines "The most coercive chain; 'Tis fhe, that fovereign rule declines, "Who beft deserves to reign." XVII. Intended to be written at the Beginning of a Collection of Flowers, which Mr. SHENSTONE coloured for Mrs. JAGO. ELEGANTISSIMAE PVELLAE DOROTHEAE FANCOVRT, QVAE PERDILECTI SVI CONDISCIPVLI RICHARDI IAGO AMORES MERVIT, D. D. GVLIELMVS SHENSTONE; DEBITAE NYMPHIS OPIFEX CORONAE. XVIII. Proposed to Mr. GRAVES by Mr. SHENSTONE, as a proper Inscription for himself. AMICITIAE G. S. QVI, NAIADAS PARITER AC MVSAS EXCOLENDO, SIMUL ET VILLAM EIVS ELEGANTISSIMAM NOMENOVE SVVM ILLVSTRAVIT. "(FORTVNATVS ET ILLE DEOS QUI NOVIT "AGRESTES) "PANAQUE, SYLVANVMQVE, SENEM, NYM"PHASQVE SORORES." VIRG. VERSES VERSE S то MR. S HENST ON E. Written on a Ferme Ornée, near Birmingham. By the late Lady LUXBOROUGH. IS Nature here bids pleasing scenes arife, TO WILLIAM SHENSTONE, Efq; at the LEASOWES. "Vellem in amicitia fic erraremus!" EE! the tall youth, by partial Fate's decree, SEE! HOR. To affluence born, and from restraint fet free. Eager he seeks the scenes of gay refort, The mall, the rout, the play-house, and the court : Soon for fome varnish'd nymph of dubious fame, He marks the roses of fome rural fair: Thus, in the vacant feafon of the year, VER |