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The musical cicada dost excel.

Behold the cup! how sweetly doth it smell!
'Twill seem to thee as though the lovely Hours
Had newly dipt it in their fountain-showers.

Hither, Cissætha! milk her: yearling friskers,
Forbear-behold the ram's huge beard and whiskers!

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IDYL II.

PHARMACEUTRIA.

ARGUMENT.

Simatha, a young woman of Syracuse, endeavours to recall, by enchantments, her lover, Delphis, who had forsaken her. She performs her magic rites, which are minutely described, by moonlight. When her incantations are finished, being left alone, she describes the origin and progress of her passion. She addresses the Moon, as presiding over magical rites; and finally threatens the life of Delphis in the event of his not returning to her.

IDYL II.

PHARMACEUTRIA.

WHERE are the laurels ? where the philtres? roll
The finest purple wool around the bowl.
Quick Thestylis, that I with charms may bind
The man I love, but faithless and unkind.
This is the twelfth day he my sight hath fled,
And knows not whether I be quick or dead;
The twelfth day since he crossed my threshold o'er,
Nor, cruel! once hath knocked upon my door,
In all that time. His fancy, apt to change,
Cypris and Love have elsewhere made to range.
I'll go-to see and chide him for my sorrow
To Timagetus' wrestling-school to-morrow.
Now will I charm him with the magic rite:
Come forth, thou Moon! with thy propitious light;

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