Sedately saunter every dainty couch along,
A bright Adonis, as the snowy dove serene?
Can you look on, look idly, filthy Romulus?
Look idly, gamester, epicure, a wanton, you. 10

Unique commander, and was only this the plea
Detain'd you in that islet angle of the west,
To gorge the shrunk seducer irreclaimable
With haply twice a million, add a million yet?
What else was e'er unhealthy prodigality? 15

The waste? to lust a little? on the belly less?
Begin; a glutted hoard paternal; ebb the first.
To this, the booty Pontic; add the spoil from out
Iberia, known to Tagus' amber ory stream.
Not only Gaul, nor only quail the Briton isles. 20

What help a rogue to fondle? is not all his act
To swallow monies, empty purses heap on heap?
But you--to please him only, shame to Rome, to me!
Could you the son, the father, idly ruin all?

XXX.

False Alfenus, in all amity frail, duty a prodigal,
Doth thy pity depart? Shall not a friend, traitor, a friend recal

Love? what courage is here me to betray, me to repudiate?
. . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Never sure did a lie, never a sin, please the celestials.

This you heed not; alas! leave me to new misery, desolate. (5)
O where now shall a man trust? liveth yet any fidelity?

You, you only did urge love to be free, life to surrender, you.
Guiding into the snare, falsely secure, prophet of happiness. 10

Now you leave me, retract, every deed, every word allow
Into nullity winds far to remove, vapoury clouds to bear. (10)

You forget me, but yet surely the Gods, surely remembereth
Faith; hereafter again honour awakes, causeth a wretch to rue.

XXXI.

O thou of islands jewel and of half-islands,
Fair Sirmio, whatever o'er the lakes' clear rim
Or waste of ocean, Neptune holds, a two-fold pow'r;
What joy have I to see thee, and to gaze what glee!

Scarce yet believing Thunia past, the fair champaign 5
Bithunian, yet in safety thee to greet once more.
From cares to part us--where is any joy like this?

Then drops the soul her fardel, as the travel-tir'd
World-weary wand'rer touches home, r