and languishing eyes."

5727. Qualis fuit Venus cum fuit virgo, balsamum spirans, &c.

5728. Seneca.

5729. Seneca Hyp. "Beauty is a gift of dubious worth to mortals, and of
brief duration."

5730. Camerarius, emb. 68. cent. 1. flos omnium pulcherrimus statim
languescit, formae typus.

5731. Bernar. Bauhusius Ep. l. 4.

5732. Pausanias Lacon. lib. 3. uxorem duxit Spartae mulierum omnium post
Helenam formosissimam, at ob mores omnium turpissimam.

5733. Epist. 76. gladium bonum dices, non cui deauratus est baltheus, nec
cui vagina gemmis distinguitur, sed cui ad secandum subtilis acies et
mucro munimentum omne rupturus.

5734. Pulchritudo corporis, temporis et fugacior ludibrium. orat. 2.

5735. Florum mutabilitate fugacior, nec sua natura formosas facit, sed
spectantium infirmitas.

5736. Epist. 11. Quem ego depereo juvenis mihi pulcherimus videtur; sed
forsan amore percita de amore non recte judico.

5737. Luc. Brugensis. "Bright eyes and snow-white neck."

5738. Idem. "Let my Melita's eyes be like Juno's, her hand Minerva's, her
breasts Venus', her leg Ampbitiles'."

5739. Bebelius adagiis Ger.

5740. Petron. Cat. "Let her eyes be as bright as the stars, her neck smell
like the rose, her hair shine more than gold, her honied lips be ruby
coloured; let her beauty be resplendent, and superior to Venus, let
her be in all respects a deity," &c.

5741. M. Drayton.

5742. Senec. act. 2. Herc. Oeteus.

5743. Vides venustam mulierem, fulgidum habentem oculum, vultu hilari
coruscantem, eximium quendam aspectum et decorem praese ferentem,
urentem mentem tuam, et concupiscentiam agentem; cogita terram esse
id quod amas, et quod admiraris stercus, et quod te urit, &c., cogita
illam jam senescere jam rugosam cavis genis, aegrotam; tantis
sordibus intus plena est, pituita, stercore; reputa quid intra nares,
oculos, cerebrum gestat, quas sordes, &c.

5744. Subtil. 13.

5745. Cardan, subtil. lib. 13.

5746. "Show me your company and I'll tell you who you are."

5747. "Hark, you merry maids, do not dance so, for see the he-goat is at
hand, ready to pounce upon you."

5748. Lib. de centum amoribus, earum mendas volvant animo, saepe ante
oculos constituant, saepe damnent.

5749. In deliciis.

5750. Quum amator annulum se amicae optaret, ut ejus amplexu frui posset,
&c. O te miserum ait a