Fast bound in Lethe's dull embrace,
'Tis thine the sluggard to release;
Thou wak'st to life the torpid mind,
To deathful slumbers else consign'd:
And pleas'd to share thy tranquil smile,
Man with new vigour meets his toil.

Betimes the sprightly traveller wakes:
The sturdy ox his stall forsakes,
Patient his sinewy neck to bow,
And bear the yoke, and drag the plough;
His fleecy charge the shepherd leads
To graze beneath the sylvan shades.

Lull'd in his fair one's gentle arms,
The lover if thy voice alarms;
If with regret the attractive couch
He leaves, and blames thy near approach,
Still let him deem thy call unkind,
And cast the" lingering look behind."

His be the illusive joys of night;
My boast shall be the chearful light :
Give me to watch the orient ray,
And hail the glad return of day ;-
And long, oh long-ye Pow'rs divine
May such reviving joys be mine!

THE AMALTHEI

VOS,VATUM STUDIOSA COHORS! VOS INCLYTA VIRTUS ATTOLLET, PRÍSCIS EMULA TEMPORIBUS.

ZANCHIUS.

HE AMALTHEI (HIERONYMUS, JoanNES BAPTISTA, and CORNELIUS) were brothers, who flourished in the earlier part of the sixteenth century, and distinguished themselves as men of letters. The place of their birth was ОDERZO, a city of the Venetian territory. Hieronymus, the eldest, united in his own person the characters of a skilful physician, and a pleasing poet. His Latin poems are in general written in a style of singular elegance and purity. The celebrated French critic and commentator, Marc-Antoine Muret, in his correspondence

spondence with Lambin, classes them among the best productions of the Italians, in that species of composition. (a) In poems

of

(a) Marc-Antoine Muret, who ranks among the Latin poets of France, was born near Limoges, A. D. 1526. He is said principally by his own application to have attained the critical knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages for which he was distinguished. He taught in various colleges and seminaries of education, and was remarkable for the vivacity of his disposition, and a certain pointed quickness of reproof, which enabled him to repress the undue forwardness of his pupils. Charges of a serious nature, the justice of which is however disputed, obliged him to flee from his native country. It is related of him, that as he travelled towards Italy in dis guise, he fell sick at an inn; and the physicians of the place, ignorant of the quality of their patient, proposed to each other to try upon him a medicine, the effects of which had not been fully ascertained. "Faciamus experimentum in corpore vili," which words, being overheard by the professor, speedily operated his cure, without further medical assistance. This eminent scholar; who distinguished himself as a commentator on classic authors, a miscellaneous writer, and a Latin poet, died in 1585. in the 60th year of his age. Vide de Thou; Menage's Anti-Baillet; and Noveau Dictionnaire Historique.

Denys Lambin, another celebrated commentator, was born at Montreuil sur mer, in Picardy. His profound erudition and scrupulous exactness, as a collector of various readings, are acknowledged; but some have

of the light and epigrammatic kind, he particularly excelled. Of these the following, entitled "The Hour-glass" or "The Tomb of Alcippus," is amongst the most admired.

De Horologio pulvereo.

Perspicuus vitro pulvis qui dividit horas,
Dum vagus angustum sæpe recurrit iter,
Olim erat ALCIPPUS, qui GALLE ut vidit ocellos,
Arsit, et est subito factus ab igne cinis.
Irrequiete cinis! miseros testabere amantes
More tuo nullâ posse quiete frui.

Through that perspicuous vase the tiny shower
That ceaseless falls, and marks the passing hour,
ALCIPPUS was, by GALLA's glances fir'd
Who burn'd despairing, and in dust expir'd.
Ill-fated dust! thy restless motion shews
That death itself to love denies repose.

This learned man is also much commended for his urbanity of manners, and the suavity of his disposition. (1) He cultivated

blamed his unauthorized and frequently injudicious freedoms in correcting the text of his authors. He occasionally united his critical labours with those of Muret. Lambin was Greek professor in the College Royale, at Paris. He died iu 1572.

(1) Thuanus.

spondence with Lambin, classes them among the best productions of the Italians, in that species of composition. (a) In poems

of

(a) Marc-Antoine Muret, who ranks among the Latin poets of France, was born near Limoges, A. D. 1526. He is said principally by his own application to have attained the critical knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages for which he was distinguished. He taught in various colleges and seminaries of education, and was remarkable for the vivacity of his disposition, and a certain pointed quickness of reproof, which enabled him to repress the undue forwardness of his pupils. Charges of a serious nature, the justice of which is however disputed, obliged him to flee from his native country. It is related of him, that as he travelled towards Italy in dis guise, he fell sick at an inn; and the physicians of the place, ignorant of the quality of their patient, proposed to each other to try upon him a medicine, the effects of which had not been fully ascertained. "Faciamus experimentum in corpore vili;" which words, being overheard by the professor, speedily operated his cure, without further medical assistance. This eminent scholar, who distinguished himself as a commentator on classic authors, a miscellaneous writer, and a Latin poet, died in 1585. in the 60th year of his age. Vide de Thou; Menage's Anti-Baillet; and Noveau Dictionnaire Historique.

Denys Lambin, another celebrated commentator, was born at Montreuil sur mer, in Picardy. His profound erudition and scrupulous exactness, as a collector of various readings, are acknowledged; but some have