. T. Lucretius Carus Of the nature of things : in six books. Illustrated with proper and useful notes. Adorned with copper-plates, curiously engraved by Guernier, and others .. . Not when fupinely laid they frifk and heave: For active Motions only break the Blow, And more of Strumpet than of Wives they mew; When anfwering Stroke with Stroke, the min-gled Liquors flow. Endearment eager, and too brifk a Bound Throw off the Plough-fhare from the furrowdGround. But common Harlots in Conjunction heave, Becaufe tis lefs their Busnefs to conceive Than to delight and to provoke the Deed ; A Trick whic
. T. Lucretius Carus Of the nature of things : in six books. Illustrated with proper and useful notes. Adorned with copper-plates, curiously engraved by Guernier, and others .. . Not when fupinely laid they frifk and heave: For active Motions only break the Blow, And more of Strumpet than of Wives they mew; When anfwering Stroke with Stroke, the min-gled Liquors flow. Endearment eager, and too brifk a Bound Throw off the Plough-fhare from the furrowdGround. But common Harlots in Conjunction heave, Becaufe tis lefs their Busnefs to conceive Than to delight and to provoke the Deed ; A Trick which honeft Wives but little is it from the Gods, or the Darts of Venus, that a Woman of ordinary Beauty is fometimes beloved. She often fecures the Affection by her diicreet 106 T. Lucretii , JSFani facit ipfa fuis interdum Fcemina faclis9 1275Morigerifque modis, & mundo corpor? cultu>Ut facile infuefcat fecum Vir degere vitam. Quodfuperefty Confuetudo concinhat leviter quamvis, quod crebro tunditur i£luyVincitur in longo fpatio tamen, at que labafcit. 1280Nonne vides, etiam guttas in fax a cadentehHumoris longo in fpatio pertundere faxa P. T. Lu- Book IV. Of the Nature of Things. difcreet Conduct, by the Sweetnefs of her Deport-ment, and an Exactnefs in the Decency of herPerfon ; fo that a Man, by Ufe, may fpend hisLife happily with her. To fum up all: It is Cuftom that reconcilesthe Delights of Love ; for beat upon any thingwith conftant Blows, though ever fo lightly, it isovercome at lafl, and crumbles to Pieces. Havenot you obferved how Drops of Water fallingupon a hard Stone, by Length of Time, wear itaway ? 10/ The End of the Fourth Booh
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