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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76130	New poems. I. The young lover's guide: or, The unsuccessful amours of Philabius, a country lover; set forth in several kind epistles, writ by him to his beautious-unkind mistress. Teaching young lovers how to comport themselves with resignation in their love-disasters. II. The answer of Helena to Paris, newly translated by a country shepherdess. III. The sixth Æneid and fourth eclogue of Virgil, newly translated. / By J.B. Gent.	Philabius. Young Lover's Guide.; Virgil. Aeneis. Liber 6.; Virgil. Bucolica.; J. B., Gent.	1699 (1699)	Wing B116A; ESTC R172635	36,862	132

Hills and wondrous Green Souls thither brought Who were t' arrive at Bliss with Care survey'd E'en one by one and took a List of all Perhaps of him descended or that shall Their Fates inspecting Fortunes Manners Pow'r And when he saw Aeneas coming there Both's Hands presented with a welcom Chear And Tears let fall and this dropt from his Mouth What come at last my long expected Youth Has Piety stood the Hardship of the Ways And may I now discourse you Face to Face Indeed I thought so and that times would come Nor has my Care deceiv'd me counting them Thro' what vast Countries and what mighty Seas Are you come and thro' Dangers more than these How fear'd I Lybia fatal might have prov'd Then he dear Father your sad Ghost has mov'd Appearing oft my coming to this Land My Ships stand on th' Italian Coast Your Hand I beg and let 's embrace and be not gone This saying Floods of Tears came trickling down Then thrice about his Neck he strove to cast His Arms and thrice the Shadows hold he lost As 't is in Dreams or with an aery Blast Mean while Aeneas in a Secret drove At distance ' spies a private rustling Grove And Lethe's River passing by the Seats Of Bliss and Men surrounding these Retreats In mighty Crowds who fill the Place with noise As Bees when thick in Fields on Summers Days Gath'ring from Flow'rs their delicious Preys Aeneas strait astonish'd this to see Enquires the Causes what this Stream might be And what those Men who there stood crowding by Then old Anchises Souls decreed by Fate T'assume new Bodies drinking here forget All Hardships e'er they underwent in Life 'Thas long been my desire that you should have Here Knowledge of all those will spring from me T' encrease your Joy when come to Italy O Father may we think ought Souls sublime Would pass from hence to th' Earth there to resume Gross Bodies direful such Desire would seem I 'll tell you Son no longer keep in doubt Achises then in order all sets out First th' Air Earth Waters and bright-shining Moon And all the Stars a Spirit acts within With Mind infus'd thro' all the Mass's parts Which the vast Bulk pervades and agitates Thence Men and Beasts of all kinds Life receive And Fowles and Monsters which in Seas do live A fiery Vigour and Celestial Birth Their Seeds uphold as far as their dull Earth And Body's clog and dying Limbs give way Thence spring their Fear Love Passion Grief and Joy Nor blinded thus can they Life's pureness see Nay when at last their Life is at end Some Vice and Body's Plagues their Souls attend For long contracted Habits strangely stick To purge whose rooted Taint they to the quick Are therefore toucht with Pains some hung in th' Air Some in vast Gulphs are washt some burnt in Fire We 've all our fated Pains and then are sent To fair Elysium few there ever went Till a compleat revolving course of time Their Taint contracted purg'd and pure from Sin Th' Aethereal Spirit left as first ' thad been When they in Bliss a thousand Years have pass't God calls them all of Lethe's Stream to taste That so forgetful grown they may review The Earth again and Bodies take anew This by Anchises said he takes his Son The Sibyll with him 'mong the crowding Throng Gets on an Hillock in the midst whence he Of all in order had an eager View Then says my Son I now shall let you know Our Trojan Race what Glory thence may grow Who our Successors are in Italy Th' Illustrious Souls that of our Line shall be And you your Fate withal That Youth you see Leans on his Headless Spear by Destiny Comes next to Life 'T is he the first will rise From It'ly's mixt Blood to th' Aethereal Skies Sylvius an Alban Name your poth'mous Child Whom your Lavinia our long Race t' uphold Shall bring at length from woods as King to sway Of Kings a Parent whence our Progeny Long Alba's Kingdom shall of right enjoy The next him 's Procas Trojan's Glory then Capys and Numitor and who bears your Name Sylvius Aeneas who will also be For Arms as famous as for Piety If Alba's Kingdom ever he attains Behold what Courage in their Faces shines And how their Temples all are shadow'd round With Oken City Garlands These shall found Nomentum Gabii Fidena for you Collatia Towns on Mountains built anew Pomeria Novum Castrum Bola too And Cora. Then these for their Names shall stand They being at present nameless spots of Land And martial Rom'lus to his Grandsire here Shall join His Mother Ilia him shall bear She springing from Asarc'us See he 's known By 's double topt Helmet standing on his Crown Now markt by 's Father Mars for great Renown Lo Son by him that famous Rome controuls For Empire th' Earth Heav'n equals for great Souls Sev'n Hills with one Wall she 'll her self inclose In great Men fertile as Cybele shews When crown'd with Castles thro' the Towns of Troy She 's carry'd in Chariot with Transports of Joy For num'rous Gods sprungs of her whom she greets At pleasure all in Heav'n blest with Seats Now both Eyes hither cast this Lineage see Your Romans Caesar all the Progeny Here of Julus stand that e'er shall be This here 's the Man Augustus Caesar sprung From God who to you has been promis'd long And who agen a Golden Age shall found In Latium as when Saturn rul'd the Land Beyond all Lybia and the Indies he His Empire shall extend A Land does lie Out of the Sun 's and Planet's Course where Heav'n Nigh burning Stars on Atlas Shoulder 's born Which dreads e'en now his coming mov'd thereto By Or'cles Answers telling what 's t' ensue Like Fear the Caspian and the Scythian Lands And Egypt with its sev'n-mouth'd Nile attends Nor had Alcides Conquests such extent Tho' he the light-foot Deer in chase out-went And Erymanthus Boar in pursuit slew And Lernas Hydra with 's unerring Bow Nor conq'ring Bacchus who with 's Vine-twig Reins From Nysa's top drove Tygers to the Plains And fear you now in Italy to land And by Exploits your Glory there t' extend But who is' t stands far off distinguisht by His Olive-bows and sacred Laws I spy His Hair and white Beard like a Roman King Who founding Rome Laws thither first did bring Sent from small Cures a poor Country-Town T'an Empire great where Tullus next will come A Man whose Country 's idle Peace will break And force his sluggish Subjects Arms to take And Triumphs then disus'd in Field to gain Next him Thrasonick Anchus comes to Reign Pleas'd even now too much with Mens applause And will you see the Tarquin Kings with these The great Soul of revenging Brutus and The Rods and Axe in use brought to the Land The Consul's Office he the first shall bear And cruel Axe his Sons for moving War Unhaypy Man to Punishment shall bring