And most his justice, in the fitting parts,
And giving dues to all mankind's deserts!

In this sweet extasy she was rapt hence.
Who reads, will pardon my intelligence,
That thus have ventured these true strains upon,
To publish her a saint. MY MUSE IS GONE!

In pietatis memoriam
quam præstas
Venetiæ tuæ illustrissim.
Marit. dign. Digbeie

Hanc ̓ΑΠΟΘΕΩΣΙΝ, tibi, tuisque sacro.

THE TENTH,

BEING HER INSCRIPTION, OR CROWN,

IS LOST.

LEGES CONVIVALES.

VOL. IX.

G

LEGES CONVIVALES.] Nothing can be more pure and elegant than the latinity of these "Laws." In drawing them up, Jonson seems to have had the rules of the Roman entertainments in view; as collected with great industry by Lipsius.

As Whalley printed the old translation of these Rules I have retained it. The poetry, however, has little merit, and the original is not always correctly rendered; but there is no better: a version somewhat anterior to this, appeared in a volume of Songs and other Poems, by Alex. Brome, London 1661.

LEGES CONVIVALES.

Quod fælir faustumque convivis in Apolline sit.

1 NEMO ASYMBOLUS, NISI UMBRA, HUC VENITO. 2 IDIOTA, INSULSUS, TRISTIS, TURPIS, ABESTO.

3 ERUDITI, URBANI, HILARES, HONESTI, ADSCISCUN

TOR,

4 NEC LECTE FEMINE REPUDIANTOR.

RULES FOR THE TAVERN ACADEMY

OR,

LAWS FOR THE BEAUX ESPRITS.

From the Latin of BEN JONSON, engraven in Marble over the Chimney, in the APOLLO of the Old Devil Tavern," at TempleBar; that being his Club-Room.

Non verbum reddere verbo.

I.

1 As the fund of our pleasure, let each pay his shot,
Except some chance friend, whom a member brings in.
2 Far hence be the sad, the lewd fop, and the sot;
For such have the plagues of good company been.

II.

3 Let the learned and witty, the jovial and gay,
The generous and honest, compose our free state;
4 And the more to exalt our delight whilst we stay,
Let none be debarr'd from his choice female mate.

Apollo of the Old Devil Tavern.] The modern revolutions

of this tavern, as far as they are known, have been kindly trans

5 IN APPARATU QUOD CONVIVIS CORRUGET NARES NIL

ESTO.

6 EPULÆ DELECTU POTIUS QUAM SUMPTU PARANTOR. 7 OBSONATOR ET COQUUS CONVIVARUM GULÆ PERITI

SUNTO.

8 DE DISCUBITU NON CONTENDITOR.

9 MINISTRI A DAPIBUS, OCULATI ET MUTI,

A POCULIS, AURITI ET CELERES SUNTO.

III.

5 Let no scent offensive the chamber infest.
6 Let fancy, not cost, prepare all our dishes.
7 Let the caterer mind the taste of each guest,

And the cook, in his dressing, comply with their wishes.

IV.

8 Let's have no disturbance about taking places,
To shew your nice breeding, or out of vain pride.
9 Let the drawers be ready with wine and fresh glasses,

Let the waiters have eyes, though their tongues must be ty'd.

mitted to me by J. Dent, Esq. one of the principal partners in the banking-house of Child and Co. "Mr. Taylor of the parish of St. Bride's London, Esq. appears by indenture October 1734, to have been the owner of the two messuages or tenements close to the east of Temple Bar, of which the one known by the name of St. Dunstan's, or the old Devil Tavern, was then in the occupation of John Goostrey.-Taylor sold this property to Richard Andrews of St. Dunstan's parish, July 1766.-Andrews parted with it to Mess. Child, in June 1787 for 2800%. By these gentlemen the Devil Tavern was pulled down soon after they bought it, and the present buildings in Child's Place erected on its scite. In this tavern was the room known by the name of the Apollo, in which was held the APOLLO CLUB established by the celebrated Ben Jonson. Over the door in gold letters on a black ground were painted his verses beginning "Welcome all," &c. and above them was placed a bust of the poet-both these are still in the possession of Messrs. Child :-the Rules of the club, said to have been engraved on black marble, and fixed up in the same room, were no longer there, * when Messrs. Child

* They were probably removed by Andrews. The Apollo, of which a print was published in 1774, appears to have been a handsome room, large and lofty, and furnished with a gallery