3

HOURS OF IDLENESS.

A

SERIES OF POEMS,

ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED.

"* Virginibus puerisque Canto."

HORACE, lib. 3. Ode 1.

Μήτ' ἄρ με μάλ' αἴνεε μήτε τι νείκει.

"He whistled as he went for want of thought."

HOMER, ILIAD, X. 249.

DRYDEN.

* This was the only motto given in the private volume; it was retained with the other two in the first edition of Hours of Idleness, and omitted in the second.-ED.

VOL. V.

B

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

FREDERICK, EARL OF CARLISLE,

KNIGHT OF THE GARTER, ETC. ETC.

THE

SECOND EDITION OF THESE POEMS

IS INSCRIBED,

BY HIS OBLIGED WARD

AND AFFECTIONATE KINSMAN,

THE AUTHOR.