HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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Her fuitors by the bow the matron tried:
This was the teft of ev'ry manly fide.
As Ovid, in the eighth elegy, lays, and Penelope does
not deny it in the following fixty-ninth epigram-
Nemo meo melius nervum tendebat Ulyffe :
laterum, feu frit artis opus.
2ui quoniam periit modo vos intendite : qua/em
Efe virum Jethro, vix fit ut ille mites.
The bow-ftring none like my Ulyffes drew,
Whether by fleight or flrength his arrow flew ;
Since he is dead, by that your pow'rs be tried,
Who proves his manly force and lufty fide
Belt by the bow, fucceeds him in his bride.
From whence, To try the fide in Martial, fignifies to
give a trial of your ftrength in venereal affairs, book
VII., epig. LAM. And in Ovid, book II., eleg. x., To,
the fides is to excite lull.
Et lateri dabit in vires alimeata voluptas.
Pleafure is thus with nutriment fupplied,
And gives a lufty vigour to the fide.
And in Apuleius, book VIII., The induftry of the fide
is
give ftrength to