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is a potency in luft. "They brought," fays he, "a<br />
" lufty countryman well furnifhed with an induftry of<br />
fides, and a length of label." So, in Juvenal and<br />
Ovid, to fpare the fides is to abflain from venery.<br />
Thus the former, on the Catamite, fat. 6--<br />
Nec queritur, quod<br />
Aut lateri 15arcas, nec quantum jugus anheles.<br />
Nor is the cafe how much you fpare your fides,<br />
Or at what colt of breath the mailer rides.<br />
And, in the Art of Love, book IL—<br />
Et la/en i ne parce tuo ; pax °Innis in ilk eft.<br />
Spare not your fides, for all your hopes are there.<br />
On the other hand, to brake the fides, in Martial, is to<br />
indulge pleafure too much, book XI., epig. cv .—<br />
Et juvat admija rumpere luce latus.<br />
He lets the fun behold his play,<br />
And brakes his fides in open day.<br />
And again, book XII., epigram<br />
Rumpis Bale leans, fed in coma&<br />
You,
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