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HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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i 56<br />

You, Baffus, take a filly pride,<br />

But 'tis with boys to burft your fide.<br />

So in Tibullus, or whoever is the author of the<br />

Iamoics to Priapus—<br />

Et in quietus inguina arrigat tumor,<br />

Neque incitare apt, ulque dum mibi<br />

Venus joco/L. molle ruperit latus.<br />

Unruly tumour, panting for delight,<br />

Ere& their nerve, and flimulate the fight,<br />

Nor ceafe to glow, till Venus often tried<br />

In mirthful pleafure firft my languid fide<br />

Petronius, in his fatire, mentions the convulfions of<br />

the fide. "I am afraid," lays he, "I fhould have<br />

" raifed convulfions in my fide." In other places, the<br />

fides are faid to be weak, worn out, enervated, drained,<br />

languid, wearied ; which phrafe amounts to be ex-<br />

haufted by venery. Ovid, in the tenth elegy of the<br />

third book-<br />

"idi ego cum joribus lagus prodiret amator<br />

Invalidum referens, emeritumque latus.

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