Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

ROME. xy?
That ihow too well the warm Desires,
The silent, ssow, consirming Fires,
Which on my inmost Vitals prey,
And melt my very Soul away,
This wefliould beat a Lois to account
for, did we not observe in the Old Ra-
man Statues, that these Two Parts were
always bare, and expos’d to View, as
much as our Hands and Face are at pre-
sent. I cannot leave Juvenal without ta-
king notice that his
Pintilat aftivum digtis Judantibas aurtan
Nee fiisserre queat majoris pondera, Gemmae.
Sat. i.
Charg’d’ with light Summer Rings his
Fingers sweat.
Unable to support a Gem os Weight.
■Dryden.
was not anciently so great an. Hyperbole
as it is now, for I have seen old Roman
Rings so very thick about, and with such
large Stones in ’em, that ’tis no Won-
cum-
a Climate.
AUusions and Instances as are extreamly
natural