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FLORENCE.
Crimine quo merui^ juvenis placidiffime
Divum^
Qu.o've errors mi/er^ donis ut Joins egerem
Somnstuis ? sacet omne peons, volucrejque
fgraque, Sec. Silv. Li. y.
Tell me, thou belt of Gods, thou gen-
tle Youth,
Tell me my sad Offence that only I,
While huslt’d at Ease thy drowsie Sub-
jects lye,
In the dead Silence of the Night com-
plain,
Nor taste the Blessings of thy peaceful
Reign.
I never saw any Figure of Sleep that
was not of Black Marble, which has
probably some Relation to the Night,
that is the proper Season for Rest. I
should not have made this Remark, but
that I remember to have read in one of
the ancient Authors, that the Nile is
generally represented in Stone of this
Colour, becauseit ssows from the Coun-
try of the Ethiopians which shows us
that the Statuaries had sometimes ail Eye
to the Person they were to represent,
in the Choice they made of their Mar-
ble. There are flirt at Rome some of
thesc
FLORENCE.
Crimine quo merui^ juvenis placidiffime
Divum^
Qu.o've errors mi/er^ donis ut Joins egerem
Somnstuis ? sacet omne peons, volucrejque
fgraque, Sec. Silv. Li. y.
Tell me, thou belt of Gods, thou gen-
tle Youth,
Tell me my sad Offence that only I,
While huslt’d at Ease thy drowsie Sub-
jects lye,
In the dead Silence of the Night com-
plain,
Nor taste the Blessings of thy peaceful
Reign.
I never saw any Figure of Sleep that
was not of Black Marble, which has
probably some Relation to the Night,
that is the proper Season for Rest. I
should not have made this Remark, but
that I remember to have read in one of
the ancient Authors, that the Nile is
generally represented in Stone of this
Colour, becauseit ssows from the Coun-
try of the Ethiopians which shows us
that the Statuaries had sometimes ail Eye
to the Person they were to represent,
in the Choice they made of their Mar-
ble. There are flirt at Rome some of
thesc