"Quum quidam gemmas vitreas pro veris vendiderat ejus uxori, atque illa, re prodita, vindicari vellet, surripi quasi ad leonem venditorem jussit.

Multa Graece Latineque proscripta aut vulgata sunt, sicut illa: * * * *

4. Non est formosa mulier cujus crus laudatur et brachium, sed illa cujus simul universa facies admirationem singulis partibus dedit; "she is no fair woman, whose arm, thigh, &c. are commended, except the face and all the other parts be correspondent."

Occidit ille risus et formae lepos, Ille nitor, illa gratia, et verus decor, Illae aemulantes purpuram, et rosas genae, Oculique vinctaeque aureo nodo comae.

" "Dulce ridentem Lalagen amabo, Dulce loquentem," "I love Lalage as much for smiling, as for discoursing," delectata illa risit tam blandum, as he said in Petronius of his mistress, being well pleased, she gave so sweet a smile.

Philocharus, a gallant in Aristenaetus, advised his friend Poliaenus to take heed of such enticements, [5004]"for it was the sweet sound and motion of his mistress's spangles and bracelets, the smell of her ointments, that captivated him first," Illa fuit mentis prima ruina meae.

Et illa e contra nutibus mutuis juvenis Leandri quod amorem non renuit, &c. Inde Adibat in tenebris tacite quidem stringens Roseos puellae digitos, ex imo suspirabat VehementerInde Virginis autem bene olens collum osculatus.

But he turned himself forthwith into his own shape, began to embrace and offer violence unto her, sed illa matris metu abnuebat, but she by no means would yield, donec pollicitus connubium obtinuit, till he vowed and swore to marry her, and then she gave consent.

" Thou thinkest, peradventure, because of her vows, tears, smiles, and protestations, she is solely thine, thou hast her heart, hand, and affection, when as indeed there is no such matter, as the Spanish bawd said, gaudet illa habere unum in lecto, alterum in porta, tertium qui domi suspiret, she will have one sweetheart in bed, another in the gate, a third sighing at home, a fourth, &c.

Illa sibi vox ipsa

His Laura, his Victorina, his Columbina, Flavia, Flaminia, Caelia, Delia, or Isabella, (call her how you will) she is the sole object of his senses, the substance of his soul, nidulus animae suae, he magnifies her above measure, totus in illa, full of her, can breathe nothing but her.

Ovid "Illa quidem sentit, foedoque repugnat amori, Et secum quo mente feror, quid molior, inquit, Dii precor, et pietas," &c.

" Every cloth she wears, every fashion pleaseth him above measure; her hand, O quales digitos, quos habet illa manus!

Finiet illa meos moriens morientis amores.

"Qualis nox erit illa, dii, deaeque, Quam mollis thorus?" "O what a blissful night would it be, how soft, how sweet a bed!"

Hermotinus, a young man (in the said author) is all out as unstaid, he had forgot his mistress quite, and by his friends was well weaned from her love; but seeing her by chance, agnovit veteris vestigia flammae, he raved amain, Illa tamen emergens veluti lucida stella cepit elucere, &c., she did appear as a blazing star, or an angel to his sight.

Amoveatur ab illa, consilio viri quem timet, ostendendo pericula saeculi, judicium inferni, gaudia Paradisi.

Sic nostra longum forma percurrens iter, Deperdit aliquid semper, et fulget minus, Malisque minus est quiquid in nobis fuit, Olim petitum cecidit, et partu labat, Maturque multum rapuit ex illa mihi, Aetas citato senior eripuit gradu.

Radix mandragora ebibitae, Annuli ex ungulis Asini, Stercus amatae sub cervical positum, illa nesciente, &c., quum odorem foeditatis sentit, amor solvitur.

"Multi illum petiere, illa aspernate petentes, Nec quid Hymen, quid amor, quid sint connubia curat.

enamoured, [5850]captare viros et spernere capias, to dote on them, and to run mad for their sakes, "sed nullis illa movetur Fletibus, aut voces ullas tractabilis audit.

Hæc est Gravium hominum atque Magnorum; Illa quasi assentatorum populi, multitudinis levitatem voluptate quasi titillantium.

Author: Illa Podendorf, editor: Esther May Bjoland.

By Bertha Morris Parker & Illa Podendorf.

By Bertha Morris Parker & Illa Podendorf.