Duas civitates duo faciunt amores; Jerusalem facit amor Dei, Babylonem amor saeculi; unusquisque se quid amet interroget, et inveniet unde sit civis.

If they be sober, wise, honest, as the poet infers, "Si commodos nanciscantur amores, Nullum iis abest voluptatis genus.

O mihi tum quam molliter ossa quiescant, Vestra meos olim si fistula dicat amores!

" The river Alpheus was in love with Arethusa, as she tells the tale herself, "viridesque manu siccata capillos, Fluminis Alphei veteres recitavit amores; Pars ego Nympharum," &c. When our Thame and Isis meet "Oscula mille sonant, connexu brachia pallent, Mutuaque explicitis connectunt colla lacertis.