In vain the Laurel, with encircling bough.
Twines it's triumphant honours round my brow.
Or Rome re-echoes to my boasted name:
If Laura's absent what is Petrarch's fame ?
How lost - how fruitless are it's charms to me.
Whose only comfort is to gaze on Thee:

Petrarch to Laura.

BY

CHARLES JAME S,

AUTHOR OF THE MILITARY DICTIONARY, REGIMENTAL

COMPANION, &c. &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

SI QUA MEIS FUERINT, UT ERUNT, VITIOSA LIBELLIS,

EXCUSATA SUO TEMPORE, LECTOR, HABE.

VOL. II.

Ovidius.

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FOR T. EGERTON, WHITEHALL; J. BOOKER, NEW

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