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The Works of Tibullus

Containing his Love-Elegies. Translated by Mr Dart. To which is added, The Life of the Author; with Observations on the Original Design of Elegiack Verse; and the Characters of the most Celebrated Greek, Latin and English Elegiack Poets
Dart, John
  
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Ovid Amorum, L. III. ELEGY IX.
  
Horace L. I. ODE 33.
  
Horace L. I. EPIST. IV.
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THE WORKS OF A. Tibullus.
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Book I.
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Book II.
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Book III.
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Book IV.
 IV. 
A Panegyrick to Messala.
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To MARS.
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Sulpicia to Cerinthus. III.
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To Phoebus. IV.
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Sulpicia on the Birth-Day of Cerinthus. V.
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To Juno. VI.
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Sulpicia to Venus. VII.
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Sulpicia to Messala. VIII.
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Tibullus to Messala , on his Birth-Day. IX.
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Sulpicia to Cerinthus. X.
 XI. 
Sulpicia to Cerinthus. XI.
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Sulpicia to Cerinthus. XII.
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To his Mistress. XIII.
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On the Baseness of his Mistress. XIV.

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Sulpicia to Messala. VIII.

Thy Birth-Day comes, but no Diversion yields,
In th' unpleasant, lonely Country Fields;
And while my dear Cerinthus is away,
'Twill prove a dull and an unpleasant Day.
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What Place can, like the Town, afford Delight,
Should Maids in Villages be hid from Sight?
Confin'd in cold unpleasant Country Fields,
Nip'd by the Winds bleak Eretinus yields;
Rather, Messala, in the City stay,
Nor tempt a tiresome incommodious Way;
For I in Town shall leave my Soul behind,
Where'er contrary to my Will, confin'd.
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