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A Poetical Translation of the elegies of Tibullus

and of the poems of Sulpicia. With The Original Text, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. In two volumes. By James Grainger
  

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Accept, O natal Queen! with placent Air,
The Incense offer'd by the learned Fair.
She's rob'd in cheerful Pomp, O Power divine!
She's rob'd to decorate your Matron-shrine;
Such her Pretence; but well her Lover knows
Whence her gay Look, and whence her Finery flows.