f which her Garlands shee composes--
Two flowry Chaplets, which with Gems set round
Her owne and Nephew's temples crown'd.
But here a veyle was drawne, I must not prie
Nor search too farre with mortall eye,
Nor would you more. It may suffice that shee
Hath chang'd fraile flesh for blest Eternitie.

_Ad Albertum Turscium._

De suis somniis & lyricis.

_Ode 32. Lib. 4._

To _Albertus Turscius_.

_Of his Dreames, and Lyricks._

_Ode 32. Lib. 4._

_Tursci_, seu brevior mihi
Seu pernox oculos composuit sopor,
Pennas Somnia laevibus
Affigunt humeris; jamque virentia
Latus prata superuolo,
Qua se cumque novum molle tumentibus
Campis explicuit nemus,
Herbosaeque patet scena superbiae:
Mox & nubibus altior,
Mistus flumineis ales oloribus;
Vivos despicio lacus,
Et dulci volucrem carmine mentior.

VVhether a shorter sleep, or whether
A long one (_Turscius_) joyns mine eyes together
In my soft dreames, me thinks, I see
To my light shoulders wings set on, and I
With joy transported, upward soare,
The flowry Meddowes, and the pastures o're;
Where the greene Grove its coole shade yeilds
To th'stately grasse plotts, and ripe swelling fields:
Straight, 'mid'st the river Swans, up hyer
A winged fowle above the cloudes I'aspire;
The lively Lakes below, I sleight,
And with sweet straines a bird I counterfeit.

Jam tunc nubila, jam mihi
Blandis dissiliunt fulmina cantibus;
Et quae plurima circuit
Collum, punicea vincior Iride.
Idem jam vigil, & meus,
Non ingrata simul somnia dispuli,
Cum ter mobilibus lyram
Percussi digitis, immemor & ducis
Nil sectator Horatii,
Sublimis liquidum nitor in aera;
Et nunc littera, nunc vagas
Siccis trajiciens passibus insulas,
Nil mortale mei gero, &
Jam nil sollicito debeo ponderi.

See, now me thinkes, the cloudes in throngs
The lightning leaps too, at my ravishing songs;
_Iris_ about my neck hangs round,
And with her divers colour'd bow, I'me bound.
Being now my selfe, and newly wak'd,
My not unwelcome dreames, just now off shak'd;
Thrice o're my Lute, I scarce had run
With nible finger neat division;
Remembring _Horace_, Thee, my guide,
When my