Now beſides Sappho, we read of many others of that Sex famous for Learning, as Demophila the Pamphylian’s Wife whom Apollonius here mentions; Proba the Roman Conſul’s Wife, who (A. D. 424.) wrote in Heroick Verſe the Contents of the Old and New Teſtament, ſo far as the deſcending of the Holy Ghoſt; Corinna, who was Ovid’s Beloved; Elpia, the Wife of Boetius; Polla, Wife to Lucan the Poet, who often help’d her Husband in the compoſure of his Pharſalia; Lesbia, Miſtreſs to Catullus; Cornificia, the Roman Poeteſs; Thesbia, the Compoſitreſs of Epigrams; and the other famous Poeteſs Corinna, who five times vanquiſh’d Pindar in the Poetical Art, wherein he had challenged her to contend in the City of Thebes; neither muſt we here omit the late ingenious Mrs. Phillips, our Engliſh Sappho.
I stay in bed, outsleeping the rain and reading.
One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, / Stood stupefied, however he came there: / Thrust out past service from the devil's stud!
A great many fidgety occupations will come to an end: we shan't put a pattern on a cloth or a twiddle on a jug-handle to sell it, but to make it prettier and to amuse ourselves and others.
