The Hoedi, or the Kids
The Kids: soft love turned to wild desire, and goatherds. No stern Catos here.
[p. 58] But when the Ram twice Ten Degrees doth shew,Where on the Right rough Boreas Tempests blow;The Kids appear: But never hope to findSevere in Manners, nor correct in MindTheir Births; from them no Censuring Catos comeTo settle Vertue, and adorn their Rome.No temperate Scipio's, whose obliging CharmsThe Spaniards Conquer'd, and excell'd their Arms:Too great a work for them, their Rays inspireSoft Love, then heat that Love to fierce Desire:Still urging on, they boyl that Lust to Rage,And Lust, not Courage, make the Youth engage:By Death base Pleasure is ignobly bought,And the Misfortune hightned by the Fault:By them are some to keeping Goats inclin'd,The Kids being always mindful of their Kind:Thence Goatherds rise, whose Pipes in every ValeSoft Love inspire, and tell the moving Tale.
In the app the old words open a note in the margin when you tap them, the old books read the planets of your own chart, and each book opens where you left it. Free, no account, no email.
14160+ people cast their chart here in the last 30 days.
Keep reading
The text is Thomas Creech's 1697 verse translation, checked word by word between three scans of the same type (the 1697 printing, the 1700 printing and a third copy). The long s is printed as s; every other spelling is Creech's. Pages are cited as the 1697 printing numbers them. The portrait is William Marshall’s engraving of Lilly from the front of the 1659 printing (Wellcome Library, public domain).