4825. “Virtue appears more gracefully in a lovely personage.”
4826. Lib. 5. magnorumque; operum non alios capaces
putant quam quos eximia
specie natura
donavit.
4827. Lib. de vitis Pontificum. Rom.
4828. Lib. 2. cap. 6.
4829. Dial. amorum. c. 2. de magia. Lib.
2. connub. cap. 27. Virgo formosa
et si oppido pauper,
abunde est dotata.
4830. Isocrates plures ob formam immortalitatem
adepti sunt quam ob
reliquas omnes
virtutes.
4831. Lucian Tom. 4. Charidaemon. Qui
pulchri, merito apud Deos et apud
homines honore
affecti. Muta commentatio, quavis epistola ad
commendandum efficacior.
4832. Lib. 9. Var. hist, tanta formae elegantia ut ab ea nuda, &c.
4833. Esdras, iv. 29.
4834. Origen hom. 23. in Numb. In ipsos tyrannos tyrannidem exercet.
4835. Illud certe magnum ob quod gloriari possunt
formosi, quod robustis
necessarium sit
laborare, fortem periculis se objicere, sapientem,
&c.
4836. Majorem vim habet ad commendandam forma,
quam accurate scripta
epistola.
Arist.
4837. Heliodor. lib. I.
4838. Knowles. hist. Turcica.
4839. Daniel in complaint of Rosamond.
4840. Stroza filius Epig. “The king
of the gods on account of this beauty
became a bull,
a shower, a swan.”
4841. Sect. 2. Mem. 1. Sub. 1.
4842. Stromatum l. post captam Trojam cum impetu
ferretur, ad occidendam
Helenam, stupore
adeo pulchritudinis correptus ut ferrum excideret,
&c.
4843. Tantae formae fuit ut cum vincta loris,
feris exposita foret, equorum
calcibus obterenda,
ipsis jumentis admiratione fuit; laedere
noluerunt.
4844. Lib. 8. mules.
4845. “If you will restore me to my parents,
and my beautiful lover, what
thanks, what honour
shall I owe you, what provender shall I not
supply you?”
4846. Aethiop. l. 3.
4847. Atheneus, lib. 8.
4848. Apuleius Aur. asino.
4849. Shakespeare.
4850. Marlowe.
4851. Ov. Met. 1.
4852. Ovid. Met. lib. 5.
4853. “And with her hand wiping off the
drops from her green tresses, thus
began to relate
the loves of Alpheus. I was formerly an Achaian
nymph.”
4854. Leland. “Their lips resound
with thousand kisses, their arms are
pallid with the
close embrace, and their necks are mutually entwined
by their fond
caresses.”
4855. Angerianus.
4856. Si longe aspiciens haec urit lumine divos
atque homines prope, cur
urere lina nequit?
Angerianus.
4857. “We wonder how great the vapour, and whence it comes.”
4858. Idem Anger.
4859. Obstupuit mirabundas membrorum elegantiam, &c. Ep. 7.


