"Let merchants seek wealth with perjured lips

And being wrecked," &c.

[293] So Isham copy and eds. B, C—Ed. A "let."


Elegia XI.[294]

Ad amicam navigantem.

The lofty pine, from high Mount Pelion raught,[295]

Ill ways by rough seas wondering waves first taught;

Which rashly 'twixt the sharp rocks in the deep,

Carried the famous golden-fleecèd sheep.