The females, silly, and gallants in fear;

But Rome of modern days, delightful spot!

Where better tastes have into fashion got,

And pleasure solely occupies the mind

To rapture ev'ry bosom seems resigned.

A tempting journey truly it appears,

For youths from twenty on to thirty years.

NOT long ago, then, in the city dwelled,

A master, who in teaching law excelled;

In other matters he, howe'er, was thought