Cleopatra

. Commentators say it was written the day after his Wedding-Night. When his Spouse was retir'd to the Bathing-room in the Heat of the Day, he, it seems, came in upon her when she was just going into the Water. To her Beauty and Carriage on this occasion we owe the following Epigram, which I shew'd my Friend

Will. Honeycomb

in

French

, who has translated it as follows, without understanding the Original. I expect it will please the

English

better than the

Latin

Reader.