ΜΟΡΜΟΝΟΣΤΟΛΙΣΜΟS, SIVE Lamiarum Vestitus. A POEM ON THE KING AND QUEEN OF FAIRY.  
Translated into Latin, by Mr. WALTER DENNESTONE.  
Printed in the Year, MDCXCI.   


TO THE VIRTUOSOS.  

YE Virtuosos have't to you assigned  
The Natural causes of all things to find.  
We cloth the Fairies in their proper dress:  
And leave't to you, What force they have? to guests.    

AD PHILOSOPHOS.  

NAturam, & veras rerum perpendere caussas  
Sorte datum vobis, Ingeniosa cobors.  
Corpra nos Lemurum tenui velamus amictu:  
Dicite vos, Quae vis? quis vigor insit eis?     

On the KING of FAIRY.  

UPon a time the Fairy Elves,  
Having first arrayed themselves,  
Thought it meet to  their King,  
In Robes most fit for Revelling.   

(2)  
He had a Cobweb-Shirt more thin,  
Than ever Spiders since could spin;  
Bleached in the whiteness of the Snow,  
When the Northern Winds do blow.   

(3)  
In that Waste and open Air  
No Shirt half so Fine or Fair:  
A rich Waste Coat they did bring  
Made of the Trout-flies Golden Wing.   

(4)  
Died Crimson in a Maidens blush.  
And lined with Humming Bees soft Plush.  
At which his Elf-ship began to fret  
And swore 'twould cast him in a sweat.   

(5)  
He for his Coolness needs would wear  
A Waste coat made of Downy Hair,  
New taken from an Eunuch's Chin,  
It pleased him well; 'twas wondrous thin.   

(6)  
His Hat was all of Lady's love,  
So passing light that it would move  
If any Goat or Humming Fly  
But beat the Air in passing by.   

(7)  
About it went a wreath of Pearl  
Dropped from the Eyes of some poor Girl,  
Pinched because she had forgot  
To leave clean Water in the Pot,   

(8)  
His Breeches and his Cassock were  
Made of the Tinsel Garsummer:  
Down its seam there went a lace  
Drawn by an unctuous Snails slow pace.   

In Oreadum Regem.  

MOnticolae quondam Lamiaes circundatae amictu  
Corpora praetenui choreis & lusibus apto;  
Talibus inde suum Regem quoque vestibus ornant  
Quae deceant numerosque leves festasque chorêas.   

(2)  
Ejus araneoli scutulata subucula filo  
Rarior, eximiae quod texuit artis Arachne:  
Intactaeque nivis fuit insolata nitore,  
Quam rigidus gelidâ Boreas diffundit ab Arcto.   

(3)  
Nec sub Hyperboreo tam pura camisia tractu  
Usque adeò tenuis tamque alba apparuit usquam:  
Proxima cura fuit tunicellam imponere Regi  
Hepiali textam mirè ex aurantibus alis.   

(4)  
Virginis eximiae roseo quae tincta rubore,  
Atque apis Hyblaeae duplicata est vellere molli:  
Tum fremere & jurare Heros gestamine tanto  
Pressus, & exili manare à corpore sudor.   

(5)  
Post, refrigerii caussâ, subtile theristrum  
Curari fecit consutum more decoro,  
Nuper ab Eunuchi malâ & lanugine sumptum:  
Hoc placuit, quia erat tenui subtemine textum.   

(6)  
Ejus erat (capit is tegumentum insigne) galerus,  
U● referunt, è femineo conflatus amore;  
Qui levis usque adeo fuit ut trepidaret ad auram,  
Quam musca aut cynips praetervolitando feriret.   

(7)  
Ambijt hunc circum speciosa & gemmea spira  
Ex oculis tenerae tremulis modò lapsa puellae;  
Quam malè multarunt Lemures quòd linquere in ollâ  
Oblita est puras, nocturno tempore, lymphas.   

(8)  
Denique fiebant saga cum femoralibus ejus  
Lineolâ è tenui per summa cacumina campi  
Extenâ, quorum suturam rara tegebat  
justita ducta pigri limacis tramite pingui.     


On the QUEEN.  

NO sooner was their King attired  
as never Prince had been,  
But as in duty was required  
they next array their Queen.   

(2)  
Of shining thread shut from the Sun  
And twisted into line,  
On the light Wheel of Fortune Spungius  
was made her Smock so fine.   

(3)  
Her Gown was very coloured fair  
The Rainbow gave the dip;  
Presumed by an amber Air,  
Breathed from a Virgin's lip.   

(4)  
The Stuff was of a Morning dawn  
When Phoebus did but peep,  
But by a Poet's Pencil drawn  
In Chloris lap asleep.   

(5)  
Her Veil was white and pale-faced by  
Invented by a Maid,  
When she (poor Soul) by some bad spy  
Had newly been betrayed   

(6)  
Her Necklace was of subtle tye  
Of glorious Atoms, set  
In the pure Black of Beauty's eye,  
As they had been in Jet.   

(7)  
Her Shoes were all of Maidenheads  
So passing thin and light  
That all her care was how to treed;  
A thought had burst them quite.   

(8)  
The revels ended, she put off  
Because her Grace was warm:  
She fanned her with a Lady's scoff.  
And so she took no Harm.   
FINIS.   

In REGINAM.  

POstquam Rex tali fuit insignitus a mictu  
Membra cui Regum nulla tulere parem.  
Mox etiam, veluti ratio poscebat & aequum,  
Reginae parili corpora veste tegunt.   

(2)  
Illius ex auro clarâ de lampade solis  
Emisso, scitè facta erat interula.  
Stamina cujus erant solerti pollice ducta,  
Sortis in ambiguae torta levique rotâ.   

(3)  
Palla fuit, qualem spectabilis induit Iris,  
Quam varius radiis pingit Apollo suis.  
Talis odor, qualis fragranti spirat ab ambrâ,  
Halitus aut qualis Virginis esse solet.   

(4)  
Materies fuit Aurorae de lumine primo  
Phoebus ubi Eois surgit honorus aquis.  
Peniculo vatis qui pingebatur amatae  
Chloridis in gremio membra quiete levans.   

(5)  
Candidulumque habuit velamen, pallidulumque,  
Dextra puellaris texuit illud opus.  
Qui color idem erat ac pellucet in ore puellae  
Prodita ab infausto quae modo forte viro.   

(6)  
Illius alba decens ornabat colla monile  
Formosum pulchris conspicuisque atomis:  
Quae velut in puro nigroque gagate fuissent  
Impositae, miris emicuere modis.   

(7)  
Calceolique sui perquam tenuesque levesque  
Facti de claustris virginitatis erant.  
His igitur verita est incedere, namque pusillus  
Sensus amoris eos rumperet absque morâ.   

(8)  
Ludio exactis, quoniam sudore madebat  
Confestim vestes exuit ipsa suas.  
Et se femineo vannavit scommatc demum  
Nec quidquam damni pertulit inde sibi.    
FINIS.