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CAMBRIDGE. 'A Spanish writer has this thought in a poetical conceit. After observing that most of the solid structures of Rome are totally perished, while the Tiber remains the same, he adds, 'Lo que èra Firme huió solamente, Lo Fugitivo permanece y dura . JOHNSON. 'Sir, that is taken from Janus Vitalis: ... immota labescunt; Et quae perpetuò sunt agitata manent .
See Delicia C.C. Italorum Poetarum, edit. 1608, p. 1433, It is curious that in all the editions of Boswell that I have seen, the error labescunt remains unnoticed. See post, June 2, 1781. Dr. Shipley was chaplain to the Duke of Cumberland. CROKER. The battle was fought on July 2, N.S. 1747. 'Inconstant as the wind I various rove; At Tibur, Rome at Rome, I Tibur love.
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