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REF. & iEi, ..
CONTENTS
OF TItE SEVENTH VOLUME.
ODES» riz.
On the Moruing of Chriti's Nativity - - .
The Paflion .......
Upon the Circumcilion .... 37
On the Death of a fait Infant .... 41
On Time ........ 50
fit a folemn Mufick ..... 52
Various Readings of file Ode at a Solemn 5Iufick,
ri-oto thc Cambridge SIS ..... 57
On the Death of the Marchionefs of Winchefter - 59
On May Morning .....
IISCELLANIES, riZ.
At a Vacation Exercife in thc College - 7
Epitaph on Shakfpeare .... 85
On Ilobtbn, the Univerfity Carrier - -
On the lhme ..... 89
On the New Forcers of CoulCience tmder the Long
Parliamcut .......
Various Rcadings of the faine .... 98
TI{ A!q'SLATION S ViZ.
Horace to Pyrrha ..... 10I
Fragmeurs ..... 104.
CONTENïlS.
Psai..ts ....... 109, &c.
Paraphral of PS,XL_l CXIV. - - - - 14
m'aphral of PS.L3 CXXEVI. - - ]hO
De Authore Tcliimouia . - 1 1
5If. Warton's Prcliminar Obçerations on the Latin
Verlès .... 169
Et,. I. d Carolum Deodatum - 175
lI. In Obitum Prconis Academici Cantabri-
gieulis .... 189
1 lI. In Obimm Præfidis Wintonienlis 192
IV. Ad Thomam Junium .... 01
V. In adventum vcris - - - 213
'I. d Carolum Deo(latum turi commor:mtcut e25
VIL alnno tatis XIX ..... e34
CONTENTS.
_XII. Apologus de ruflico et hero - - - '2-67
XllI. Ad Chriliinam Suecorum lleginam -
Manufi.rilt account of Chriflina - 70,
Dr. C. Bm'ne"s Preliminarv Obfervations on the
Geek Verlbs .....
I»fi«hnus CXIV. Grwcè .... 500
lhilolbphus ad regem, &e. (ll-oecb - -
In effigiei jus Scnlptorem. Grecè - - 503
In Obitun Procanccllarii, Medici - - - 305
lu Quintum Nocmbris ..... SI0
In Obitum Proetilis Elienfis - - -
'atmam non pari l,nium
De Idc Platotùcâ qucmadmodum Arili,teles intellexit 388
d Patrem ....
Ad Salfillum ..... 351
Manfis ...... 355
pitaphiuna Damonis ....
Ad Joannenl Roufium = - 390
Barou's Imitations of Mihon's cmIv Po«ms - 409
Gloffarial Index .....
0 D E S.
VOL. VIL 1
0 D E S.
MORN[NG
CHR IS T'S
THIS is the month, and this the happy morn,
Vherein the Son of Heaven's :Eternal King,
* This Ode, in vhich the many lcarned allufions are highly
poetical, was probably compofcd as a collegc-exercife at Cam-
bridge, our author being now only twcnty-one years old. In
the edition of 16-r5, in its title it is faid to bave bcen writtcn
in 169. Wc are informed by himfcll; that he was employed
in writing this picce, in the conclufion of the fixth Elegy to his
friend Dcodatc, which appears to have been font about the clore
of the month Dccembcr. Dcodate had inquired how he was
fpending his rime. Milton anfwcrs, v. 81.
" Paciïcrum canimus coelcfti femine rcgem,
" Faufiaquc fitcratis fzecula pac"ta libris ;
" Vagitumque Dei, et flabulantem paupcre teo
" Qui fuprema fuo cure patrc regna colit.
" Stelliparumque polum, modulantçfque oethere turmas."
ODES.
Of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born,
Our great redemption ri-oto above did bring;
For fo the holy rages once did ting,
OEhat he out deadly forfeit fhould releafe,
And u ith his Father work us a perpetual peace.
The concluding pentameter of the paragraph points out the befr
part of thc Ode.
" Et fuNto elifos ad fua fana deos.'"
See ff. xix, and ft. xxvi.
" The Oraclcs arc dumb,
" No voice or hidcous hum, &c."
The reti of the Ode chiefly confifls of a flring of affec"ted con°
ccits which his carly youth, anti the fafhion of the rimes, can
only cxcufe. But thcre is a dignity and fimplicity in thefe lines»
vorthy the maturefl years, and the bcl] rimes, ff. iv.
" No war, or battle's round,
" Was heard the world around,
" The idle fpear and fhield wcre high up hung;
" The hookcd chariot liood
" Unflain'd with hnman blood;
" The trumpet fpake hot to th¢ arlned throng ;
" And kings fat fii|l with awful cye,
" As if flmy furely knew their fore'an Lord was nigh."
Nor is the poetry of the fianza immediately following, an expref-
tion or two excepted, unworthy of Milton. But I muft avoid
general anticipation, and colne to particulars. T. Waox.
Ver. 3. Ofwedded Maid and Virgin Mther born,] This is
in Crafhaw's manner, who calls the Virgin Mary " raaide,
lI' , and naiden 2lIothcr too." Sec his Poems, p. 119. Paris
edit. 165'2.. Sylvefter calls her " naid and »other," Du Bart.
16-°1, p. 17. But fce the Chriflus Patiens of Grcgory Nazianzen»
at the beginning, S. Greg. Naz. Opp. fol. Par. tom. il. 1611.
"ç r. '/x«'ro IHTPOIïAPENOT v.ç. ToDD.
Ver. 5. fiç,c«] The prophcts of the Old
Teltament. T. Vfarox.
ODES.
II.
That glorious form, that light unfiflèrable,
And that far-beaming blaze of majefty,
Wherewith he wont at Heaven's high eouncil-
table lO
To tic the midf't of" Trinal Unity,
He laid aride; and, here with us to be,
Forfbok the courts of everlafting day,
And chof"e with us a darkf"ome houlh of mortal
clay.
III.
Say, heavenlv lIufe, thall not thy çacred rein 1
Afford a pretbnt to the Inthnt God ?
]lai% thou no verfe, no hymn, or folemn firain,
To welcome hi,n to this his new abode,
ow while the heaven, by the fun's team untrod,
ver.. 1. « d,'tf,,e Z,f f ,,,t,t cZy] So,
The Scoue " lïllanie, 198. B. iii. Sat. viii. of the lbul leaviug
the body :
" Leauing his finoaZoe ho wrtall clay." Tom
Vcr. 19. @ the fun's team vntrod,] Perhaps
ri'oto Shakfpea's " heavealy-harnefs'd team," Hem IV. P.
A. il. S. iv. which Randolph imitates, Poe»s, d edit. 1G0.
p. 74.
« thefitnne,
" Where he unharn'd, and where's teame begunne."
Sylvclter bas the tll ' tyer-lefs teem,'" Du Bart. 11, p.
Again, " The Sun turns back his teen,'" p. 6. In Kyd's
Cornelia, 1595, we final Night's " flow-pac'd team;'" and, in
Fletcher's Taithjhl Shelhcrd. , Night's " lazy team." TorD.
6 ODES.
tIath took no print of the approaching light,
And ail the i'pangled hof keep watch in fqua-
(Irons bright ? 21
See, how from i:ar, upon the eaf'tea'n road,
The fiar-led withrds hafie with odours fweet :
O run, prevent them with thy humble ode,
And lay it lowly at his bleflèd feet ;
Have thou the honour firfi thy Lord to greet,
And join thy voice unto the Angel quire,
ronl out his tècret altar touch'dwith hallow'd tire.
Ver. ,°1. -- theflangled hoft keep watch in fquadrons
bright ?] See the Note on Comus, v. 113. The
ftars are called " the flde's bright fentinels," in Poole's Englifh
l'arnoEks, p. 54. °. And " thc fpangledfquadrons of the night,"
in Chamberlayne's Ph'aronnida, 1659. B. 4. p. 39. Sylvefter, as
_'Mr. Dunftcr alfo remarks, calls the angels " heaven's glorious
hofl in nilnble fquadrons, &c." Du Bart. p. 13. Drummond
dcfcribes the angcls " arch'd infquadrons bright," Pocms, p.
And Spenfer, F. Q. ii. viii. .
" They for us fight, they watch and dewly ward,
« And their brightfquadrons round about us plant."
Yer. 23.. Tkc ftar-led wifards] lfïfe-en. So Spenfer calls
tbe ancient philofophers, thc " antique wifards," Feer. Qu. iv.
xii. 2. And hc fays that Lucifera's kingdom was upheld by the
policy, " and ftrong advizemcnr, of fix zdJàrds old.'" That is,
ftk wifc counçellers. Ibid. i. iv. 1, 18. Protcus is flyled thc
« Carpathian u:Jàrd,'" Comus, ver. 8ïo. Ste alfo what is laid
of thc river Dce, in Ljcides, ver. 55. T.
Bancroff, in his Second Booke of Eligrammes , 12mo. 163.
Ep. -°28, adopts Milton's epithet :
" Theflarre-led fages, that would Chrif behold,
« Did pl'efents bring, &c.'"
Yer. 28. çFrom out kis fi'cret altar touch'd a, ith hallow'd ffire.
ODE$.
TtlE HYMN.
IT was the winter ild,
While the heaven-born child 30
Ail meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies;
Nature, in awe to him,
Had doff'd her gaudy trim,
With her great 1V[açter fo to fympathize :
It was no feafon then for her .5
To wanton with the fun, lier lufiy paramour.
Il.
Only with fpeeches t',tir
She wooes the gentle air
Alluding to Ifaiah ri. 6, 7. In his Reafon of Ch. Governmeut
1Milton has another beautiful allufion to the faine paffage, xhich
I quoted in a note on Par. Loti, B. i. 17. As Popc's 2]lç[tial
is formed upon paffages taken from the prophct Ifaiah, he ery
l)roperly invocates the faine divine Spirit:
" O thou my voice infpire,
' Who touch'd Ifaiah's hallow'd lips with tire."
Ver. ô. ralure, n azce to him,] Hcre is an imitation of
1Jetrarch's third Sonnet.
" Era '1 giorno, ch'al fol fi fcoloraro,
" Per la pict del fuo lhttore i rai ;
" Quand' i fui prcfo, &c." Jos.
Ver. 38. Shc wooes the gentle air &c.] Somewhat in the
manner of Sylvefier, Du Bart. edit. 16fil. p.
- " it refcmblcs 1Nlature' maatle fait,
" When in the funne, in pomp ail gliftering,
She fcems with finiles to woo the gawdie fpring."
t ODES.
To hide her guilty front with innocent fnow ;
.And on her naked flmme, no
Pollute with finfid blame,
The £aintly veil of maiden white to throw ;
Confounde, that ber ][aker's eyes
Should look ib ncar upon ber foul deformities.
III.
ut he, her fears to ceafe, 'n
Sent down the meek-ey'd Peace ;
She, crown'd with olive green, came foftly
fliding
Down through the turning fphere,
]-Iis ready harbinger,
With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing;
And, waving vide her myrtle wand, l
She firikes an univerfal peace through fea and
land.
Ver. 5. She ftrikcs an. unh'erJàl peace through fea and land.]
Do&or Newton pcrhaps too nicely rcmarks, that for Peace fo
flrike « peace is an inaccuracy. Yet lac alloxs that ftrdusferire
is claflîcal. But Roman phrafcology is hcre quite out of the
quctiion. It is hot a lcague, or agrcement of peace between tw¢
parties that is intended. A quick and univcrfal diffufion is the
idca. It was donc as 'ith a ftroke. T.
Yct it will perhaps be generally fuppofcd that 5Il|ton had the
ferh'efeedus, 'hich Stcphcns interprets lacem conponere, in lais
miud. We inay compare Beaumont aud Fletcher's 3laid's
Tragedy, whcre Neptu,ae is invckcd by/Eolus to flrie a calm
lhat is, by the waving of his trident, A. i. $. ii.
" I)cfccnd with ail thy gods, and ail thclr power»
"' To jtrike a cahn.'"
ODES.
IV.
Nor war, or battle's round,
Was heard the world around :
The idle fpear and flaield were high up hung ;
The hooked chariot tood 6
Unflain'd with holiile blood ;
The trumpet fpake not to the armed throng ;
And kings fat ftill with awful eye,
As if they furely knew their fovran Lord was by.
V.
]3ut peacefill was the night, 61
Wherein the Prince of light
tlis reign of peace upon the earth began :
The winds, with wonder whili,
Smoothly the waters kit, 6s
Ver. 55. The idle flear and fldeld were high up hu»,g ;] Chivalr2¢
and Gothick malmers were here in Milton's mild, as Mr.
Warton bas remarked. Sce the note on Sanf Agon. v. 1736.
&nd Taffo, Gier. Lib. c. and . ult. of Godfrey :
" Viene al tcmyio con gli altri il tbmmo duce ;
" E qu r armefofTtn&." TODD.
Ver. 56. The hooked chariotfloed
UtaiM ='itlt hoile blood,] Liv. L. xxxvii, xii.
« Falcatoe quadrigoe, quibus I perturbaturum hqRinm aciem
tiochus crediderat, in lhos terrorem vcrtcrunt." BOWLE.
Ver. 64. The ,inds, &c.] Ovid, Metam. xi. 745.
" Perque dies placidos hybcrno tempore fcptem
u Incubat Halcyone pendentibus æquore nidis:
" Tutu via tuta maris ; ventos cufiodit ct arcet
" Zolus egreflh, &c"
lf'h is filenced. In Stanyhurfi's Virgil, I»tentique ora tene-
bant, is tranflated, They wSrD ail B. ii. i. T. Wawos.
10 ODES.
Whifpering new joys to the mild ocean,
Who now hath quite forgot to rave,
While birds of calm fit brooding on the channed
The fiars, with deep amaze,
Stand fix'd in edfa gaze,
Bending one way their precious influence
And will not take their flight,
For all the morning light,
Or Lucitbr that often warn'd them thence ;
But in their glimmering orbs did glow,
Until their Lord hinffelf bet)ake, and bid
them go.
VII.
And, though the flmdy gloem
IIad given day her room,
But this line may perhaps be more minutely illuftrated from
)Iarlowe and Nafl's Dido, 1594.
" The ayre is cleere, and Southeme 'i»des are h?."
Ver. 77. And, thoNh the fltady gloom, &e.] g'Ir. Bowle faw
vith me, that this llanza is a copy of one in Spenfer Xril.
" I fawe Phoebus thruft out his golden hede
" Vpon ber to gaze :
' But, when he lkw howe broade her bcames did fprede
" It did him amaze.
" liez bluffer to lk, e another funne belowe :
" Ne durft againe his lirie fiez outhoxve, &c.'"
So alfo G. Fletcher on a fimilar lubieS, in his Chr's lïorie,
p. i. IL 78.
" IIeaven awakened all his eycs
" To fez anotkertnne at midnight rire."
And afterwards, he adds " the curfed oracles were flruckea
dumb." T.
ODES. 1
The tire himfelf withheld his wonted fpeed,
_And hid his head for flmme, o
As his inferiour flame
The new-enlighten'd world no more flould need ;
tle faw a greater fun appear
Than his bright throne, or burning axletree,
could bear.
VIII.
The flepherds on the lawn, 85
Or e'er the point of dawn,
Sat fimply chatting in a ruçtick row;
Full !ittle thought they then,
That the mighty Pan s9
Ver. 79. The fun himfcl.f t'ithhdd his conted fpeed, &c.] Sec
Dxummond's Tlooeers of Si(m, 1623.
" Thc fun from finfull cycs bath vail'd his light,
«' And faintlie iourneys vp heavcns fapl)hirc 1)ath. ''
Tom).
Ver. 89. That the mighty Pan,
ll'as lt-indly corne fo lire witk thcm bclow ;] That is,
with the fhepherds on the lawn. So in Spenli:r'z May, vhich
Milton imitatcs in L9cidas.
" I mufe what account both thcfe vill make :
" The one for the hire which hc doth take,
" And th' othcr for leaving his lordcs tafke,
" When great Pari accourir of Shepheards thall afke."
)gain,
" For Pari hin'felf was their inheritaunce."
Again, in July.
" The brethrcn Twelvc that kept yfcre
" The flockcs of mightie Paa.'"
We fhould recollcO» that Chrift is ftyled a fhepherd in the facred
1 ODES.
Vas kind|y corne to rive with them below
Perhaps their loves, or elle their fleep,
Was ail that did their filly thoughts tb bufy keep.
IX.
When fich mufick fiveet
Their heurts and ears did greet,
As never was by mortal fingcr flrook ; 9.
Divinely-warbled voice
Anfwering the ftringëd noifc,
As all their tbuls in blifsful rapture took :
ïhe air, ihch pleafure |oth to lotè,
With thoufand cchoes til] prolo;gs each hea-
venly clore.
X.
Nature that heard fuch found,
2Beneath the hollow round
Of Cynthia's feat, the aery rêgion thrilling,
Now was almof won
To think her part was done,
vzritings. Mr. Bowle oblbrvcs, that Dantc calls him Jupiter,
J9urgat. C. ri. . 118.
" 0 fommo Gioz'e,
" Che fofli'n terra per nos crucififfo." And that this paffage is literally adopted by Pulci, Morgant.
.glagg. C. il. v. 2. T. Waaro..
S'er. 95. As nerer cas l,y nm'tal finger flrook ;
Divindy-warblcd voice
Acering tl,.eJring«d uoife,] ]Iere, as Mr. Dun-
ter alfo bas noticed, arc Sylvefier's rhymcs and exprcflion, Du
Bart. ed. fupr. p. 101.
" Surfer, at leaft, to my lad dying voire
"' My dolcflfifingers to confort their no/." To9r.
ODES. 13
And that ber reign had here its lal fulfilling ;
She knew fuch harmony alone
Could hold all Heaven and Earth in happier
union.
XI.
At laf furrounds their fight
globe of circular light, 11o
That with long beams the thamet:ac'd night
array'd ;
The helmed Cherubim,
And fworded Seraphim,
Are feen in glittering ranks with wings dif-
play'd,
Harping in loud and folemn quire, 1.
Vith unexpreffive notes, to IIeaven's new-bora
IIeir.
XII.
Such mufick (as "tis çaid)
Beibre was never ruade,
Ver. 11. kdmed] So, in Pat" Lql, B. ri. 8t0. "
helms and hdmed heads he rode." Drayton has " hdmed head."
.PoOolb, S, viii, T, Wartro-,
We may trace helmed to Chaucer, Tr. and Cr. ii. 593.
« By Mars the god, that hebned is of flele." Tome.
Ver. 116. ll.îth unexpreflive otes,] So, in Lycidas, v. lî&
« And hears the uneapreflire mptial fong."
The word, vhich is the objet of this note, ,a'as perhap» coined
by Shakfpeare, Asyou Like if, A. iii. S. ii.
" The fait, the chat'te, and une.rproEive She." T. WartTO'.
Ver. 117. Such n{/icl« (as "ris laid)] See this mufick
fcribed, l'af. Loti, B. vii. 558, and feq. T. WArtro-.
14 ODES.
But when of old the fons of mormng fung,
While the Creator great 1..o
His conftellations fer,
And the well-balanc'd world on hinges hung ;
And caft the dark tbundations deep,
And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel
keep.
XIII
Ring out, se cryfial fpheres, 1-.;
Once blet out human ears,
If ye have power to touch out fenfes fo ;
And let your tilver chirac
Move in lnelodious time ; 129
* _And let the bath ofHeaven's deep organ blow;
And, wida your ninefold harmony,
Make up full confort to the angelick fymphony.
XIV.
For, if fuch holy fong
Enwrap our fancy long, a
Time will run back, and fetch the age ofgold ;
Ver. 18. out" filver chime] So, iii Machin's
Dumbe Knight, 1608.
" It was asfilver as the chime offpheres." Tol.
l'er. 130. htd let the bafe of Hearen's deep organ blow ;] Here
is another idea eatched by Milton from Saint Paul's cathedral
vhile he was a fchool-boy. Milton was not yet a puritan.
Afterwards, he and his friends the fanaticks would hot have
allowed of fo papiffical an eftablilhment a an Organ and Choir,
even in Heavcn. T. Wa,ro¢.
Yer. 131. .4nd with j/out ninefold harmon/.] There being
" nine iblded fphere%" as ia h'cade«, v. 64. N-wxox.
ODES. 15
And fpecklecl Vanity
Will ticken tbon and die,
A nd leprous Sin will melt from ea,'thly mould ;
And Hell itfelf will pat away,
.And leave her dolorous ,hantions to the peering
day. ao
Ver. 136. .dnd fpecklcd Vanity
ll'illfickenfoou and dit,,] Plainly takcn ri'oto the
taculo.lï«m nef as of llorace. Od. v. 4..9.03. Jos. Wata'o,x.
I"anity dreffed in a variety of gaudy colours. Unlefs he mean
fpots, the marks of ditbafe and corrul, tion, aqd lhe imptoms of
approaching death. T. VCartTor.
Ver. 138. And leprous Sin zd//melt] The " It'proJîe of Sin"
ts a phrafe in Sylveffer, Da Bart. cdit. 1Ô21, p. 183. Again,
p. 3OE7. " The leprojïe of out contagious ff'n." Sec alfi» Beau-
rrtont and Fletcher, BIaid's Tragcd.q, A. iv. S.i.
" ly whole lire is fo hTrous , it infets
" AIl my repentance." To»o.
,'er. 139. And Hell itfi.lf will pqfs aa.¢,
.4nd l«ave ber dolorous montions fo t& peering day.]
The image is in Virgil, .,En. viii. 45.
" Regna recludat
"' Pallida, diis invifa ; fuperque immane barathrum
"" Cernatur, trepidentque immiflb lumine Manes.'"
Peering, that is, overlookbg or pmding , is frequent in Spenfer and
Shakfpeare. I wiil give one inftance from the latter. Coriolan.
A. ii. S. iii.
« And mountainous Errour be too deeply pil'd
" For Truth to over-peer." T. Wartwo_.
I eannot aceede to lIr. Warton's idea of pcering. The
naorning when dawthg is commonly defcribed by the old poets
as peerbtg : to peer is to make ifs .fltfl appearance. The peering
day here is the firft dawn of the Gt,fpcl, by the birth of the Re-
deemer. The Sun of Righteoufnefs fully fore, when he began
to exereife his minitry.
.16 ODES»
XV.
Yea, Truth and Jutice then
Will down return to men,
Orb'd in a rainbow; and, like glories wearing,
h[ercv will fit between,
Thron'd in celetial fheen,
Ver. 143. Orb'd in a rainbow ; and, like glories wearlng,
Bi, rcy will jit b«t,ceen,] tlere is an emendation
«,f Milton's riper genius. The paage is thus printed in the firft
edition, 16-5.
" The enamell'd arras of the rainbow wearing ;
" And Merey let between, &c."
The rich and variegated colours of tape.flry were now familiar to
the eyc. T. VARTOX.
Milton's dcfcription is herc fuppofed by Mr. Dunfter fo bave
origitatcd from a picure : I fubjoin his acutc rcmark. " To
Sylvcfter's Tranflatiou of Du Bartas's Tdumph of Eaith, thcrc
is a Frontifpicce, that might havc furniflled it. Thc fubjc& is
ri'oto Rçv. ii. 10. " Be tl..ou .tàit]ùl to death ; and I xill
give tce a crown of liJë." The defign is, Chrift dcfcending to
judgement, and the Faithful appearing betbre the judgement-
feat of Chrift, and receiving their rewards. The judge i
-£eated, " amidft a blaze of light," on a fmall rainbow ; and is
completely encircled by another " orbicular," or rather oral,
one. Under him are fome wreathed or " tiflhed" clouds;
xvhich he may be imagined in the acCt of propelling, or " dire&-
ing with his feet.'" Juif beneath thefe elouds, a large rainbow
extends over the Holy City ; in front of which the dead are feen
rifing out of the grave." Sec Co»iet?ure on Milton's earlg read-
i,g, &c. p. 47.
But perhaps lhe folloving impreffive paffage in Drummond's
Skadow of the Judgement might have been here in the young
poet' mind :
" Millions of Angels in file Iofty height,
" Clad in pure gold» aud the elere bright»
ODEg.
"With radiant feet the tiffued
ftet ring ;
And Heaven, as at fome feftival,
Will open wide the gates of her high palace hall.
XVI.
:But wifePt Fate fays no,
This mufi not yet be fo, 1o
The Babe yet lies in fmiling infancy,
That on the bitter crofs
Muft redeem out lors ;
So botll himfelf and us to glorify :
Yet firft, to thofe ychain'd in fleep, 155
The wakeful trump of doom muft thunder
through the deep;
XVII.
With fuch a horrid clang
17
clouds down
t, UPaering the xvay ftill where the judge flould more,
" In radiant rainborz.s vault the tkics above ;
" Which quickly open, like a curtain driven,
u And beaming glory/hews the King of Heaven.'"
The verb orb I muft add, is ufed by our author, Reafon of Cit.
Gov. B. i. Ch. 1. " Out happinefs may orb itflf into a thoufand
vagancies of glory and delight." Toi)o.
Ver. 146. IFith radiantfeet] Ifaiah, Iii. 7. " How beautiful
apon the mountains are the fcet of him that bringeth good tidings
--that publiPaeth falvation» that faith unto Sion» Thy God
xeigneth." Dursza.
Ver. 156. The wakeful trump oj'doom n thunder tlrough
the deep;] A line of great energy, elegEnt
and fublime. T. Watror.
Ver. 157. With fuch a lorrid clang] Clang is dangour. Sç
vf a multitude of birds, Par. Loti, B. vil. 22.
vol,. vI, C
18 ODE$.
As on mount Sinai rang,
Vhile the red tire and fmouldring clouds out
brake :
The aged earth aghaf,
Vith terrour of" that blaçt,
Shall from the furface to the centcr flmke ;
When, at thc world's lait fefiion,
The dreadfhl Judge in middle air fhall fpread his
throne.
XVIII,
And then at lalc our blifs
lq'ull and perfe is,
But now begins; tbr, from this happy day,
The old Dragon, under ground
In ftraiter limits bound,
Not halffo far eaits his ufurped fway ;
And, wroth to fee his kingdom rail,
" Soaring the air fublime
" With cla»g defpis'd thc ground."
But fee Steevens's Note, Tare. ,Shr. vol. iii. Johnf. SteeVo
.leare, p. 435. T. WAt'ro.
Ver. 159. and finouldring clouds] So, in Spelffer,
Facr. Qu. i. viii. 9.
" Enrol'd in titanes andfinouldring dreriment:"
,Mtd irt Fairfax's Taffo, B. xiii. ff. 61.
" And in each vcin afinou, ldring tire there dwdt."
lEWol.
Add to door Newtotl's inffatmes, Faer. Q«. i. vil. lô.
« Throughfinould' cloud of dulkifli ftincking fmoke."
$»wuldri»g, or fmoMdr, hot, fwdtering. Perhaps. from th-
Anglo-8,axon Smolt hot wcather. T. WaRTOI.
ODES. 19
Swindges the fcaly horrour of lais folded
XIX.
The oracles are dumb,
No voice or hideous hum
Runs through the arched roof in words de-
ceiving.
Apollo from his ilarine
Can no more divine,
Ver. 17. Swindges the fcaly horrour of his fohled tail.]
This lttong image is copicd from the dcfcriptions of ferpents
and dragons in the old Romanccs and Ariofto. There is a fine
piure by Guido, rcprcfeuting Michacl the Arch-Angcl, tread-
ing on Satan, who has fuch a rail as is hcre defcribed.
Jos.
The old fcrpent fiudiug his power coufined and his dominion
contra&cal, vents/ais iudignatiol and rcvenge, in brudilhing t|e
horrid tblds of lais fcaly tail. Colnparc Sylvcftcr's D, Barta«,
(p. 205.4to.) of a Lion bcating his lidcs with his rail.
" Then oftenfwindgi»g with his fincwie traine, &c."
T. W lrOS.
But fee Chapman's Cfar and Pompcy 1607, of a lion cnl'agcd :
« And then his rides he fiz'i»ges with his flerne.'" Waller de-
fcribes the " tail's impetuousjrzinge" of the whale, Batt.
Ifl. c. iii. Milton's dcfcription or the dragon's venting his rage
is certainly maRerly and ftriking. Cowley, in his Davidcis, I3. i.
feebly fays that the dcvil, exafperatcd, " v«itk his lo»g rail lh'd
Iris breaft." And lXlariuo paiuts him " biting,'" in his tury,
" his tci.fled rail.'" Sec Strage de gli Iunocenti, edit. 16:33, li. i.
ft. xviii. ToII.
Ver. 17:3. The oracles &c.] Attention is irrcfiftibly awak-
ened and engaged» by the air of folclnnity and euthufiafm that
r¢igns in this fianza and fome that follow. Such is the power of
true poetry, that ouc is/flmolt iuclined to bclieve tkc fuperl[i-
lons real. Jos.
c
'.0 ODES.
With hollc«v fhriek the fteep of,. Delpho
leaving.
No nightly trance, or breathed fpell,
Infpires the palc-ey'd prier from the prophetick
cell.
XX.
The lonely mountains o'er,
And the refounding thore,
Ver. 180. Ilfpires thepalc-ey'dpriefi] Milton was impreffed.
with rëading Euripides's tragcdy of Iolt., which fuggefted thcfe
idcas.
This paffage of Milto», if flaould be added, fuggefcd a beau-
tiful line to Popc, Elo(fa, v. 21.
" Shrin¢s, whcre their vigilspalc-ey'dvirgins keep." T, oDx
Ver. 181. The lonely mountaits o" cr,
.4nd the refoundi»g.thore,
.d roice of rccepi»g heard and loud lainent;.]
Although Milton was well acquainted with ail the Greck writers
in their original la.guagcs, and migh, bave feen the groundo
work of this tradition of a voice proclaiming the dcath of the
grcat Pmb and ccflktion of Oracles, in Plutarch ou the Dejë2 of
Orach's, and the fifth book of Eufcbius's Prceparatio Euangelica,
yct it is moft probable, that the wholc allufion was fuggcftcd to
his imagination by a Note of tle old commeutator on Spenfer's
Paltorals in May, who copied Lavaterus's treatife De Lemuribus,.
lewly tranflalted into Englifl. « About the rime that out
Lord fuflhred his molt bittcr Pafl]on, certaine perlons fayling from
ltalie to Cyprus,. and pafling by certaine lies called Paxa, hcrd
a voyce calling aloud Thamus, Thamus, the pylot of the thip ;
who, giuing tare to the cry, was bidden when he cmne to Palodas
to tell, that the grcat god Pari was dead: which he doubting
to doe, yct for that whcn he came to Palodas, thcrc was fuch
calme of wind, that the Ihip ftood ftill in the fc vnmoored, he
vas forced to cry aloud, that Pan was dead: Wherewithall.
here was herd fuch piteous outcrics and dreadful Ihrieking
t3DES.
A voice of weeping heard and loud lament;
]?rom haunted fpring and dale,
Edg'd with poplar pale, xs5
The parting Genius is with fighing fent ;
-bath hot bcen thc like. By xvhich Parb though of fome bc .vn-
derfiood the great Sathanas, whofe kingdom was at that time by
'Chrifi conquered, and the gares of hell broken vp, for at that
.time ail Oracles furceafcd, and enchantcd fpirits that wcre 'ont
to dclude the pcople thcnceforth hcld their pcacc, &c." So alfo
llakewill, in his Apologie, Lib. iii. §. o. p. ç08. edit. 1630.
3ut this is a fecond edition. And Sandys bas lnuch the lame
:fiory ; 'lio adds, that on the report of Thamuz, " was heard
.a greatlamentation, accompanicd with many groans and Jkrcechcs."
At which time ait'o, he fays, the Oracles of Apollo becalnc filent.
Travels, p. 11. edit. 1627. Compare Pro'ad. Ileg. 13. i. 456.
If we conne& theth three lines with the gcneral lubie& of thc
lafi fianza, undoubtcdly Milton, in the roice of wcelffng and loud
lainent, refcrred to this fiory, from whatfoevcr fource it was
drawn. But if, withott.fuch a rctrofpe&, they belong only to
thc context .and purport of their on fianza, he implies the
lamentations of the nymphs and wood-gods at their lca'ing their
biaunts. Do&or Newton obferves, that this allufion to thc no-
tion ofthe ceffation of Oracles at thc coming of Chrift, was al-
lowable enough in a young poet. Sarely, nothing could bave
ocen more allowable in an old poet. And how poetically is it
extendcd to .the pagan divinities and .the oriental idolatries ? "
T. Wa ItTONo
Ver. lô. dl roice f zeeping kea,d and loud lainent ;] This
is fcriptural, Mat, ii. 18. " In Rmna was there a roice hcard,
.lamentation, and zceeping, &c." T. W^rtxoN.
Ver. 184. From haunted fpring] As in Pat'. Lo, B. iii.
« Where the Mufes hau»t ,clear J'pring." See alfo LL4llegro,
,. 10. " On fulnlner e,es by kromted ream.'" IIence Thnm-
fon, in his Summer» v. 1. « The brink of hauntedftream.'"
TODD.
Ver. IS. Th« arting,'G«nu*i* th figld»g, fett.; &c.]
",vhcn the enchantcd forclt: in Taffo is :ut clown, Fairfax, i hi
ç,, OD ES.
,Vith flower-inwoven treffes torn
The Nymphs in twilight lhade oftangled thicket
illourI1.
XXI.
In confecrated earth,
And on the boly heartb, 1.9o
The Lars, and Lemures, lnoan with midnight
plaint ;
In urns, and altars round,
A drear and dying round
Affrights the Flamens at their fervice quaint ;
And the chill ma.rble feems to fweat, 19
While each peculiar Power foregoes lais wonted
feat.
tranflation, thus romantically enlarges the original, B. iii. ff. 75
" And now the axe rag'd in the forreft wilde,
« The Eccho./îghed in thc groves unfeene,
" The weephg mphs fledfi'om theU" bowels exilde."
Tours.
Ver. 191. Te Lars,] Mr. Dunfier objets to the round of
fle word Lars, and wifhcs that it could bave bcen Lares. But
/,arc, I conccive, was not an uncommon cxpreffïo in out old
poetry, h'Iaflïngcr, in th'e open]ng of his Great D,ke oflorcnce
hich was licenfed for a:ting in 167, and publifhed in
thus writes :
" As dear to me as the old Romans held
" q ht.ir houihold Lars, whom thcy believ'd had power
« To bkf, and guard their familles." ToDn,
Ver. 5. the chill marble.fe«s to jceat,] Among the
lrod[gia at thc death of Julius Cefar, Viril notics, " moeftum
illacr3/mat templis ¢bur, oeraquefi«lant," Georg. i. 480.
DtrlSTER.
Ver. 196 H'-hYe each pecMiar l'oz«crJbregocs his u'ent«dj?at.]
Virgil, u. il. 351.
ODES, v.
XXII.
teor and Baiilim
Forfake their temples dim,
With that twice-batter'd Goal of Paletine ;
And mooned Afhtaroth, oo
tteaven's queen and mother both,
Now fits not girt with tapers' holy fhine ;
The Libyck Harnmon fhrinks his horn,
In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Tham-
.Ill L1Z IllOllrn.
XXIII.
And fullen Moloch, fled, o.
" Exceff& otaries, adytis arique rcli6tis,
" Dii, &c." RicnDSOX.
Ver. 00. And mooned AJhtaroth,] So, in Par. Loti, B. ri.
978. " Sharpening in mooned horns ;" in initation of the Latin
lunatus, whence alfo the ltalian hmato. Milton added this word
to our language ; yet it is not noticed in Dr. Johntbn's Di6tionary.
But Mr. Dunfier notices the adjetve moo»y in Sylveficr .Du Bart.
16'21, I. £9. " ]lloony fiandards." TODD.
Ver. °01. Ileaven's queen and mother bot,] Shc was callcd
regina co:li and mater De{m. See Seldcn.
Ver. 220°. Shine is a fubftantive in llarrington's Ari,o,
-c. xxxvii, ff. 15. " Thefldne ofarmour bright." And in Jon-
fon's Panegyre, 1603. lVorks, edit. 1616. p. 868.
" Whcn like an April-lris flew hcrfldnc
" About the flreets."
And Drumlnond, Sonnets, edit. 1616.
" Faire lnoone, who with thy cold and filueriae."
And in other places. But fee Obfer;at. on Spenfer's t',ter. Qu.
»ol. ii. p. 181. T. Wttt'ro.
,'er. 205. And fdlen 71loloch, fie&
Hath lcft in./hadozrs drcad
4 ODES.
Hath left in flmdovs dread
His burning idol ail of blackett hue;
In vain with eymbals' ring
They call the grifly king,
His burning idol all of btacke hue ;
In r:ain with cmbals' ring
They call the gri.[l.y khg,
ht di.lbal dance abokt the furnace blue:] A
book, popular in Milton's time, thus defcribes the dreadfu!
facrifices of the worflaip of the idol !loloch. « Wherein [the
valley of Tophet] the Hcbrews facrificed their children to Ilo-
loch ; an idol of brafs, having the head of a calf, the reft of a
kingly figure with arms extended to receive the miferable facri-
ficc, fearcd to death with his burning embracements. For the
idol 'as hollow within, aud fillcd with tire. And lcft their
lamentable fhrieks flould lad the hearts of their parents, the
prictts of Moloch did deaf thcir ears with the continual clan
oftrumpets and timbrcls. » Sandys's Trarels, p. 186. edit. 1615.
fol. This imagcry, but vith lcfs effcct, was afterwards trans-
ferred into thc Parad. Lo.#, B. i. 390_.
" Firfl, bloloch, horrid king, bcfinear'd 'ith blood
" Of human facrifice, and parent's tears ;
" Though, for thc noife of drums and timbrels loud,
" Their children's cries unhcard that pafs'd through tire
" To his grim idol.'"
Thefc dreadful circumflances, of thcmfelves fufficiently flriking
to thc imagination, are hcre on]y rclated : In our Ode, they are
enducd with life and a&ion, they are put in motion before out
¢yes, and madc fubtirvient to a ncw purpofe of thc poet by the
fuperinducetion of a poetical fi6tion, to which they give occafion.
" The fullen fpirit i fled of a fudden, and has left his black
burning image in darknefs and folitude. The priefts, dancing in
horrid geqiculations about the blue furnaee from wfiich his idol
was fcd with tire, in vain ttempt to call baek their griefly king
xvith the din of cymbale, with which they once ufed to over-
whchn the fhrieks .f the lhcrificed infants." A new ufe is m'ade
of the cymbals of the dif,-qi,inted priefts. Ile does not fay»
ODES.
In difmal dance about the furnace blue :
The brutith Gods of Nile as fart,
Ifis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haie.
XXIV.
lq'or is Ofiris feen
In Memphian grole or green,
Trampling the unfhower'd graf wîth lowings
loud :
Nor ean he be at re
Within his thcred chei;
Nought but profoundeft hell can be his flaroud;
In va.in with timbrell'd anthems dark
The fable-ttoled forcerers bear his worfhipt ark.
XXV.
!-Ie feels from Juda's land
" lloloch's idol rcas rcmoved, to which infants cere facrificed ;
ehile their cries vxre fuppreffed by the round of cymbals."
Burnet's treatife D,'flatu mortuorum
fine pi(ture of the rites of Moloch.
Milton, like a truc poct, in defcribing the Syrian fuperftitions,
felcts fuch as wcre molt fufceptible ofpoetical cnlargement; and
xvhich, from the wildnefs of their ccrcmonies, were moft i,tereft-
.ing to the fancy. T. ¥ARTON.
Ver. 210. In did)»al dance about the furnace blne:] o in
3Iaceth, as Mr. Steevcns bas obferved to me:
" And round about the cauldron ring. T.W.Rror.
Ver. °15. Tra»qding the untthower'd grafi] There beiug no
rain in Egypt, but the country ruade fruitful with the overflow-
ings of thc Nilc. Rcnart,so'.
Ver. 20. fable-ftoled] He ehanged this fine com-
pound into "fable-vcfled," Par. Loft, B. ii. 962. Tonn.
Ver. 221. tIe.feels from Juda', land
The dread«d Ifant'* hand, &c.] At out Lord's
C6 ODE.
The dreaded Infant's hand,
The rays of Bethlehem blind his dufky eyn ;
Nor all the Gods befide
Longer date abide, 225
Not Typhon huge ending in fnaky twine :
Our Babe, to flaow lais Godhead truc,
Can in his fwaddling bands controll the damned
Cl'W.
XXVI.
.So, when the fun in bed,
Curtain'd with eloudy red,
Pillows lais chin upon an orient wave,
23O
firfi arrival in Egypt, as ma.y bc colle'ted ri'oto Eufebius and
Athanafius, he was by defign, or Providence, carried into a
temple at ltermopolis, in thc province ofThebais, at whofc pro-
fonce the idol gods fcll down, like Dagon beforc thc ark, and
|'uflbrcd thcir timcly a.nd juft diffolution; which rcmarkably
verificd a prophecy of Ifaiah, Chap. xix. 1. « That the Lord
flaould corne into Egypt, and tho idols ofEgypt flould be moved
af his pretbncc." Sec Echard's Eccl. Hifi. p. 36.Indced I ana
10erfuaded that the young poet had here, and in the three pre-
ceding flanzas, paid particular attention to Athanafius's dif-
courfe rI«; -ç «Or««ç '; A,. Compare Athanafii Opp.
ed. Paris. fol. 11527, p. 100--103. To.
Ver. 230. Curtain'd with cloudy red,] Craflmw thus dc-
fcribes thc fun, Sac. Poems, p. 17. edit. Paris, 1652.
« Ail thc purplc pride that laccs
" The crimjbn ('urtai;s of thy bed." To.
Ver. 23 I. Pillows his chin upoa an orient wavc,] The words
pi!loz«s and «k&, throw an «tir of burlcfilue and falniliarity over
.t coml, arifon raoft exqui:itcly conceived and adapted.
T.
ODES. 7
The flocking fhadows pale
Troop to the infbrnal jail,
Each fetter'd ghoft flips to lais feveral grave ;
And the yellow-tkirted Fayes 5
FIy after the night-feeds, leaving their moon-
lov'd maze.
XXVII.
]3ut fee, the Virgin bleft
Hath laid her babe to reft;
Time is, out tedious long flould here have
ending ;
Heaven's youngefl-teemed lar o
Hath fi..x'd ber polilh'd car,
Her fleeping Lord with handmaid lamp at-
tending :
Ver. £32. Thefloc1ingfladoa'spale
Troop fo the iqfernaljail,
Each jètter'd ghoJt flips fo his ferez'al grare ;]
Ir. Bo'le diretCts us to the lidfim. _Night's Dr. A. iii. S. ult.
" And yonder fhincs Aurora's harbingcr ;
" At whofe approach, ghofts, wandering here and thcre,
" Troop home to churchyards: damned fpirits ail,
" That i;, crofs-ways and floods have burial,
" Already in thcir wormy beds are ,one. T. Watro-.
Ver. £35. lnd the yellow:/-irtcd Fayes
ly qftcr the niht flccds, h'a','ing thcb" noon-lov'd
maze.] It is a very poetical mode of cxprcffing
the departure of the fairies at the approach of morning, to 1 W
that they " fly aftcr the fteeds of Night." T. W. ro,-.
Ver. £4°.. tith handmaid lamt» ] Alluding, pcrhaps,
to thc Parab]e of thc ten Virgins in thc Gofpcl. Dv»wrr,.
ODES.
_And all about the courtly fiable
Brght-hamei' d Angels fit m order £er ceable
Ver. £4. BrigM-harne/'s'd
«od. xiii. 18. " The children of Ifi'ael went up harneffed out
of the land of Egypt."
The arch-angel Michael is thus armed " in harnçe ftrong of
ncver-yeelding dia»zonds»'" Fairfax, B. ix. ft. 58. Torr.
A great critick, in /'peaking of Milton's fmalIcr pocms,
paffes over this Ode in filcncc, and ob/'crvcs « AI1 that fhort
«ompofitions can commonly attain is ncatncfs and elcgance." But
Odes arc flort compofitions, and they can often attain fublimity»
which is cven a charac"tcriftick of that /'pecies of poctry. We
bave. the proof bcfore us. Ho adds, « Milton never learned
the art of doing littlc things with grace." If by littl« thiigs.
we are to underfandort poems, Miltcn had the art of giving
them anothcr fort of excellence. T. WxTo-.
Thomas Fordc, in his Fragmenta Poetica, publiIhcd in 1660,
]ms given us fcveral poems on Chrii'tmas Day» in ont or two of
vhich ho adopts/'orne fentimcnts and expreffions in this fublime
and wonderful Ode ; betraying, howevcr, a vant of genuine
taffc and fancy in affe&ed emendation or ridi.culous cxpanfion
'or example, in p. 7.
" What made the fun port hence a,a-ay
« So raff, and make fo flrort a day ?
« Seeing a brighter fun appear,
" He rm and hid himfelf l'or fear
" Alham'd to fee hinfelf out-thin'd,
* (Leaving us and night behind,)
" iIe fneak'd away to take a nap,
*' And bide lfimfelf in Thetis lap !"
ODES. C9
I'HE PASSION*.
EREWHILE of mufiek, and ethereal mirtb,
Wherewith the Rage of air and earth did ring,
.Anti joyous news of heavenly Infant's birth,
My Mufe with Angels did divide to ring;
The l'al]ton is the lubjetrt of fcveral Italian tragedies and
poems. '|'ODr.
Ver. 1. Erewhile of mujïck, and ethereal mirtk,] Itcncc we
may conje&urc that this Ode was probably compofcd foon aftcr
that on thé Stth,it. Aad this pcrhaps was a college excrcifc a
Eafier, as thc laf was at Chrifimas. T. WaTO.
Vcr. 4. ]ry Mule v:ith lngels did dividc fo fi»g ;] Ste
Spenfcr, 1"act. Qu. iii. i. 40.
" And al! thc xdfile fwcct Mu{icke did divid¢
" IIcr loofer notcs vith Lydian harmony.'"
,As Horace, " Imbclli cithara carmiua diïides.'" Od. i. xv. 15.
Which Voffius, with his ufual rcfinemcnt, aud to jufiify a ncw
fcufe of his text, explains by alternatefinging. In Catull. p. 39.
cdit. 1G84. Comparc Scncca, Hcrcules Oct. v. 1080. " Orphcus
carmina dividens." Again, Milton fays, that in thc preccding
Ode " his Mufe with 1ngel did diride tofi»g." That is, per-
haps, bccaufe ihe thcn "joined hcr voice to the açclquiv,"
as at v. o7. I knbw hot if thc technica| terre to run a diviJion
i here applicablc. Shakfpearc fays, Rom. Jd. A. iii. S. v.
« It is thc lark that fings fo out of tronc,
" Straiaing hadh difcords, and unph:afing flmrps ;
" Somc tZay thc |ark makcs fwcet diviJion."
(:omparc lien. 1V. A. ii . S. i.
" Sung by a fidr queên in a fummcr's bower,
" With ravihing dirilon to her lute."
And Reed'$ Old PL viii- 373, 412. T. WatoEo-.
0 ODES.
But headlong joy is ever on the wing,
In wintery folftiee like the fhorten'd ligh*,
Soon fwallow'd up in dark and long out-living
night.
Il.
l%r now to forrow muft I tune my long,
And fer my harp to notes of çaddeçt woe,
Which on out dearet Lord did feife ere long,
]Dangers, and fnares, and vrongs, and worfe
than fo,
Whieh he for us did freely undergo :
Mort perfe& Hero, tried in heavieft plight
Of labours huge and hard, too hard foi" human
wigfit
III.
He, fovran prieft, çtooping his regal head,
That dropt with odorous oil down lais fair eyes,
Poor flefhy tabernacle entered,
His ftarry front low-rooft beneath the ikies:
O. what a
Ver. 5. But head!ong joy is ever on the *ing,] An elegant
and exprcflïve line. But Drayton more poetically calks joy,
" thefzal!ow-wingedjoy." T. Wgwo.
Ver. 13. 3Io.# perle& Hero,] From Heb. ii. 10. " The
Captain of their falvation, letfe(i through fufferings." Toi)I).
Ver. 19. O, what a mafl rcas there, what a difguife !] Here
lèems to be a conccit, alluding to the old paftimes. See 8tow's
London, vol. i p. 304, edit. Strype. " There xere fine and
fubtle difguifings, mq[ks, and mummeries, &c." And Ben Jon-
tbn, charaerifing Scogau t[ae jefter iii his çortunate Idles;
ODES. si
Y'et more ; the froke of death he mul abide,
Then lies him meekly down f:at by his brethrens'
, ride.
IV.
Thefe lateti fcenes confine my rovlng verre ;
To this horizon is my Phcebus bound :
/dis god-like a&s, and his temptations tierce,
And tbmer fufferings, other v«here are round; 5
Loud o'er the reçt Cremon's trump doth round;
Me fofter airs befit, and fofter tïtrings
Oflute, orviol tiill, more apt for mournfill things.
" that ruade difguifes
" For the king's fons, and writ in ballad royall
" Daintily xvell."
But Spenfcr xvas moft probably in Milton's mind. Ste Faer
Qt. iii. iii. 5°.
" Now this, noxv that, twixt them they did dcvize,
" And divêrfe plots did frame to nq./k in ftrangc di.fguife."
TODD.
Ver. o. So cdit. 1673. " Thefc latcr," 1645. T.
Ver. 6. Loud oer thc re.fl Cremona's trump] Out poct fccms
hcre "to bc of opinion, that Vida's Chrifliad was thc finctt Latin
pocm on a religious fubjc& ; but pcrhaps it is excelled by Sanna-
zarius De Parttt lrigbds, a pocm of morc vigour and tire than
this vork of Vida. Jos.
Ver. 8. Of lute, or viol fiill,] Gcnlle, »ot »oi..f.¢, ot loud,
as is the trumpet. It is applied to round in thc firme fenfe,
I Kings, xix. 1. " A flill finall voice." And in /bj2." P.
Hen. l/'. A. iv. S.i.
" The hum of either armyj?ilt.q rounds."
And in II. Pe¢ v. 1o7.
" Or uthcffd ith a flmcr/i//."
This is in oppçfition to uindpiling loud» in the verfe bef,-re.
:Befriend me, Night, bet patronefs of grief;
Over the pole thy thickeft mantle throw, 30
And work my flatter'd fancy to belief,
That Heaven andEarth are colour'd with mywoe;
My forrows are too dark for day to know"
Theleavesould ail be black whereon I write,
And letters, where my tears bave wafh'd, a wan-
nifl white.
Ifs application is not often to round. I-lencefiill-born, of a child
born dead. T. Wa,ror.
Ver. 30. Over the lole thy thickefl nantle throzo,] So, ia
Par. Loti, B. iv. 609.
" And o'er the dark ber filver ma»tle threw.'"
As Mr. Stecvens fuggefts. And in Buckhurft's Indution, as
Bowle obfcrves, ft. iv.
" Loe, thc night with milie mantels fpred. '
T.
Sec ratiner Chaucer Match. T«le, p. 393. ed. Tyrwhitt.
" Night with his nantel, that is derle and rude,
" Gala ovofprede the hernifere about." ToDI.
Ver. 34:. The leaves fi ould ail be black whereon [ rite,
And letters, &c.] Conceits were now confined hot
to words only. Mr. Stcevens has a Volume of Elegies, in which
the papcr is black, and the Icttcrs white ; that is, in all the title-
pages. Evcry intcrmediate Icaf is alfo black. What a fudden
change fi'om this childilh idea, to the noble apoftrophe» the
fublime rapture and imagination of the next ftanza.
T.
Sec Heywood's " Confolatory Elegie on James I, alluding to
the happy fucceffion of Charles I, &c. 1625. » " Reft followes labour, day fucceedeth nigh b
" And now my blacl,eage I will change to white."
ODES.
VI.
Sec, fee the chariot, and thofe rufhing wheels,
That whirl'd the Prophet up at Chebar flood ;
lX'Iy fpirit fome tmnfporting Cherub feels,
To bear me where the towers of Salem ttood,
Once glorious towers now funk in guiltlefs
blood ; «o
Mr. Dunfier thinks that Miltou's allufion is to the black page of
Sylvefier's ' Lachrymoe Lachrymarum &c.," or Funeral Elegy on Prince Henry, Du Bart, 4to. edit. 1613. He minutely ob-
ferves, " There are two title pages, or leaves. The firft con-
tains, in a zhite page, (the back of dfich is black,) the date of
the year and the naine of the printer, &c. The fecond leaf is
black on both rides; the title-page is of a deeper black than the
other black pages ; and the letters, in which the title is p,'inted,
are now exattlv of a rzanniJh zhite. Some allowance muft be
ruade for rime ; but I conccive they were never of a clear white."
Conjïderations on lilton's earl.q reading, &c. p. 5, 53.
But this was certainly the general faflfion of the rimes. See
Craflmw's allufion to it, On the deati ofillr. 11errgs, Delights of
the glufes, edit. lç48, p. 24.
" In the dark volume ofour rate,
" Whcnce each leafc of Life bath date,
" In ail the booke if any wbere
" Such a terme as this, Spare here,
" Could have been found, 'twould have been read
" IIZrit in whitl lettcrs o'e his head.'"
Again, p. 7, ,4t the Funerall qf a young Gentleman :
" Deare reliques of a diflodg'd foule, whofe lacke
" Makcs many a nom'ning paper put on blacke !'"
Compare alfo Browne's Brit. Pari. 1616, B. i. p. 87.
" My blubbring pen her Fable teares lets fall
" In charat%rs right hyrogliphicall,
And mixing with my teares are ready tmfing
" My late zhite paler fo a vxed ofmourning.'" Tolm
VOL, Vil. D
34 ODEq.
There doth nly foui in holy vifion fit,
In penfive trance, and angui[h, and ecçtatiek fit.
VII.
Mine eye hath found that lad fepulchral rock
Ïhat was the cafket of Heaven's richeft ftore,
And here though griefmy feeble hands up lock,
Yet on the foften'd quarry would I iorc 46
My plaining vert as lively as betbre ;
For fure tb well int}ru&ed are my tears,
That they would fitty t:all in order'd chara&ers.
Ver. 41. Tk,,re «lotit my foul in holy vifioujit,
.In lotmfivç trance, and at, gu(, and ecatick fit.]
riais is to be held in ko(o aflion, as in 1l l'ct v. 41.
T. WTO.
Compare Sylveti«r, D Bart. 16l, p. 533, x'herc his "foui
is rapt up injbcr«d trate; as before, p. 466.
" B:here, fweetly rapt in.facrrd extqe
" The faithfid Jb«& talks with ber God immenfi.."
4ng in p. 178, the foul's «fweet
To.
Ver. 43. li»c çe bath.round tkat jhd filnt&hral rock
'kat w«s tke cadet f Ifraren rich flare,
Xtd k'e though gri(]'L./è«ble han& up lock,
]t on the.fien'd quarry 'ould I.ore,
]lypl«ini»gveç] IIe tèems to bave been flruck
xvith reaging Sandys's defcripti,m of the Holy Sepulchre at Jeru.
falem ; ad to have catched fympathetically Sandys's fudden
pull to break foi'rb int«} a devout long at thc awchl and infpiring
fpe&acle. " It is a ffozen zeal that will hot be warmed at thc
tight thereoL And oh, thnt I could 'taine the
x'rought with a_unfainting perfeverance Who then did dit)are
this hymne to my redee,,er, &c." Tra'«ls, p. 167. edit. 1627.
The fir& is, 1615. 'F.
Ver. 48. oer fitre fo ell itrutqed at my tc«rs,
Thut they wouhl Jitly dàll itt ot&r'd dara,er.]
ODES.
VIII.
Or flmuld I thence hurried on viewlefs wing
Take up a weeping on the mountains wild,
5O
Here is another conceit; as in Crafhaw's Delight, &c., or
tkedeath q/" a Gentleman, p. 19.
" Eye« are »ocall, tears kare tongues,
" And there be words hot ruade with lungs ;
" Sententious thowers ; O let them fall :
" Their cadence is rketoricall."
Again, E. Revett, in an EhV, J on Lovelace the poet, Milton's
contemporary, thus comldain,"
" Why fhould fome rude hand carre thy facred ftone,
« And there incife a cheap infcription ;
«' When we can fled the tribute of out tears
«' So long, till the relenting narble ,ears i
" Which fhallfu«h order in their cadence keep,
-" That they a native epitaph thall weep ;
«' Untill each letter fpelt din(tly lyes
"' Cut by the myltick droppings of out eyes." ToII.
$er. 50. hurried on vieu'le.fs 'ing] Sec Coin.
v. 92. lturr;cd is ufed here in an acceptation lef familiar than
at prefent. And in Par. Loti, B. ii. 937. of Satan's flight.
" fome tumultuous cloud,
" Infiin(t with tire and vapour, hurried him
" As many toiles aloR."
Again, ibid. 603. The fallen Angels are to pine for age in
fi'oû, " thence kurïicd back to tire.'" And, 13. v. 778.
" ail this hafte
« Of midnight march, and hurried meeting here."
In all thefe paffages it is applied to preternatural motion» the
novements of imaginary beings. T. Warxo.
Ver. 51. Take up a weeping on the znountaim wild,] This
expreffion is ri'oto Jeremiah, ix. 10. « For the mountains will
I take u19 a weejgUtg and wailing, &c.
The gent|e neigbbourhood of grove and fpring
Would ibon unbofom ail their echoes mild ;
And I (tbr grief is eafily beguilJd)
Might think tle infe6tiot of my forrows loud
I-Iad got race of" monrners on tbme pregnan
cloud.
Ver. 5. OEltc nt!c n,"ig)baurhood v.f grze and fprbtg
ll»:ld Jb,,a tbb» all t/wir eckoes »dld ;] A fveetly
utiful ¢oupl.et, t'hich, with the tu'o ptccding lines, opced
t»e fz fo wt[I, lhat I particularly gricve to find it terminate
fiby a a ,ofl ti&rably difgufing coc«tto. DpsTra.
%r. 5:3. unçofom ail eff echs mild ;] la Pot.
, the flo-ers gn th¢ morning " opeu thcir choice bom'd
dce rhinO. Cmpare £mus, v. 8. " And he fwee pt.ac
01)ES. s7
UPON THE
CIR CU.MCISIO A".
"irE flaming Powers, and vinged Warriours
bright,
That erft with mufick, and triumphant long,
Firl[ heard by happy uatchful flepherds' ear,
So tkveetly fung your joy the clouds along
Through the bft tilence of file liffening night; »
Now mourn; and, if fad fhare wit|. us to bear
Your fiery eflënce can diçtil no tear,
Ver. 1. Ye flaming Powers, and winged Warriours bright,]
5I r. Warton refers to Par'. 1)t, B. ix. 156.
" Subje6ted to his fcrvice angel-wing%
" Audfflambg minilters."
Again, to B. xi. 101. And to B. v. 57. of the angelGabriel.
t, To wh9m the a'inged warriour thus return'd."
The uirgeà warriours, I may add, .are literally from Taffo»
Gier. Lib. c. ix. 1. 60. of the angel Michael :
" e'l duce de" guerfferi atati
" S' inchino &c. ' To.
Ver. 7. Yonrery e.èce can di, til o tear,
Burn in your Jgh',] Milton is puz,cd how to re-
concile the tranfcende»t eflbnce of angels .ilh the infirmifies of
men. In Parad(c Lo, havi.ng ruade the angel .C,.abriel flmre in
R repart of t'fuit with Adam hc finds himïelf under a necefiïty if
gctting rid of an obvious objetCtion, that material food does hot
bclong to intellctCtua! or ethereal fubfiances: and to avoid certain
circumftanccs, humiliating and dilraceful to the dignity of the
angclick nature, the natural confeque»ces of concotCtion and di-
geflion, he forms a new theory of tïanïpiration, fuggeïted by the
xondcrful tranflnutations of chemifiry. In the lrcfcnt infin¢e,
8 O.DE$.
13urn in your fighs, and borrow
Seas wept fi'om our deep forrow :
He, who with all Heaven's heraldry whilere o
Enter'd the world, now bleeds to glre us eafe ;
he wilhes to raake angels weep. But, being of the effence of tire,
thcy cannot produce watcr. At length he rccollcc'ts, that tire
nlay producc burning fighs. Itis debated in Thomas Aquinas
whetherAngels bave not, or may not hav% bcards. T.
Ver. 8. Burn in your fighs, and borrow
Seas a'ept.from out deep forrow :] Mr. Dunfler here
refers to Sylveftcr's Elegy on the Dcath of Mr. ti. Parvis,
l'ffthum. Poems, edit. 1636.
' But where alas lad phrafcs mll I borrow
" To Ihcw his country's fighs for his dcceafe ;
" Court, city, country, ail are fill'd with]brrorz,."
I think the following paffage in Cra/hav's 11ymn on the h-ame af
JeJks more applicable to the text :
« May it be no wrong,
" Bleft Heavens ! to you, and your fuperiorjb»g,
« That we, dark fons of Duft and Sorrow,
" A while dare borrow
't The naine of your delights &c." To.
Ver. 10. He, v:Ito citk ail Heaven's heraldry zhilcre
Enter'd the world,] Great pomps a»d proceflïous
are proclaimed or precedcd by heralds. It is the faine idca in
Par. Loti, B. i. 75°.
" lleanwhile thc zi»ged hetalds by command
« Of foran power with awful ceremony,
" And trumpets found, throughout thc hoft proclaim
" A folcmn council, &c."
See alfo B. ii. 516, &c." Or heraldr31 may mcan retinue, frai»,
the procefiîon itfelL What he otherwife calls pomp. See Par.
Loti, B. viii. 564.
" While the bright lomp afcended jubilant." T. Wattrou.
13y tleaven's »eral&y the poet fccms to allude to G. llarkbam's
Gcntleman's .cademie, 1595, whcre, in thc Book of Armori% the
ODE$. S9
Alas, how foon out fin
Sore doth begin
His infancy to feife !
O more exceeding love, or law more juft ? l.
Juft law indeed, but more exceeding love!
For we, by rightful doom remedilefs,
Were loft in death, till he that dwelt above
High thrond in ibcret blifs, for us frail duft
Empticd his glo3- , even to nakednefs; o
.4ngels are thns noticed : « I .il therefore with h«anen beginne
here were in the beginning nine orders qfAngels, and now are
rclident, but nine in the knovledge of coat armors, crowned full
high with prctious tones, &c." p. 43. Again, " This law of
armes was grounded ppon the nine orders of Ingels in heauen,"
ibid. p. 44.. Davies, in his Scourge q[" Folly, 1(11, ufes the
phrafe, «" heralds o.f heaven," p. :38. Tov.
Ver. 15. 0 »ore exceeding lo'e, or law more j-ufl ?
J« l«w indced, but nore exceeding love .ri Virgil,
EcL viii. 49.
'« Crudelis mater magis, an puer improbus ille ?
« lmprobus ille puer; crudelis tu quoque mater."
IICtI A RD S01V.
Ver. 17. remedilefs»] So, in Par.
B. ix. 919.
" Submitting to what feem'd remedilefi'.'" T.
Again, in Sa»# .4gon. v. 648.
«' Hopelefs are ail my evils, ail remedilefi'."
Again, in his Profe-lI: vol. i. p. 8-r9. " A remedilefs violation
to matrimony;" and p. 411, « a remedilefs thraldom." TODI.
Ver. 20. Etnptied his glory,] An exprefiïon taken from
_Philipp. ii. 7, but hot as in our tranflation, "' He ruade hinlf
of no reputation," but, as it is in the original Æ«vrv EKEN,f2;E»
« He emptied himfelf." NgwTox.
Compare Par. Loti, B. iii. 39, where Chrift fays fo the Father,
" I this glory next to thee freely iout off;"
40 ODES.
And that great covenant which we flill tranfgrefs
Entirely fatisfied ;
And tire fall wrath befide
Of vengethl jaftice bore for out excefs
_And feals obedience firfl, with wounding fmart,
This day ; but 0 ! ere long, 6
Huge pangs and trong
'Vill pierce more near his heart. "
Ver. 24. for out excefs ;.] He bas ufed the
word in the faine fenfe, P.ar. Loti, B. xi. 111. " Bewailing their
exce.fs:¢' But I think with greater propricty there than here.
It is hard to fay, why thefe three 0des, on the three grand
incidents or evcnts of the life of Chrifi, were hot at rirft printcd
together. I believe they Were all writtcn about the year 169.
T. V^nro.
ODE$, 4
DE,.ITlt OF 4 F.4 IR IA'F.INT,
DYING OF A COUGII *.
O I"ail'eçt flower, no fooner blown but blafted,
Soft titken primrofe thding timelefly,
Sulnmer's chief honour, if thou hadR out-lafled
lleak Winter's force that ruade thy bloflbm di T;
For he, being anaorous on that lovely dye .5
That did thy cheek envermeil, thought to kifs,
But kill'd, alas ! and then bewail'd his fatal blifs.
* Written in 16o5, and firft infer/cd in edltion 1673.
was now feventccn. T.
Ver. 1. Ojàirçlfftowcr, &¢.] Compare Shakfpcare's
onate lPilgrim :
« Sweet Rofe, fair flower, untimely pluekt, foon vadcd,
" Pluckt in the bud, and vaded in the q»ring !
' Bright orient pearle, alack, too timcly Ihaded !
' Faire crcaturc, kild too foonc by Dcath's Iharpe fling !"
So, in the STani.lh Tragedy, A. il. 1599, 4to. Printcd by Wm.
White.
" Swcete louely rofe, iii pluckt before thy time,
" Faire worthy fonne, hot conquered but bctraid."
Ver. 5. Fer he, being anorous on tha Iovely d!/e] I11 Romeo
and Juliet, Affliion, and Death, tul'n paramours. T.
In a eopy of vcrfcs on the death of Sir Jalnes Pemberlon, 'ho
died in 1613, ' Vertue, and Dealh, c, re both enamoured on worthy
Pemberton." Ste Maitland's HiJL of Lond. il. 1112. To).
Ver. 6. That did thy cheek envermeil,] " Ck«eks rernlio»,"
s a phrafe iu $ylvcfter» Du Bart. ed. 1621, p. 301. But Milton
4'.' ODES.
I II.
:For rince grim Aquilo, his charioteer,
By boifierous tape the Athenian damtçl got,
IIe thought it touch'd llis deity full near,
If likewife he tbme thir one wedded hot,
Thereby to wipe aay the inimous blot
10
ufes thc verb with much fincr effcé't ; which pcrhaps ho remem-
bered in Chaucer's Ball«d bt commcndacion o.] our Ladi«, v. 45.
" 0 benigne braunchilet of the pine-tre,
" Vinarie enrcrmailcd, refrefhir of bodé. ToIm
Ver. 6. tlmught to kifs,
But kill'd, alas. rI Copied probably from Shak-
fpéarc's l'nus ad AdoMs :
" He thogkt fo kù him, and hath l«ill'd him fo.'"
NwTo.
P. Flctchcr bas the faine conceit, Pu» T. I./L c.v. ri. 61. cd.
1633.
" Thus Orpheus wanne his loti Eurydice,
" Whom tbme de:if fimke, that could no mufick heare,
" Or fom« blinde neut. that could no beautie fee,
" Thinki»g to ki.l]ë , kili'd with his tbrked fpear." ToDI.
Ver. 8. For.lbwe grim.4quilo, &c.] Boreas ravihed Orithyia,
Ovid. M«tam. ri. 677. T.W.
Ver. 1o.. tlte intfimous Not] Docor Newton
vbfi,rves that 3Iilton here ufes the Latin accent on
namcly on the fecond fyllable. But this is a common accent in
our elder poctry; as in Drummond's Urania, 1616.
" On this i»./dmous fiage of voe to die."
And in Sylvcftcr's.Du Bart. 1621, p.
" By thine b!/mous life's accurfed ftate,"
And in Carcw's Coel. Britamticum, I633.
" Th' iqfdmous lights from their ufurped fphere.'"
Sec a!ço P. Fletchcr, PO'c. Eclog. 1633 p. 4.
ODES. 4
OF loug-uncoupled bed and chIdlefs eld,
Çhic|b 'mongi the wanton Gods, fou|
proach was held.
III.
So, mounting up in icy-pearled car, 15
Through middle empire of the freezing air
He wander'd long, till thee he fpied ri'oto thr;
" And now he haunts th' inf[tmous woods and dox'us."
I apprchend, from the fcnfe alfo of the word iii this lift illufira-
tion, that infamous iii COD11l$, V. 4°'1., fhould be thus accented :
« ltj«'tmous hills, and fandy pcrilous wilds." "I'o.
Ver. 13. (" long-uncoupled bed &c.] The poet fcems to
allude particularly to the cali of Pluto, as reportcd by Claudian,
.De Raptu Projërp. i. 32.
" Dux Ercbi quondam tumldas exarfit in iris,
«« Proelia moturus Superis, quod folu egerct
" Connubii, fteriléfilUC diu confumcret annos»
« lmpatiens ncfcirc torum, null.'Sfque mariti
« Illecebras, nec dulce patris cognofcere nomen."
E WTON-.
Ver. 15. So, mounti»g p in icy-pearled car,] We |hould
rather read ice-loearl«d. And tb in the MaIk, ru.lh-3Lf»inged , v.
890. Otherwife, we have two epithcts in/ead of one, with
weaker li:nfe. Milton himfelf affords an inltance in the Ode on
The _Natirity, v. 155.
« l'et firti to thofe 9clain'd in fleep."
Of the prefixture of the augment y, in a concatenated epithct»
there is an example in the Epitaph on ShakJêeare, v. 4.
« Under aJar-ypointi»g pyramid." T.
Yet Miltou ufes fimilar compound epithets, vithout prefixing
3t to the latter of thcm; as rq/.q-bofom'd, Jicry-ïrheel'd,:¢loa.cr3:.
kirtled. The fine compound icy-pearled owes its origin probably
to -Sylvefier, as Mr. Dunfter alfo obfcrves, Dtt Bart. 1621,
p. 310, where the hail-ftones are called " ice-pearls," and again
p. 1096, " the bounding bals of ice-learL"See alfo p. 240.
"' lcy c2dall." To».
4. O.DES.
There eoded was his queçt, there ceas'd his tare
Uown he defcended frorn his thow-foft chair,
But, ail unwares, with his cold.kind embraco
Unhous'd thy virgin bul flore her hir biding
place.
IV.
Yet art thou hot inglorious in thy
For fo Apollo, xvith unweeting hand,
Whilom did flay his dearly-loved mate,
Young Hyacinth, born on Eurotaç ttrmd,
Y¢ung Ifyacinth, the pride of Spartaa land ;
X-cr. 1. thy i»inul] An expreon in Barn-
2eld's ttty l'ccuniu, 4to. 1605,
" But now more Angels lhan on rth
« lier goMeta impreffe, haue fo hcauen attended
« Her " " "
»u'gm
St.e alfo Donnc's Pocms ed. 4to. p. 5. To.
Ver. ç3. For. Almllo , 'ith tn'ceting
IFhilom did.llay his dcar{y-lozed mate,
]tmg IIacinth,] From thefe line one would ful2
çe, although it docs t inmaediately follow, that a boy was
the fu.bje of thé Ode. The chitd is on[y eallcd aJbh" igbnt in
de edition 1673, where this picee firt appeared, although it was
fitten in t65. So a]fo in Tonfim, 1705. Tickell's title is a
ai b¢«nt, a Ntvntw q'his, &e. This is adopted by Fenton.
ut in the lafi Oanza lle poet fays expref]y ;
« But thou fle mother of fo fweet a ¢hild,
" Mer faltç-imagin'd 1o1 cea t tamenlY
Yet, in the eighth ftanza the perfox lamented is alternately fup-
pofed to have been font dwn to earth in the ape of two divi-
ities, one of vhom is fiyled aj[lt naid, and lhe other, fu'eet-
finiling 9outh. But lhe child w certainly a niece, a daughter of
kMilton's fifler Philips, and probably ber firti child. T.
Ver. 26. ]ung Ilycinth,] Oblrve the repetition as
Lycidas, ver. 9.
" For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
]3ut then transform'd him to a purp|e t]ower"
Alack, that fo to change thee Vinter had
wer
V.
'et ean I hot rlhade me thou zrt dead,
Or that thy corfe corrupts in earth's dark womb
Or that thy beauties lie ia wormy hed,
[Iid from the wodd in a lo=delved tomb ;
Could Iteavea for pity thee fo flrily doom ?
Oh no [ for lbmethig in thy face dd
Above mortality, that flow'd thou wal dî¥ine.
VI.
Ref¢lve me then, oh Soul mort furely ble
(1 f fo it be that thou tbctè plaints
Tel[ me, bright Spirit wherer thou hoverett,
SVhether above that high firK-moving fphere,
Or in the Elyfian fields, (if fuch theoe wete ;)
Oh fçv me true, if thou wea mortal wigbt,
And why t?om us fo quckly thou did take thy
fligbt ?
Ver. 3 l. Or tat hff beauth fie ormy
-riphrafis or ga, is from Shakfpcaax MMf . Dr. A. i.
uit.
Ala'dy to their or» bed« are gone." T.
Ver. 38. Te me rht 8pirit, cherder tho
ll'kelher o that hig f-ming .lhere, &c.]
Thefe ypothcticat quelions aoe like thofe in ds, « Wheet
yond, &c." ver. 156. Orig[nally ri'oto Virgil, Georg. i.
Aane novum tardis fydus, &c." T.
Ver. 40. (fch thete weoe ;] tle ould
bave fard are, if thc rhyme had pmi:ted.
4 ODE.
VII.
Wert flaou fome iar vhieh from the ruin'd roof
Of fhak'd O1smpus by mit'chance didTt fa|l ;
Which careful love in Nature's true behoof
Took up, and in fit place did reinftall ?
Or did of late Earth's tbn» lefiege the wall
Of lheenyHeaven,and thou, fomeGoddefsfled
Amongft. us here below to bide th S ne&ar'd hem ?
Ver. 4. --- thak'd] For./hoken. So, in I_)mbeline, A. ii. S. il.
" A fl.- and confiant knave, hot to beflhalc'd.'"
T. Wa o .
Again in TroiL and C'çbl. A. i. S. iii.
" O, when degrce
It appears indeed to have been an uthal participle both before
and in, Milton's rime. Thus
te Pfllms, p. 169.
« Evea thou that lmfl ff,re ak't our land."
And in the It. Sir Cl;omon, 1599, of a flfip :
" fle was through orms
And la Randolph's Poems, 1640 :
" From hera-'d tide the native engines flye."
Again, la Herrick's Ilç,erides 1648 p. 1 « More flm't thy
felfe, &c." TODD.
Ver. 48. Ofeeny Ilearen,] In Spenfer's Moter Hubberd
çale, ver. I9.
« And beautifie theflwenie hrmament." " T. W:xa'ox.
The word is dnie in Spenfer's own edifion, but is converted
ito.leenie in fubibquent editions : The original word is reored
in that of 183.
Ver. 49. near'd htad ?] As in I.ycidas)
ver. 17.
« With nectar pure bi» oozy locks he laves."
But the unufual participle,
ODES. 47
VIII.
Or wert thou that juft Maid, who once before o
l?orlbok the hated earth, O tell me footh,
And cam'Pt again to vifit us once lnore ?
Or wert thou that fweet-fmiling youth ?
Or that crown'd matron fage white-robed Truth ?
" And nc,ar'd ftreamcs of Ilelicon do flcete." And in Das, ics's lVittes Piigrimage, 4to. t: d. Sign. C. 2. b.
" llencc flow ail near'd fwcets, &c. ' ToI.
Vcr. 53. Or wert thou that fwc«t#nili)tg youth ?
Or that croTcn'd matron fitgc white-robed 7)'uth ?] In
the firtq of thct verli:s, a diffyllable word is anting, dfich pro-
b.'tbly fcll out at the prefs. The late Ir. John Ilctkin, of Chril[-
Church, Oxtbrd, who publilhcd an elegant edition of Bion and
llofi:hus, propotbd, iu pcriodical 31iti:ellany which appearcd
about thc ycar 1750, and with the utmoft probability, to inlbrt
"lercy.
« Or wert thou llercy, that fweet-liniling youth ?"
For, as he oLfcrved»/ler«y is hot only mort apti.y repr«fi.nted as
afueet-frniling youth, that is, of the age molt fiffceptiblc f the
tender pariions, but ]lcrcy is joined with Jylice and Truth il the
Ode on the 'atiity, ff. xv. Dotor Newton bas omitted the
naine of thc author of this conje&ure, and givcs the rcalbxs for
it as his own. T. Watt'fo,n.
Mr. llein's conje&ure is perhaps fupported by a paffiage in
P. Fletcher's Pile. Eclogues, 1633, p. 17.
" To look morejk'ect
" Then .Mcrcyfelf can look with Pities eyes."
In Sylvefier we have " railde-ey'd lercy,'" Du Bai't.
p. 302. And in Lifle's Du Bart. 1675, p. 17"9, we ha,e
" fv:e«t-ey'd Mcrcy.'" Toge.
Ver. 54:. rage vhite-robed Truth ?] As
defcribed in Ripa's I«onologia, ed. 1625, p. 71 o. " Verita.
Donna rifplendente, & di nobile afpetto.. e.fllta di color bianco
pompofamente, &c." Tog9.
4_ O D Efi.
Or any other of that heavenly brood ,
Let down in cloudy throne to do the world fome
good ?
IX.
O" wert thou of the golden-winged hof,
ho, having clad thytblf in human weed,
I'o earth ri'oto thy prefixed feat didçt poli,
And after lhort abode fly back vith fpeed, 60
_As ifto flow vhat creatures heaven doth breed ;
'l'hereby to let the hearts of men on tire
Ïo fcorn the tbrd id Worhl, and uato heaven afpîre ?
N.
]3ut oh ! liv did[[ thou hot çtav here belov
q'o blc£s us with th 3, heuven-lov'd innocence, 6
To flake his wrath vhom ti hatll ruade our ibe..
Ïo turn l\vift-rulhig black Perdition llence,
Or drive away the flaghtering leftilence,
Ver. 57, Or r«er[ thou o.['the golden-inged kq,] hlr. Bo le
herc cites Spcnlbr's tty»ne q! hea'enlie Beautie.
« Brigl:t Cherubins
" Which ail with goldet dngs are over-dight."
.and Speffcr's lleaenly Love has " oldcn zvi»gs." Taflb thus
ttefcribes Gabriel's ings, Gicr. Lib. c. i. û. xiv.
" Ali bianchc vefii, ch' ban d'or le cime.'"
An edging of gohl. Fairlhx tranflates the pafltge
" Of filver vings he took a flùning pa)re,
« Fringed 'ith gold."
Sec Il PeJ: v. 52. T. SV-^'rox.
,'er. 67. To ttrn fciJ't-rufhing la¢ Perdition hence,
Or d«ire an'au the,/htughter,.'ng PeJ'lilcnce,] Among
tlte bleflngs, which the ,ea-,n-l.ov'd innocence of this chitd might
ois. 4»
' To çtand 'twixt us and our deferved fmart ?
But thou canft beft perform that oflîce where
thou art. 7o
XI.
Then thou, the Mother of fo fweet a Child,
Her falfe-imagin'd lors ceafe to lament,
And wifely learn to curb thy forrows wild ;
Think what a prefent thou to God hat fent,
And render him ,xith patience what he lent ; 7»
This if thou do, he will an offspring give,
That, till the world's lafi end, fliall make thy
name to lire.
bave imparted,'by remaining upon earth, the application to pre-
lent circumftances, the fuppofition that fle might have averted the
peftilence now raging in the kingdoin, is happily an.d beautifully
conceived. On the hole, ri'oto a boy of feventeen, this Ode is
an extraordinary eftbrt of thncy, expreflion, and vcrfification.
Even in the conceits, vlaich are many, we perceive ftrong and
peculiar marks of genius. I think Milton bas hem given a very
lemarkable fpecimen of his ability to fucceed in dru Spenferian
ftanza.- He moves with great eafe and addrefs amidft the em-
barraffment of a frequent return of rbyme. T.
It muft be obferved, that the Spenfenan ftanza conflits of nin¢
lines; the flanzas in this Ode, of only feven; in which parti-
cular, as Mr. Bo,'le alfo obferves, Milton imitates Lord Buck-
hurft, Bal&vin, and other writers iia the Mirourfor Mç..'flrates.
The ftanzas of Harrington, Daniel: and Fairfax, aie o6taves.
Tox)x).
vor., Vt, E
5O ODES.
ON TI]IE *.
FL¥, c,vious Time, till thou run out thy race;
Call on the lazy leaden-çtepping hours,
Whotè fpeed is but the heavy pl,mmet's pace ;
And glut thyfelfwith what thy womb devours,
Which is no more than what is falfe snd vain, .
And merely mortal drofs ;
So littlc is out lors,
So little is thy gain!
For when as each thing bad thou haf't entomb'd,
And laff of ail thy grecdy felf confutn'd, lo
Then long ternity fhall greet out blifs
Vith an individual kifs ;
And Joy flmll overtake us as a flood,
* In Milton's manufcript, written with his own hand, fol. 8,
the title is, " On Time. To be fi't or a dock-cale."
T. WartTor.
Ver. . C«ll on the lazy leaden-ftepping
the manner of Shakfpeare, II«n. V. A. iii. Chorus.
" the crippl« t«rdj-gaited night,
" Who, iike a foui and ugly witch, does limp
" ço tedioufl.g.'" BOWLE.
Ver. 1. htdividual] Eternal, infeparable. As in
1"tu'. Lq#, B. ,-. 485, B. v. 610. And fee note on Ad Part.
v. 66. T.W.tt o.
So, in Itoliday's Marriages of the Arts, 1118.
" Anacreon
" My indiriduall companion." Tol)D.
ODES. 51
When every thing that is fincerely good
And perfely divine, 5
With Truth, and Pcace, and Love, flmll ever lhine
About the i'upremc throne
Of Him, to whot happy-making fight alone
When once out heavenly-guided fou! fhall clime ;
Then, ail this earthy groffnefs quit, _o
Attir'd with tcars, we flmll for ever fit,
Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and
thee, O Time.
Ver. 14. ll"hen ererj thhtg that is lincerely good] $incer¢t,
is Iourely, perfe&ly. As in Contus, v. 454.
" So dear to heaven is çaintly chaflity,
" That when a foui is lbundfincer«l lb, &c."
T.
Ver. 18. happy-makingfight] The plain Englifl
of beat«k vo» Nwros.
Ver. 22. 5lilton could hot hclp appl)ing the molt folemn and
myerious truths of religion on ail fubje&s and oecafions.
has here introduced the beatifick vifion, and the inveffiturc of
the foui with a robe of ars, into an infcription on a clock-cat.
Perhaps fomething more inoral, more plain and intelligible, would
bave been more proper. John Bunyan, if capable of rhyming,
'ould have written fuch an infciption for a clock-cafe.
latter part of thefe lines may be thought wonderlhlly fiblime :
but it is in the tant of the times. The poet lhould be diftin-
uied fi'om the enthufialL T.
Compare Browne, Brit. P«fl. B. i. S. 4. ed. 1616.
" er words, embalmed in fo fweet a brcath,
« That made thein triumTh both o« Time and Death.'"
Yet Rill, I think, 5lilton is here no enthufia: the triumph,
vhich he mentions will certainly be the triumph of evcry fincere
Chriian. To.
».o ODE.
AT A
SOLE 3IN 3IUSICtC
1] L EST pair of Sy rens, pied ges of It eux en 'sjoy,
Splaere-born harmoniousfifler», Voice and Verre,
Wed you r divine tbu nds, and mix'd power employ
Dead tlfings with inbreath'd fenfe able to pierce;
And to out lfigh-rais'd phantafy prefent 5
That undiflurbed fong of pure concent,
Ver..'2. Sphere-born iarmonious fiflcrs, l'ce and l, reljê,]
Ihys Mr. Bowle, Marino in his ¢tdonc, c. vil. ft. i.
't Mufiea c Poefia fica due forclle.'"
Jonfon has ampli?ed this idca, Epigr. cxxix. On E. Filmer
Mtcal lYor, 169.
«' What charmlng peals are thcfe
"' Thcy are the narriage-rit¢s
" Of two the choice pair of man's dclights,
" Mufick and Poefie:
« French Air and Englifl Verfe here ='cdded lie,
Sec Note, L'Allegr. v. 136. Sec alfo King James's
the Inrocation, to which I ara dited by Mr. Malone»
" 23Iarting ri) ny heavenly
« Vato the harpe's accordc.'"
la that king's.Pocticall Exerces, Edingb. 4to. No date. Pr,
by Rob. Waldegrave. T. Waox.
Ver. 6. 'kat undurbcd.ng pure conc«nt,
Aye fi,tg bffore the fapphire-colour'd throne
To llim that fits thercon,] See Note on rc. v. 61.
The nndurbcd Song ['purc concent is the diapalbn of the mufick
of the fpheres, to which, in Plato's fyûem, God himfelf liflens,
And it is defcribed by Plato in thcfe words. " 'E
ODES. 33
Aye fung belote the thpphire-colour'd throne
To Itim that lits thereon,
x' 'o' MIAN APMONIAN .TM@,ç2NEIN." Dt' Repnbl. lib. x.
p. 520. Lugd. 1590. And to this is Milton's allufion in the
l'aradife Loti, vhee tle motion of the planets is defcrii)ed,
B. v. 65.
" And in their motions harmony itfelf
« So finooths her charming tones, that Gods owu car
" Lens delighted.'"
In the text, Plato's abflrac'ted fpherical lmnnony is ingraftcd
into the Sorg in the Revdations. T.
Ver. 6. pure concent,] It will now be perhaps
neceffary to remark, that concent, hot cot![nt, is the reading of
theCmnbridge manufcript. Ilence `lonfon, in a fimilar imagcry,
is to be corre&ed, in an E1ithalamium on Air. Wetton, vol. vii.
« When look'd the year at bcff
« So like a feaft ?
« Or were affaires in tune,
" By ail the fphcars content, fo in the hcat of .lune
,nd perhaps Shakfpeare, K..Henry V. A. i. S. ii.
« For government, though high, and low, and lowcr,
" Put into parts, doth keep in one co,.nt,
" Congruing in a full and natural clofe,
« Like mufick."
lcad concent. So in Lylly's Mydas, 1592, vhere Erato applauds
Apollo' mufick. A. iv. S. i. " O divine Apollo ] O fwect con-
lent [concent_] !" And in Fairfax's T«, c. xviii. 19.
" Birde, vindes, and waters ring with fweet content."
lNot confent. As in the original.
" D'aure, d'acqu¢, e d'augei dolce concento.'"
Concent and concented occur in the Faerie Queene, i. ii. 11. iii
xii. 5. And in other places of Spenfer. Content is in edit. 1645.
Concent, 1673. Tonfon is the firft who rads cont, c,lit, fol.
1695. T. Waror.
Milton here alludes, I think, to the heavenly concert in Taffo,
3icr. Lib. c. ix. ft. 58.
.4 ODES.
With faintly fhout, and folemn jubilee ;
Where the bright Seraphim, in burning row, 1o
[Fheir loud up-lifted angel trumpets blow ;
And the ehcrubick hoft, in thouthnd quires,
'I'oueh their immortal harps of golden xvires,
With thofe jut Spirits that wear vi&orious
palms,
IIymns devout and holy pfalms »
Singing everlatingly :
That we on earth, with undifcording voiee,
lay rightly antver that melodious noire ;
" A1 gran concento de' beati carmi
" Lieta rifuona la cclefte reggia."
Vcr. 7. the fapphirc-colour'd throne] Alluding to
" the likenefs of a throne, as the appearance f a falthire
ftone," .zek. i. 26. Nr.wTo y.
Ver. 13. hauTS of goldcn wires,] So, in the
celclial concert, fo exquifitely defcribed, Par. Loti, 13. vii. -97-
" Ail rounds on ri'et by ftring or golden wire
" Tempcr'd foft tunings, intcrmix'd with voice
" Choral or unifon."
Sec alfo At a Vacation Exerc(fe, v. 37. « Apollo fings to the
touch of golden wircs.'"
Ver. 17. Tkat rz'e on carth, with tndifcording roice,
3lay rigktlff an.fr,,et, that melodious oife ;
As otce we did, till diJroportion'd fln
.farr'd agai _Aature's chime, and rr#h bar.fb
I3'oke the fair mujïck that ail creatures nade
To tkeir gt'eat Lord, whofe lofe theit" motion fr,.ay'd
In po.'feg2 dialoqn , ïrhilJt they flood
Injqfl obedience, and theh'Jate o.f good.
O, na?/ we foon agaiu xnew that fong,] Perhaps
there are no fier lines in l'Iilton, lefs obfcured by conceit, lefs
embarrafli:d by affe&ed expreffions, and lefs weakened by pompous
ODES. 55
As once we did, till difproportion'd lin
3arr'd o--" ' "
a,unft Nature s clnnae, and with harlh din
epithets. And, in this perfpicuous and linple flyle, are conveved
fmne of the nobleft ideas of a mot fubline philotbl,hy , height-
ened by metapho and attufiOllS thitable to the fubjedt.
T. W.«tTox.
Ver. 18. ]ffay rightly anfrzer that melodious nitb ;] A'-oiJè
is, in a good fenfc, mck. So in P./: xMi. & " God is gone
p with er oiJë, and the Lot3 with the tbund of the
trump." No is tbmetimcs titeralty (ynonimous for nt@'ck. As
in Shakfpeare, " Sneak's noi/è." And in Chalmmn's Ail l'bol«,
160,5. Reed's Oh! PL vol. iv. 18ï.
" You mur get us mufick too,
" Call's in a cleanly
Compare alfo out author, Clo'i.fl' .Na¢iç. ff. ix. v. St/.
" Divindy-warbled voice,
" Anfwering the firinged o."
And Spenfer, Faer. Qu. i. xii. .
« During which rime there was a heavenly no/Y
See more inftances in Reed's Old Pl. val. v. 0. ri. ïO.
vii. 8. x. 77. And in Shakfpeare» Johnf. Steev. vol. v. p.
feq. Pcrhaps the Lady dues hot fpeak qute contemptuoufly,
altlmugh modeflly, in Comus, v. 77. « Such no as I
mke." Caliban feems to mean, by the context, nqicl
when he fays the « Ifle is fifll of nofR'." T.
Ver. 19. till dfproportion'd fia
Jarr'd aga&fl Naturc's chime, &c.] So, in ar.
Loti, B. xi. 55.
" Sin, that firft
" Diftemper'd all things, &c.'"
.tYature'n chime, is tom one of Jonfon's Epithalamions, vo/. vil.
" It is the kindlie feafon of the rime,
" The month of growth which calts ail creatu.res forth
« To do their offices in .Nature', «lia«:" T. WnRo.
But Milton, in this paffage feems Mfo to allude to Gafcoign%
l'oems, ed. 1587, p. 296.
66 ODES.
iBroke the fait mufick that all creatures madc
To their great Lord, whofe love their motion
fway'd
In perçe& diapaçou, whilç they çtood
In firi obedience, and their ate of good.
O, may we foon agaiu renew that fong,
And keep in tune with Heaven, till God ere long
'Fo his celeftial contbrt us unite,
To lire with him, and ring in endlefs morn of
light !
« A fweet cont of mufichs facred found
" Doth raife our minds as rapt ail vp on high ;
" But fweeter founds of concord, peace, and loue
« Are out of tune, and jarre in eurie ûop."
In the faine ftraiae Sylvefter: Du Part. 1621, p. 01.
" The World's ransform'd from what it was at firR :
' For Adam'sjïn ail creatures clfe accurft :
« Their harmon 9 difluned by hisjar:
" Yet ail again conct.nt» to make him war."
Iilton's friend, Henry More, adopts the fame imagery, " the
¢oncent, the diatgafon, the jar, &c." in his Song of the So«l,
164, p. 15. ,lilton, who loved " the concord of fwect
founds," defcribes the difagreemcnt of married perfons as "a
continual grating in haï:fb tune together, which may brced fome
jar and difcord," Profe-II'. i. °96. To.
Ver. o_1. lroke the fair m, tflck] To this original harmony
Jonïon alludes, Sad Shelherd , A. iii. 8. ii.
" giving to the world
" Again hisflfl and t-unefulplanetting." Sec Ode on the 2Vativity ff. xii, xiii. T, W^!ta:0,-¢o
O DES. 57
Orig'bal Varîous
of the Ode at a Solemn )llufick.
There are three draughts, or copies, of this Song: all in
lilton's own hand-writing. There oçcur fome remarkable
expreflions in thefe various readings vhich Do(tor Newton and
1Mr. Warton have hot notice& TO»D.
Ver. 3. Mixe your cho(fe 'ords, and happieft founds employ,
Dead things with inbrealh'd fenfe able to pierce;
nd as your equal raptures, temper'd fu:eet,
_In tigh ,nifle,qous fpoufalt nu'et;
Snatch us.î'rwn earth awhile,
Us of ourfeh'es and native woes beguile:
And to our high-rays'd phantafie prcfent
That undifturbed fong &c.
Herc, in thc firft draught, it is "' And wkt'/fl your equal
raptures :" in the fecond, wh@ is erafed, and as written oer
it. In the fecond draught alfo, the next line was
In high mifterious holic fpoufidl meet ;
but holie is expunged, and happic fupplied in the margin: and,
in the laft of thcfe original lines, " native woes" was originall"
ai home-bred woes."
Ver. 10. Whcre the bright Seraphim in trlpkd row.
But, in the firI draught, princcl row.
Ver. 11. In the firft draught the line feems to bave been
written (for the manufcript hem is torn and imperfeO)
Their loud immortal trumpe/s blow.
Next,
Loud fymphon& of fih, er trumpets blow.
In the fecond draught he rirft wrote,
tligh liftcd, loud and angel trulnpets blow.
Which he afierwards altered fo the prefent reading.
Ver. 1 °. And Cherubim, fweet-u'i»gedçquires,
Then called Heaven's hetyhmeT, which means the faine ; henJ'h-
man, or henclnnan, fignifying a page of honour. See Minlhcu,
and alfo Midfl N. Dr. A. ii. S. ii.
" I do but beg a little changeling boy
« To be my henchman :"
5 oDES.
The Queen of Fairies is the fpeaker, lhlton's curious expref-
lions are in tkc firft draught.
Ver. 14. With thofejuft Spirits thatwear lac blooming palms»
llvmnes dcvout and facred pralines
Singing cverlaltingly ;
lile all tcarr rouds ad arces blur
Rund atd echo Hallclu :
That we on earth, &c.
S'er. 18. May rightly anfwere that melodious noife,
B lea,ing out thq haoE illunding jarres
Qf clamorous fin that all out mck marres :
Ad h out li'es azd in our fong
May keepe in tune with Heaven, &c.
In the fecond draught he defcribes " the hm dobords" of
fin by a technical terre in mufick :
l«a'ing out to a cnnocx jarrcs
Of.fin that ag out mlck marrcs.
Ver. 19. s once we could, &e.
Ver. çS. To li,e andfl»g with him in even endleffe light.
Then "ever endl@" is changed into "ever-glorious,'" vhich is
next converted into " uneclipfed." The latter part of the line
is alfo varied in the following order :
wheoe day dwells vfithout night.
in endlcffe morne of light.
in cloudleffe birth of light,
in never-parting light.
ODES. 9
EPITAPH
21IIRCItlONESS OF IYINCHESTER.
THIS rich marble doth inter
The honour'd wife of Wincheçter,
A Vifcount's daughter, an Earl's heir,
]3efides what her virtues çair
Added to ber noble birth,
More than fhe could own from earth.
Summers three times eight lave one
She had told ; alas ! too foon,
After fo fhort time of breath,
To houfe with darknefs, and with death.
Yet had the number of her days
]3een as complete as was ber praife,
10
Ver. 4. Befides what ber ,irtues fair &c.] In Howell's en-
tcrtaining Lctters, there is.onc to this lady, the Lady Janc Savage
marchionefs of Winchefter, dated Mal'. 15, 16°6. He fays, he
aflïfled her in lcarning Spanifll : and that Nature and the Graces
exhaufted all their treafnre and fkill, in " fmlning this exa&
lnodel of female perfe&ion." Ho adds, " I return you here the
Sonnct your Grace plcafed to fend me lately, l'endered into
Spanifia, and fittcd from the faine ayre it had in Englifl both for
cadence and feete, &c.'" Howell's Lettcrs, vol. i. §. 4. Let.
xiv. p. 180, ut fapr. I make this. citation to j ufiify and illuf-
trate out author's panegyrick. ï. Wagro.
ôo 0 DES.
Nature and Fate had had no frifo
In giving limit to her life.
Her high birth, and her graces fweet, 1
Quickly found a loyer meet;
The virgin quire for her requet
The God that lits at marriage feaçt ;
He at their inroking came,
But with a fcarce well-lighted flame ; o
Ver. 15. tler high birth, and ber graces fwect,
Quichlyfound a loyer meet ;] She was the wife of
John marquis of Winchefter, a confpicuous loyalift in the reigu
of king Charles the firft, whofe magnificent houfc or caftle of
Batlng in Hamplhire withftood an obftinate fiege of two years
againft the rebels, and when taken was levelled to the ground,
becaufe in every window was flourifled ,4ym¢z Loyaute. H«
died in 17, and was buried in the church of Englefield in
13erkfhire ; where, on his monument, is an admirable epitaph in
Englilh verre written by Dryden, which I have often feen. It
is remarkable, that both hu/band and wife thould have feverally
rcceived the honour of an epitaph from two fuch poets as Milton
and Dryden. Nor fhould it be forgotten, that Jonfon wrote a
pathetick poem entitled .4t Elegie on the Lady A v. Paw.r'r
MarchionefsoflVinton. URw. vol. vil. 17. But Jane appears
in the text of the poem, with the circumftance of her being the
daughter of Lord Savage. See Note on v..55. She therefore
muft havc been our author's Marchionefs. Compare Cartwright's
Pocm, p. 193. T. W,trtro.w.
Ver. 19. 11e at their involdug came,
But rith a .larce rz, ell-lighled.flame ;] Almoft lite--
raily from his favourite poet Ovid, Mctam. x. 4. Of Hymen.
" Adfuit ille quidem ; fed nec folennia verba,
" Nec laetos vultus, nec felix attulit omen :
" Fax quoque quam tenuit, lacrymofo ftridula fumo,
" Ufque fifit, nullofquc invenit motibus ignes."
I find I have been prcoccupied by Dr. Jortin in noting this
parallel. 'F. W. rtTO..
ODES.
And in his garland, as he fiood,
re might difi:ern a cyprefs bud.
Once had the early marrons run
To greet her of a lo'ely tbn,
And now with fecond hope fle goes,
And calls Lucina to her throes;
But, whether by mifchance or blame,
Atropos for Lucina came ;
And with remorfelefs cruelty
Spoil'd at once both fruit and tree:
The haplefs babe, befbre his birth,
Had burial, yet hot laid in earth ;
And the languith'd mother's womb
Was not long a living tomb.
ôl
Ver..'22. Ye raight difcern a cyprefs bud.] An emblem of
funeral ; and it is called in Virgil "'feralis," .En. vi. 16, and
in Horace " funebris," Epod. v. 18, and in Spcnfer " the
¢yprefsfuoeral," Faer. Qu. i. i. 8. Nrwa'or.
Ver. 31. The haplcfs babe, before his bb'th,
Itad burial, &c.] So, in lime di Lulgi Groto,
1601, p. 138. " Figlio morto nel ventre della madre, e
trattone fuori.
" Doue giamai s' udl s ftrana forte
-« Che auanti il nafcer fuo fi giunga a morte ?" ToI.
Ver. 33. .4nd the languifl'd mother's womb
IfCs not lmg a living tomb.] As in Brown's
Erito Paflorals, B. ii. S. i. edit. 1616.
« Where neuer plow-fhare ript hic rnoth«r's wornle
« To giue an aged feed a liafng tombc.'"
And in Sylvefer's Du Bctrt. ed. 1021, p. 496, ofthe fifh,
« That, fwilling, fwallow'd Jonas in ber 'orab
" A liuing corps, laid ia a lidng toomb."
See alfoibid, p. 363. TovI.
G 0 D E S.
sO have I feen £ome tender flip,
Sav'd vith care ri'oto wintcr's nip,
Thc pride of her carnation train,
Pluck'd up by fome unheedy fwain,
Who only thought to crop the flower
New {hot up from vernal fhower ;
But the fait bloffom hangs the head
Side-ways, as on a dying bed,
And thofe pearls of dew, fhe wears,
Prove to be prefaging tears
Which the fad morn had let i:,dl
On ber hatening funeral.
Gentle Lady, may thy grave
Peace and quiet ever bave ;
0
Ver. 35. tender ffAp,] In out author's Anbnadv.
Rem. Def. A gardener is to " CUl his hcdgcs, prune his trecs,
look to his tender Jlips, and pluck the weeds that hinder their
growth." Pr. III i. 95. T.
Ver. 3(/. Sav'd ivith care frvm sintcï's nip,] Compare
Samf. Agon. v. 1576.
" thejTr.fl-born bloom of fpring,
« 1Vipt 'ith the lagging rear of z, htter's frotL"
Ver. 41. But the fait bloJ]bm hangs the head &c.] 5Ir. Bowle
compares this and the rive lbllowing verfcs, »'ith what Av.toni(
Bruni fays of the rofe, Le Tre Gratic, p. 1.
" 5Ia nata apena, o filli,
« Cade languifce e more :
" Le tenere rugiade,
" Ch' 1" impedano il feno,
" Son ne fuo i funerali
" Le lagrime dolcnti." T.
Ver. 7. Gent& Lady, may thy grave
Peace and quiet ever bave ;] So in the obfequies of
Fidele, in Cymbeline, A. iv. S. il.
ODES.
Af ter this thy travel fore
Sweet ref feife thee evermore,
That, to give the world encreafe,
Shorten'd haft thy own life's leafe.
l[ere, bcfides the forrowing
That thy noble houle doth bring,
Here be tears of perle& moan
Wept for thee in Helicon ;
And fome flowers, and fome bays,
For thy herfe, to trew the ways,
Sent thee ri'oto the banks of Came,
])evoted to thy virtuous name;
(;3
5O
" Quiet confummation have,
" And renowned be fl, y grave !" T. W^ITO.
Ver. 55. Here be tcars] Sec Notes on Lycidas, v. 14:. The
tears allude to othcr Irez:/ès alfo on thc occafion. Ste tl,te tvo
next Notes. To»D.
Ver. 59. Sent thee from the banks of Came,] Came is Mil-
ton's Camus regularly anglicifed. " Next Camts reverend tire. »
Lycid. v. 10. " Cami remare paludes." EL i. 89. " Re-
vifere Camitm." Ibid. 11. I have been told, that there was a
Cambridge-colle&ion of verlis on ber death, among which Mil-
ton's elegiack ode firft appeared. But I have never fcen it, and
I rather think this was hot the cafe. At leaft xe are fure, that
Milton was now a fludent at Cambridge. Our marchionefs was
the daughter of Thomas lord vifcount Savage, of Rock-Savage
in Cheflfire ; and it is natural to fuppofe, that her family was
w'ell acquainted xx'ith the family of Lord Bridgewater, belonging
to the tame county, for whom Milton wrote the Matk of Comus.
It is therefore hot inprobable, that Milton xxrote this e!egy,
another poetical favour, in confequence of his acquaiutance ith
the Egerton family. And afterwards we find fome of that famil
intermarrying with this of the marquis of Wiacheftcr. Dugd.
Baron. ii..77. ,1.-t5. Thc accomplilhed lady. here celebrated,
64 ODES.
Whilçt thon, bright Saint, high fitf in glory,
Next ber, much |]ke to thee in ory,
That iir Syrian fhepherdc,
Who, after years of barrennefs,
The highly favour'd Jofeph bore
To him that tbrv'd for her belote,
And at her next birth, much like thee,
Through pangs fled to felicity,
6
died it child-bed of a lècond fon in ber twenty-third year, and
was the mother of Charles thc firft duke of Bolton. Mr. Bowle
rcmarks, that her death was cclebrated by Sir John Beaumont,
and tir W. Davcnant. See Beaumont's Poens, 16°9. p. 159.
Davenant's Ilrorls. T. W^'ro.n.
In a volume of manufcript pocms in thc Britifh Mufeum this
Epitaph occurs, with the date 1631, and at thc bottom " Jo.
Milton of Chr. Coll. Cambr." This, it has bcen remarked,
fcems to clear up .Air. Warton's doubt ; thc &rte and additions to
the naine lèring to fhew that there had bcetr a Cambridge-col-
lcin of vcrfes on the death of this accomplifhed lady. See
the Topographer, 1789. 'oI. i. p. 4'25.I may further oblèrve,
tF.zig, thêre is an Elcgy on this occation at thc end of « La Dance
lIachabre, or Death's Duell, by W. Colman, l2mo, pages 68,
entitled .4n Elegie vpot the Ladie 2larchione.ffè of llïnche.fler,
daughter fo tke right honourable Thomas Lord Sauage, &c." con-
liftip.g of twenty lines. It begins vith the allufion to other
funeral verlès, and apparcntly to a cuftom of aflixing fuch poems
to the pall or hcrfe :
"' lnftrutet my pen with an immortall verre,
« l, Vhilft holy ratr..s eutmell thyfad hcrfe,
'« Swcet Saint on earth, in lteaucn no leflè we know !
" Thy beauty here, thêre goodneffe makes thee fo."
.e alfo ver. 58. Aud the note, Eleg. ii. :T2. TODD.
Ver. 63. That fair Syrian jhephcrdcfs,] Rachel. Sec Gen.
xxix. 9- xxv. 18. T. Wa,.o.
rer. 68. Throrh langs Jt¢d to fclicit:4,] We cannot too
ODES
Far within the bofom bright
Of blazing Majetiy and Light :
There with thee, new welcome Saint,
Like fortunes may her foui aequaint,
With thee there elad in radiant fheen,
No Marehionefs, but now a Queen. *
65
70
much admire the beauty of this line. 1 wi/h it had clofed the
poem; vhich it would hax'e done vith fingular effeCt. What
tbllows ferres only to weakcn it ; and the lat verre is an emi-
nent inltance of the bathos, where the " Saint clad in radiant
theen" finks into a Marchionefs and a Queen. But Milton fel-
dom clofes his little poems well. Dtrsrv.a.
Milton might bave in mind, (although he has deftroyed the
climax which it is reported to exhibit,) the laft meflkge of Anne
Boleyn to Henry the eighth ; thanking him for his advancing
her, firft to be a Marchionefs; then to be a çucen ; and now,
vhen he could raife lier no higher on earth, for fending her to
be a Saint in lit'aven. To D D.
* There is a pl'eafing vein of lyrick fweetnefs and eafe in
llilton's ufe of this mctre, which is that of LAllegro and II
Pe»ferofo. He bas ufed it with equal fuccefs in Comus's fettive
long, and the laft fpeech ofthe Spirit, iii Comus, 93, 92. From
theti fpecimens, we may juttly wifli that he had ufed it more
frequently. Perhapsin Comus's Song it bas a peculiar pro-
priety : if bas eertainly a happy effet. T. W^gro.
Vil F
66 ODES.
SONG
_ [A Y .MO R N1NG .
NOWthebright Morning-ftar, day'sharbinger,
Cornes dancing from the eaf, and leads with her
Ver. I. 2¢ow thc bright 3Iorning-flar, day's harbinger,] So
Shakfpcare, Midf. _IV. Dr. A. iii. S. ult.
" And yondcr flfinesAurorasharbuter. T.
Ver. . Cornes danehtg from the eafl, and leads u'ith ber &c.]
So Spenfer, in ,4flropkd, t. iv.
" As fommcrs lark that with her long doth greet
" The danci»g day, forth cornbtg from thc caR."
And in the Faerie Queene, i. v.
" At lait, the golden orientall gare
" Of greateft heaven gan to open fayre ;
" And Phoebus, fre/h as brydegroome to his mate,
" G»ne dattncingforth,/haking his deavie hayre."
And Peele, David and Bethfitbe, edit. 1599.
" As when the fun, attir'd in glifiring robe,
" Cornes dancing from his oriental gare, &c.'"
And liceols, in his poem The Cuckow, 1607. Of the ealL
" Through which the daies bright king camedancing out.'"
And in the context he calls the coek, " Daies harbinger." And
G. Fletcher, as Mr. Bowle obferves, in Chrifl's Viii. C. i.
" A fiarre cones dancing up the orient." T.W.,,.o,:
I muft add a beautiful paffage from P. Fletcher's LocuJ?s, 167.
p. 96.
-« The lovely Swing
« Cornes dauncing on; the primrqfe ftrewes her way,
" /'nd fattin violet." To.
ODES. 67
The flowery ]Iay, who from her green lap throws
The ycllow cowflip and the pale primrofe.
Ver. 3. Thej%we,'y 3It, vho from ber green lap th,'ows
The yellow cow.[lip &c.] So Niccols, in the defcrip-
tion juft cited, of May.
" And fi'om her.fruit.ful lap eche day fhe threw
" The choiccft flowres."
Befide the inftance brought by Do&or Newton froln K. Richard
the Second, we have in the faine play, A. iii. S. iii.
" TheJï'e.fl, gree» lap of fair king Richard's land."
As in L]cidas, v. 138.
" On whofeJ}'e./h lap the fwart-ftar fparely looks.'"
So alfo R. Greene» of Aurora, as citcd in ngland's Parnaff«s
1600» p. 415.
« And fprinckling from the folding of ber lap
" White lillies fores, and fwcct violets."
Mr. Bowle adds thefe illuftrations, Spenfe G Faer. Qu. ii. ri. 15.
Of flowers.
" Nature then forth throz¢es
" Out of herfi'uitfull laT."
Again, ibid. vil. -ii. 34.
" Then came faire lIay, the fayreft mayd on ground,
" Deckt ail with dainties of ber feafons pryde,
" And throwing fiowres out of ber lap around."
T. WatTOrr.
Ver. 4. the pale primrofe.] In the IFinteFs
Tale, A. iv. S. v.
" Pale primrofi's,
" That die unmarried."
Again, in C.ymeline, A. iv. S. ii.
" Thc flower that's like thy face» lale lrimrofe.'"
T. Walorr.
Whence perhaps Crafhaw» with remarkable elegance, Poems,
p. 87, Paris edit. 1652 :
ODES.
Hail, bounteous May, that dort infpire
]Iirth, and youth, and warm defire ;
Woods and groves are ofthy dreffing,
Hill, and dale, doth boaft thy bleffing !
Thus we falute thee ,xith our early long,
And welcome thee, and wifh thee long.
5
« The dew no more will weep
" Theprimrofespale check to deck." ToDD.
Ver. 10. Ind celcome thee,] So Chaueer, Knightes Tale,
v. 1511. edit. Tyrwhitt.
« 0 l]laye, with ail thy floures and thy grene,
« Right zrelcome be thott fait fre/he Iay."
Compare v. 3. Carew alfo, in his defcription of the Sprhé5
thus ,elcome» 5Iay :
« The rallies, hills, and zroods, in rich array,
" IVelcome the coming of the long'd-for May." Tope.
* This beautiful little Song prefents an eminent proof of Iil-
ton's attention to the effe& of metre, in that admirable ctta»ge
oftumbers, with whieh he defcribes the appearance of the llay
]Iorning, and falutes her after Jhe bas appeared ; as different as
thejùbjeoe is, and produced by the tranfition from Iambicks to
Troehaieks. So, in L.41legro, he banifhes 31elancholy in Iam-
bieks, but invites Euphrofsne and her attendants in Trochaicks.
To».
MISCELLANIES.
MISCELLANIES.
ANNO 7ETATIS XIX.
,,4I a V2"CATION EXERClSE in the COLLEGE, part
Latin, part Englifli. The Latin jeeches ended,
the Engli,/h thus began. *
HAIL, native Language, that by tlnews weak
Didft m0ve my firft endeavouring tongue to fpeak,
And mad'ft imperfe& words with childifh trips,
Hall unpronounc'd, flide through my infant lips,
Driving dumb Silence fi'om the portal dbor, 5
Where he had mutely fat two years before !
Here I falute thee, and thy pardon atk,
That now I ufe thee in my latter tatk:
Small lors it is that thence can come unto thee,
I know my tongue but little grace can do thee :
* Written 16o.7. It is hard to çay 'hy they did not firlt
appear in edition 16-1,5. They were firft added, but mifplaced,
in edit. 1673. See table of Errata to that cdition. T. W,aTor.
Ver. 5. dumb Silence] So, in I1 Peqf. v. 55. " The
nute Silcnce." Sylvefter has " dumb fil«ncc," Du Bart. edit.
I0.1. p. 13. TODD.
7° MISCELLANIES.
Thou need'ft not be ambitious to be fir, l
]3elieve me I bave thither pack'd the worft"
And, if it happen as I did tbrecafl,
The daintieIi di[]aes fhall be tèrv'd up lat.
I pray thee then deny me not thy aid 15
]?or this tàme finall negle& that 1 have ruade"
But hate thee tiraight to do me once a pleafure,
And fi'om thy wardrobe bring thy chie?ti trea-
rare,
Vin: 18. A,d.[i'om t@ ca,'drobe b,'i»g th ci('# treq,re,
rot tltt wwTfa»gled t¢s, and trinningflight
ll'hich lakes out late fantoEicA-s a'ith dcligM ;] This
an addret to his native language. And perhaps he here alludcs
to Lilly's Et«phues, a book full of aflbdtcd phrafeology, xvhich
prelended to reform or refine the Eglifla lmguage ; and whofe
efl?ts, although it vas publilhed lbme years before, liill re-
nlaincd. The ladies and the courtiers ere ail inflrued in this
new flyle ; and it was cfleemed a mark of ignorance or unpolite-
nefs hot to underfland E«phuffb. He proceeds,
" But cull thofe richeR robes and gay' attire,
" Which deepeft fpirits, and choiceR wits dcfire."
From a youth of ninetccn, thefe are flriking expreNons of a
confcioufnefs of fiperiour genius, and of au ambition to rire
above the level of the faionable rhymers. At fo early an age,
Milton began to conceive a contempt lbr the poetry in vogue;
and this he foems to llave rctained to the laû. In the Traate on
E«htcation, recommending to his pupils the udy of good criticks,
he adds, " This would make theln foon perceive what delicable
creatures out common rilners and play-writcrs be : and flaew what
religious, what glolious and magnificent ufe nfight be ruade of
poetlT." p. 110. edit. 1673. Milton own writings are the
mol[ illurious proof of this. For he xvas, as Dante fitys of
Itomel I!ërn. c. iv. 93.
« la bella fchola
'« Di quelfignor dell' altmo Cauto.'" T. WAxo.
MISCELLANIES.
Not thofe new-fangled toys, and trimming flight
Which takes our late tntafticks with delight; o
Nalhe, in his " Strange Newes, of the intercepting certaine
Letters, and a conuoy of Verres, as they were going priuilie to
vi/:-uall the Low Counti'ies," 1.592, gives us feveral tecimens of
new:['«ngled to!/s , and feems to include Gabriel llarvcy, Greene,
and Tarlton, as wcll as Lily, under the defcription of latefan-
tq[ticks. Some of th.:'fe toys are hot little curious ; fuch as
"' firenized furies, Dauids fweetnes olimpique, energeticall per-
flmfiols, &c." which lait phrafe, by the way, I recommend to
the philofophers of the new fchool ]Nalhe adds, " Nor do l
altogether fcum off ail thcfe as the nezz'-ingend«red fome of the
Englilh &c." Again, " Euphues I readd when I was a little ape
in Cambridge, and then I thought it was Ilfe ille; it may be
excellent good flill tbr ought I know, for I lookt hot on it this
ten yeare." llabington, who publifled his Caflara in 163, bas
the folloving phrafe : " New toyes foi" afantafliquc mind." But
fee a defcription of Fantaft&ks in Barnabie 1Rych's -aults and
_Nothhg but _Faults, 4to. Lond. 1606. " But what call you him
a fantaJticke, that followcs his tbllowe fo clofe ? a foole, I war-
rant him ; and I bcleeve he hath robd a iackanapes of his ieflure ;
marke but his countenance, fee how he mops, and how he
mowes, and how he flraincs his lookes. Ail the apes that haue
been in the parriIh garden thefe twentie yeares, would hot corne
nigh him.]br ail nmner of co»lle»eats," p. 7. Tor)r).
Ver. 19. Not tkofe new-fangled tous,] Drcflèd anew» fan-
taftically decorated, newly invented. Shakfpeare, Love's Lab.
Loti, A. i. S. i.
" At Chriftmas I no more defire a fore»
" Than xx'ifli a fiow in May's newfangled lhows."
Where Theobald, inead of Jhoz's propofes abfurdly to read
eartb, becaul,, fays he, " the 3qowo's are hot ne-fangled, but
the eartk by their profufion and wriety." 13)- thefe hows the
poet means .ttlay,anes, at which a fiow woutd be very unwel-
come, and unexpe&ed. Somewhere in 13. and Ftetcher, " new-
fangl«d work" occurs: where the commentators, hOt under-
flanding what they rejet, would read " new-fpangled." In out
church-canoni, dated 1603 ]Ve'wfangleneffe is ufed for innovation
74 3.ISCELLANI ES.
But cull thofe richef't robes, and gay't attire,
Which deepet fpirits and choicet wits defire.
I bave fome naked thoughts that rove about,
And loudly knock to bave their pafçage out ;
And, weary of their place, do only ftay, s
Till thou haçt deck'd them in thy be array ;
That fo they may, without fufpe& or fears,
Fly fwiftly to this fair afçembly's ears ;
Yet I had rather, if I were to cb.ufe,
Thy fcrvice in fome graver lubie& ufe, ôo
Such as may make thee tèarch thy coffers round,
]3efore thou clothe my fancy in fit found :
in drcfs and do&rine, §. 7-L Sec Spenfer, who explaias the
ord. zt'acr. Qtt. i. i. 25.
" Full of vainc follics and
Sec alfo Prcfaces to (bmm. Pr. Q[" Ccrem. A. D. 159. Ou
author ufcs and explains thc word in his Prelath'al Epoa,
" To cotl-oul and exc:fang'& the Scripture." Pe. 1I i. 37.
In Ulpian Fullwill's interlude, Like it to like, " Nichol
Jà»glc is the lice. '' T. War.wos.
In the Cobler's Prokecie, 1594, " 5c-" is Vcnus's aitle,
and " rcfattg&" her nan. I nau obferve alfo that, in the
contents of I 7mothy chaptcr the fixth, in the old editions of
the Bible, a dirc&ion is given to " have no fcllowthip with new-
Jà»gh'd tcachcrs." To.
Ver. 9. 1%t I had ratficr, f I werc fo ch,
7'hy rit'e b fome graver fidffe«? [b, &c.] It ap-
pears, by this addrefs of Milton to his native language, that
evcn in thefe green years he had the ambition to think of writing
an epick poem ; and it is worth the curious l'cadcr's attention to
obferve how much the Paradè Loti corret]onds in its circuln-
fiances to thc prophetick wilh he nowformed.
Ilere arc rong indications of a young mind anticipating the
fuiec of the Parad(Iè L, if xvc thbfiitute chriftian tbr pagan
idcas, lit was now dcep in the Grcck poets. T.
lqISCELLANIES. 75
Such where the deep tranfported mind may foar
Above the wheeling poles, and at Heavcn's door
Look in, and fee each blifsful Deity 5
tIow he betbre the thunderous throne doth lie,
Lifiening to what unfhorn Apollo fings
To the touch of golden wires, while Hebe brings
Immortal ne&ar to her kingly tire:
Then pafting through the fpheres of watehful tire,
Ver. 36. the thunderous tkrone] It has been pro-
pofcd by Jortin to read " the Thund«rer's lhronc." Th-«nd«rous,
indced, might be an errour of the profs. But tkund,'rous is more
in Mihon's manner, and conveys a new and a lironger image.
Bolides the word is ufed in Pat'. Loti, B.x. 7192.
« Notus and Afer black with thund«rous clouds."
_Fhunderous is from Thunder, as Slumbrous from Slumber, Par. Loti,
B. iv. 615. 1Vondrous frcm lVon&r, is obvious. T.
Milton adopled this word from Sylvefter, as Mr. Dunfter alfo
obferves, Du Bart. 1621, p. 420. " Ruflfin with thundrous
roar." ToDm
Ver. 37". unflmrn ,4pollo] An epithet by which
he is dilinguifhed in the Greek and Latin poets. Pindar,
Od. iii. 6. AKEPEKOMA oÇ,. Hot. Od. I. xxi. ,.
" !ntotm pueri dicite Cynthium."
Ver. 40. Thon pajTïng through theJheres qf watchJ}d.[ire, &c.]
This is a fublime mode of d«fcribing the fiudy of natural philo-
fophy. In another college-exercife, perhaps written about the
thme time, the farne thoughts appear. " Nec dubitatis, audi-
tores, etiam in ccelos volal'c, ibiquc illa muhilbrmia nubium
fpera, niviumque coacervatam vim contemplemini--Grandi-
nifque cxinde loculos infpicite, et armamenta fulmninum perfcrute-
mini.'" Pr. 1I\ ii. 591. But they are in Sylvefier's Du Bartas,
p. 133. edit. 1621. He fuppofcs that the foul, whilc imprilbncd
in the body, often fprings aloft into the airy regions,
« And thcre fle learns to knowe
" Th' originals of winde and hnil, and thowe;
î6 MISCELI,ANIES.
And m[Fty regions of wide air next under,
And lfills of fiow, and lofts of" piled thundeï,
May tell at length how green-ey'd Neptune raves,
In Heaven's defiance muçtering ail his waves ;
'« Of lightning, thunder, blazing-ars, and orms,
« Of tain and ice, and itrange-exhaled forms :
" By th" aire's ffeep airs e boldly climbs aloft
« To the world's chambers : heaven c vifits oft, &c."
See alfo Sylvefler's Job, ibid. p. 944. 1 bave clfewhere obferved,
that Milton might here ha'e had an eye on a fimilar paffge
Sir David Lyndefay's Dreme. Cmpare Blwer% Lingua, 1607.
Reed Old PL vol. v. 16. Mendacio fays, having fcaled the
" in the province of thc meteors,
« I faw the cloudy apes of hall and tain,
« Garners of fnow, and cryals full of dew, &c."
T. WaTO.
Drummond, la his h'er ort eing, compliments
roficiency of James I, in the ltudy of natural philofophy,
fimilar terres :
"' Thou fought'll to know this all's eternal fource,
'« Of ever-turning heavens the rcfilefs courre ;
" Thcir fixed lamps,
But thcre is more firiking paffage in Sylwfler, which
tmffcr alfo mti¢es, to be introduced u Bart. 161, p.
" Cellars of winde andfl«op of fulph'ry tunder,
" Where flormy tempeffs have their vgly birth. »
n fee ibid. p. 77. " Heav'a's azure lfi." Aud alfo Lifle
u Bart. 165, p. 151. " The fle-houlbs of flormes, and
ibrging-flos of tundcr." To.
Ver. 40. wat¢hful .rG] Sec Ode Cr.
tiv. v. 1. " And ail the fpangled hoff keep 'at¢ in order
bright." HvD.
We bave " 'igil flamma" in Ovid Tr. iii. v. . And
" xigil« flamme," rt. . iii. 63. T. WaRTO.
Ver. 43. green-ey'd tuc] Virgil, Georg.
451. Of Proteus.
" Ardentes oculos intorfit lumin« glauco." T.
MISCELLANIES. 77
Then ring of fecret things that came to pals
When beldam Nature in ber cradle was;
And laft of kings, and queens, and heroes old,
Such as the wife Demodocus once told
In folemn fongs at king Alcinous' feat,
While lad Ulyffes' foui, and ail the reft,
Are held, with his melodious harmony,
In willing chains and fweet captivity.
But fie, my wandering Mufe, how thou dort ftray !
Expe6tance calls thee now another way ;
Thou know'ft it muft be now thy only bent:
To keep in compafs of thy predicament:
Then quick about thy purpos'd bufinet corne,
That to the next I may refign my room.
Ver. 48. Such as the wife Dcmodocus once told] He now little
thought that Itomer's beautit'ul couplet of the fate of Demodocus
could, in a few years, with fo much propriety be applied to him-
felf. He was but too confcious of his refemblance to fome other
Greek bards of antiquity, when he wrote the Paradi.tè Lo.#. Sec
13. iii. 3:3. feq. T. VARTOIN'o
Ver. 52, In willing chains and fueet captivity.] A line, s lIr.
Bowle obferves, refembling one in Taffo, Gier. Lib. c. -i. 11.84.
" Giogo di fervitu dolce e leggiero." T. WAlïOn.
I may add a line from 8ylveller's Du Bartas, edit. 1621, la.
" The willing ckains of my ca2ativitie."
¢e alfo 1 a. Fletcher's Purp. IJL c. v. tt. 53.
" With al«afing chain enthrall." To9.
78 MISCELLANIES,
GOOD luck befriend thee, Son; for, at thy
birth,
Tlle faery ladies dane'd upon the hearth ; 6o
Ver. 59. Good htck befriend thee, Son ; &c.] Here the meta-
phyfical or logical Ens is introduced as a perron, and addreffing
his eldeft fort Su[tance. Afterards the logical Qaantitj, Quality
and Relation, are perfonified, and fpeak. This affe¢"tation will
appear more excutkble in Milton, if we recollec2, that every
thing, in the mafks of this age, appeared in a bodily flmpe.
ti,y ATothhg had hot only a " local habitation and a naine,'" but
a vifible figure. It is extraordinary, tbat the pedantry of king
James the firft fhould hot bave been gratified with the fyftem of
logick l'eprefented in a mark, at fome or" his academick receptions.
Tire Predicaments alone would bave furniflmd a confiderable banal
of Dramatis Perfonoe. The long and hoary beard of father
might bave been ruade to exceed any thing that ever appeared
on the ftage. James was OllCe entertained at Oxford, in 1618,
ith a play called the Mal'riage of the Arts. T. WAR'rov.
Ibid. .for, at tu bU'rb,
The.faery ladi«s danc'd .upon the kcarth ;] This is the
firft and lait time that the fyftem of the Fairies was ever intro-
duced to illufwate the docîrine of Ariftotle's ten categories. It
may be remarked, that they both vere in faflfion, and both
plodett, at the çame time. T. Wtlvro.-.
Ver. 60. danc'd .apon the hearth ;] I fear too
lnuch bas bccn ihid of domeftiek fairies in L" .411eg,v, v. 103.
Yet I cannot mifs an opportunity of adding a few words on the
fubje.., which may tend to illuftrate Shakfpeare through Mihon.
It is not yet tatisfac"torily decided, 'hat Shakfpeare means by
calling 1Mab the ,Fairied Mid,wiJè. 1loto. Jul. A. i. S. i'.
IISCELLANIES. 79
Thy drowÇv nurfe hath fworn fle did them fpie
Crne tripping to the room where thou didt[ lie,
Do&or Warburton would read the Fancy's Midwife: for, he
argncs, it cannot bc underl'tood that riw pel'formcd the office of
midwifè to the fairies. Sir. Steevens, much tnore plaufibly, fiT"
pofes ber to be here cailed the Fairies' 3lidwif«, beeaufe it was
her " department to dcliver the fancies of fleeping men of their
dreams." But I apprehend, and with no violence of interpre-
ration, 'that the poet means The 3Iidwife among the Fah'i«s, be-
caufe it was hcr peculiar employtnent to fieal the new-born babe
in the night, and to leave another in its place. ïhe poet here
ufes ber Lwneral appellation and chara6ter, which yet has fo far a
proper reference to the prefcnt train of fiction, as that lier illufions
were prac"tifed on perfons in bed or atleep ; for fle hot only haunted
women in childbed, but was likewife the incubus or night-mare.
Shakfpeare, by employing lier here, alludes at large to her mid-
night pranks performed on fleepers : bnt denominates her fronl
that mort notorious one, of her perfonating the drovfy midwife
who was infenfibly carried away into fouie difiant water, and
fubftituting a new birth in the bed or cradle. It would clear the
appellation to read, under the fenfe afligned, The l:airie MidwiJè.
The poet avails himlk4f of 5Iab's appropriate province in giving
ber this new no¢"turnal agency. T. WartToN.
Ver. 62. Corne trippi»g to thc room &c.] So barren, unpoe-
tical, and abtirac"ted a fubjett, could not bave been adorned
with finer touches of fancy. See alfo, v. 69.
« A Sibyl old, &c."
And in this illuftration there is great elegance, v. 83.
" To find a foc, &c."
The addrefs of Ens is a very ingenious enigma on Sutflance.
T. Wa l'ror.
Came tripping go the room, &e. is an allufion to the fupei£titivn,
noticed by Shakfpeare, lien. IV. P. i, A. i. S. i.
" O, that it could be prov'd,
" That fome night-trippingfai«y had exchang'd
" In cradle-cloths out children where they lay, &e."
Tovv.
80 MISCELLANIES.
And, fweetly finging round about thy bed,
Strew all their bleflings on thy fleeping head.
She heard them give thee this, that thou [houldçt
ftill
From eyes of mortals walk invifible :
Yet there is tbmething that doth force my fear ;
:For once it was my difmal hap te hear
A Sibyl old, bow-bent with crooked age,
q_'hat far events full wifely could prefage, 7o
And, in time's long and dark profpe6tive glafs,
Forefaw what future days [hould bring te pafs ;
" Your bn," laid flae, (" ner can you it prevent)
" Shall fubjeoE be te many an Accident.
" O'er ail his brethren he [hall reign as king, 75
" Yet every one [hall make him underling ;
" And thofe, that cannot lire fi'om him afunder,
" Ungratefully [hall ftrive te keep him under;
" In worth and excellence he flmll out-go them,
" Yet, being above them, he fhall be below
" them ; so
Ver. 74. Shall fubje( be te many an Accident.] A pun on
the logical .4ccid«lS. T.
Ver. 75. O'er all his brethrat he ./hall reign as king,] The
Predicaments are his brethren : of or te 'hich ho is the SubÇecTu»t,
although lirff in excellence and order.
Ugratefldhj flmll ftrivi te ll«p him 1roder ; They canner exil],
but as inherent in Stdfftance.
if'rem otkers he Jhall ftand in neeà of nothiltg. Ho is ftill Sub-
fiance, with, or without, 4ccident.
lYt on his brothcrs.[hall &Tend.[br clothi»g. By whom he is
cloathed, thperinduccd, modificd, &c. But he is ftill the faine.
T.
dlSCELLANIES. 8 t
" 17rom others he fliall |and in need of nothing,
" Yet on his brothers flmll depend for clothing.
" To find a ibe it thall hot be his hap,
" And Peace flmll lull him in lier flowery lap ;
" Yet thall he lire iii ftrife, and at his door s»
" Devouring XVar fhall never ceafe to roar ;
" Yea, it fhall be his natural property
" ïo harbour thofe that are at enmity.
' $Vhat power, what force, what mighty fpell,
" if hot
" Your learned hands, can loofe this Gordian
" knot ?" o
Ver. 83. 8ubflantiafitJ?antie ot'oe contrariatur, is a fchoof
maxim. T. WaoEo.
Ver. 84. And Peace tall lull
Harrington's Ario, c. xlv. 1.
" Who long were lul'd on high in Fortune's
And in William Smith's CMoris» 15.
" Whom Fortune never dudled in ber
And in Spenfer's Teares of the Mules» Tcrpch. 1. i.
" Whofo hath in the lap of foft dclight
" Been long rime hd'd."
And we bave theowery lap of fome irriguous valley," in
L, B. iv. 54. T. WtTO.
Ver. 86. Devouring War flmll nercr ceafe to roar
£ar. L, B. xi.
" The brazen throat of lr had ce'd to roar.'" Tooo.
Ver. 88. To barbour thoEe that arc et enmity.] Itis Accidents.
T.
voL. vit. G
82 MISCELLANIES.
Thc »e,vt Quantity and QualityjÏake inpro.fi, ; thon
Relation reas called by his ,mme.
]-IVERS, arife ; whether thou be the fort
Of utmof't Tweed, or Oofè, or gulphy Dun,
Or Trcnt, who, like fome Earth-born giant
tlis thirty arms a!ong the indented meads ;
Ver. 91. h'ers, aride; &c.] Milton is fuppofed, in the in-
vocation and affemblage of thefe rivers, fo have had an eye on-
Spcnfer's Epifodc of thc Nuptials of Thames and Mcdway, Facr.
u. iv. xi. I rathcr think he confulted Dra-yton's l'olyolbion.
It is hard to fay, in what fenfc, or in what manner, this intro-
dution of the fivcrs was o be applicd to the fubje.
Ver. 93. Or Tre»t, a'ho, like.me Eart£-bo» gia»t,»'eads
Ili« thb'(oE arms alo»g tke indented mcads ;] It is
that thcrc wcre thirty forts of filh in this river, and tlrirty rch-
gious houfi's on is banks. Sec Drayttm, Poolb. S. xii. vol. iii«
p. 906. Drayton adds, that if was foretold by a wfard,
" And thirty t'eral fiamcs, ri'oto many a fimdry way,
" Unto her gre«ttncfs flmlt theh" watry tribute pay"
OEhcfe traditions, on which Milton has raifcd a noble image, are
a rcbus on thc naine 7'ent. T. VAItTON.
Ver. 94. indented ncads;] Imlcnt, in this
fcnfc and context, is in Sylvel[er's Du Bartas, D. iii. W. i.
« Out filuer Medway, which doth dccpe btdcnt
" Thc flowcrie nedozrcs of my native Kent."
Atd Drayto fpeaks of " crccks ht¢&ntbg the land»" Polyot.
Sce alfç Du Bart. ed. fitpr, p. 775.
« Thcrc filver torrents rulh,
« Idntbtg ,«ads and }.al}utes, as they pals."
5IISCELLANIES.
Or fullen Mole, that runneth underneath ;
Or Severn fwift, guihy of maiden's death ;
Or rocky Avon, or of fedgy Lee,
Or coaly Tine, or ancicnt hallow'd Dee ;
O r Humbcrloud, that kêeps the Scythian's naine;
Or hledway thooth, or royal-towcr'd Thame.
[ The rçfl «as prq(e. ]
Ver. 95. Or fdlen 3Iole, that runneth under»eath ;] Ai Mickle-
haro near Darking in Surrey, thc river Mole during the ruminer,
cxcept in heavy rains, finks through its thndy bed into a fubter-
raneous and invifible channel. In wintcr it conRantly keeps its
current. This river is brought into one of out author's religious
difputes. " To m«ke the word Gi, like the river Mole in
Surrcy, to run under lhe bottom of a long liae, and fo to Rart
up and to govern the word pryteTi, &c.'" Pr. llç vol. i. 92.
T. Waox.
Ver. 96. Or S«o'n fient, guiRy qf maiden deatk ;] The
maiden is Sabrina. Sec bmus, v.
Ver. 98. ancicnt hallow'd Dee;] In Apolloniu
Rhodius we have ¢« «vVç% "IEPON %v. Argon. iv. 134.
And in Theocritus, Aoç "IEPON ¢. ItlL i. 69. Ste alfo
"« Divine Alpheus," in Amades, v. S0. Oflmr proofs might be
addcd. But Mi]ton is hot claflical bore. Dee's divinity was
Druidical. From the çame fiq)erffition, fome rivers in Wales are
fiill hehl to bave the giff or virtue of prophecy. Gyraldus Cam-
brenfis, who writes in 1188, is the fir who mentions Dee
faneity, and f?om the popular traditions. See Note on Z,cidas
ver. 55. T. WARTON.
Randolph, in his Poems» notices alfo " the oy Dee," edit,
1640, p. 48. But fce Spenfer, aet'. Qu. iv. x. 59, and the
notes thcre, edit. 1805. TODD.
Ver. 99. Or Humber
tIumbcr, a Scythian king, landcd in Britain threc hundred )ears
bcfore thc Roman invafion, and was drowned in this river by
Locrhie, after conqucring kingAlbaaa, Sec Di'aytoa, Pololb.
8{ MISCELLANIES.
S. viii. vol. ii. p. ï96. Drayton bas ruade a m(ft beautiful u'e
of this tradition in his Elegy, " Upon three forts of the Lord
Shcfiïeld droxned in IIumber," El«gies, vol. iv. p. lg44.
" O cruell Hunlber, guihie of their gol'e !
" I now be|ieve, more than I did before,
" The Britilh ftory, whence thy naine begun,
" Of kingly Humber, an iuuading IIun,
" By thee deuonred : for 'ris likely thau
" With bloud wert chriften'd, bloud-thirfly, till now
« The Oufe and Dolm." T. WanTo.
Ver. 100. Or _llIedWal finoott}, or rolal-toccr'd Tt}ame.] Tlle
fmoolhnefs of the Medway is charaOerifi.d in Spenfer's [not
Spenfer's but Lodowick BryIkett's-[ Mourning JMfc oJ" TheJlylis.
" The Medwaies filuer ftreames,
" That wont foflill o glide,
" Were troubled now and wroth."
T]le royal towers of Thamcs imply Windfor caille, faniliar to
]lilton's view, and to hich I havc alrcady rcmarkcd
allufions. T. WARTO/ç.
IISCELLANIES.
AN
EPITAPtl
ADMIRABLE DRAMATICK POET
S ItA K S P E.4 R E «.
WHAT needs my Shakfpeare, for his
'd
llOUr bones,
The labour of an age in piled ttones ?
ho..
This is but an ordinary poem to come from 5Iilton, on fuck
a lubie&. But he did hot yet know his own firength, or was con-
tent to diffemble it, out of deference to the faire talle of his time.
The conceit, of Shakfpeare's lgi,g fepulcher'd in a tomb of his own
;aMng, is in Waller's manncr, hot his own. But he ruade Shak-
fpeareamends in his L'.4llegro, v. 133. tlvtt.
Birch, and from him do6tor Newton, aflbrts, that this copy of
verres was writtcn in the twenty-fccond year of Milton's age,
and printed with the Poems of Shakfpeare at London in 1640.
It firft appeared among other recommendatory verres, prefixed to
the folio cdition of Shakfpeare's plays in 16:32. But vithout
]Iilton's naine or initiais. This therefore is the firft of MiltonoE
pieces that was publiflmd,
h was xvith great diflicuhy and reluc'-tance, that 5Iilton firf
appeared as an author. He could hot be prevailed upon to put
his naine to Comus, his firft performance of any leugth that was
printed, notwithftanding the fingular approbation with which it
had been previoufly received in a long and cxtenfive couffe of
privae circulation. Lycidas, in the Cambridge colleion, is
only fubfcribed with his initial. 5loft of the other contributors
bave left their names at full length.
We bave here reftored the title from the fecond folio of Shak-
fpcare. T. WatTOl.
This Epitaph is dated 1630, in llilton% own edition of bi»
poms in 1673. TODD.
MISCELLANIES.
Or that his hallow'd reliques fhould be hid
Under a Rar-ypointing pyramid ?
I)ear fon of memory, great heir of f:ame,
rhat need'l% thou fuch weak witnefs of thyn ame !
Tbou, in out wonder and aoniflmaent,
]IaK built thytl" a lire-long monument.
:For whil, to the fhame offlow-endeavouring art
Thy eafy numbers flow ; and that each heart m
Hath, fi'om the leaves ofthy unvalued book,
Thofe Delphick lines with deep impreffion took ;
Then thou, out fancy of itfelf bereaving,
])o make us marble with too much conceiving
Ver. 5. 1)earfono.frnemory,] Ho honurs his favourite Shak-
fpeare with the faine relation as the Mufes themfelves. For the
Mufes are called by the old poets " the dattghtcrs of nemory. "
Sce Hefiod, Theog. v. 53. 1Nwa'or.
The phrafe, fort o.f emoT, might be caught perhaps from
Browne, xvho, defcribing the Engliflx pocts, thus addreffcs them,
3rit. _Pari. 66, B. il. S. i. p.
" Yee Englilh flwphcards, formes ofnemory."
And in thc f, tme page, fpeaking of Spenfer's death, ho fays tha
there would bc raifcd, " in honour of his worthy naine,
« A pirmnis, whofe head (like winged Faine)
« Should pierce the cluds, yea, Jëeme theflars to li.ffè;
« And Maufolus' grcat toombe might Ihrowd in his."
Ver. 8. a lire-long onument.] It is lafling
in the folio Stmkfpeae» and in fevcral editions of Milton's Poem-
fublèquent to tlmfe publiflmd in his life-time. Milton's oga
reading is lire-long. Ton.
Ver. 11. the leaves f tky unvalued book,] «' Thjr
inval«able book." So, in Th¢ lakefl goeth fo the ltZall» 1600,
" Are hot out vowes alrcady regifierd
" Vpon thc vnvalued fepulchre of Chrift
lXIISCELLANIES. 87
And, f'o fepfllcher'd, in fuch pomp doit lie, 15
That kings, for fuch a tomb, would wilh to die. *
And, in Shakfpcare, Ri«h. III. A. i. S. iv.
" Inet'tilnable ftones, nnvalucdjc'els." ToDD.
Ver. 15. And, fo fep61cher'd,] Accented on the fecond
fyllable, as in Shakfpeare, Rape of Lucrece;
" May likewife befelMcheFd in thy tirade." MaLoE.
Mr. F. Townft-nd has obferved, that Milton appears to bave
been no ftranger to an epitaph on the tomb of Sir Thomas Stanley,
knt. fecond fort of Edward Erl of Derby ; which was l'emaining
on the north-fide of the chancel of the church of Tong, in the
county of Salop, in 1663, when Sir William Dugdale ruade the
laft vifitation of that eounty : and which Sir Willim, in a mar-
ginal note, fays, was written by Shakfpeare. This epitaph,
xvhich Mr. Townfend bas inferted, froln C. 05. fol. Q0. in the
College of Arms, as a note to Rowe's L#ì ofShafpeare is here
ïubjoined in eonfequence of his ingenious, remark :
« Alke who lies llere, but do hot weepe ;
æ, He is not dead, he doth but fleepe :
«' This ftony regifter is for his bones,
" Ilis faine is more perpetuall than thefe ftones ;
" And his own goodneflè, with himfelf being gone»
«' Shall lire when earthly monument is none.
Not lnonunlentall ftone preferves our
« Nor fkye-afpiring piramids out naine ;
« The memory of him for wholn this ftands,
« Shall out-lire lnarble and defaeers' hands :
« When all to time's eonfumption/hall be given,
*« Stnley, for whom this ftands/hall ftand in Heaven."
8 III$CELLAN IE$.
UNIVERSITY CARRIER,
lVho .fickened in the time o.f his acancy, heing forbid to
HERE lies old Hobfon; Death hath broke
his girt,
And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt;
Or elle the ways bcing fbul, twenty to one,
tte's here ftuck in a flough, and overthrown.
"Twas fuch a fhifter, that, if truth were known, s
I)eath wns hlfgld when he had got him down;
For he had, any rime this ten years full,
Dodg'd witla him betwixt Cambridge and The
Bull.
And futely Death eould never bave prevail'd,
Ilad hot his weekly couffe ofcarriage fail'd ; xo
But lately finding him fo long at home,
And thinking now his journey's end was eome
And that he had tden up his lateft inn,
In the kind office of a ehamberlin
* I wonder Milton fhou]d fuffcr thefe two things on Hobfora
to appear in his edition of 1645. He, who at the age ofnineteen»
had fo juft a contempt for,
" Thofe new-fangled toys, and trimming flight,
" Which take our new fantafticks with delight.'" Htrl.
Ver. 14. In the kbM office of a chamberlin &c.] I believe
the Chalnberlain i» au officer hot yct difcontinued in fome of th
dISCELLANIES.
how'd him his room vlere he muft lodge that
night, s
Pull'd off his boots, and took away the light :
]fany aik for him, it flmll be fed,
" Hobtbn bas fupt, and's newly gone to bedo"
ANOTIiER on the.fi«me*.
HERE lieth one, who did mol truly prove
That he could never die while he could nlove ;
So hung his deçtiny, never to rot
"While he might fti!l jog on and keep his trot,
#ld inns in the city. But Chytraeus aGerman, who vifited Eng-
land about 1580, and put his travels into Latin verre, mentions
ït as an extraordinary circumftance, thatit was the cufiom of out
inns to bc waited upon by women. In Pccle's Old IVires Tale,
Fantaflique Fays, " I had euen as liue the chambcrlaite of the
SVhite Horfe had called me vp to bed." A. i. S. 1. T.
At this rime thefe officers appear to have been pretty numerous;
for, in a lcttcr, dated 1(;35, it is laid, '" Anothcr fcrutiny was
raade of the number of chamberlatns, tapfiers, and hofilcrs, which
:ame to bove 40,000." Ste Lord Strafford's Letters,
vol. i. p. 437.
* Hobfon's inn at London was the Bull in Biflaops-gate-ftreet,
where his figure in frefco, with an infcription, was lately to be
feen. Peck, at the end of his Memoirs of Cromwdl, has printed
Hobfon's Will, which is dated at the clofe of the year 1630.
I-le died Jan. 1, 1630, while the plague was in Londou. This
piece was written tiret year. The proverb, to xvhich I-Iobf-n's
aprice, fOUllded perhaps on good fenfe, gave rife, needs hot to
be repeated. Ifflton was now a fludent at Cambridge. Among
archbilhop Sancroft's tranfcripts of poctry ruade by him at Cam-
0 II$CELLANIES.
'Iade of fpbere-metal, never to decay
Until his revolution was at flay.
ïime numbers motion, yet (without a crime
Gainf old truth) motion number'd out Iris time:
_A ad, like an engine, mov'd with wheel and weight,
Iqis principles being ceas'd, he ended ftraight.
lef, that gives ail lllell lift, gave him his death,
And too mu«h breathing put him out of breath
or were it contradi6tion to arm,
OEoo long vacation lmften'd on his 'terre.
bridge, now in the Bodleian library, is an anonymous poem on
the death of Hobfo:, It was perhaps a common fubje6t for the
wits of Cambridge, I take ths opportulfity of obferving, that
in thc lame bundlc is a pocm on Milton's friend Lycidas,
King, by Mr. Booth, of Coq, us Chrifli, not in the publifled
collet'tion. Coll, .MS._'5. Tann. 465. T. WaltWO.
The reader may fiud the provcrb, Hohfon's choicG explained
the Spek?ator, vol. vil. No. 509. Sec alfo Granger's Biogr. ItiJt.
8vo. cdit. vol. ii. p. 400, Under his priut are vrittc.n thefe lines
" Laugh not to fee fo plaine a man in print,.
" The flmdow's homely, yet ther's fomething ia't .'-
« Witncs the bagg he wears, (though feeming poore)
" The fertile mother of a thoufand nore."
The ltfl of which lines, with a trifling alteration, is infcribec
upon the bag under his arm.at the Bull. The MS. verfcs, men-
fioned by Mr. Warton, of which I have a tranfcript, prefent
limilar quaintnefs with a paffage in l\lilton's firft epitaph on thi
iinguifhcd carrier :
" His teame was of the belt : nor would ke bave
" Bin rnir'd in açl vïay, but in the grave :
" And kere keflick«: lill like to tiand,
" Untill tbme Angell lend his helping hand.
" Thus reft in peace, thou ever-toyling fwaine,
« And fupreme waggoaer, next to Charles waine."
MISCELLAIIES. 91
Z[ere|y fo drive the time away he ficken'd, ,
Fuinted,nd died,nor would with ale be quickeffd
" ay," quoth he, on his fwooning bed out-
" iretch'd,
" If I mayn't carry, fure l'Il ne'er be fetch'd,
" But vow, though the crofs do&ors al[ iood
" hearers, 19
" :For one carrier put down to make iîx bearers."
Eafe was his chiefdiçea.h ; and, to judge ,'ight,
IIe died for heavinefs that his cart went l}ght :.
His leifure told him that his rime was corne,
And lack of load madc his
That even to his lai} breath, (there be that fay't)
As he were pret'd to death,he cricri,More weight;
:But, had his doings laçted as they were,
]Ie had been an immortal carrier.
Obedient to the moon he fpent his date
In couffe reciprocal, and had his fate
Link'd to the mutual floxxing of the feas,
Yet (frange to think) his wain was his encreafe :
His letters are deliver'd all and gone,
Only remains this fuperfcription
"t Milton's two copies of Verfes on Hobfon are in IVit Re.fiored
in fi.verall Sele( Poems not Jbrmerly publijh't, l'2mo. Lond. 1658,
p. 8,, 85. They are preceded by a copy, from fome other pen,
on the lame pertbn. Milton's fecond copy appears al fo in
Banguet of Je.ils, l°mo. Lond. 1640, p. 19.
" Here Hobfon lyes, 'ho did moft truly prove
" That he could never &c."
9 IISCELLANIES.
On the ew Forcers of Confcience under
_[{ ECAUSE you have thrown offyour Prelate
.Lord,
.And with fiiffvows renoune'd lais Litur-,
To feife the widow'd whore Plurality
From them whot fin ye envied, not abhorr'd;
are ye for this adjure the civil L'ord
Ver. 1. Bccm you bave tkrown /o«r Prelate Lord, &c.]
In railing at eftabliflmaents, 5Iilton condemned hot epifcopacy
on]y. He thought even the fimplc inftitutions of the new refor-
ation too rigid and arbitrary tbr the natural freedom of con-
fcience, tic contended tbr that fort of individual or perfonal
religion, 5y which every man is tobe lais ovn prie. When
thefe verfes were written, which form an irregular former, pref-
byterianitin as triumphant: and the independeuts and the
churchmen joined in one common complaint again a want of
lol,eration, The ehurch ofCalvin had now ifs heretieks. 5il-
ton's haughty tenter brooked no huma controul. Even the
parliamentary hierarchy was too coercive for one who aeknow.
ledged only King JÇTts. tlis fi'oward and refining philofophy
xas contented with no fpecies of carnal policy. Conformity o"
ail forts w flavery. He was perfuaded, that thc modern pref-
byter was as much ealculated for perfecution and oppreflion as
the ancient bilhop. T. Waawe .
Ver. 2. And 'ith fl ,oz«, renounc'd his Lituy,] The
Direory was entbrced under fevere penalties in 164¢. The
}egiflature prohibited the ufe of the Book of Common Prayer»
net o;]y in places f publick worflfip, but in private fhmilies.
T.
MISCELLANI ES. 93
To force our confciences that ChrioE let fi'ee,
And ride us with a claftick hierarchy
Taught ye by mere A. S. and Rotherfbrd ?
Men, whoiè litè, learning, fiith, and pure intent,
Ver. 7. And ride us witk a clq[lcl« hierarchy] In the pre/by-
terian church now eftabli|hed by law, there were, among others,
claffieal affemblies. The kingdom of England, inftead of fo
many dioceïeæ, was now divided into a certain number of Pro-
rinces, ruade up of repreïentatives from the feveral Claffes within
their reïpe(tive boundaries. Every parifh h«,d a cougregatioua].
or parochial prefbytery for the affairs of its own circle; the]è
paroehial prefbyteries were eombined into Claffes, which ehofe
reprcïentatives for the provincial affembly, as did the provincial
for the national. Thus, the eity of London being difributed
into twelve elaffes, each elafs ehofe two milfifters and four lay-
elders, to repreïent them in a Provincial Attblnbly, which re-
¢eived appeals from the parochiil and claffical prelbyteries, &c.
Theïe ordinances, which afcertain the age of the piece belote
us, took place in 1646, and 164-7. Sec Scobell, Coll. P. i.
p. 99. 150. T. WaIOX.
Ver. 8. Taught ye by rncrc A. S.] I)oc"tor Newton fitys,
" I know hot who is meant by A.S. Solne book might bave
been publiflled, figned by thefe letters, and pcrhaps an equivoque
rnight alfo be intended." The indepcndents wcre now contcnd-
ing for toleration. In 163, their principal leaders publi|hed
pamphlet with this title, " An Apolog«ti«all _Ararration of fome
Milfifters formerly exiles in the Netherlands, now lnelnbel's of
the Aflèmbly of Divines ltumbly fubmittcd to the honourable
IIoufes of Parliament. I3y Thomas Goodwyn, Sydrack Symp-
fort, Philip Nye, Jer. Burroughs, and William 13ridge, the
authors thereof. Lond. 16-3." In quarto. Their fvltem is a
middle way bctween Bro'nifm and prefbyte T. This piece was
anfwered by one A. S. the perron iutended by Milton. " Some
Obfervations and Annotations upon the .#pologeticall 2Varration,
humbly fubmittcd to the honourable IIouls of Parliament, the
moff rcverend and learncd divines of the A.lfi:mbly, and all the
protclant churchei hcre in this illand and abroad. Lond. IG4-."
IISCELLANIES.
Would ha,ce been held in high eçteem with
Paul, o
l'Iuf't now be nam'd and printed I{ereticks
Ir quarto. Tie Dedlcation is fibfcribed A.S. The indepcn-
dents thon rctortcd upon A. S. in a pamphlet callcd " A llcply
of thc two Brothers to A.S. Whcrcin you have Obfervations,
Annotations, &c. upon thcApologeticallNarratior,. With a plea
for libcrty of confcieuce for the apologilts church=way : ngaiuft
the cavils of thc laid A. S. formcrly callcd lf. S. to A. S. &c.
&c. Lond. 16-4." In quarto. I quote from thc fecond edition
m,larg<'d. Thcrc is anotl:er piece by A.S. It is callcd a
« Rcply to the fecond Return." Thi» I have nevcr feen. IIis
naine was never knowll. T. 'ARTON.
His nawc was well known; and a doughty champion he
appeal, to have becn iii the polemicks of that time : Witnefs his
effufions, entitled " Zerubbabcl to Sanballat and Tobiah: or,
The firft part of the Duply to M. S. alias Two Brethrcn, by
.ddam Stcuart, &c. hnprim, March 17, 1644." 4°.Again,
« The fccond part of the Duply to 3I. S. alias Two Brethren.
With a brief Epitome and Refutation of all the whole IMepe».
&nt-Govenmcnt: lXloft humbly fllbmittcd to the Kings mott
excellent Majcftie, to the moff Honorable Iloufes of Parliament,
the mort P, everend and Learned Divines of the Affembly, and
all the Proteftant Churches in this ifland and abroad, by Adam
,tcttart. Impriin. OtCtob. 3. 1644." 4°. In this fccond part
the obfervations of the T«zo Brethrcn are flated, and tl, e replies
all commence with /. S. prcfixcd. Poffibly lXlilton ridicules thi»
rainutenefs, in hcrc writing only " mere A.S." Ilowever, the
Trals, above fiatcd, contaia in their title-pages the naine at
large. Sce alfo " An Anfwer to a Libcll intitled A coule con-
fercnce bctwcene the clcered lteformation and the At,ologeticall
.tYarrati«m, brought together by a Wcll-willcr to both &c. E.y
.4data Ste,tart. Lond. 1644.. » 4o. I have fonnd him called, in
other trac'ts of the time, Do?or A. Stcuart» a Divine of the
Church of Scotland. 'roin.
Ver. 8. 1lolher.ford?] Samuel Rutherford. or Rutherfoord,
vas oac f the chief commillioncrs of tllc church of Scotland-
MISCELLANIES. 95
]Jy fhallow Edwards and Scotch what d'ye call :
But we do hepe to find out all your tricks,
.ho rate with the Aflèmbly at Weftminfter, and who concurred
in fcttling the graud points of prcfl»yterian difciplinc, lle was
profeffir of divinity in the univerfitv of Saint Andrew's, and
bas left a great variety ofCalviniflick tra&s. He was an avowed
enemy to the independcnts, as appears f»om his Difputation on
pretended liberty of confcience, 1649. This was anfwered by
John Cotton a Sepm-atift of New England. It is hencc eafy to
fce, why Rotherford was an obnoxious charaer to Milton.
llatherford's Lctters, called Joflma Redivirus, are the
genuinc fpecimen I remember to havc fcen of the enthufiaflick
cant of the old Scotch divines : more particularly ofthe eloquence
of thofe preachel, who oppofcd the hicrarchy in Scotland about
16'37. Their ninth edition, and what is more vondcrful in an
enlightened age, vith a laboured Prelitce high in their comncn-
dation, appeared at Glafgow fo late as the ycar 1765. 8vo.
The editor fitys, that his author's " praife is already, in the
churches." In vhat church, proti:flîng any degree of rational
religion. T. Wt, lZOS.
Ver. 1. By flmllow Edwar&,] It is hot the Gangrena of
Thomas Edwards that is here the obje& of Milton's refcntment,
as Door Newton and Mr. Thyer bave fuppofcd. Edwards had
attacked Milton's favourite plan of independancy, in a pamphlet
full of miferable inve&ives, immediatcly and protiflèdly levelled
againft the .4pologeticall ]Varration abovcmcntioned, and entitled
" Antapologia, or a full anfwcr to the Apologeticall Narration, &c.
Wherein is handled many of the Controverfies of thefe rimes, by
T. Edwards minifler of the gofpel, Lond. 1644." In quarto.
But Edwards had fome rime before publifled his opinions againlt
congregational churches, " lleafons againft the independent
government of particular eongregations: as alfo againft
toleration of fuch churches o be eretted in thls kingdome. To-
gether with an anfwer to fich reafons as are comnmnly alledged
for a toleration. Prefented in ail humility to the honourable
houfe of Commons, &e. &e. By Thonlas Edwards, &c. Lond..
1641." In qaarto. However, in the Gangr«na, not lefs thaa
ha thefe two trats it had beex hi-s bufiaçf to blackcn the oppo-
96 IJISCELLAN1E.
Your plots and packing worfe than thofe of
l rent,
That fo the Parliament
Iay, with their wholefome and preventive thears,
Clip your phyla&eries, though bauk your ears,
.And fuccour out jui fears,
nents of prefbytcrian uniformity, that the parliament might
check their growth by penal ftatutcs. Againfl fuch encmies,
blilton's chicf hope of enjoying a liberty of confciencc, and a
eermiflion to be of any religion but popcry, was in Cromwell,
vho for politicai rcafons allowed ail profelfions; and who is thus
addreflèd as the great guardian of rcligious independence, Sonno
xvi, 11 o
" New foes arife,
" Threatening to bind ourfouls infecular chains :
" Help ns to fayefrce cmyUc»ce from the paw
" Of hh'eling uvlves, whofe gofpcl is thcir maw."
Xrer. l£. - and Scotch chat de call : ] Perhaps Hen-
derfon, or George Galafpie, another Scotch minifter 'ith a barder
aame, and one of the ccclefiaftical commiffioners at Weftminfler.
John Hcnderfon appears as a loringfriend in Rutherford's JoEua
1edivirus, B. iii. Epift. 50. p. 482. And Itugh Ilenderfon,
13. i. Epifl. 127. p. 186. See alfo, Ibid. p. 15 °. And Alex-
ander Itendcrfon, B. i. Epifl. 16. p. 33. But I wifl hot to
bewilder myfelf or my readcrs any, fitrther in the library of
fanaticifm. Happily the books, as well as the names, of the
enthufiafts on both rides of the queftiol b are almoft configncd to
oblivion. T. Wlt'l'ol.
Ver. 14. Your plots and packing t'o,fe tfian thofe of Trent,]
"lhe famous council of Trent. T. WltïOl.
Ver. 17. Clip your pkflaerics, though bauk our ears,] That
i, although your ears cry out that they necd clipping, yet the
mild and gentle Parliament 'ill content itfelf, with only clipping
away your .le'ifh and perfecuting principles.
MISCELLANIES. 9)
When they thall read this clearly in your charge,
New Prelbyter is but old Prieft writ large. ,,o
Tickell, I think, is the firft who gives baulk, or 13auk, ri'oto
the errata of edition 1673, which has bank. Fcnton retains the
errour from Tonfon's text. Itis wonderful that Ïonfon, in edit.
1(595, flmuld have retained bank, without confulting the Errata
of an edition which is his modcl. The line ftands thus iii the
manufcript,
" Crop ye as clore as marginal P " ears."
That is, Prynne, whofe ears wcre cropped clore in the l,illory,
and who was fond of oftentatioufly loading the margin of his
voluminous books with a parade of authorities. But vhy was
the line altel'ed when this piece was firft printcd in 1673, as
Prynne had been then dead four years ? Perhaps he was unwilling
to revive, and to expofe to the triumph of the royalifts now
reftorcd, this difgracc of one of the leading heroes of the late
fanion ; notwithttanding Prynnc's apotiat}'. Thc mcap.ing of
the prcfent context is " Check your infolence, vithout procecd-
ing to cruel puniflments." To ball,', is tojjar«. T. WanTOX.
lXlr. Warton, as ell as door Ne'ton, is here mifiaken in
refpc¢t to the text; for Air. SVarton thinks that Tickell firl[
gave baul[, and dotCtor Newton l:ays that all thc editions rcad
bank, although it is corre(tcd iii the table of Errata in the edition
of 1673. But the truth is, Tonfon's edition of 1713, dfich
is ccrtainly valuable, and which appears to have been "l'iclMl's
modcl, (.as I bave had fevel'al occalions to obferve,) rcads " bouk
your cars." Tonfon's cdition of lî-7 rcads alfo " baulk.'"
Fenton reads the faine, and therefore bas hot retained the crrour.
To Mr. Warton's notice of Prynne I mtt|[ add 3lilton's mvn ac-
count of that voluminous writcr, in his trcatifi., 7"be
neans fo rcmore hircli»gs out qf the Church : " A late hot qucri|I
for tithes, whom ye may know, by his dts lyitç crer b(/ide him.
it lhe nargin, to be cver befide his wits in the text, a tierce re-
former once, now rankled vith a contrary heat, &c." "I"oo».
Ver. 0. _Ncw Prç[byler is but old Priefl] l le expreflès the
faine fentiment in his ..lreopagitica ; " Biflmps and Prclbyters are
lhe JUme fo us botl, naine and thing.'" Sec alfo the conclulion of
his Tenure of Kings and 31agidtrates. N
vo. wu
9s MISCELLANIES.
Ver. 0. v:rit large.]
neering and tyrannical. W,BVtTOr.
That is, more do.mi-
Original lrarious Readings,
On the t'orcers of Coj'cience.
'er. . the vacant hore Plurality.
Ver. 6. To force he confciences &c.
Ver. 12. By haire-brain'd Edwards.
5hallow is in the margin ; and the pen is drawn through hair«-
brain'd.
Ver. 17. (.¥Op dC as clore as ta»inal P's eares.
TRANSLATIONS.
TRANSLATIONS,
THE FIFTH ODE OF HOR.dCE, LIB. L
WHAT flender youth, bedew'd with liquid
odours
Courts thee on rofes in fome pleafant cave,
Ver. 1. lVhat.[lender youth,] In this meafure, my friend and
fchool-fellow Mr. Wiiliam Collins wrote his admired Ode fo
E:ening; and I know he had a defign of writing many more
Odcs without rhyme. In this meafure aifo, an elegaut Ode was
written On the Paradife Loti, by the late captain Thomas, formerly
a ftudent of Chrift-church Oxford, at the time that Mr. 13enfon
gave medals as prizes for the beft verres that were ptoduced on
.Miiton at ail our great fchools. It fcems to be an agreed point,
that Lyrick poetry cannot exift without rhyme in our language.
Some of the Troclaaicks, in Glovcr's 211edea, are harmonious
however without rhyme. Jos. WAITO.
Dr. J. Warton might have added, that his own Ode to Erening
was written before that of lais friend Collirs ; as was a Poem of
his, entitled the Aernbly ?fthe Pariions, before Collins's favourite
Ode on that fubje(t. There are extant two excellent Odes, of
the trueft tafte, written in unrhyming mctre many years ago by
two of the ftudents of Chrift-church Oxford, and among it
chief ornaments, rince high in the church. One is on the death
of Mr. Langton who died on his traveis» by the late Dr. Shiplcy,
bifllop of St. Afaph: the other, by the prefent archbifhop of
York is addreflèd to George Onflow, efquire, the Speaker.
10,.,. rrtAN$ LATIONS.
Pyrrha ? For whom bind'ft thou
In wreaths thy golden hair,
Plain in thy neatnet ? O, how oft fhall he
On faith and changed Gods complain, and feas
Rough vith black winds, and ftorms
Unwonted fllall admire!
Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold,
Who always vacant, always amiable lo
But it may bc doubtcd, whethcr there is fufficicnt prccifion anti
eicgancc in the Englilh language without rhyme. In England's
1Ielico», there is Ocnone's cO»tldaint , in blank 'eyê, by George
Peele, written about 1590. Siguat. Q. 4. edit. 1614. The
verfes indccd are heroick, but thc whoIe confifis of quatrains.
! iii exhibit the firfi fianza.
" 51eipomene, the mufe of tragicke fongs
" With mournful tunes, in ftole of diflnal hue;
" Aflift a filly nymph fo waile her woe,
" And lcave thy lufiie company bchind."
T. Waro-.
This tranfiatiou did not app.ar in tl«e cdition of 1G45. It
thus cntitlcd in thc poct's own cdition of 167ô. " Quis multa
gracilis te pucr in rofa, Rendrcd almo. u'ord./br z'ord without
rhyme accordi»g, fo the Latin mcajùre, as near as the language
.permit.'" p. 6o.. This Odc of llorace had appcared long before
in an Englifla drefs, among " Ccrtahe &lc(ed Odt's of Horace,"
tranflated by John Aflmore in 167, 4to. It commences thus :
" V(hat prctty youth, weltring in rofes
" ,Vith liquid odors ovcrfprcad,
" O Pirrha, thee in's armcs inclofcs» &c." Ver 5. Plain i thy ncat»ej} ?] Rather, " plab in your
ornamozts." 5liiton miltakcs the idiomatical ufe and meaning of
mmditice. She was plain in her drcfs : or, more paraphrattically,
in the manner of adorni»g h«:/'elJi The fenfe of the context is,
" For whom do you, who ltudy no ornments of drcfi, thus
affcc2cdly bind up your ycllow locks ?" T.
TRANSLATIONS. lO,
Hopes thee, of flattering gales
Umnindful. Haplefs they,
To whom thou untried ['eem' £air ! Ie, in my
vow'd
Pi&ure, the facred wall declares to have hung
My dank and dropping weeds »
To the ftern God of fea.
104 TRANSLATIONS.
From GEOFFR.EY OF MON_IIOUTIf
Br, uTus thus addrçes Dla- in thc country of
LEOGECa.
Goddet of ff,rodes, and huntret:s, ho at will
Walk'f't on the rowling tiAwres , and through
thc deep ;
On thy third reign, the earth, look now, and tel!
What land, what tbat of refi, thou bidl[ nie feek,
What certain tèat, where I may worflfip thee
For aye, xith tcmples vow'd and virgin quires.
7b whom, jleepig belote the allar, D A xa aqfi«ers
in a 'ion the./àme
Brutus, far to the wcçt, in the ocean wide,
Beyond the realm of Gaul, a land there lies,
Sea-girt it lies, where giants dwelt of old;
Now void, it fits thy people : Thither bend
Itit. Brit. i. ai. " Dira potens nelnorum, &c."
I a,n informed by Mr. Steevens, who had it rioit Mr. Spenec,
that, in Aaron Thomplbn's Tranflation of Geoffry of Monmouth»
publiflmd 1718 this addrefs of Brutus, Dira potens, and Diana's
antkvcr, which tbllows were tranflated by Pope br Thompfon's
ufe. But tbe this information confirmed by an additional paf-
fagc, firl publiflwd by Curll, il the Supplcment fo Pope llrks,
for 3I. Cooper, 1757. p. 39. Sce alfo Thomfon's GeoE)y, pp. 23,
2. T. Wan'rox.
Ver. 2. - ' rowling fphcres,] Tickcll and Fenton
r«mi lowrinç" l]»lcrcs. T. WanTO-,
TRANSLATIONS.
Thy couffe ; there fllalt thou find a lafiing feat ;
There to thy tbns another Troy flmll rire,
And kings be born of lhee, wholè dreadthl might
Sha|l awe the world, and eonqucr nations bold .
b From Milton's IIifl. EgL Pr. IV. v,,l. i. p. 7. edit. 16.q8.
"l'heè l"ragments of tranflatioJ were collv¢ed l,y Tickell ri'oto
Milton's PrqK'-lVork«. T. Waa'oN.
Not by Tickcil, but by Totlbn's edior in lî13;
fi,lled, li.lnollg thcfe fi'agnicnts of Milt,l, lbme tranllations ri'oto
Milton's D(bqUo by Richard Waingt«m. Ti«kell, findilg
theln in ilic edition of 1713, probal,ly flll,pOfi.d thein to bave
been thc produtions of Milton. 'l'hey bave been relaincd iii
lnany flibl'quent cditiolis ; bu b as they arc hot Oto iranflafions
,+f Milt-n, I bave thought them no longer <'lifitled to fuch i'a+lk
4il" Riclmi'd W:lfllington, fi+P the note In S'ab++q/H l[undredam.
tO0 TRANSLATIONS.
From DA NTE ".
2Xii Conttantine, of" how much ill was caufe,
xNot thy convcrtion, but thoti rich domuins
That the firft wealthy pope receiv'd of thee c.
.From DA NTE '.
Founded in chaite and humble poverty,
'Gain[t them that rais'd thee doit thou lift thy
horn,
Impudent whore ? where hait thou plae'd thy
hope ?
In thy adulterers, or thy ill-got wealth ?
Another CnPtantine cornes not in haRe *
Front ARIOSTO f.
Then pafs'd he to a flowery mountain green,
Which once tinelt fweet, now ffinks as odioufly :
« I!fem. C. xix. See Itoole's Arioflo, B. xvii. v. 552. vol. ii.
p. 271. T. W,R'rOr.
e Frota Of Rcformation in England. Pr. IV. vol. i. p.
T.
d Para& C. xx. o fy Tickell and Fenton, from Milton
kimfelf. But thc fcntincnt only is in Dante. The tranflation is
trom Petrarch, Sonn. 108. " Fundata in calla et humili pover-
tare, &c." Expunged in fome editions of Petrarch for obvious
leafons. T. WxItoEo-.
From OfReformation, &c. Pr. IV. vol. i. p. 10. T.
f C. xxxiv. 80. Tickell and Fenton bave added fome lines
from Harrington's verfion. T.
The additions, which may be found in Tickell and Fenton»
occur in Tonfon's edition of lï13. Toi».
TRANSLATIONS.
107
This was the gift, if you the truth will have,
That Conflantine to good Sylvetter gave
From H 0 RA C E t,
Whom do we count a good man ? Whom but lin
Who keeps the laws and liatutes of the fenate,
Who judges in grea.t fuits and eontroverfies,
Whot witnefs and opinion wins the caufe ?
But his own houtb, and the xvhole neighbourhood,
Sees his foul infide through his whited tkin i.
From EURIPIDE,' .
This is true liberty, when fi'eeborn men,
Having to advife the publick, may fpeak free ;
Which he who tan,and will, deferveshigh praife:
Who neither ean, nor will, may hold his peaee ;
What tan be a jufter in a fiate than this
From IIORACE ".
Laughing, to teach the truth,
What hinders ? As fome teachers give to boys
Junkets and knaeks, that they may !earn apace .
g From OfReformation, &c. Pr. 1I\ wl. i. p. 10. T.
Epifl. i. xvi. 40.
i From Tetrachordon, Pr. IF. vol. i. 39- T.
k IKETIA. v. 440.
Milton's Motto to his "Art'opagitica, A Speech for the libertv.
ofmnlicenfed Printing, &c." ProJè-lV. vol. i. 1-rl. T.
m Sat. i. i.
n From ATol. Sme(t.»m. Pr. W. vol. i. 116. T. Wart:ro-.
TRANSLATION'S.
From HOR.4CE °.
Joking decides great things,
Stronger and better oft than earneft can v.
'om SOPHOCLES ç.
Tis you that fay it, not I. You do the deeds,
And your ungodly deeds find me the words *.
From S.ENECA ".
There can be flain
No facrifice to God more acceptable,
Than an unjuçt and wicked king t.
*Sat. i.x.
r lpol. Sme?ymn. vol. i. p. 116. T. Walt.ro.w.
Ç Elec'tra v. 6'-7.
* From ,4pol. ç)ne(tymn. Ibid.
Hercul. _Fur.
t From Tenureo.fKings, &c. Pr. IV. vol. i. AfS. T.
TRANSLATIONS. 1o9
P8.,4LM I. #
Done into verre, 165.
BLESS'D is the man who hath not walk'd
aftray
In counfel of the wicked, and i' the way
Of finners hath not tood, and in the feat
Of fcorners hath not fat. But in the great
Jehovah's law is ever his delight,
And in his law he ftudies day and night.
He fhall be as a tree which planted grows
]3y watery lreams, and in his feafon knows
To yield his fruit, and his leaf fhall hot fal],
And what he takes in hand fhall profper all. lO
tot fo the wieked, but as chaff which fann'd
The vind drives, fo the ,«icked fhall not ftand
In judgement, or abide their trial then,
or finners in the affembly of juft men.
'or the Lord knows the upright vay of the jufl,
.And the way of bad men to ruin muft.
Metrical pFalmody was much cultivated in this age of fana-
ficifm, blilton's father is a compofer of fome of the tunes in
]Ravenfcroft's Pfalms. T. WaR'tor.
« A literal verfion of the Pfahns may boldly be afferted im-
praoEicable ; for, if it were not, a p, oet lb great as Milton would
laot, even in his earlieft youth, have proved himflf fo very little
of a formidable rival, as he has done, to Thomas Sternhold."
Iafon's Effats o n EngliJh Church Mufick, 1795, p. 177. In the
lait of thefe tranflations however, as Mr. Warton obferves» are
fome very poetical exprelfions. Tohu.
l :o TRANSLATIONS.
PSALM II.
Done Aug. 8, 165:3. Terzetti.
WHY do the Gentiles tumult, and the Nations
Mule a vain thing, the kings of the earth
upfiand
Wifla power, and princes in their congregations
I,ay deep their plots together through each land
Againgt the Lord and bis Mcffiah dear ? s
Let us break off; fay they, by firength of hand
Their bonds, and cage from us, no more to wear,
Their twigted cords : He, who in heaven doth
dwell,
Shall laugh; the Lord fhaI1 fcoffthem ; then,
feVel-e
Speak to them in bis wrath, and in his fell
And tierce ire trouble them ; but I, faith he,
Anointed have my King (though ye rebel)
On Sion my holy hill. A firm decree
I will declare : The Lord to me hath laid,
Thou art my Son, I have begotten thee
This day; atk of me, and the grant is made ;
As thy poflèfiion I on thee beltow
The Heathen; and, as thy conquet to be
fvay'd,
Ver. 18. The IIeathcn;] llr. Warton, in both editions,
reads " The Hcare." TODD.
TRANSLATIONS. 111
Earth's utmo bounds: them i'halt thou bring
full low
With lron tepter bruis'd, and them difperfe
Like to a potter's veflèl thivcr'd lb.
And now be witè at length, ye kings averfe,
Be taught, ye Judges of the earth ; with fear
Jehovah ferre, and let your joy converfi
With trembling ; kifs the Son lef he appcar 2s
in anger, and ye perilh in the way,
If once his wrath take fire, like fuel fere.
.Happy all thofe who have in him their flay!
III. Aug. 9, 653.
:LORD, how many are my, foes!
How many thofe,
That in arms againf me rire!
lany are they:
That of my lire difrufifully thus fay ;
:No help for him in God there lies.
But thou, Lord, art my flfield, my glolT,
Thee, through my flory,
The exalter of my head I count:
Aloud 1 cried
Unto Jehvah, he full foon replied,
And heard me from his holy mount.
10
t i TRANSLATI« )NS.
I lay and flept; I wak'd again ;
Foi" my thfiain
Was the I«ord. Of many millions
The populous rout
I fear not, though, encamping round about,
They pitch again[[ me theh" pavilions.
Rilè, Lord ; iàve me, my God ; for thou
Haft finote ere now
On the cheek-bone all my foes,
Of men abhorr'd
liait broke the teetb. This help was from
tbe Lord ;
Thy blefling on thy people flows.
15
IV. Aug. 10, 1653.
ANSWER me when I call,
Go(l of my righteoufnefs ;
In ftraits, and in diflref,
Thou didft me difenthrall
And let at large; now fpare,
Now pity me, and lmar my earneft prayer.
Ver. 1-L n2/fuftain] The verb ¢onverted into a fub-
antivc. So, in Par. Loti, B. iii. 15.
" In that obfcurefojourn."
And in B. i. 549.
" Infiant without diflurb thoy tQok alarm." Eo
TRANSLATIONS. 113
Great ones, how long will ye
ly glory have in fcorn ?
How long be thus forborn
Still to love vanity ?
To love, to feek, to prize,
Things falfe and vain, and nothiàg elle but lies ?
Yet know the Lord hath chofe,
Chofe to himfelf apart,
The good and meek of heart;
(For whom to choofe he knows)
Jehovah fi'om on high
Will hear my voice, what time to him I cry.
13e aw'd, and do not fin
Speak to your hearts alone,
Upon your beds, each one,
And be at peace within.
Offer the offerings juft
Of righteoufne£s, and in Jehovah truoE.
1Vlany there be that fay,
Who yet will fhow us good ?
Talking like this wodd's brood ;
]3ut, Lord, thus let m.e pmy
On us lift up the light,
Lift up the favour of thy countenance bright.
Into my heart more joy
And gladnefs thou haçt put,
Than when a year of glut
Their fores doth over-cloy,
And fi'om their plenteous grounds
With ;at encreatè their corn aad wine abounds.
'OL. VIl, l
114 TRANSLATIONS.
In peace at once will I
Both lay me down and fleep ;
For thou alone dort keep
]le fafe where'er I lie ; 4o
As in a rocky cell
Thou, Lord, alone, in f«fety mak'ft me dwell.
P,SA LM V. A,g. t2, 1653.
JEHOVAH, to my rords give car,
My meditation weigh ;
The voice of my complainirrg hear,
]Iy King and God; for unto thee I prayo
Jehovah, thou my early voice
Shalt in the morning hear ;
I' the morning ] fo thee with choce
Will tank my prayers, and watch till thou appearo
For thou art hOt a God that takes
In wickednefs delight ; o
:Evil with thee no biding makes ;
:Fools or mad rnen tand hot within thy fight.
Ail workers of iniquity
Thou hat'ft 3-and them unblcfi
Thou wilt deftroy that ti»eak a lye ;
The bloody and guileful man G od doth deteft.
But I will, in thy mêrcies dear,.
Thy numerous mercies, go
Into thy houfe ; I, in thy fear,
Will towards thy holy temple worfhip low. fo
TRANSLATIONS.
Lord, lead me in tiy righteoufiel,
Lead me, becautè of thofe
That do obtærve if I tranfgret ;
Set thy ways right bcforc, ",vhere my fiep goes.
Yor, in his faltering mouth un[able,
No word is firm or tboth ;
Their infide, troubles miïerable ;
.An open grave their throat, their tongue they
fmooth.
God, tind them guilty, let Ihe,n fall
By their own counfèls quell'd ; ao
Pufh thcm in their rebellions all
Still on; Ibr againl: thee they bave rebcll'd.
Then all, who truft in thee, thall bring
Their joy; while thou ri'oto blame
Defend'f[ them, they ffmil ever ring
_And flmll tridmph in thee, "«ho love thy naine.
For thou, Jehovah, wilt be foutu|
To blei thc jutt man ftill ;
As with a flfield, thou wilt furround
Him with thy lafiing favour and good will.
Ver. 6. Sooth is truc. T.
8% Oa he death of a fair Inf. v. 51. " O tdl me Jboth."
And, Coin. 823. " The foothe.fl flaepherd.' Sec alfo Macbeth
" If thy fpecch befooth, I care hot &c." TORD.
Ver. 28. their tongue thej finooth.] Par.
are& iv. 5. " That.flcek'd his tonguv." q'ODD.
TRANSLATIONS.
PSALM VI. Aug. 13, 653.
LORD, in thine anger do hot reprehend me,
Nor in thy hot difpleafire me correct ;
Pity me, Lord, for I am much dejeO,
And vcry weak and faint ; heal and amend me
For ail my bones, that even with anguifli ake,
Arc troubled, yea my foui is troul)led fore ;
And thou, O Lord, how long ? Turn, Lord
reÇtoFe
]y foui; O five me for thy goodnefs çake :
:['or in death no remembrance is of thee ;
Vho in the grave Cail celebrate thy praitè ? o
Wearied I ara with fighing out my days ;
:Nightly my couch I make a kind of fea ;
:My bed I water with my tears ; mine eye
Through grief confumes, is waxen old and
dark
1' the midFt of ail mine enemies that mark.
Depart, ail ye that vork iniquity, a
Depart fi'om me ; tbr the volte of my weeping
The Lord bath heard ; the 1,ord hath heard
my prayer ;
Iy fupplication ith acceptance fifir
The Lord will own, and have me in his keeping.
Mine enemies Pnall all be blank, and dalh'd
Ver. 3. dejc.] .DÇet.qed. See
he note on Par. Reg. B. i. 439. 'I'e.
Ver. 1. )lline enc»icsJhall all be bl:mk, and daIh'd
ll':,th mch con:fit.gon ;] .Bhml,, a in C<,,,,u, v. 45 °
TRANSLATIONS. 1 7
Vith much confutlon ; thcn, grown red with
llI.lll C
They flall return in hafe the way they came,
And in a moment fhall be quite abafla'd.
« And noble grace, that duh'd brute violence
«' With fuddcn adoration and blank awe." T. Wawo'.
So, in Archbiop Parker's Trat!ation of the -iii th
p, 4.
« Thyfocn fo bla»ke: their threats to danke,
" to flill th' aduenger
But fee Iilton's A«, fo Eikon Blilce, Ch. 1. «' The damfcll
f Burgundy, at fight of her own letter, was foon blank," i. e,
çonfounded. Sec alf Par. eg. B. il. 120. To,
1" S_4 L M Vil. Aug. l.t, 1653.
gon the word« of ChuJh the Betjamite again/i him.
LORD, my God, to thee I fly;
Save me and [ècure me under
Thy protec'-tion, while I cry;
Ver. 1. This is a very pleafing ftanza, and which I do not
elfewhere recolleL T. Wart'ro.
In Sir Philip Sidney's Ajtrophel and Stella, the c|éventh fong
prefents a fimilar mette, although the flanza confins of only rive
liws. I will cite a ftanza:
« Well, in abfencc this will die;
" Leavc to fce, and leave to wonder :
«' Abfence fure wiil help, if I
« Can learn how myfelf to funder
" From what ill my heart doth fie."
In Sylvefter'sPoems, after his tranflation of Du ]3artas, ed. 1621,
p. 6o9, there is An Ode to A#reea, of fimilar metre alfo, and the
lianza confifting of feven lines. There is no example of this
118 TRANSLATIONS.
LeoE, as a lion, (and no wonder)
He halte to tear my foui afundcr,
Tearing, and no refcue nigh.
Lord, my God, if I bave thought
Or done this ; if wickcdncfs
Be in my hands; if I bave wrought
III to him that meant me peace ;
Or to him bave render'd lefs,
And hot freed my foe for nought ;
Let the enemy purfue my foui,
_And overtakc it; let him tread
Iy lire down to the carth, and roll
15
ftanza, in Sandy's clegant paraphrafe of the Plalms; where how-
evcr, among a variety of meafures, the Trochaick couplet of
feven fyllables, may be found. In the early tranflation of the
Pfahns by Archbilhop Parker, no fimilar ftanza occurs ; al-
though different metres are cmployed. I take this ocafion to
obferve, that the thirty-fith pfalm, in this ancient tranflation
exhibits thc ufage of the Anapoeftick meafure, at that period in
our poetry. Thefe plahns were finithed in 1557, and a few
ycars afterwards printcd. See the Hift. of Eng. Poetry vol. iii.
182. OEhey were nevcr publifled. It has becn laid that the
archbifhop permitted his xvife dame Margaret to prefent the
book to fome of the nobility. Ste I-lift. of Eng. Poct. ut fupr.
She probably prefented to the Church of Canterbury the copy,
vcry curioufly bound which is now in the library of that ca-
thcdra]. The bool¢ is cxtremcly fcarce. I will exhibit a tanz,
from thc 3(ith pfahn above-mcntioncd :
" The wordes of his mouth be unrightfully waycd,
« lu flcyghty deceit bc thcy craftcly layed :
" Quyte ccafed he h,lh to belmue bym u3"ght,
" Good deed for te do bath he drittea from h)'s fyght."
'l¢)r-,
TRANSLATIONS.
l[ll the dur my glory dead,
In the dufi ; and thereo out-fpread,
Lodge it with dilhonour tbul.
,I19
Rire, Jehovah, in thinc ire,
Roule thyfelf amid6 the rage
Of my tbes that urge like tire;
And wake tbr me, their fury affwage ;
Judgement here thou didR engage
And commando dfich I defire.
0
So the afièmblies of each nation
Will furround thec, feeking right ;
Thence to thy glorious habitation
Return on higho and in their fight.
Jehovah judgeth inoçt upright
All people from the world's tbundation.
5
3O
Judge me, Lord; be judge in this
According to my righteoutict»
And the innocence which is
Upon me: caufe at length to ceafe
Of evil men the wicked.nefs,
And their power that do amifs.
ut the juft eçtablifla fal,
Since thou art the jul[ God that tries
Hearts and reins. On God is caft
My defnce, and in him lies,
In him who, both juf and wife,
Saves the upright of heart at laft.
5
le0 TRANSLATIONS.
God is a juft judge and fevere,
And God is every day offended ;
If the unju vill not forbear,
His fword he whets, his bow hath bended
/klready, and for him intended
OEhe tools of death, that waits him near.
(His arrows purpofely ruade he
For them that perfecute.) ]3ehold,
He travels big with vanity;
Trouble he hath conceiv'd of old,
_As in a womb; and from that mould
Hath at length brought forth a lie.
5t)
/-le digg'd a pit, and delv'd it deep, as
And fell into the pit he made;
His mifchief, that due couffe doth keep,
Turns on his head; and lais ill trade
Of violence will, undelay'd,
Fall on his crown with ruin eep. 6
Ver. 55. and delv'd it deep,] Deh'e was not nov
«bfolete. So, 0 the Death o.f a fair Ifan, v. 32.
" Hid from the world in a low-deh'ed tomb.'"
What is now a dell, an open pif, was once a de&e. Spenfer»
.Faer. Qu. ii. viii. 4.
" Which to that lhady delve him brought at laft."
/gain, iii. iii. 7.
" In a deep deh'e, far from the view of day."
Ibid. iv. i. '20.
« It is a darkf, me delve, farre under ground."
'tnd in Jolffon. But Spenfer has alfo delL T. W^RO
TRANSLATIONS,
Then xvill I Jehovah's praife
According to his juffice raire,
And ring the Naine and Deity
Of Jehovah the Mort High.
1o.1
VIII. Aug. 14, 1653.
O JEHOVAH our Lord, how wonderous grcat
And glorious is thy Name through all the
earth !
So as above the heavens thy praife to fer
Out of the tender mouths of latefl, birth.
Out of the mouths ofbabes and fucklings thou
Haft founded ftrength, becaufe of ail thy foes,
To fiint the enemy, and flack the avenger's brow,
That bends his rage thy Providence to oppofe.
When I behold thy heavens, thy fingers' art,
The moon, and flars, which thou fo bright
haft let m
In the pure firmament; then thith my heart,
O, what is man that thou remembret[ 3:et,
Ver. 7. To flint the enemy, andJlacA tle avenger's brow,] Ilere
is a mofl violent cefure in the lait i'llable of enem2/. See alib
above, Pfl v. 16, Pf. vil. £. T. WaTON.
Ver. 11. In tle pure firmament ;] _Par. Loti, B. vil. (4.
« The.[irmamcnt, exloanfe of liquid, pure." To.
p,OE TRANSLATIONS.
And think't[ upon him ; or of man begot,
That him thou vifit'ft, and of him art round !
Scarce to be lel; than Gods, thou mad'Ft his lot,
With honour and with fiate thou haft him
crown'd. 16
O'er the :orks of thy hand thou mad't
Lord,
Thou hal't put all under his lordly feet ;
All flocks, and herds, by thy commanding word,
Ail bcatis tiret in the field or tbre[t meet,
l:owl of the heavcns, and tith that through the
wet
Sea-paths in fhoals do tilde, and know no
dearth.
0 Jehovah out Lord, how wonderous great
And glorious is thy Naine through all lhc
earth !
Ver. 21. ..//JT that throtgh the rzet
Sca-laths in .Ihoals do ./lidc,] Compare Par.
]3. vii. 4,00, &c. And Sandys's tranflation of this pllm :
" Ail that on dales or mountaines food,
" That lhady woods or dcfarts brced ;
" What in the aery rcgion glidc,
" Or thrvug, thc roa'lig occanjlidc." TOD.
TRANSLATIONS.
ApriI. 1(;48. J.M.
P S «I L M LXXX.
1. THOU Shepherd, that doçt Ifi'ael kccp,
(}ire enr in timc of nced ;
Who leadeiZc like flock of thcep
Thff loved J ofcph's tbcd ;
'rhat titt'- between the Cherubs bright, $
Bet,een thei-r wings outç.Orcad ;
8hine tbrth, and.t}'om th 9 «loud gire lht,
And on. our[bes thff dread.
. In phraim's view and Benjamin's,
And in Ianafië's fight, o
Awake " thy firength, corne, and beJèen.
To fi,,,e us l,y tht .ight.
3. Turn us again, th grace divine
To us, 0 God, vo.clfqlè ;
Çaufe thou thy thce on us to flfine, ,
And tben we Ihall be tht?.
4 Lord God of I lotis, how long wilt thou,
tlow long uiit thou declare
1°.4 TRANSLATIONS.
Thy b fmoking wrath, and angry brow
Againft thy people's prayer !
5. Thou feed'ft them with the bread of tears
Their bread with tears they eat
And mak't them " largely drink the tears
Wherewith their cheeks are r«et.
6. A t[rife thou mak't us and a p'eq
To every neighbour foc ;
Among themtèlves they a laugh, they a play,
And a flouts at us they throw.
7. leturn us, and thy grace divine,
O God of Ilofts, vouclyàfe ;
Caufe thou thy face on us to fhine,
And then we flmll be rare.
8. Avine from Egypt thou hat brought,
Thy fi'ee love ruade it thine,
And drov't out nations, p'oud a»d haut, 35
To plant this lovely vine.
Gna.[hanta. Shali.[hl Ji?gnagu.
Ver. 8. And flouts at us] Sneers, infults. Biron is defcribed.
in Lore's Lab. Loti as
" a man replete ith mocks
" Full of comparifons, aud woundingflouts.'" TODD.
Ver. ô5. proud and haut,] So, in Coin. v. 33.
" An old, and haughty nation oeroud in arms."
tIaut, French. T.
Milton copies Shakfpeare precifely, tlich. III. A. ii. S. iii.
" And the queen's fons and brothers, haught and proud."
Sec alfo Lyly's Woman in the moone, 1597.
" Thy minde a hawte as Jupiters high thoughts. »
Svlvefler lins « haut ambition," Dtt Bart. 1621, p.
25
TRANSLATIONS.
9. Thou didt prepare for ita place,
And root it deep ald façt,
That it began. o gro apace,
.4nd fill'd the land af la.
10. With her grecn Oaade that cover'd all,
The hills were overzfpread;
Her boughs as high as cedars tall
.4dvanc'd their lqft d head.
11. Her branches on the 'ejternride. 45
Down to tlle feu file lent,
And upward to that river u, ide
Her other branches
1o. Why hat$ thou laid her hedges lo;v,
And broken down her fence,
That all may pluck ber, as they go,
HTth 'ude.fl- violence
13. The tujked boar out of the wood
Up turns it by the roots ;
Wild beafls there brouze, and make their food
Her grapes and tenderJhoots.
Ver. 55.
Newton reads their. T. Watro.
Sandys thus tranflates this paffage :
" The browfing heard her branches wafte ;
" And falvage boares plough up her foot."
Ver. 56 r 1ter grapes, and tender lhoots.]
v. 96.
" Plucking ripe clufiers ri'oto the tenderfhoots."
T.
there brouzc,] So the firft edition, 1673.
TODD.
So, in Comus,
126 TRANSLATIONS.
14. Return now» G od of IIoits, look down
From Heaven, thy tiat divine ;
]3ehold uç, but t'ithout a fro'n,
And viiit this thy vine.
15. Vifit this -ine, vhich thy right hand
Hath fet, and planted long,
And the young branch, that tbr thyfelf
Thou hat ruade firm and flrong.
1t5. I}ut now it is confum'd vith tire, 65
And eut z«ith axes down;
They perilh at thy dreadful ire,
.tt thy rebuke and frown.
17. Upon the man of thy right hand
Let thy good hand be laid ;
Upon the tbn of man, whom thou
Strong for thyfelf haft ruade. '
18. So flmll we not go back from thee
To ways of jïn and flmme ;
Quicken us thou ; then glad[y we 7s
Shall call upon thy Naine.
19. Return us, and thy grace divi»e,
Lord God of Hotis, voucl!fq[ë ;
Caufe thou thy tice on us to lhine,
And thelx we lhall be t:afe. .o
TRANSLATIONS. lç7
.P S.t_LM LXXXI.
1. 'FO God our firength ring loud, and
Sing loud to God out h-i»g ;
-Fo Jaeob's God, that all maff hcar,
Loud acclamations ring.
'2. Prepare a hymn, prepare a tbng, s
The timbrel hither bring ;
The cheerJ)d pfdtery bring along,
And harp with pleaçantfiring.
" Blow, as is wont, in the new moon
With trumpets' loft, y.]Ound
The appointed time, the day x:hereon
Out tblemn feal[ cornes vouml.
4, This x as a ftatute giren qf o!d
l"or lffael to obji'rve ;
A law of Jacob's God, to bol, l,
From whence thej might
5. This he a tetiimony ordain'd
In Jolbph, hot to chauge
Vhen as he pafs'd thro,gh Egypt land
The tongue I heurd was tirm:ge, co
13. From burden, avd.[î'omflariJh toil,
I fct his flmulder free"
His hands from pots, and mir.i!foil,
Deher d were by me.
7. When trouble did thee fore afl'ii,
On me then didft thou call;
lf18 TRANSLATIONS.
And I to free thee dM notfail,
_/lnd led thee out of thralL
I anfwer'd thee in * thunder deep,
¥ith clouds encompafs'd round ; 3o
I tried thee at the waterfleep
Of Meriba renoz«n'd.
8. Hear, O my People, hearken well;
I tefiify to thee,
Fhou ancient jtock of I frael, 3
If thou wilt liçt to me :
9. Throughout the' land of thy abode
No alien God fhall be,
Nor fhalt thou to a foreign God
In honour bend thy knee. «
10. I ara th¢ Lord thy God, which brought
Thee out of Egypt land ;
Alk large enough, and I, befought,
Will grant thy full dcmand.
11. And yet my people would not hear, 5
Nor hearken to my voice ;
And Ifmel, whom I lov'd fo dcar,
Miflik'd me tbr his choice.
1. Then did I leave them to their will,
And to their wandering mind ; o
Their own conceits they follow'd fiill,
Their own devices blind.
1:3. 0, that my people would be wife,
To ferre me all their daffs !
" Be Scther ragnam.
TRANS L T[ONS. 9
And O, that Ifrael would advife .»
To walk my righteous ways!
14. Then would I thon bring down their foes,
That now fo proudly rire ;
And turn mv hand againft all thofe,
That are their enemies. 60
15. Who hate the Lord fhould then befain
To bow to him and bend;
But they, his people, fiould remain,
Their rime lhould have no end.
16. And he would ted themfi'om thefiock 6»
With flower of fineft wheat,
And fatisf them from the rock
With honey.tbr their meat.
P S.,4 L M LXXXII.
1. GOD in the ' great ' affembly ftands
Qf kings and lo,'dty flat«s ;
Among the Gods, on both lais haads,
He judges and debates.
:2. How long will ye
With *judgement falfe and wrong,
Favouring the wicked b 9 jour might,
Il'ho thence grow bold and.flrong
3. a Regard the weak and t:atherlefs,
Defpatch the
Bgnadath-eL Bekerev.
d Shilhtu.da L
rot. vL K
Th2h¢tu gna't, el,
10 TRANSLATIONS.
And « raife the man in deep dif'treçs-
:By «juçt and equal laws.
4. Defcnd thc poor and dciblate,
_And refcue ri'oto the hands
Of wicked mer the low eiate
Of lfim that help demands.
5-. They know hot, n-or will undeiand,
In darknefs th.ev walk on
The earth's fourdations ail are r mov'd,
And e out of order gone.
6. 1 laid that ye were Gods, yea ail
The follS 0{" God MoI High;
7. ].lut ye fha'll die like men, and fall
As other princes die.
8. Rire, God; gjudge thou the earth in migh,
This wicked earth g redrefs ;
For thou art he who fhall by right
The rations ail poflèf.
PSALIf LXXXIIL
I. ]3E hOt thou filent now af lenglh«
O God, hold not thy peace ;
Sit thou not fiill, O God ofjrength,
lFe cry, and do hot ceafc.
2. For 1o, thyfi«rious foes now fwell
And h fiorm outrageoufly ;.
Itatzdikno Jim.vwtu.
i JehemaUno
TRANSLATIONS.
And they that hate thee, proud andfell,
Exalt their heads thll high.
3. Againft thy people they contrive
C Their plots and counfels deep;
« Them to enfnare they chiefly ftrive,
e Whom thou dort bide and keep.
4. Corne, let us cut them off, fay flley,
Till they no nation be ;
That Ifi'ael's name for ever may
Be ]oft in memory.
5. For they confult f with al[ their might,
And all, as one in mind,
Themfelves againft thee they unite,
And in firm union bind.
6. The tents of Edom, and the brood
Offcornful I flmael,
Moab, with theln of Itagar's blood,
That h the dçfart dwell,
7. Gebal and Ammon there conftire
And hateful Amalec,
The Philiftines, and they of Tyre,
Whofe bounds the.fea doth check.
8. With them great Athur alfo bands
And doth confirm the knot :
All thefe bave lent theh" armcd hands
To aid the fons of Lot.
9. Do to flem as to Midian bod,
That wafled ail the coafi ;
10
15
3'agnarimu. ¢ Sod.
Tfephunea.
« Jirthjagnat.fu g,a..
.o. TRANSLA'rlON.
To Sitë'ra; and, asis told
Thou didjt to Jabin's h,
H'hen, at the brook of Kiihon old,
The! were repuls'd and flain,
10. At Endor quite cut ofl and roll'd
As dung upon tl plain. .o
11. As Zeb and Oreb evil fd,
So let their princes fpeed ;
As Zeba and Zalmum a bled,
So let their princes b&ed.
1. kbr the]l amidfl their pridc hac thid,
By right now flmll we thit
God's houles, and will now invade
g Their la.tely palaces.
1. My God, eh make them as a wheel,
ç quiet let tt«m find ;
Giddy and rl@ let th«m ree!,
Like ftubble t?om the u ind.
1.. As when an aged wood takes tire
IFhich on a.fitddcnjirays,
The g'reedy flame runs higher and higher
TilI all the mou.tain»bl« ;
t5. So :,ith thy Mfirlwind them purfue,.
And with thy tempeR chafe ; "
16 And,. till they yie!d thee honou.r due,
)oth Elohim b«ars botL t They.ek thy ame. Heb,
Ver. 53. Compa the fimile by Sandys :
« As woods grown dru: with ge, imbmc'd vith tire,
« Whofe flames above the tingcd hils afre ;
« So in the retaper of thy vath purfue, &c." To.
Ver. 59.
till.tt«y ,ield g«« honour due,] A phmfe
TRANSLATIONS. 1 $
Lord, fill with fliame their thce. ,»
7 Aflmm'd, and troubled, let thenl be,
Troubled, and flmm'd tbr evcr;
Ever confounded, and fo die
With fhame, and :/'caloe it never.
18. Then fhall they kaow, that Thou, whofe
Naine 6s
Jehovah is alone,
Art the Mort Higb, nd Tou thefame
O'er all the earth art One.
from file new tranoEoEtion of the twenty-ninth pçahn, ver.. 2.
« Give the Lord the honour due UltO his Naine." But Mr.
Warton, in his Objèrvations on the Faery Queen, remarks that
" honour due frequently occurs iii Spen|r, from v,'hom Milton,
perhaps, adopted it in L'Allegro : If I give thee honpur due.'"
The phrafc occurs again in Pas'. Loti, 13. iii. ï38, and B. v. 817.
ToDD.
P S.4 L 3I LXXXIV.
1. HOW love]y are thy dwellings far!
0 Lord of Hofts, how dear
The pleqfant tabernacles are,
lYhere thou dofl dwell jb near !
o. My foui doth long and almot} die
Thy courts, 0 Lord, to fee ;
My heart and flefh aloud do cry,
0 living God, for thee.
3. There even the fparrow, freedfrom wrng',
Hath round a houfe of refl;
The fwallow there, to lay ber young,
Hath built her brooding net;
14 TRANSLATIONS.
Even by thy altars, Lord of Hofls,
The!l fin.d their fafe abode ;
_4nd home theuflUji:on round the coafls
Toward thee, my King, my God.
. Happy, who in thy houle refide,
Where thee they ever praife !
5. Happy, ,,hofe ftrength in thee doth bide,
And in their hearts tby ways!
6. They pals through Baca's thbçflj vale,
That dry and barren ground ;
As through a fi'uitful watery dale,
Where fprings and flaowers abound.
7. q_'hey journey on from trength to ftrength
ltTth joj and gladfome cheer,
Till ail betbre out God af length
In Sion do appear.
/3. Lord God of Hofts, hear now my prayer,
O Jacob's God give ear;
9. Thou God, out fhield, look on the face
Of thy anointed dear.
10. For one day in thy courts fo be
ls better, and more blefl,
Ver. 19 to 25. See Sandys's elegant paaphrafe of th¢
paffage :
« Happy, who on thee depend !
« Tbine their way, and thou their end,
" Wbo, through Baca travelling,
« Make that thifly raie a fpring :"
" Or foft Inowers from elouds diftill,
"' And thcir emptie cifterns fill :
"" Frein in ftrengtb, their couffe purfte,
" Ti!l they thee in Sion view." Tope.
TRANSLATIONS.
Than bt the joys o.f vanity 3s
A thoufand days af beJt.
I, in the temple of my G od,
Had rather keep a door,
Than dwell in tents, and rich «bode,
With tin.for evermore. 4o
11. or God the Lord, both fun and flfield,
Gives graee and glory bright ;
o good from them all be withheld
Whofe ways are ju and right.
12. Lord God of Hors, that reig, on high ; «
That man is truly ble,
Who on 0 on thee doth rely,
And in thee only reR.
PSALM Lxxxv.
1. TH Y land to favour gracioufly
Thou haft not Lord been flack ;
Thou haft from hard captivity
Returned Jacob back.
o. The iniquity thou didft forgive
That wrought thy people woe ;
,And all their fin, that did thee grief'e,
Haft hid where none flmll know.
3. Thine anger all thou hadft remov'd,
And calmlff did9c return 1o
From thy "tierce wrath which we had prov'd
]Far worfe than tire to burn.
= Heb. Tk¢ burning h¢at ofthy rath.
136 TRANSLATIONS.
4. God of out faving health and peace,
Trn us, and us reiore ;
Thine indignation cauIi? to ceafe l
Towards us, al,d chide no more.
5. Wilt thou be angry without end,
For ever angry thus ?
Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend
"l;'rom age to age on us ? o
6. Wih thou not u turn and hem" out z'oice,
And us again revive,
That fo thy people may rejoice
By thee prelèrv'd alive ?
7- Caufe us to fee thy goodnefs, Lord, "s
To us thy mercy flew ;
Thy faving health to us afford,
.4nd lire in us renew.
8. And now, what God the Lord will fpeak,
I will goflraight and hear, o
For to his people he ioeaks peace,
_And to his faintsfull dear,
To his dear faints he will fpeak peace ;
Bat let them never more
leturn to tblly, butfurceafe
7EEb t.refpqfs as belote.
9. Surely, to fuch as do him fear
Salvation is at hand ;
And glory 9hall ere long appear
To dwell within out land. ,
; t [eb. T'Jrn çuici«n u«,
TRANSLATIONS. 107
10. hIercy anti Truth, that long u,ere mifs'd,
Now joyfully are met ;
Sweet Peaee and Righteoufnefs have kifs'd,
And hand in hand are fer.
11. Truth from the earth, like fo aflower, s
Shall bud and bloilbm then;
And Juffice, from her heavenly bower,
Look down on mortal men.
12. The Lord will altb then beffow
Whatever thing is good ; 50
Our land flmll forth in plenty throw
Her tiuits fo be out.food.
13. ]3etbre him Righteoufiet fhall go,
His royal tlarbinger :
Then "will he tome, and not be flow, »
His footfteps cannot err.
© Heb. Hc willfet hisflps to tke u'ay.
PS.4 LM LXXXVI.
1. TH¥ gracious ear, O Lord, incline,
O hear me, I thee praj ;
For I ana poor, and almof pine
With need, and fad deca!l.
. Preferve my foui; for "I have trod
Thy ways, and love the juf;
Save thou thy ferrant, O my God,
Whojiill in thee doth trufL
' Heb. I ara good loving, a doer of good and bol3/things.
5
13S TRANS LATION$.
3. Pity me, Lord, for dai]y thee
I call; 4. O make rejoice lo
Thy fervant's foui ; -for, Lord, to thee
I lift my foui and voice.
5. For thou art good, thou, Lord, art prone
To pardon, thou to all
Art full of mercy, thou alone 25
To daem that on thee call.
6. Unto my fupplication, Lord,
Give ear, and to the cry
Of my inceffant prayers afford
Thy hearing gracioufly. o
7. I, in the day of my diftrefs,
Will call on thee for aid;
For thou wilt grant me fi'ee accefs,
And anfwer what I pray'd.
8. Like thee among the Gods is none, .
0 Lord ; nor any works
Of all that other Gods have done
Like to thy glorious works.
9. Thc Nations ail whom thou haft ruade
Shall corne, and alljhall frame o
To bow them low before thee, Lord,'
And glorify thy Name.
Ver. 19 Of m2/inceffant prayers] So, in Par. Loti, B. xi.
2,07.
" And, if by praler
" lnceffant I could hope to change the will
" Of him who ail things can, I would hot ceafe
" To weary him with my affiduous cries."
TRANSLATIONS. 139
10. For great thon art, and wonders grea
By thy t'trong hand are done ;
Thon, in tlql everlq/iing f«at,
Remainet G od alone.
11. Teaeh me., 0 Lord, thy way mofi right
I in thy truth witl bide;
To fear thy Name my heart unite,
So flmll it never flide.
12. Thee will I praife, O Lord my God,
Thee honou.r attd adore
With mv whole heart, and blaze abroad
Thy :Naine for evermore.
13. :For great thy mercy is toward me,
And thon haft freed my fou],
Even from the loweft hell let fi'ee,
'om deepefl darl, mefs foul.
la.. O God, the proud again['t me rire,
_And violent men are met
To feek my lire, and in thcir eyes
No fear of thee have fer.
15. But thon, Lord, art the God moçt mild,
Readiet thy grace to fl, ew,
Slow to be angry, and artflyl'd
Mot merciful, mo9t true.
16. O, turn to me thyface af lenglh,
And me have merey on;
Unto thy ferrant give thy firength,
And fave thy handmaid's fon. 60
17. Some fign of good to me afibrd,
And let my foes then fee,
14o TRANSLATIONS.
And be aflmm'd; becaufe thou, Lord,
Dot he]p and comtbrt me.
P S A L M LXXXVII.
I. AMONG the holy mountains higk
Is his foundation tt ;
There feated in his fane"tuarj,
His temple there is plac'd.
. Sion'sfair gates the Lord loves more
Than all the dwellingsfair
Of Jacob's laïtd, though there be flore,
Ind all u, ithh, his care.
3. City of G od, mort glorious things
Of thee abroad are fpoke ;
4. I mention Egypt, rhere l»'oud kbzgs
Did out fore.fathers yoke.
I mention Babel to my friends,
Philifiia full oj:fcorn ;
And 'lyre with :Ethiops' utmo.fl ends,
Lo this man there wa born :
5. :But t«:ice that praife jTall in out ear
Be laid of Sion lafi ;
This and this man was born in her;
High God fhall fix ber fat[.
6. The Lord fhall write it in a feroll
That ne'er flaall be out-worn,
Ver. 1. Thc Lord./hall rrite if in a fcroll
lf'hen ho the nations doth inroll,] So Sandys :
l0
15-
2O
TRANSLATIONS. 141
When he the nations doth inroll,
That this man there was bore.
7. ]3oth they who ting, and they who dance, 2
With facred fongs are thcre ;
In thee j.eJh brooks and.fo.ft jTreams glance,
And all my fountains clear.
" The Lord, in his eternalj'croll,
" Shall thefe, as citizens, inroll.'" Toor.
S.!l LM LXXXVIII.
1. LORD God, that doit me f, tve and keep,
Ail day to thee I cry;
And ail night long before thee w«ep,
]3efore thee Trojqrate lie.
2. Into thy pretènce let my praycr
lt';ith fighs devout afcend ;
And to rny cries, that ceafele.fs arc,
Thine ear with favour bend.
3. For, cloy'd with woes and trouble Kore,
Surcharg'd my foui doth lie; io
5'ly life, at Death's uncheefid door,
Unto the grave draws nigh.
Ver. 9. trouble flore,] So edition 1673.
OEonfon, Tickell, and Fenton, read./bre. T. WaaTOX.
Ver. 11. -- at Death's uncheerful door,] Another phrafe
in the new tranflation of the Pfalms, Pfi cvii. 18. " They vcre
even hard at Dcath's door." But the exprcffion had bccn beauti-
fully employed alfo in our own poetry." Sec Sa¢k,'ii's 1-.da'dtior..,
142 TRA-SLATIONSo
4. Reckon'd I ara with them that paçs
Down to the difial pit ;
I ara a man, but weak alas!
And for that naine unfit,
5. From lit difcharg'd and parted quite
Among the dead tofleq ;
And like the flain in bloodyflght,
That in the grave lic deep.
Whom thou remembereft no morc
Dort never more regard,
Them, fi-om thy hand deliver'd o'er
D¢ath's hideous houfe hath barr'd.
6. Thou in the lowef pitprofound
HaFt fer me «llJbrlorn,
Where thickeft darknefs hovers round,
In horrid deeps to mourn.
7. Thy wrath, .])'om which no fltelterfaves,
Full fore doth prefs on me ;
Thou breakYt upon me ail thy waves,
And ail thy waves break me.
of which the earliefl edition was in 1559, where he defcribe.
çld Age :
" lIis withered fift, ftill knocking at Death's dote."
.a,r.d Drummond's Sonnet to ,Sir IV. Alexander :
" Though I bave twiee bcen at the dores of Dcath,
" And twicefoundjhut thofe gares that euer mourn, &c." Compare lilton's 24th line of this tranflation; a line of re-
raarkable energy :
" Death's htdeous houle bath barr'd." Tovo
tIeb. A nan wilhout mal.flrength.
çhe Hebr. bears both.
TRANSLATIONS. 143
8. Thou doçt my friens from me eirane,
And mak'fl: me odious,
Me to them odious, for thçu change,
And I here pent up thus.
9. Through forrow, and affli&ion great,
,Iine eye grows dira and dead;
Lord, all the day I thee entreat,
My hands to thee I fpread. 4o
10. Wilt thou do wonders on the dead ?
Shall the deceas'd arife,
And praife thee from their loatl!fome bed
llth pale and hollow effes ?
11. Shall they thy loving kindnefs tell,
On whom the grave hath hold ?
Or they, who in perdition dwell,
Thy faithfulnefs w$bld ?
1 °. In darknefs can thy mighty hand
Or wonderous ac"ts be known ?
Thy juice in the gloomy land
Of dark oblivion ?
1:5. But I to thee, O Lord, do cry,
Ere yet my life be fpent ;
Ver. 43. - , thcir loathfome bed] A phrafe hot
diflimilar to that of Shakfpeare's Romco :
" Why I defcend into this bed ofdeat£ ;"
t'here he means the tomb o Juliet. Addifoa thus commences
ve of his hymns :
" When rifing from the bed of dcatt,
" O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear,
« I fee my Maker face to face ;
" 0, how thall I appear!"
4 TRANSLATIONS.
And up to thee my prayer doth hie,
Each morn, and thee prevent.
1,L Why wilt thou, Lord, my tbul forfake,
And laide thy thce from me,
15. That ara already bruis'd, and c fl,ake
With terrour fent from thee ? 60
Bruis'd, and afflied, and jb low
As ready to expire ;
While I thy tcrrours undergo,
Atonifh'd with thine ire.
16. Thy tierce wrath over me doth flow ; 6s
Thy threatenings cut me through"
17. AI1 day they round about me go,
Like waves they me purfue.
18. Loyer and fl'iend thou haft remov'd,
And fever'd ri'oto me far:
Theyfly me now whom I bave lov'd,
.And as in darknefs are. "
* Ileb. Pree ConctoEo.e.
I will herc throw together foëne of thc mofi ltrikig flanzas
m this and the. preceding Pfiffm«.
P./àl. ]xxx. v. 41.
With ber green fhade that cover'd aII,
The hilts were over-fpread,
H¢r boughs as high as cedars tall
Advanc'd their lofty head.
1Return, O God of Hoffs, look clown,
From heav'n, thy feat divine ;
Behold us, but without a
And vifit this thy -ine.
,Pl. Ixxxi. v. 5.
Prepare a hymn, prepare a fong,
The timbreI hither bring,
TRANSLATIONS.
The chccrful pfaltery bring along,
And harp with pleafant flring.
Pl. lxxxiii, v. 1.
The tents of Edom, and the brood
Of fcornful lflimael,
gloab, with them of ltagar's blood»
That in the deFart dwell.
Ibid. v. 41.
As Zeb and Oreb evil fped,
So let their princes fpeed ;
As Zeba and Zalmuuna bled,
So let their princes bleed.
lbid. v. 53.
As when an aged wood takes lire,
Which on a fildden ftrays,
The grcedy flame runs higher and higher,
Till ail the mountains blaze :
go with thy whirlwind thcm purfim,
And with thy tcmpcft chafe» &c.
PI: lxxxivo v. 21.
They pafs through Baca's thirfty vale,
That dry and barren ground ;
As through a fruitful watery dale,
Where fprings and flaovers abound.
PI'. lxxxv, v.
q'ruth from the earth, like to flowcr;
Shall bud and bloflbm then:
Anti Julice from lier heavenly bover
Look down on mortal men.
Bcfore hiln I{ighteoufiacfs ihall go,
llis royal harbingeï :
Ïhcn xs'ill ho corne, and not be flow
Ilis footlieps canlmt err.
lo. lxxxviiii, v. 5.
lnto thy prcfence let my prayer
With fighs devout afccnd ;
'" 0 L. VlI. L
146 TRANSLATIONS,
And fo my çries, that ceafelefs are».
Thine ear with favour bend.
Pl. lxxxviii, v. 20.
Whom thou remembereff uo mot%
Dort never more regard,
Them, from thy hand dcliver'd o'er,
Death's hideous houle hath barr'd,
Thou in the loweft pit profound
Haff fer me ail forlern,
Where thickeff darknefs hovers round,
In horrid deeps, to mourn..
Through forrow, and affliions great,
Mine eyes grow dira and dead :
Lord, all he dny ] ff)ce entreat,
My hands to thce 1 fpread.
Wilt thou do wonders on the dead .
Shall the deceas'd arife,
And praife thec from their loathfome bcd»
With pale and hollow eyes ?
Shall they thy loving kindnefs tel
On whom the grave bath hold ?
Or thcy, who in perdition dwcll,
Thy faithfuhwt nnfohl .
In darkaef ca thy mighty hand
Or wonderous as be known ;
Thy .jufiice in the gloomy land
Of dark oblivion ?
Ibid. v. 65.
Thy tierce wrath ovcr me doth fl6w,
Thy threatenings cut me through ;
Ail day they round about me go,
Like waves they me purfllC. T.
TRANSLATIONS. 147
./1 P..1R_IPHR.,1SE ON PS.,1LM CXIV. *
This and the following P.}Ttlm were done bj the
l«thor atjifteen years ohl.
"V'tIEN the bleft feed of Terah's faithfill fon,
After long toil, their liberty had won ;
And part from Pharian fields to Canaan land,
Led by the flrength of the Almighty's hand
Jehovah's wonders were in Ifi'ael thown,
His praitë and glory was in Iti'ael kuown.
That t:aw the troubled Sea, and lhivering fled,
And fought to laide his fi'oth-becurled head
Low in the earth ; Jordan's clear itreams recoil,
_As a faint hot that bath receiv'd the foil.
This and the following Pfahn are Milton's earlieft perfornl-
anccs. The firft ho aftcrwaa'ds trantlatcd into Greck. lu thc
lait arc fume very poctical cxpreflons : " Thc ë-oldt, n-troEëd fun,
God's thun&r-clq/)i»g, hand, The moon's ./'pagled .ttcrs bright,
and Abore the vach oJ" mortal eye." T.
Ver. 8. his froth-bccurled head] P. Fletciwr,
5Iilton's eontemporary, bas the "' jla's proud ahite-curled head,"
Pfe. Ecl. edit. 1633, p. 1. Toc)p.
Ver. 9. Jordan's clear lircams recoil,
Ms a.Jàint hofl that bath r«ea"d the iil.] The
rhymes are probably from Sylveiier, as Mr. DunlDr altb notices
in his « Confiderations on Milton's early Reading." Sec D
Bart. p. 337, edit. 1621.
" Ay Satan aires our eonftant faith to.foil»
" Eut God doth feal it, never to tvcoff."
]48 TRANSLATIONS.
Thc high huge-bellied mountains lip, like rams
Amongft their ewes; the little hills, like lambs.
Why fled the ocean ? And why &ipt the moun-
tains ?
Why turned Jordan toward his cryt'tal fountains ?
Foil is defeat, a fubftautive ufed in thc fame fenfe by Harington
in his OrL Furiq/b, and by Shakfpcare repeatedly. The verb, as
in v. 65 of thc next Pfalm, is frequent in Spenfer : Ste Faer. Qu.
ii. x. 8, v. xi. 33, ri. 5t, &c. And Harington's OrL Fur.
1607, p. I, p. 91, &c. The fubftantive, and the verb often,
occur in Pat'. Loti. Sandys, like Milton, thus finely employs
rccoil, Plhhn lxxvii.
" The Deeps wcre troubled af thy fight,
« And Seas recoil'd in their afli'ight." TORD.
Ver. 11, The high huge-bellied mounains] There i» a fimilar
compound in the firft line of £'ui»ns Troes, which hnwever was
hot publiflacd till long aftcr Milton's tranflation was writteu, riz.
in 1633.
" As in the vaults of this big-bellied earth."
But pcrhaps the foliowing extravagant imagery in Sylvefter, p. 9
might lkggcft, to the young poet, the epithet huge-bellied :
" the lowly fields,
« 1)tf up, flaallficell to huge and mighty bile.'"
Lifle, in his tranflation of Part of Du Bartas, debafcs a poetical
paffagc, whcrc he defcribes the Almighty hearkclfing to the
prayers of Noah and bidding the Flood to ceafc, by a piece of
fimilar bombafi, edit. 1(So5, p. 31.
« Th' Etcrnall hcard their voice, and bid his Triton found
« Rctreate vnto the flood : then, waue by waue, to bound
« The waters hafi away ; all riucrs know their bankes,
«' And fcas their wontcd lhore ; Mis grow with J:a:ellhgjtanl,s.'"
TODD.
rcr. 13. lzhjjfled the ocean ? &c.] The original is weakencd.
The queftion lhould bave been atked by au addrefs, or an appcal
to the fea and mountains, T. Wan,o.
TRANSLATIONS.
149
Shake, F, arth ; and at the prefence be aghaf 16
Of Him that ever was, and aye flmll lait;
That glaoEv floods froln rugged rocks can crufl,
And make fort rills fi'om fiery fiint-ftones gufl !
Ver. 15. Shake, Earth ; and at thc ]»'çf«nce be aghafl
Of Him tkat ever ïzas, and ayeJhall loti ;] He was
now only fifteen ! T. WalTO.
The reader will fcarcely forbear fo notice the emphatick
comprehenlion of Mr. Warton's eulogium. This paflhge indeed
well deferves the moft cordial tribute of admiration. It is
noble germ of poetick genius.
Ver. 16. tkat ever u'a.', and ayc flmll ht.fl ;] The
reduplication of aje for ever, Mr. l)uniier obferves, is in the
very opening of Sylvefier's Du Bartas ; in which aye for ever is
indeed mofi frequent.--But this was the comlnon phraf«oiogy of
the time. Spenfer, Drumlnond, Itarington, and many other
poets, afford inumnerable infiances. I will cite an example of
the reduplication from Groue's So,gs and Svnnettes, 1587. bi. 1.
" Then ae perfifi in fiedfaft faith
" For euer t» endurc."
Milton retains the form of a3x iii olle of his lateft publiflled
lmetical performances, as given lu his Hi.fl. of England,
Sec p. 10- of this volume. TODD.
Ver. 17. That glaffy./loods] Sec Comus, v. 861. Prior has
copied " the glqlTj] Jtovd«,'" in his Solomon, B. il. 683. Doune
has " the glaj]ie deep," Poems, edit. 1633, p. 14. Out poets
borrowed from Virgil. Whence a]fo Buchanan, Jephthes, Chor.
" Jordanis vitreo gurgitc &c." And Grotius Silr. lib. il. " Et
vitreis Solvoeus aquis." TODD.
Ibid. That gl@j/fltoods.from rtgged rocks tan crufh,
.4d male foj rills ri'oto Jicryfltint-floes guth !] The
rhymes as Mr. Dunfter remarks, are Sylvefter's, Du Bart. p. 30,
çf tain :
" And fo one humour doth another crufh,
" Till to the ground their liquid pearls do guJh."
150 TRANSLATIONS.
The guJi»g rill, I apprehend, was ditatcd by the account of the
mh'aclc recorded in Scripture, 1: cv. 4l, IJàiah xlviii. £1 ;
pcrhaps without uny obligation to Sylvcfter's ufe of g, or to
Spenfi.r's, t'ao'. Q«. ri. iii. 50. i. viii. Io, v. ri. 3, &c. Sandys»
:m paraphrafing the miracle of Mofes, agrecs with Milton :
« Even from their barren fidcs the waters
" And clown in rivcrs through thc vallics rtdh'd."
TODD.
/' S A L M CXXXVI.
LET us, with a gladçome mind,
Praife the Lord, tbr he is kind;
For his mercies aye endure,
Erer faithful, ever lute.
Let us blaze his naine abroad,
For of Gods he is the God.
[For his .c.
O, let us his praiçes tell,
Who doth the wrathful tyrants qucll.
For his ,.c.
Who, with his nfiracles, doth make
Amazed tleaven and Earth to fhake.
For his ,.c.
10
15
Ver. 5. Lct ris blaze h& naine abroad,] So Spent'cr, of his
knights and ladics, Faer. Qu. i. i. 1.
" Whofe praifes hauing ficpt in filencc loug,
" Mec, all to mcanc, the f«crcd Mufe arecds
" To bla:on bro«d amongft her lcarned throng.'"
Ste alfo blaze abroad in Mihon's 86th Pll v. 43. And Barrct
IAcarie, 150, in -oc. blqlè abro.td. Tope.
TRANSLATIONS.
Who, by his wifdom, did create
The painted heavens fo full of Kate.
For his
Who did the folid earth ordain
To rire above the watery plain.
For his ;c.
151
20
Ver. 18. Tl, e painted heavens fo full of flate.] Compare a
Sonnet of Bartolini, p. 209,
" Era dipinto il ciel de fuoi colori, &c.'"
Sonetti de diverti Accademici Sancfi Siena, 1608. And Drum-
mond, in one of his Ilymns, fpeaking of the firmament, thus
addreffcs the Divine Being:
" Thou paint'fl the lame with flfining flame."
See alfo Buchanan, 29c Spher. lib. i. p. 114. edit. Ruddiman.
" pioeique nitorcm
« W__theris, et puros radiati luminis orbes." TODD.
Ver. 22. tke watcry plain.] Pope, lKindf, t'or.
v. 146.
" And pykes, the tyrants of the watery plains.'"
Sce Note on Comas, v. 49. T. Waro.
lIilton has the fame phrafe, Par. Lori, B. i. 396. « Rabba and
lier water plain.'" This combination is very frequcnt in out
ancient poetry. Thus Spenfer, Faer. a. iv. xi. 4. " Playing
on the uatery plaine." Drummond, in his Soins. fo trie Sun, 1616.
" From thofe watrie plabes thy golden hcad raife vp." Browne,
Brit. Pari. 1616, B. il. S. iii. " The nymphs that floate vpon
thet catr plaines." Drayton, Polyolb. 16°2, p. 239. ' Nep-
tunes v:atry plaine ;" the whole of which Randolph copies lite-
rally, Poems 1640, p. . Drayton bas alfo file following maflerly
line, defcribing a ihip, Barons IVarres, 167, iiij. 19.
" Sprcading her proud fayles on the wah'ie playne.'"
Sec alfo P. Fletcher's Purp. 1ff. 1638 c. iii. ft. 28. « Often
meeting on the u'atrie plahd' To.
15 TRANSLATIONS.
Vho, by his all-commanding lnight,
Did till the new-lnade world iti light.
For lais ,J.c.
Anti caus'd the golden-treflèd fun
Ail the (lay long his court to run.
For lais ,l"c.
The horned moon fo flfine by night,
Ver. 9. the golden-treflèdfun] " I cmmot
aoid rcferring this exprellion," Ïays Mr. Dunfier, " to Syl-
vcfler's Dn Bartas, whcre the tire is hot only dcfcribed « vith
golden troEès; p. 85, but it is altb ltid, p. 0(i0.
' Scarce did the gohlen goernour of day
" O'er Memphis yct the golden tr«:/ difplay.' "
I iiffer from Mr. Duuler. Milton perh,aps might here be
rather thinking ot; or indeed trauflating, Buchanan's verfion of
thi pfahn. Sec 1/ cxxxvi. 13uch. 01 p. edit. Ruddiman, p. 93.
" Qui./b/em avlcoxv jufilt dare jura diei."
The phrafe auricomus indeed may be traced to elder Latin poets ;
and v«;o,.0ç occur in the Grt.cian writcrs. Yet Milton's epithet
:trier ail, i derived from the fathcr of Englilh poetry, Chaucer
Tf. and Cre.l: B.v. vcr. 9- « The goldin-t;'çffd Phoebus high on
loite, &c." Drayton, vith fimilar elegance, calls the flar»
Jilrcr-tre.l]ëd , Engl. llcroic. Epifl. lbl. 1627. p. 2'21.
Ver. ,33. The horned moo»] Literally ri'oto Spenfer, F. Q.
iv. ri. 43. " Till the hor»ed moon three courfcs did expire.'"
The faine phrafe occurs in Shakfpcare's ]lid.f. IV. )Dr. The
moon's ul'ual epithet iu our old poctiT, is korned. 'l'hus»
Craig's So»ges and So»netts 1606.
« And horned Luna, pcnfive, fad, and paile."
lr. Dunfler hcre obtbrves, that fle is oftcn called " Night's horned
queen,'" in Sylveflcr's Du 13artas. But fi'c allb Chauccr, edit. Urr.
p. 41.9, and llaringtoa's Orl. l:tn', edit. 1607, p. 143.
Greenc's Comicall E.J ,rie oJ" Atphots kbtg of Arragon, 4% 1599.
A. ii. S. ult.
" Ère Cynthia, the fhining lampe of night,
" Doth fcale the heaucn with her korned
TRANSLATIONS.
Amongft her fpangled fifters bright.
For his 6:c.
He, with his thunder-clafping hand,
,95
I take this occafion to obferve, that Shakfpeare introduces his
Player-king in ltamlet, " Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart
gone ronnd &c.," with a view pcrhaps to ridicule a paffage in this
play, A. iii. A pricfi the fpcaker :
" Thrife ten rimes Phoebus, with his golden beames,
" Hath colnpaffed the circle of the tkie ;
" Thrife ten rimes Cotes hath ber workmen hir'd,
*' And fild ber barnes with frutefull crops of corne,
" ince.fi(# in priefthood I did lcad my lire."
This old drama, anti Thc Rare Triumphes of Lofe and 1;'ortune,
quotcd in thetb volumes, havc hitherto cfcapcd thc colnlnentators
on Shakfpcarc. The copies, to which I bave had accefs, bc-
longed to thc latc Duke of Bridgcwater, and now belong to the
ZIarquis of Statïtbrd. To.
Ver. 34. Amongfl ber fpangledfiflers bright.] Sec thc note
on Pat'. Loti, B. vil. 384. Sylvelter calls the ftars « giltfpangles;'"
and likewife, as lXlr. Dunfter relnarks, has the « hcaven'sflar-
fpangled canopy," Du Bart. p. 43, and " the bright flar-
jangled regions," p. 143. But this was the common poctical
decoration of the firmament. Thus Shakfpeare, Tare. of Shrew,
A. iv. S. v. " When fiars do ./:pangle heaven. »Sec alfo the
note on Corons, v. 1003. Drummond dcfcribes the heavens
" fpangled with fiars,'" Poems, p. 15, and in other places.
Yarington, in his Tu'o Tragedies in One, 101, ha the following
patlkge :
« Yee glorious beames of that bright-flfining lampe,
" That lights theflarre-bcfpangled firlnamcnt, &c."
Sec alfo Peacham's Nupt. l-tyran, i. ed. 1613. The heaven's
"flarry-fpangled gouine of blew." Lifle, in his Part of Du
Bart. p. 154, calls the hcaven " the flarre-emlowdred vault."
$ee the note on Par. Loti, B. vil. 581. Toi.
Ver. 37. his thunder-clafping hand,] A fublime
¢ompound ; hot indebted, I think, to Sylvefter's « thnndero
thrower," or « tkunder-darter,'" or « the only-tkzmdring hand
of God," as bas been fuppofed. Poffibly the young poet might
154, TRANSLATI[ONS.
Smote the firf-born of Egypt land.
For his ,.c.
And, in defpite of Pharaob fell,
He brought t:rom thence his It?aëlo
For his ,.c.
The ruddy waves he cleft in tain
Of" the Ll"ythroeal main.
For his ,_f.c.
4O
bc thinking of thc claffical Jttp#cr Tonans, who is reprefented
in antique medals and geins grafping the fulmen as ready to
dart it at the head of his enemics. " Corufc$.['uhnina nolitur
&xtrâ," Virg. Gcorg'. i. 5.. q'o.
Ver. 41. .dnd, in ch/)ige o.t'haraoh fell,
He brot«g'ht from thence hi8 Ifraël.] The frequency
,f thefe rhymes in Sylveler's Du Bartas, no doubt, fuggefted to
?,Iilton the t.tme termination. Mr. Dunfter refers to
377, 4ô8,478 ; and mreovcr obferves that Pharaoh is callcd
Jèll in p. 561 of the faine volume.
Ver. z5.. The ruddy waves he cleft in twain
OJ" the Erythroean ,ain.] So in Sylvcfter's
Bart. cd. fipr, p. 48, citcd by Mr. Dunftcr.
" llis dreadfu! voice, to fae his ancient fhcep,
'* Did cleare thc bottom of th' Er3"threan dccp."
" This l»afl:age alonc," Mr. Du»fler adds, " feems ncarly fuffl-
cicnt to fix on Milton an acquaintance with, and recollcoetion of»
Sylvetcr's Du Bartas ; efpecially as 1 can allb rcfer his ' ruddy
vavcs of the E3"throean or Rcd Sea to the ihme fource, p. 967.
' along thc fandy Ihore,
' Whcre thc Er3'threan rud«h d billows roar.' "---.
It is remarkablc, that Lifle has altb tranflatcd Du Bartas's
« le flot Erflhrcan, the ruddie feas," p. 170. edit. fupr. Sandy
bas ad.optcd Erflhrean in his lxxiv th Pjàhn :
" Thou flruck'ft the Erflhrcean waves, &c."
,qt,e alfo his Chri./t's Pqlion» 1640, p.
TRANSLATIONS. 15
The floods fiood fiill, like walls of glafs,
While the Ilebrew bands did patL ,o
I"or his
But full foon they did devour
Ïhe tawny king with all his power.
For his ,5"c.
llis chofen people he did blefs
In tlle wafieful wildernefs.
For his ,5"c. 60
In bloody battle he brought down
Kings of prowet and renown.
For his ,.c.
lle tbil'd bold Seon and his hofl,
That rul'd the Amorrëan coaf.
For his
_And large-limb'd Og he did fitbdue,
Ver. 53. B«t full foon thoj did devour
The tawny king v'ith all his pmver.] "' Thus
exa&ly," fays Mr. Dunlter, " and with the faine fille elTe(L
Sylvefier, p. 704.
' But contrary the Red Sea did da:our
The barbarous tyrant with his lnighty power.' "---
There is here an expreffion, however, to be noticed in Fairfax's
Tqo, edit. 1600, p. 47.
" Conquer'd were ail hot Affrike's tawnie ki»gs." To».
Ver. 66. the Amorrëan coafl.] This elfithet feems
to me an additional proof, that Buchanan's verfion of this pfahn
,vas in the young poet's lnind. See the page already lnentioned
in the Note on v. 29.
" Stravit Imorrhtrum valid' virtute Seoneln." Tory.
Ver. 68. znd large-limb'd Og] The colnpound is litel'all«
156 TRANSLATIONS.
With all his over-hardy crew. 70
[For his .c.
And, to his ferrant Ifi'aël,
He gave their land therein to dwell.
For his .c. 7
He hath, with a piteous eye,
Beheld us in out mifery.
For his ,-c. so
And freed us from the flavery
Of the invading enemy.
For his ,;,c.
Ail living creatures he doth feed, ss
And with fidl hand fupplies their need.
For his .c.
Let us thereIbre warble forth
His mighty majet[y and worth. 9o
For his ,.c.
That his mantion hath on high
Above the reach of mortal eye.
from Drayton's Orale, 1604. " Large-hjmb'd oak?' Sec alt
Iarflon's Scourge ?f Fiilan&, 1598, 13. iii. Sat. viii.
"' Big-liram'd Alcides, doffthy honor's crowne." Toc)p.
Ver. 86. ,4nd with fu|l hand fi«pplics their need.] 8o, in ConlitS :
" With fuch a.fnll and unwithdrawing hand." To)).
Ver. 89. Lct us therefore warble forth] A phrafe, as Sir.
Dunftcr alfo obferves, in the firlt page of Sylvefier's Du Barta« :
" O Father ! grant I fwcetly a'arblejbrth &c."
Ver. 94,. Above the rcach of nortal eye.] " This is admired
by Mr. Warton as a very poetical exprcflion, and fo itis," fays
ilr. Dunfter. " But," he adds, " Sylvefter had before fpokcn of
' all that is, or nlay befeen
t 13y nortal eyc under lqight's horned queen.' p. 40."--
TRANSLATIONS.
or his mercies aye endure,
F, ver faithful, ever fure.
I would rather refer to p. 469 of Sylvefter's Du 13artas, whcre
She Almighty is defcribcd :
" XA'hy paint you l'hom no zaortal eye can fee
Again, p. 943.
" With God is light
" More pure, more piercing, pari a mortal
But this had been a very common expreflion. Spenfer, 'aer.
i. vii. 33.
« Ne might of mortall ey be ever feene."
See alfo ibid. ii. ii. 41. And Pigrnalion's Image, 1598.
" fuch redde, and fo pure white,
" Did nouer blcfs the eye of nortallfight:'
Thus, in Fairfax's Tab, 1600, p. 140. " Hid from worlall
Sec alfo pp. 217, 59. And I-Iann,ton s OrL Fur. 1607, p.
« That erft wa» feene with any mortall eye."
* In the brief compaf.s of this and the preceding Pfalm may
obferved the Variety of Milton's Early Reading. They illuftrate
bi» own obfervation in a Lctter to his preceptor, Thomas Young»
dated foon after he had written thefe his earlieft poetical at-
tempts: « Hoec fcripfi Londini inter urbana diverticula, nort
libris, o7; soro» circumfeptus." Tho: Junio» Mart. "26, 165.
ToDD,
JOANNIS MILTONI
LONDINENSIS
POEMATA.
,UORUM PLERAQUE INTIIA ANNUM zETATIS
VIG LSIS[USI CONSCR1PSIT.
H2EC quoe fequuntur de Authore teffimonia,
tametfi iptè intelligebat non tam de le quàm
fupra th eflè di6ta, eh qu6d prreclaro ingenio viri,
nec non amici, ira ferè folent laudare, ut omnia
this potiùs virtutibus, quàm veritati congruentia,
nimis cupid affingant, noluit tamen horum
egregam in le voluntatem non effe notaln ; cùm
alii proefertim ut id faceret magnoperè fuaderent.
Dum enim nimioe laudis invidiam totis ab le
viribus anaolitur, tibique quod plus oequo eP non
attributum efl mavult, judicium interim ho-
minum cordatorum atque illuftrium quin fummo
fibi honori ducat., negare non potefl.
JOAXNES I)APTIST_a ILa,'SUS, 3larchio Villes,
x\ëapolitan us, ad J o N r I T 0 N U A nglum.
UT mens, forma, decor, facies, mos, fi pietas fie,
Non Anglus, verthm hercl Angelus, ipfe fores.
2Von Anglus, verùm hercld Angelus,] Such was nearly the re-
mark of Gregory, Archdeacon of Rome, as related by lIilton in
his Hifl.. of Eg. B. iv. " The Northmnbrians had a cuftom to
lèll their children for a fmall value into any foreign land. Of
which number two comely youths were brought to Rome, whofe
fair and honefl cotntenances invited Gregory, pitying their condi-
tion» to demand whence they wcre : It was anfwered, that they
vor-. wx. M
.4d JOANNEM lII LTONEiI A»glum, triplici poçfi'o,
laured coronandum, Gr¢EEcâ nimirum, Latinâ,
arque tletrufc?t, Epigram'ma Jo- NIS SArs rLX
Romani.
CEDE, Meles; cedat deprefsâ Mincius urnâ;
Sebetus Tafl'um definat ufque loqui ;
At Thamefis ri&or cun6tis ferat altior undas,
Nam per te, Milto, par tribus unus erit.
Ad Jo^E IIILTONUIr.
GR/ECIA Moeonidem, jaêtet fibi Roma Maronem,
Anglia Miltonum ja&at utrique parem.
SErv_66I.
were .4ngli, of the province Delta, fubjec"ts to .41la king of
Northumberland, and by religion Pagans. Which lait Gregory
deploring, fl'am'd on a fudden this allufion to the three names
he heard ; that the ArGlX fo like to AGELS flmuld be fnatched
de ira, that is, from the wrath of God, to ting Hallelujah." ToII.
2ram per te, Milto, lar tribus «nt«s erit.] The conclufion is
not diffitnilar to the lait line of Dryden's celcbrated epigram on
Milton :
« To make a third, fle join'd the former two."
The next verfes by Selvaggi, it bas oftcn been remarked, might
fuggeit to Dryden the formation and turn of his epigram. Or
the following Epigmm by a French writer, was probably iu
Dryden's mind, as the late Mr. Reed obferved to ne.
In Roberti Garnerii Opufcula Tragica.
Tres tragicos habuiflè vetus fe Groecia ja&at :
Unum pro tribus lais Gallia nuper habet.
.Efchylon, antiquâ qui majeitate fuperbus
Grande cothurnato carmen ab ore fonat. '
Quem Sophocles fequitur perfec"tior arte priorem,
163
.l Signor GIO. 'IIL'roxi 2rot)ile Inglefe.
ODE.
ERGIMI all' Etra 6 Clio
Perche di f[elle intreccier6 corona
Non pi6 riel Biondo Dio
La ri'onde eterna in Pindo, e in Elicona,
Dienfi a merto maggio; maggiori i fregi,
A' celefte virth celefti pregi.
Non puo del tempo edace
Rimaner preda, eterno alto valore
Non puo 1' oblio rapace,
Furar dalle memorie eccelfo onore,
Su 1' arco di mia cetra un dardo forte
Virt m' adatti, e ferir6 la morte.
Del ocean profondo
Cinta dagli ampi gorghi Anglia rifiede
Separata dal mondo,
Per6 che il fuo valor 1' umano eccede :
Quefta feconda sA produrre Eroi,
Ch' hanno a ragion del fovruman tra noi.
Nec nimis antiquus, llec nimis ille novus.
Tertius Euripides, Aoetoei lama theatri,
In cujus labris Attica fedet apis.
&t nunc vincit eos, qui tres Garnerius unus»
Terna ferat Tragicis premia digna tribus.
Joli. &URATUSo
Garnier was one of the mort celebrated tragick poets before
Corneille; and tllis epigram is prefixed to mort editions of his
works. It bas been alfo tranflated into French by 1. E«nne
who extended it to 14 lines. TODD.
ODE.
Alla " '
vlrtu tbandita
Dauno ne i petti lor fido ricctto,
Quella gli è tbl gradita,
Perche in Ici fan trovar gioia, e diletto;
Ridillo tu, Giovanni, e mof[ra in tanto
Çon tua vera virtt't, veto il mio Cauto
Lungi dal patrio lido
Spinfe Zeufi 1' induftre ardente branm ;
Ch' udio d'Helena il grido
Con aurea tromba rimbombar la fan.a,
È per poterla efligiare al paro
Dalle più belle Idee traffe il più
Cofi l'ape ingegnofa
Trae con induftria il fuo liquor pregiato
Dal giglio e dalla rofa,
E quand vaghi fiori ornano il prato;
Formano un dotce fuon diverfe chorde,
Fan varie voci melodia concorde.
Di bella gloria amante
Milton dal ciel natio per varie parti
Le peregrine piante
Volgefti a ricercar fcienze, ed arti ;
Del Gallo regnator vedeti i regui,
E dell' Italia ancor gl' Eroi più degni.
Fabro quafi divino
Sol virtù rintracciando il tuo penfiero
Vide in ogni confino
Chi di nobil valor calca il fentiero;
L'ottimo dal lniglior dopo fcegliea
Per fabbricar d' ogni virtu 1' idea.
ODE.
Quanti nacquero in Flora
O in iei del parlar Tofco apprefer 1' aride,
La cui memoria onora
Il mondo fatta eterna in dotte carte,
Volefti ricercar per tuo tetbro,
] parlafti con lor nell' opre loto.
65
Nell" altera Babelle
Per te ilparlar confufe Giove in vano,
Che per varie favelle
Di 1 fteflà trofeo cadde fu'l piano:
Ch' Ode oltr' all Anglia il fuo pii degno idioma
Spagna, Francia, Tolana, e Grecia, e Roma.
I più profondi arcani
Ch" occulta la natura e in cielo e in terra
Ch" à ingegni fovrutnani
Troppo avara tal' hor gli chiude, e ferra,
Chiarmnente conofci, e giungi al fine
Della moral virtude al gran confine.
]N'on batta il Tempo 1' aie,
Fermifi imnoto, e in un fermin fi gl' anni,
Che di virtù immortale
Scorron di troppo ingiuriofi a i danni ;
Che s' opre degne di poenm e toria
Furon gia, l'hai prefenti alla memoria.
Dmnmi tua dolee cetra
Se vuoi ch' io dica del tuo dolce canto,
Ch' inalzandoti all' Etra
Di farti huomo celefte ottiene il vanto,
Il Tamigi il dirà che gl' e conceffo
Per te fuo cigno pareggiar Permeffo.
166 ODE.
Io che in riva del Arno
Tento fpiegar tuo merto alto, e preclaro
So che fatico indarno,
E ad ammirar, non a lodarlo imparo ;
Freno dunque la lingua, e afcolto il core
Che ti prende a lodar con 1o ftupore. *
Deljqg. Ar¢a'oNo Frt.l'cxr, gentilhuomo
Fiorentino.
Dr. Johnfon thinks, that, after much tumid and trite pane-
gyrick, the concluding flanza of this Ode is natural and beatt-
tiful. T. WR7:o,w.
JOANNI MILTONI
LONDINENSI:
3uveni patriâ, virtutibus, eximio;
VIRO, qui multa peregrinatione, ftudio cunéta,
orbis terrarum loca, perfpexit; ut novus Ulyffes
omnia ubique ab omnibus apprehenderet:
Polyglotto, in cujus ore linguoe jam deperditoe
revivifcunt, ut idiomata omnia fint in ejus laudibus
infacunda; et jure ea percallet, ut admirationes ét
plaufus populorum ab propriâ fapientiâ excitatos
intelligat :
Illi, cujus animi dotes corporifque fenths ad ad-
mirationem commovent, et per ipfam motum oui-
que auferunt; ctjus opera ad plaufus hortantur,
fed * venufiate vocem laudatoribus adimunt.
Cui in memoriâ totus orbis; in intelle&u fapi-
entia ; in voluntate ardor glorioe ; in ore eloquentia;
harmonicos coeleftium fphoerarum fonitus, aftrono-
mit duce, audienti ; charaêteres mirabilium naturoe
per quos Dei magnitudo defcribitur, magil[râ phi-
lotbphi'$, legenti; antiquitatum latebras, vetuftatis
excidia, eruditionis ambages, comite affiduâ au-
torum lec"tione,
Exquirenti, reftauranti, percurrenti.
Atcur nitor in ard«um ?
* Venuftate] Ilitate. Edit. 1645.
168
Illi, in cujus virtutibus evulgandis ora Famoe non
fufficiant, nec hominum ftupor in laudandis fati»
eft, reverentioe et amoris ergo hoc ejus meritis
debitum admirationis tributum offert C.or.us
D,'rus Patricius Florentinus,
Tanto homini fervus, tantoe virtutis amator.
* Carlo Dati, one of Milton's literary friends at Florence.
See Epitaph. Damon. v. 137. Tickell and Fenton, who might
have been taught better by Tonfon's previous editions, read, Ca-
rolus Deodatus, as if it was our author's friend Charles Deodate.
See the firft Note on the firK Elegy. T. Walt'ro.
PP, ELIMINARY OBSERVATIOIS
oN
THE LATIN VERSES.
MILTON is laid to be the firt Eogliflmaan , vho
after the reftoration of lettcrs wrote Latin verfes
with claffick elegance. But we mufi; at leaft except
fome of the hendecafyllables and epigrams of Le-
land, one of our firft literary refonners, fi'om this
haty determination.
In the Elegies, Ovid was profeffedly Milton's
model for language and verfification. They are
hOt, however, a perpetual and uniform tiffue of
Ovidian phrafeology. With Ovid in view, he has
an original manner and charac'-ter of his own, which
exhibit a remarkable perfpicuity of contexture, a
native facility and fluency. Nor does his obferva-
tion of Roman models opprefs or deftroy our great
poet's inherent powers of invention and fentiment.
I value thefe pieces as much for their fancy and
genius, as for their ftyle and expreffion.
That Ovid alnong the Latin poets was lilton's
favourite, appears hot only from his elegiack but
his hexametrick poetry. The verfification of our
author's hexameters has yet a different true-"ture
170
OBSERVATIONS ON THE
from that of the Metamorphofes : Milton's is more
elear, intelligible, and flowing; lefs defultory, lefs
familiar, and lefs embarraffed with a frequent recur-
rence of periods. Ovid is at once rapid and abrupt.
He wants dignity: he has too much converfation
in his manner of telling a ftory. Prolixity of para-
graph, and length of fentence, are peculiar to
Milton. This is feen, not only in folne of his ex-
ordial invocations in the Paradife Loti, and in
many of tbe religious addreffes of a like caft in the
profe works, but in his long verfe. It is to be
wifhed that, in lais Latin compofitions of all forts,
he had been more attentive to the fimplicity of Lu-
cretius, Virgil," and Tibullus.
Dr. Johnfon, unjuftly I think, prefers the Latin
poetry of May and Cowley to that of Milton, and
thinks May to be the firft of the three. May is
certainly a fonorous verfifier, and was fufficienfly
accomplifhed in poetical declamation for the con-
tinuation ofLucan's Phar.fidia. But May is fcarcely
an author in point, ttis tkill is in parody ; and he
,vas confined to the peculiarities of an archetype,
which, it may be prefumed, he thought excellent.
As to Cowley when compared with Milton, the
ime critick obferves, "Milton is generally content
to exprefs the thoughts of the ancients in their lan-
guage: Cowley, without much lors of purity or
¢legance, accolnmodates the diion of Rome to
his own conceptions.--The advantage feems to lie
on the ride of Çowley." But what are thefe con-
ceptions? Metaphytical conceits, ail the unnatural
extravagancies of lais Englifla poetry; fuch as will
aot bear to be clothed in the Latin language, much
LATIN ¥RSES.
lefs are capable of admitting any degree of pure
Latinity. I will give a few infmnces, out of a
great multitude, from the Davideis.
"' Hic foeiatorum facra conltellatio vatum,
"" Quos felix virtus evexit ad oethera, nubes
"" Luxurioe fupra, telnpeftatefque laboruma. "
Again,
" Temporis ingreditur penetralia celfa futuri,
" Implumefque videt nidis coeleftibus annos t,.,,
And, to be fhort, we have the Pht..fquam ifits aqui-
limts of lovers, Natio 'erborum, Exuit itam
aeriam, _71lenti auditur fymphonia dulcis, Naturte
archiva, Omnes fymmetria .]èn.fits congerit, Condit
aromatica prohibetque putefi'ere laude. Again,
where tliquid is perfonified, J]Io»ogramma exordia
9Rlotdi c.
It may be laid, that Cowley is here tranflating
fi'om his own Englifla Davideis. But I will bring
examples from his original Latin poems. In praife
of the tring.
" Et refonet toto mufica verna libro ;
" Undique laudis odor dulciffilnus halet, c ."
And in the fame poem in a party worthy of the
paftoral pencil of Watteau.
"' Hauferunt avide Chocolatam Flora Venufque ."
Of the Fraxinella.
"' Tu tres metropoles humani corporis armis
"" Propugnas, merum, cor, cerebrumque, tuisr. "
See Cowley's Poemata latina, Lond. 1668. 8vo. p. 398.
Ibid. p. 399. Ibid. p. 386. 397. 399. 400.
Plantar. Lib. iii. p. 137'. " L. iv. p. 254.
L. iv. p. 07.
17 OBSERVATIONS ON THE
Hc calls the Lychnis, Candelabrum ingens. Cupid
is Arbiter formce criticus. Ovid is Antiquarius
ingens. An iii fmell is flaunned Oljàcus tetricitate
.fid. And in the faine page, is mtgatoria peis g.
But ail his faults are confpicuoufly and collec-
tively exemplified in thefe ftanzas, among others,
of his Hymn 0n Light h.
,, Pulchra de nigro foboles parente,
" Quarn Chaos fertur peperiffe prirnmn,
" Cujus oh formaln benê rifit olirn
" Maflh feera !
" Rifus 0 terroe lhcer et polorum,
" ureus vere pluvius Tolmntis,
"" Quoeque de coelo fluis inquieto
" Gloria rivo !
'" Te bibens arcus Jovis ebriofus
"' blille formofos revomit ¢olol'es,
" Pavo coeletIis, variamque pafcit
"" Lumine caudam."
And afterwards, of the waves of the fea, perpetu-
ally in motion.
' Lucidum trudis properanter aglnen :
" Sed refiflentunl i fuper ora rerum
" Lenitèr agnas, liquidoque ilmndas
" Cunoeta colore :
'" At mare imlnenfum oceanufque Lucis
" Jugitèr coelo fluit elnpyroeo ;
" Hine inexhaufio per utrumque mundum
'" Funditur ore."
Milton's Latin poems may be juftly confidercd
as legitimate clafiical compotitions, and are never
g See L. iv. p. 10. L. iii. p. 186. 17o. L. ii. p. I6,
h Sec p. 407. feq. i Standing flill.
LATIN VERSES. 173
diraced with fueh language and fuch imagery.
Cowley's Latinity, diated by an irregular and un-
reftrained imagination, prefents a mode of diion
hall Latin and half Englifh. It is hot fo muchthat
Cowley wanted a knowledge of the Latin ftyle, but
that he fuflired that knowledge to be perverted and
corrupted by falfe and extravagant thoughts. Mil-
ton was a more perfe fcholar than Cowley, and
his mind was more deeply tinoEured with the ex-
cellencies of ancient literature. He was a more
jut thinkel; and therefore a more juft writer.
a word, he had more tarte, and more poetry, and
confequently more propriety. If a fondneI for
the Italian writers has ibmetimes infeed his
Englifh poetry with falfe ornaments, his Latin
vertis, both in di6"tion and fentiment, are at lealt
free from thofe depravations.
Some of Milton's Latin poems were written in
his firft year at Cambridge, when he was only feven-
teen: they muii: be allowed to be very corre& and
manly performances for a youth of that age. And,
confidered in that view, they difcover an extraor-
dinary copioutiefs and command of ancient Fable
and hiftory. I cannot but add, that Gray retimbles
Milton in many inftances. Among others, in their
youth they werc both ftrongly attached to the cul-
tivation of Latin poetry. T. WTO.
ELEGIARUM
LIBER.
ELEG. I. _4D C.,4ROLUM DEOD/1TUM.
TANDEM, chare, tuoe mihi pervenere
bellre,
Pertulit et voces nuncia charta tuas ;
* Charles Deodate was one of Milton's mort intimate friends.
He was au excellent fcholar, and pratetifed phyfick in Chefhire.
He waseducated with ourauthor at Saint Paul's fchool in London;
and from thence was fent to Trinity college Oxford, wherc he was
entered Feb. 7, in the year 1621, at thirteen years of age. L/b.
3latric. Unir. Oxon.jkb amz. He was born in London, and the
naine ofhis father, " in Medicina Do&oris," was Theodore. Ibid.
He was a fellow-collegian there with Alexander Gill, another of
Milton's intimate friends, who was fucceffively Ufher and Malter
of Saint Paul's fchool. Deodate bas a copy of Alcaicks extant
in an Oxford-eolle(tion on the death of Camden, called Camdeni
Infignia, Oxon. 1624. He left the college, when he was a Gen-
tleman ¢ommoner in 1622_8, having taken the degree of Mafter of
Arts. Lib Caution. Coll. Tqn. Toland fays, that he had in his
poffeflion two Greek letters, very well written, from Deodate to
Milton. Two of Milton's familiar Latin letters, in the utmolt
freedom of friendthip, are to Deodate. Epift. Fam. Profe-work«,
vol. ii. 567, 568. Both dated from London, 1637. But the
beft, certainly the molt pleafing, evidenees of their intimacy,
and of Deodate's admirable eharater, are our author'sfirfl and
fixtk Elegies, the .]ourth on»et, and the Epitaphium Damon£ç.
And it is highly proble, that Deodate is thefimplefhepherd lad,
in Comus, ,xho is fkilled in plants, and loved to heur Thyriis firg,
176 ELEGIARU3f
Pertulit, occidm Devoe Ceftrenfis ab or&
Vergivium prono qu'à petit amne çalum.
v. 619. feq. He died in thc year 1638. Sce the firl't Note,
Epitaph. Damon. .This Èlegy was written about the year 1627,
in anfver to a letter out of Cheflfirc from Deodate : and iXIilton
feems pleafed to refle6t, that ho is affc&ionately remembered at
fo great a diftance, v. 5.
" Multum, crede, juvat, tcrras aluiffe remotas
" Pcc"tus amans noftri, tamque fidele caput.'"
Our author was now refiding with his t:ather a fcrivener in Bread-
ftreet, who had hot yct retired from bufinefs to Horton near
Colnebrook. I have mcntioned Alexandcr Gill in this note.
He was ruade Ufher of St. Paul's fchool about thc year 1619,
where Milton was his favourite fcholar. IIe was admitted, at
fifteen, a commoner ofTrinity college, Oxford, in 161. Here
at length he took thc degrec of do&or of divinity, about 16£9.
I-Ils brothers George and Nathaniel, werc both of the fame col-
loge, and on the foundation. In a book given to thc Library
there, by their father, its author, called the Sacred Philofophie of
the Holy Scripture, 1635, I find this infcription written by Alex-
ander. " Ex dono autloris artium magiri olim Collegii Cor-
poris Chrifti alumni, Patris Alcxandri Georgii et Nathanaelis
Gillorum, qui omnes in hoc Studioforcm vivario literis operan
dedere. Tertio Kal. Junias, 1635." This Alexander gave,
to the faid Library, the old folio edition of Spenfer's _aerie
Quecne, Drayton's Polyolbion by Seldcn, and Bourdelotius's Lu-
clan, all having poetical lnottos from the clallicks in lais own
hand-writing, which fhow his tafte and track of reading, lrt the
Luian are the arms of the Gills, elegantly tricked with a pen,
and coloured, by Alexander Gill. From Saint Paul's fchool, of
which from the Ufherflfip he was appointcd llaftcr in 1635, on
the death and in the room of his fathcr, he fent lIilton's friend
Deodate to Trinity collcge, Oxford. lte contimmd 31alter rive
year only, and died in 164£. Three of Milton's familiar Latin
Letters to this Alexander Gill are rcmaifing, replete with the
the ltrongeft teftimonies of eftccm and friendflfil). Wood fays,
" he was accounted ont of the ber Latin poets in the nation, »
21th. Oxon. il. £. Milton pays him high complimc:ts on the
LIBER. 77
Multùm, crede, jt,vat terras aIuiflè remotas
Pe6tus amans noçtrî, t{tmque fidele caput,
Qu&ique mihi lepidum tellus longinqua lbdalem
I)ebet, at unde breri redderejufli relit.
excellence of his Lattin poetry : and among many other expref-
fions ofthe warmeft approbation calls his vertis, " Carmina fane-
grandia, et majeftatem verb poeticam, Virgilianumque ubique
ingeniuln, referentia," &c. Sec Pro.lè-u'orAs, il. 565, 566, 567.
Two are dated in 16o8, and the laft, 1684,. Mort of his Latin
poetry is publilhed in a ri,mil volume, entitled Poetici Conatus,
1Ô3'2. 12mo. But he bas other pieces extaut, bofla in Latin and
Euglilh. Wood had feen others in manufcript. In the church of
St. Mary Magdalene at Oxford, in the neighbourhood of Trinity
college, I have often feen a long prot Latin epitaph written by
Gill to the memory of one of his old college fi'iends Richard
la«ttes, marier of Arts, which I thould hot bave mentioned, but
as it thows the writer's uncommml fldll in pure tatinity. He was
hot only coucerned with faint Paul's fchool, but was an alliftant
to Thomas Farnabie, the fchool-mafier of Ed,'ard King, Milton's
Lycidas. fie is laid to have beon removed froln faiht Paul's
fchool for his cxceflive fi'verity. The lait circmnfiance we lcarn
from a fatirc of the rimes, " Verres to bc reprinted with a fecm:d
edition of Gondibert, 1653." p. 54, 57. Alexander Gill here
mcntionêd, Milton's friend, recrus to be fometimes confounded
with llis father, whol naine was alfo Alexander, who was alfo
marier of faint Paul's, and whoféLogonomia, publifled in 161,
an ingenious but futile fchemc to refcrm ald fix t£e Englifl
language, is wcll known to out critical lc.xicographers..
T. W.«ox.
Ver. 4,. Yergi,ium] Draytpn bas " thefe rough l'ergivia.
fcas," Potyolb. . i. p. 656. vol. ii. The h'ilh fea. Again,
« Vergirian deepê," Ibid. S. vi. vol. ii. p. 766. And in other
places. Camden's Britanniu has lately falniliarifed the Latin
naine. T. Wartox.
Ver. 8. Debat, at unde reri r«ddereju_gà z'elit.] Itor. Od. I.
III. 5.
%'OL. l'Il, N
178 ILLEG IARU[
Me tenet urbs reflu' quam Thamefis alluit und,4,
Méque nec invitum patria dulcis habet. o
Jam nec arundi(erum mihi cura revitère Camum,
N-ec dudum vetiti me laris angit amor.
Nud nec arva placent, umbr.ttue negantia
molles :
Quàm mal Phoebicolis convenit ille locus !
Nec duri liber ufque minas perferre [agif'tri, s
C.oeterclue ingenio non fubeunda meo.
Si fit hoc exilium patrios adiiflè penates,
E,t racuum curis otia grata fi:qui,
' Navi% qu,'e tibi creditum
" D«b¢s Virgiliuln, finibus Atticis
« l«ddas incolumeln, &c." RICIIAKDSON'.
Ver. 9. ][e ten«t urb refluà quam TkamoEs alhdt undà,] To
have pointed out I,oudon by only ealling it the city walhed by
the Thames, wouhl have b,'en a general and a trite illufion. But
this allufion by being eombined with the peeuliar cireumftanee of
the reflux of the tkte, becomes new, poetical, and appropriated.
The adje¢tive retta is at once defcriptive and diffin4ive. Ovid
bas " rluum mare," Metam. vii.
But Milton had Buchanan pcrhaps in vicw, Sih'oe, p. 48. edi
uddiman.
« Oeeanus roEuis ut plenior undis &e."
Aga;n, Pfahn xevii. 3. " Quas vagus Oeeanus roEuis complee-
tirer nns.'"
Ver. 1. ¥c dudttm vtiti me laris a»git amor.
Nec duri liber {fquc »inas peçfcrrc Megri,
Ccterqre ingcnio non.fubatnda reo.] How far thefe
lines may feem to countenance an opiniou, that Mitton was fen-
tenced to undergo a tcnapor«,.ry removal or ruflication tYom Cm-
bridge, and that he was publickly whipped at his collegc, is
nutely confioEred in the lire f the poet, prcfixed to this edition.
q'o.
LI BER. 179
Non ego vel profugi nomen fortémve recufo,
La, tus et exilii conditione fruor.
O, utinam rates nunquam graviora tuliffet
Ille Tomitano flebilis exul agro ;
Non tune Ionio quicquam cefliffet Homero,
Neve foret vi&o laus tibi prima, Maro.
Tempora nam lieet hïc placidis date libera Mufis,
Et totum rapiunt me, mea vita, libri.
Excipit hine feffum finuoti pompa theatri,
Et vocat ad plaufus garrula fcena fios.
Seu eatus auditur fenior, feu prodigus hoeres,
Seu proeus, aut pofit caflide toiles adet,
Sire decennali fceeundus lite patronus
Detonat ineulto barbara verba foro;
Ver. _'2. Ille Tomitanoflcbilis c.rul agro ;] Ovid thus begins
his Epiftles from Pontus, I. i. 1. " Nalb Toraitance jam non
novus inccla tcrroe, &c." See alfo ibid. III. viii..'2. " Dona
Tomitanus mittere poffet agcr." The word is frequent in the
Epifl. ex Pont. and TrOL T.
Ver. °3. hon tune Ionio &c.] I have belote obfcrved, that
Ovid was Milton's favourite Latin poet. In thefc Elegies Ovid
is his pattern. But he fometimes imitates Propertius in his prolix
digreflions into the ancient Grecian ftory. T.
Ver. 4. Nee foret vi&o] Tiekcll and Fenton read, "
torive foret.'" TODt.
Ver. °.7. Excipit hinc fe.ffàm finuofi pompa theatri, &c.] The
theatre, as Mr. Warton obff'rves, feems to have been a favourite
mnufement of Milton's youth. Sec L'll«gro, v. 151. Hence
I bave ventured to think he may be traced in fevel'al of out old
dramas, befides thofe of Shakfpeare, Jonfon, and Beaumont
Fletcher. Tot.
Ver. :31. Sire dccennali foecundus litc patronus
Detonat inculto barbara x'erba foro ;] He
I SO EI.EG IAR U_M
Sepe vafer gnato ficcurrit fervus amanti,
l';t nafinn rigidi fidlit ubique patris ;
Saepe novos illic virgo mirata ca.lores ,»
Quid llt atnor nefcit, dura quoque nefcit, amat.
Sire c.'uentatun fariotit Tragcedia !eptrum
Qtafl:at, et efthfis crinibu,s ora rotat,
Et dolet, et tie&o, juvat et fpec'-tâffe dolendo,
Interdum et lacrvmis dulcis amaror ine[[ : ,o
Scu puer infelix indelibata reliquit
means thc play of lg»oramus. In thc cxpreition &cemmlifoecundus
Bte, there is both clegance and humour. 5Iolt ofthe rc of Mil-
ton's comick charaders are Terentian. fie is giving a gencral
view of comedy : but it is the view of a fchoIar, and he does hot
r«colle that he R.ts out with dcfcribing a London theatre.
T.
Ver. 35. &epe novos &c.] Compare Claudian E#ta. Hon,
Mat. 3.
" Nec novus unde calor, nec qu6d tfpiria vcllcnt
"' Noverat incipiens, et adhuc ignarus amandi."
And Ovid, Met. iv. $30.
" Nclçit quid fit mnor, fcd et crubuiffe decebat."
ICIIA R DSO',
Ver. 97. Sire cruentatum &c.] Sec Note on Il Pa v. 98,
Mfich the whole of Ovid's portrait of Tragedy lhould bave
been quotcd. .4mot. iii. i. 11.
" Venit et ingenti violenta Tragoedia paffu,
'" Fronte come torra, palla jacebat humi :
" Lmva manusfi'ptrum htte regale tenebat,
Here wtrace Miltonpall, as well asfi'«Ttcr. T.
Ver. 40. laomis du&is amaror inçR:] So, in
Tibullus :
" Quoe dulcem lacrymis mifcet amaritiam. '*
Jox WaTO',
Ver. 41. Sou puer ilëlix ind«libata reliquit
Gau:lia et obrul:to.flendus amore "'t ;
L113iL 8
Gaudi, et abrupto flendus amore cadit ;
Seu t'erus è tenebris iterat Styga crirninis ultor,
Seu.ferts P tczzebris itcrat St.qget cri»tid« dlor,
Co,.f:ia .fanereo l,c?%ra torre ,»ore,s :] By tl,e
youth, in the firfi couplet he perhaps intends Shakfpeare'. lon:o.
In the ft.cod, either I[andct or 3iclmrd tlte ï'hird. tic thea
draws his illufirations from the ancient tragedians. The allufiou%
however, to Shakfpeare's incidets do hot exatly correfpoml.
h the firfi infiance, Romeo was not torn from joys
although mer and abrlqto amore are much in point. The allufi«ms
are loofe, or refulting ff'oto memery, or hot intended to tally
nutely, lIiltou's writings aflbrd a flriking example of the
flrength and weaknel's of thc faine mm(t. ltis wal'melt poetical
predile¢tions were at lafl totally obliterated by civil and religiou.
enthufiafin. Seduced by the gentle eh)quence of fanaticifi, he
lifiened no longer to the " wild and native woodnotes of Fancy's
fveetefl child." h lais Ico,oclaJtes, he cenfures king Charles
fludying, " One, whom we well know was the cl,»fct companioa
of his folitudcs, Wx.rxa.x Sn,tKSeW.ar:," ProJè-rz'ors, vol. i.
368. This remonftrance, which hot only rel'ulted ri'oto his
horrence of et kig, but from his difapprobation of i)lays, would
bave corne vith propriety from Pr)mte or llugh Petcrs. Nor
did he now perceive, that what was here fl)oken in contempt,
confcrred the highefi COml)limelt on the ch'gancc of Charle»'s
private chal'aer. Ont Cooke, a rvt'orming paml)hlcteer ofthoti
days, accules the king of bcing much bettcr acqttaint('d vith
Shakfpeare and Jonfon than thc Bible. Mr. Stcevens has Kig
Charles's Shal'peare, a fine co],y of the fecond iblio : ith ff, me
altcrations of the titlcs of the plays, i his Mujefly's ovn hand-
writing. It was a prcfent ff'oto the kiag to Sir Thomas ltcrbcrt,
nmfter of thc Revels. T. WalTO..
Sir Thomas l[erbert 'as ot mafierof the Ilevels. Sir IIenry
I]erbert illed that oce. Sec Steevens's Shakfpeare, edit. 1793,
vol. il. p. 375. Mr. Steevens's copy of the feeond folio, rince
his death, has been lmrchafed for lais prefcm Majefty's library.
Iilton did not cenfurc Charles the firlt for reading Shakfpeare.
This point has been proved by Mr. Waldron, the acute and in-
genious editor of Tte Lit¢rary 131ùcm, ia 1792 ; ho, in a Note
182 ELEGIARUM
Confcia fanereo peora torre moyens"
Sou mceret Pelopeia domas, feu nobilis
to Downes's Rofcius Anglicanus, p. 8, cites the whole paflhge from
IconoclaJes ; in which Milton's prctence is to rcprefcnt the king as
imitating the hypocrify of Richard the third : " I thall hot in-
france an abftrufe author whercin the king might be lefs con-
verfant, but one hom we ucll know was the clolèt companion
of thefehis folitudes, William Shakfpcare, who .introduccd the
perron of Richard the third, fpeaking iii as high .x traine of,
pictie and mortilication, as is uttered in any paffage of this book
[EIKgZN BAZI&IKH] ; and ibmetimes to the faine tbnfe and pur-
pol with fome words in this place, I intended, lb.ith he, hot onlu
fo oblige my friends, but nine enemics. The liko lb.ith Rickard»
A. il. . i.
1 doe hot know that Egl([hman al&'e
l]'th whom raff.foule is a» jott at odds,
lqlore than the bfant that in bern to-nigkt
I thank raff GodJbr y humliie.
Other ftuffof this fort may be read throughout the whole tr«gedie?.
derein the poet ufed hot much licence in departing ri'oto the
truth of hiftory, whieh delivers hm a deep diflèmbler, not of his
affecfiions only, but of religion." Mr. Waldron has colleded
the 'arious charges ruade againti 5Iilton for cenfnring the king's
amufi»g himf«lfwith Shakfpeare; and has cflbually as well as
liberally, filenced thcm on this point. The chara&er of Charles,
however, in the preceding extra£t, appears to me cruelly mifre-
prefented. Ilis faithful ferrant, Sir Thomas IIerbert, tells us,
in his Carolina Threnodi.a, or Memuirs of the tu'o lafl years of
Charles I. that "Theftcr¢d Scripture z'as the bool.« he [the King]
os zLmna'. x ; read oftcn in Bithop Andrcws's Serinons,
Hooker's Ecclefiaffical Polity, Dr. Ilammond's Works, Villal-
pandus upon Ezekiel, &c. Sandys's P«traphrafe upon king David's
Pfalms, Hcrbert's divine Pocms; and alfo rccreated himfelf in
reading Godfrey of Bulloigne writ in Italian by Tafib, and dor«e
into Engli|h heroick verfe by Mr, Fairfax, a poem his Majcity
much commended ; as he did Anolto, by Sir John Itarrington,
&c. ; Spenfer's Fairy Queen, anti the lik% for a[leiating his
fpirits aftcr fcricus ftudics."
LIBER.
Aut luit incefios aula Creontis avos.
Sed neque fub te6to femper, nec in urbe, late-
nus ;
Irrita nec nobis tempora, veris eunl.
Nos quoque lucus habet vicinâ contitus ulmo,
Arque fuburbani nobilis umbra loci.
Ver. 44. Cofcia./'uncreo pc«ora torrc more»s :] Mr. Steevens
fuggefls, that thc allufion is to .4te in the old play of Locri»c,
x'here e entcrs with a torch in her hand, and whcre the motto
to the Sccnc is, " 1» poenatatur et umra." T.
Ver. 48. Irrita »ec nobis lcmpora veris eunt.] Ofid, F«gt. ii. 150.
" Primi tempora vcris cunt." T.W.iTO.
Xrer. 49. os quoque lucus abet « icind cw/itus ulmo,] The
gods had thcir favourite trees. So havc the pocts. Mihon's is
the dru. Sec L'.llhgro, v. 57.
" Some rime walking not unfcen
" By hedgc-row eb»s on hitlocks grcen."
And rcades, v. 89. And Cbmus, v. 354. And thc Epita-
thium Damonis, v. 15, and v. 49. And Par.
The country about Colnebrook imprcffed Milton with a predi-
letion lor this tree. T. WagTo.
Ver. 50. tque fitburban nobilis umbra loci.] Some country
houlh of 3Iilton's thther ery near London is here intcnded, or
which we bave now no notices. A letter to .Xlexauder Gill is
dated " E mgro 8uburbano D«c«mb. 4, 1634," Prlë-worts, vol.
ii. 567. In the .4logy.tor me¢t#mn««s, publiflwd 1(442, he
thys, to his epponent, « that .Ihburb, whercin I dwcll, lhall be
in my account a more honourable place than his univerfiry,"
Prlè-wors, i. 109. llis thther lmd purchalbd the eliate at
Cohiebrook, before 1632. In a h tter to Deodat, fom Lori-
don, dated 1637, he fay, " 1)icamjam hune ferio quid cogitt«n,
in llofpitium Juridicorum aliqu,,d immigrar«,, ficubi amena et
umbrofa ambulatio eû, oec. Ubi nunc lhln, ut nolti, otil'ure et
angllic fum," Prè-wors, vol ii. 569. In an academick Pro-
]ufion, written perhaps hot fhr lrom the time of wriring this
Elegy, the Ibllowing paflhge, " 'leltor lptb lucos et flumina,
184, EL'EGIARUM
Soepius hîc, blandas fpirantia ridera flammas,
Virgineos videas proeteriiffe ehoros.
Ah quoties dignoe flupui miraeula formoe,
Qure poflit tènium vel reparare Jovis !
Ah quoties vidi fuperantia lumina gemmas,
Atque faces, quotquot, volvit uterque polus !
Coll@ue bis vivi Pelopis qme brachia vincant,
Quoeque fluit puro neare tina via!
Et decus eximium frontis, tremul6t?lue capillos,
Aurea que fallax retia tendit An)or ! 60
Pellac&q e genas, ad quas hyacinthina fordet
Purpura, et ipfe tui floris, Adoni, rubor !
Cdite, laudatoe toties Heroides olim,
et dilcTtas villarum ulmos, fub quibus oeJ?ate p.roximè prceterita,
fi deorum arcana eloqui liccat, fummam cum 51ufis gratiam
laabuiffe me, jucunda memoria recolo, &c." Profe.v:grks, vol. ii.
602. T. W^arom
Ver. 55. Ah quoties ridi &c.] Ovid, Epifl. Heroid. ix. 79.
« Ah quoties digitis, &c." And Buchanan, El. ri. p. 43. edito
ut fupr.
-- « fuperantia lumina flammas." T.
Ver. 58. Qua, que dauit puro gwtqare tincTa via !] Here is a
peculiar antique formula, as in the following inftance. Virgil».
2En. i. 573.
" Urbem quam ftatuo veftra eft."
Terence, Eunuch. iv. iii. 11.
" Eunuchum quem dedifti nobis, quas turbas dedit."
5Iany more might be given. Compare the very learued bilhop
Newcome's PreJàce fo the Minor ProThets , p. xxxiv. Lond.
1785. 4to. T. WAr, oEou.
Ver. 3. Cedite, laudatce toties Ileroides olim, &c.] Ovid,
«trt. Amator. i. 71ô,
« Jupiter ad veteres fupplex Heroidas ibat,
" Corripuit magnum nulla pue!la Jurera." T.
LI B E R. 18
Et queecunque vagum cepit arnica Jovem.
Cedite, Achoemenioe turrit, fronte puelloe, 6»
Et quot Sufa colunt, Memnonifimque Ninon ;
Vos etiam Danam fafces thbmittite Nymphae,
Et vos lliacoe, Romuleeéque nurus:
Nec Pompeianas Tarpëia Mufa columnas
Ver. 6.5. Cedite, Achoemenie turritdfronte luelle, &c.] 1Ir.
Warton rcfers to Sandys's )'avel,, for an account of the women
of chemwnia (which is a part of Perfia) wcaring a high head-
drcfs. Ivmnonian is an epthet lu Par. L. B. x. 008. TODD.
Ver. 66. Et quot S[ cohmt, 111cmnonimque ASmn ;] Sufa
[Suçarum], anciently a capital city of Sufiana in l'erfia, con-
qucred by Cyrus. Xerxcs marchcd ri'oto this city, to enflave
Greece. Par. Lq, B. x. 308. It is now callcd Soulier. Bmh
Snfa, and Sufiana, are mentioned in Par. Bcg. B. iii. 88, 321.
Ninos, is a city of A,ria, built by Ninus : Memnon, a hero of
the lliad, had a palace there, and was thc builder of Sufa.
glilton is alluding to oriental beauty. In the next couplet, he
dmllcngcs the ladies of ancient Greece, Troy, and Rome.
T. Waaro.
Ver. 9. rec'Pompeianas Tarpëia ][ &c.] The poet has
a retrofpe£t to a long paflge in Ovid, xxho is here cailcd 7ço'peia
3l,fa, eithcr becaufe he had a houfe adjoming to the Capitol, or
bv way of ditinion, that he was the TAuvmA, the genuine
loma:, l,lè. It is in Ovid's rt " Lofe, where he dirc&s his
votary Venus to fi'cquent thc portico of Pompey, or the Thcatre ;
places at Rome, among others, where the molt beautiful womcn
wcre aflèmbed,-B, i. 67.
" Tu modo Po»Feii lentus qatiare fub umbra, &c."
And v. 89.
" Sed tu proecipue curvis venare theatris, &c."
Ste alfo, B. iii. 87. Propertius fays that Cynthia had deferted
this famous portico, or çolonnade, of Pompey, il. xxxiL 11.
" Scilicet mnbrofis fordet Pompda columnis
" Porticus, auloeis nobilis Attalicis, &c."
'here fays the old fcholiafl, " Romoe erat Porticus Pompcia, foli
186 ELEG1A1RUI
.la&et, et Aufoniis plena theatm folis. 7o
Gloria Virginibus debetur prinm BritalmiS ;
Etera, fat tibi fit, tminn, poflë tèqui.
Trique urbs Dardaniis, Londinum, flru&,a eo-
lonis,
Turrigerum ltè confpicienda caput,
Tu nimium tlix intra tua lnoenia claudis
Quicquid tbrmofi pendulus orbis habet.
-on tibi toi coelo tintillant aftra t}ereno,
,'zrcendo accomrnodata, fub qua oeflivo potiflimum tempore naa-
tronoe fpatiabantur." ee allb iv. viii. 7.5. Other proofs occur
in Catullus, Mrtial, and Statius. Pmp¢y's theatre and portico
xi'ere contiguous. The words l'vfoniis Jiolis imply literally the
Theatre filled " xrith the ladics of Rome." But jola properly
points out ,'z matron. Sce Note on I1 P¢»J: v, 35. And Ovid,
EloiJto e.t" Pott. iii. iii. 5°..
" Scripfimus hoec iflis, quarum leC vitta pudicos
" Contingit crines, necJola longa pedes"
.&nd Tri.#. ii. Sq.
" Quasflola contingi, vittaque fumpta vetat ?
" At matvna potelé, &c." T.W.ITO'.
Ycr. 74. Turrigerum latè co»icienda caput,] So, in L'MIl.
v. 117. " "bwer'd cities. » See BIarlowe and Chapman's l-loto
and Lea»dr, edit. 1637, B. il. " Tow«r'd courts. See alfo
1"af. LOE, B. i. 733. " Many a tow«r'd liru&ure high. » And
' turrigerum «aput," in the Note on xer 5, El. iii. Thus Lucan,
of Rome, lib. i. 188. " Turrigero vertice.'"
Ver. 76. pendulus orbi.-] Sec fl Obit. Procan-
cdlarii, v. 3, and Par. Lo.lt, B. iv. 1000.
Ver. 77. 2on tibi rot «edo &c.] Ovid, De.4rte .4maud.
lib. i. 55.
" Tot tibi namque dabit formofis Roma puellas
" lttec habet, ut dicas quicqvid in orbe fuit:
" Gargara quot fegetes
'« Quot coelum ftellas» &c."
LIBER. 18]'
.End3"mioncoe turba nliniçtra de,e,
Quot tibi, eonfpieuoe form,Z',que aur6que, puelloe
Per medias radiant turba videnda ias.
Creditur hue geminis veniflè inve6ta columbis
Ahna pharetrigero milite ein6ta Venus ;
Haie Cnidon, et riguas Simoentis flumine valles,
Huie Paphon, et rofeam potihabitura Cypron.
Art ego, dura pueri rinit indulgentia coeci,
Meenia quàm fi, bit6 linquere faufla paro;
Et vitare procul malefid,'e int:amia Circes
A tria, divini Molyos ufus ope.
Stat quoque juncotits Cami remeare paludes,
Atque iterum raucoe murmur adire Scholoe. 90
Interea fidi parvam cape munus alnici,
Paucque in alternos verba coa&a modos
Ver. 78. Endymioneoe &c.] Grotius, Sih,. 1. iii. ETith. iii.
Endtjmioneas invadat Cynthia nocs." To)).
Ver. 89. juncojhs] The epithet is pi&urefque
and appropriated and cxatCtly defcribes the river Cam : hence
in Lycidas, " his bomctjèdge.'" Jos. lVavcrox.
Ad'l alfo ver. 11. " Jam nec arundferum mihi cura revifere
Camum." But there is a contcmpt in defcribing Cambridge,
and its river by thc expreltion the ruJiy naJhes of Cam. ce
v. 13, 14,. And Notes on Lycid. v. 105. T.
2Iilton might be influenccd» in his dcfcription of the Cam
an exprcflïon in Theogqis :
Ver. 9. Thc l{oana of Alabaficr bas been mentioncd by
Dr. Johnfon as a Latin compofition, equal to the Latin poetry of
lIilton : Whoever but flightly examines it, xvill find it written
in the ft.yle and manner of the turgid and unnatural Seneca. It
m'as printed b3" the author himfelï at London, 1632. Yet it
188 ELEGIARUM
was written forty years bcforc, 1592, and therc had been a fur-
rcptitious edition. It is remarkable, that Mors, DrATit, is one
of the perlons of the Drama. Jos. W,rvro.
I mufi add, that among the Dramatica ïocmata of Sir William
Drury, one of the plays is called Mot, s, and 1ors is a chier
fpeakcr. Duaci, 16°8. 12mo. cdit. 2. Firlt printcd 1620. Sce
below, EI. iii. 6. T.
Sec alfo fcveral examples of Death exhibitcd as a perron, in
the note on Par. L. B. ii. 666.
The learned Lrd Monboddo pronunccs this Elegy to ha
equal to any thing of the " eteviac l, ind, to be found in Ovid,
or even in Tibullus." T.
LI B E R. q9
E L E G. II. Anno _,r2tatis 17-
_rn obitum £'rceconis Academici Cantabrigiets *.
E, qui, confpicuus baculo fulgente, folebas
Palladium toties ore ciere gregem ;
Ultima prreconum, proeconem te quoque foeva
Mors rapit, oflîcio nec laver ipFa fuo.
Çandidiora lict fuerint tibi tempora plumis,
Sub quibus accipimus delituiflè Jovem ;
dignus tamen Hremonio juvenefcere fucco,
Dignus in 2Etbnios vivere, poflè dies ;
* The perron here commernorated, is lq.ichard Ridding, olle of
the Univerfity-Bead!es, anti a Mafler of Arts of Saint John's col-
lege, Cambridge. Ile ligned a tefiarnentary Codicil, Sept. 23,
1626, proved the eighth day of November following. Fronx
R¢giflr. T«J?am. Cantabr. T. Wat'ro.
Ver. o. It 'as a cuftom at Cambridge, lately difufed, for
one of the beadles to make proclamation of convocations
every college. This is flill in ufe at Oxford. T. Watror.
Ver. 5. Candidiora &c.] Ovid, Tf0?. iv. viii. 1. " Jam rnea
c)-gneas imitantur tempora plumas." T.W.tnros.
Ver. 6. Sub quibus accipimus delituiflè Jovern ;] Ovid, Ev.
tteroid, viii. 68.
" Non ego flurninei referarn rnendacia ciglai,
" Nec querar inplumis delitui.ffe Jot'em.'" T. Wagro,,¢.
Ver. 7. Hoernoniojurenefcere fucco, &c.] Sec
Ovid, 'll¢tam. vii. 264,.
" Illie HoEmonia radices valle refehs,
" Seminaque, florefque, etfuccos incoquit
And compare, below, 3lanf. v. 7.5. T.W.«rtxos.
190 ELEGI AI,UM;
Dignus, quem Stygiis medicâ rerocaret ab undis
Arte Coronides, thpe rogante de'.
Tu fi juflhs eras acies accire, togatas,
Et celer à Phoebo nuntius ire tuo ;
Talis in IliacA çtabat Cyllenius aulâ
Alipes, rethere' miffus ab arce Patris :
Talis et Eurybates ante ora furentisAchillei
Rettulit Atridoe juflà thvera ducis,
]Magna fi.pulchroruln regina, fatelles Averni,
Sreva nimis Mutls, Palladi tieva nimis,
Quin illos rapias qui pondus inutile terrte ;
Turba quidem eft telis içta petenda tuis.
Veftibus hune igitur pullis, Academia, luge,
Et madeant lachrymis nigra feretra tuis.
Ver. 10. Arte Coronides,] Coronides is/ZEfculapius, the fort
of Apollo by Coronis. Sec O-id, M«tam. xv. 624. But the
particular allufion is here to zXfculapius reftoring Itippolitus to
life, at the requç of Diana kbfl. ri. 745. feq. Where he is
¢alled Coronides. T.
Ver. 13. Talis &c.] Thefe allufions are proofs of our
author's early tamiliarity wih Homcr. T. WAtïox-.
Ver. 17. Mag»a pu&hrorum rhra,] A fublime poetica!
appellation for Death : and much in the manner of his Englifl
çetry. T. WAlta'o-.
8hakfpeare, iu his Venus and donis, calls Death the «' ing
of graves.'" Venus is q)eaking of Death :
" Now tire adds honour to his hatefil naine :
« She cleeps him Mng qfgraves, and rave fi)r kings,
" lmperial fupreme ofmortal things."
Ver. 19- poudus imtti& terr¢ ;] Homcr,
xviii. 104. iz«o
Ver. ç2. Et mdeant lacl:r'm]s dgra feretra tuis.] Ikre
LIBER. 19!
Fundat et ipfa modos querebunda Elegëîa triles
Pertbnet et totis nenia mcetta Scholis ct.
feems to be an allufion to the cuftom of affixing Vcrfes to the
pall, formerly perhaps more generally obferved at Cambridge.
" Lacltrynis tuis" are the funeral poems, as tear i» in Lycidas,
v. 14,. ,"here fee the Note. To.
* This Elegy, Mth the next on the de.th of bithop Andrews
the Odes on the death of Protiffor Goflyn and bilhop Felton, and
the Poem on the Fifth of November, are very corre& and mtmly
10erformances for a boy of feventeen. This was our author's firtt.
ye.'tr at Cambridge. They difcover a great fund aild commail,!
f an¢icIt literature. T.
t9 ELEGIARUM
E L E G. llI. Anno _;Etatis 17.
IJ obitttm PrÇfidis lFintoffoîs .
MOESTUS eram, et tacitus, nulIo comitante,
fedebam ;
Herebmtque animo triçtia pIura meo:
Protinus en ! thbiit filnefloe cladis imago,
Fecit in Angliaco qua m Libitina folo ;
Dura proceruln ingreftà et tilelldentes marmore
turres, 5
* Lancclot Andrcws, biflmp of Wincheftcr, had bcen originally
Maftcr of Pcmbroke-hall in Cambridge ; but long bcfore Mil-
ton's rime. lle died at WinchclIer-Iloufe in Southwark, Sept.
1, 16°.6. It is a great concctlion, that Milton compliments
bilhop Andrcws, in his Church-Gorertm. B. i. iii. " But others
better ad»'ifcd are content to rcccive thcir beginning [the bilhops]
from Aaron and his ïons: anmng whom bilhop .4ndre's of latc
years, and in thefe timcs [Ulhcr] the primate of Arnmgh, for
their learning are rcputed the bcfl able to fay xvhat may be faid
in their opinion." This picce was writtcn 16-1. ProJè-zorl,s,
,ol. i. 4-5. But fce their arguments anfwercd» as he pretcnds
ibid. ch. v. p. z7. fcq. T. V.xïo.
Ver. 4. Fecit bt etngliaco quam Lihithta folo ;] A very fevere
plague now raged in London and the neighbourhood, of which
:5417 perlons are fitid to havc dicd. Sec Whitclock's Mem. p. 0..
and Rulhworth, Coll. vol. 1. p. 175. 01. lIilton alludes to the
faine peftilencc, in an Ode writtcn in the t:amc ycar, On the 1)eath
oj'afair Iyh»t, v. 68. T. Wa awo.
Ver.5. Dur;t procerm ingrçffà e.fl.fplcndcntes narmore terres, &c.]
Thefe lines remind me of the following in Viltbn's ColleCtion of
Yerfes, called l'ïta et Obitus l'ratrnm S!oleieum, ruade and
priate'.l in the ycar 1552. 4to. Signat. F.i. 'rhey are in Re-
LIBER. 193
Dira fepulchrali Mors metuenda face;
lulfavitqu.e auro gravidos et jatide muros,
Nec metuit trapum t[ernere falce greges.
Tune memini clarique ducis, fi'atrit/ue verendi,
niger's Copy. I have ftill nore pleafure in tranfcribing them, as
they/how with a minutenefs and particularity hot elfewhere fo
be found, the ftyle of the archite(ture of the great houles about
that rime. Death is the perfon.
" llla lacunatis operofa palatia redis
« Intrat."
Again:
Nunc tacito penetrat laqueata palatia greflh,
« Ac atdoeatas marmoreafque domos.
" Nec mctuit biforcs portas, valvas bipatentes,
« Quin nec ferrifonoe peffula dura tère.
« Sire fupercilimn quod tollant atria longum,
« Altaque culminibus diflita teca fuis ;
« Sire loricatam cruftofo marmore frontem,
" Arque ftriaturis omnia fculpta fuis ;
" Non que truncofis furgunt pinnacula nodis,
" Non faftigiatum turrigerumque caput :
" Ne le nobilitas cunatis ja&et iu aulis, &c."
T. WaRTOr.
Ver. 7. Pulfavitqu« &c.] Hot. Od. I. IV. lô.
" Pallida Mors oequo Fulfat pede pauperum tabernas,
" Regumque turres." RC-laXtDsor.
Ver. 9. Tune memini clariquc ducis, &c.] I ara kindly informe
by tir David Dalrymple, "' The two Generals here mentioned,
who died in l(°(i, wcre the two champions of the queen of Bo-
hemia, the duke of Brunfwick, and Count Mansfelt: Frater
means a Sworn Brothcr in arms, according to the military cant
of thofe days. The Queen's, or the Palatine, caufe was fup-
ported by tbe German princes, who were hcroes of Romance, and
the lait of that race in that country. The proteltant religion, and
chivalry, muft bave interel[ed Milton in this caufe. The next
couplet reflreC2s the death of Henry Earl of Oxford, ho dicd
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19¢ ELEGIARU M
Intempefiivis oflh cremata rogis : IO
Et memini Heroum, quos vidit ad oethera raptos,
Flevit et amiffos I3elgia tota duees.
At te proecipuè luxi, digniffime Proeful,
Wintonioeque olim gloria magna tua;
Delicui fletu, et triti fie ore querebar :
" Mors tra, Tartareo dira fecunda Jovi,
" Nonne ltis qu5d fylva tuas perfentiat iras,
« Et qu6d in herbofos jus tibi detur agros ?
" QuSdque afflata tuo marceti:ant lilia tabo,
" Et crocus, et pulchroe Cypridi faera rot:a ?
" N'ec finis, ut femper fluvio eontermina
" quercus 21
hot long beferc." Sec Carte's Iii.ri. E»g. iv. p. 93. feq. 17.
feq. Hcnry earl of Oxford, Shakfpcare's patron, died at the fiege
of Breda in 1(Y25o Dugd. Bar. il. 200. Sec Howell's Letters
vo]. i. §. 4. Letto xv. And Note on El. iv. infr. 74. If this
be thc fcnfe of Fratris» verendi is hot a very fifitable epithet.
T.
Ver. 18. Et qu5d in herbQfo jus tibi detur çros ?] Hc fcem
to have had in mind the poa'er giren, ltnIo Dcath, Rev. i. 8 ;
and has here lnolt poetically difplayed it. Tooo.
Ver. 21. Gtlurio COltcrlnina quercus] Ovid,
viii. 60. " Tilioe contcrmina quercus." The cpitl'.et is a
vourite vith O,id, M«tam. xv. 315. " Nflris conterminus arvis."
Sec alfo Met. i. 774, iv. 90, viii. 55°., Ep#. ca" Pont. iv. ri. 45,
mari F«bct. il. 55. This word» fo commodious
hOt once ufed by Virgil.
Here is a beautiful pi(turefque image, but vhere the juftnefs
of the poetry is marred by the admiflion of a licentious fi&ion
vhich yet I cannt, t blame in a young writer of fancy. When
the ingrafted tree in Virgil wonders at its foreign leaves and
frui*s hot its own, the preternatural novelty, producing the
wondcr, juftifies thc boldnefs of attributing this affc&ion to
LIBER. ]95
" Miretur lapfus proetereun.tis aquoe ?
" Et tibi filccumbit, liquido quoe plurima coelo
« F, vehitur permis, quamlibet augur, avis.
" Et quoe mille nigris errant animalia fylvis ;
" Et quot alunt mutum Proteos antra pecus.
" Invida, tanta tibi cùm fit concelTa poteflas,
" Quid juvat human,5 tingere cede manus
" Nobîléque in pe6tus certas acuiflWfagittas,
" Semidetmque animam fede fugtflè fu ?"
Talia dum lacrymans alto fub peaU)re volro,
Rofcidus occiduis Hefperus exit aquis,
Et Tarteffiaco fubmertrat oequore currum
tree. In the prefent inftance, it was not wonderful nor extra-
ordinary, that a flream flmuld flow, or flow perpetually. The
¢onceit is, that an oak thould wondcr at this. T. Waltror.
Ver. -o2. ]iliretur lapfits proetereuntis aquoe ?] Compare ]3u-
canan, Eleg. ii. p. 3-L ed. Ruddiman.
" Nunc ûrepitum captat proetereuntia" aqute.'" To)).
Ver. 26. Proteos antra pccus.] I-Ior.
Od. I. II. 7.
« Omne cure Proteus pecus egit alto»
" Vifcrc montes." RIcn,Rgsor.
Ver. 30. -- animam fedefitgdffe fuà ?] So, in his Ode
on the death of a.fair b!fant, ff. iii. " Unhous'd thy virgin foul
from ber fair bidi»g place.'" Togo
Ver. 3'2. Rofcidus occiduis Hefperus e.xit aquis,] Ovid .Fa.//.
il. 314.
" Hefperus ct fufco rofcid«ts ibat equo."
Again, E1i.fl. ex l'ont, ii. v. 50.
" Qualis ab Eois Lucifer e«it aquis."
ee alfo lletam, xv. 189. T. 'V2tRTON.
Ver. 53. Et Tartefllaco &c.] O¥id, lletam.xiv. 416. « Pref-
O
196 :ELEGIARUM
Phoehus, ,ab Eoo littore menfus iter:
:Nec mora, mem|)ra cavo pofui reforenda cuili,
Condiderant oculos nSxque fopSrque meos:
Cm mihi viths eram lato tatiarier agro; a7
Heu! nequit ingenium vitia refurre meure.
Illic puniceâ radiabant omnia luce,
Ut ma{utino cùm juga fole rubent. ,o
_A_c vcluti cùm pandit opes Thaumantia proles
Vetitu nitait multicolore iblum.
:Non dea tam variis ornavit floribus hortos
Alcinoi, Zcphyro Chloris amata levi.
ferat occiduus Tartçffïa littora Phoebus." TartoETacus oceurs in
Martial, Epigr. ix. 6. We are to underfland the ftraits of
Hercules, or tbe Atlantick ocean. Ste alfo Buchanan De Sphoer.
L. i..p. 116. edit. ut fupr. " Tartç[acis cum Taurus mergitur
undis." And il). p. 1. « Tartç[iaco, qui feflbs cxcipit axes»
limite." 13uchanan was now a popular modern clafficl.
T. Waaror.
Ver. 43. ron dea tare ariis ornavit.floribus hortos
Alcinoi, Zephyro Chloris arnata lev.] Edcn is
¢ompared to thc Homerick garden of AIcinous, Parad.
]. ix. 439. B, v. 341. Chloris is Flora, wlm according to
ancient fable was bcloved by Zcphyr. llencc out author is to
be explaincd, Parad. LvJ, B. -. 16.
" Mild as when Zephyrus on Flora brêathcs.'"
Sec Ovid, Fafl. L. v. 195. feq. She is again called Chloris by
our author, El. iv. 35. Yet there, and according t, the true
etymology of the word, Ihe is more propcrly the pwer of vege-
ration. Chloris iu Flora in Drummond's Somets :
« Faire Chl«ris is, when lhe doth paint Aprile."
In Ariofto, Mercury fteals Vulcan's net ruade for Mr, r and
Venus to eaptivate Chloris, Orl. Fur. C. xv. 57".
« Clorida bella, che per aria vola, &c." T. W^aro¢.
LIBER. 197
Flunfina vernantes lambunt argentea campos,
Ditior Hefperio flavet arena Tago.
Serpit odoriferas per opes levis aura Favonî,
Aura fub innumeris h0mida nata rotis.
Talis in extremis terroe Gangetidis oris
l,uciferi regis fingitur efië domu.
Chloris is " queene of the flowers, and miflrifs of the Spring,"
in Ben Jonfon's Mark of Chloridia. But fee alfi, the o[d com-
mentator on Spenfcr's ShcTheards Calender, April, ver.
" Chloris, &c." ToII.
Ver. 45. Flumina &c.] In the garden of Eden, as Mr.
Warton obferves, « the crifped brooks roll on orient pearl and
fands of gold," P. L. B. iv. 37. Sec alfo tho "flrer lakes,"
Pat'. L«?, B. vii. 437, as here " fiumina argentea.'" ToxI.
Ver. 4ï. Serpit odorferas per opes levis aura/'avon,
Aurajïb imumeris humida nata rodïs. ] 8% in thle
fane garden, B. iv. 156 ; but with a coneeit.
" Ge»tle
" Fanning their odoriferous wings, difpenfe
" z¥ative perfulnes, and vhifper vhence they fiole
" Thofe bahny fpoils."
In the text, the aura, or breath of Favonius, is born, or becomes
huIttid, under innumerable rofes. Simply it contra(fs its fra-
grance froln flowers. Compare Ctmbeline, A. iv. S. ii.
" They are as gentle
" As zephyrs bloa'ing below the violet,
" Not wagging his fweet head."
Perhaps, by the way, from Cutwoode's Caltha Poetarum» 1599.
ri. 2, of the primrofe. And fee ff. 23.
" Waggi,g the wanton with eaeh wind and blafi."
Jonfon/hould not here be forgotten, 3lafques vol ri. 39.
" As gentle as the firoking wind
" ]{uns o'er the gentler flowers." T. WaTO.
Ver. 49, Taiis in extrends terroe Gangetidis oris
Lucferi regi« dfintur OEè donus.] I know t
198 ELEGIARUM
]pfe racemiferis dum deni:as vitibus umbras,
Et pellueentes miror t, bique loeos,
here this tic'tion is to be round. But our author has given a
glorious dcfcription of a palacc of Lucifer, in the Par. Loti,
B. v. 757.
« At Icngth into the limits of the north
« They came and Satan to his royalfeat
« High on a hill, far blazing, as a mourir,
« Rais'd on a mount, xvith pyramids and towers
" From diamond quarries hewn, and rocks of gold»
« The palace of great Luc(fer, fo call
« That ftruure, in the dialeoet of men
«' Interpreted ; wbich hot long after, he
" Affe&ing ail equality with God,
« In imitation of that mount, whereon
" Meffiah was declar'd in fight of heaven,
« The Mountain of the Cvngregation eall'd, &c."
Here is a mixture of Ariofto and Ifaiah. Becaufe Lucifer is
fimply faid by the prophet, " to fit upon the mount of the Con-
gregation on the rides of the north," Milton builds him a palaee
on this mountain, equal in magnificence and bri|liancy to the
mort fuperb romantick caftle. In the text, by the ttmr parts of
t.t.e Gangeticlt hmd, we are to underftand the north ; the river
Ganges, which feparates India ri'oto Scythia, arifing from the
moun4e.in Taurus.
Mr. Steevens gives another meaning to tbe text: « You fup-
pofe the Palace of Lucifer, that is Satan, to have been the objec
intënded. But I cannot he]p tbinking, that the refidence of the
fun was what Milton meant to defcribe, as fituated in the extreme
point of the Ea/L I ihall Cotlntenaslce my opinion, by an inftance
hot taken from a more inglorious author than our poet has fime-
rimes deigned to copy:
« For, from his Pallace in the Eaft,
« The King of Light, in purple dreft,
« Set thicke with gold and preeious ftone,
« Which like a rocke of diamond ff*orme."
P.mlico, or tlunne Red Cappe, &c. 1609. It is obfervable, tbat
this paffage hot only exhibits the I)omus Lucift'ri tlegis terrce Gan-
LIBER.
Ecee ! mihi fubitb Proeful Wintonius al}at,
Sidereum nitido fullit in ore jubar ;
Veftis ad auratos defluxit candida talos,
Infula divinum cinxerat alba caput.
D6mque fenex tali incedit venerandus anficCtu,
Intremuit laeto florea terra lbno.
Agmina gemmatis plaadunt coeleftia permis,
Para triumphali pertbnat oethra tubâ. 6o
i;etidis oris, but alfi» the rock of diamond, in vhich Milton has
armed one of his rebellious flfirits. This !loufe, I fuppofe, is
intended for the Palace of th'e Sun, as defcribcd by Ovid. You
feem to have confidel'e.l Lucifcr as a pl'opcr naine ilfltead of a
compound cpithet." See " Lucifcras rotas," infr. EI. v. 46.
Poffibly Milton might alludc to a gorgeous dcfcription of the
Falace of the Sun by an Italian poct, publithcd a few years bcfore
ttfis Elegy was written, Canzonicre dol Sigr. Giultiniano» Vineg.
1620. See p. 17. " 1l Palagio dcl Sole,
" Lb ne 1' ahne contrarie,
" Che hanno per bail" i Poli
" Stellti pauimcmi
" De le Piante di Dio,
" Sorge vnico Palagio cmulo al Cielo.
' Trent.'t colonne in giro
" Di htcido damante
" Capitcllate di pir.pi ardentl, &c."
Compare alfo Taflb, Gicr. Conq, i. 19.
" Sià luccnte fi, rgcua il Sol da gl' lndi
" Che parte è fuor, ma più ncl Ga»ge chiufo. '»
The refidence of the l'un I think, was certainly intended by
Milton. And fee Propertius, I1. xviii. 8.
« At non Tithonis fpernens Aurora feneam
« Dcfcrtam Eo pafi-tjacere domo cit." Tome.
,rer. 59. Agmina gemmatis plattdu»t co:leflai penv.is,] Not
from the Italian poets, but from Ovid' Cupid Rcmed.
o0 o ELEGIARUM
Quifque novum amplexu comitern cant6que
falutat,
H6fque,aliquis placido mifit ab ore fonos ;
« Nate, veni, et patrii felix cape gaudia regni,
" Semper abhinc duro, nate, labore vaca.
Dixit, et aligera tetigerunt nablia turmoe, 6s
At mihi cure tenebris aurea pulth quies.
Flebam turbatos Cephaleiâ pellice fomnos;
Talia contingant fomnia tiepe mihi!
v. 39- " Movit Amor gernmatas aureus alas.'" See alfo Amor. i.
ii. 41. In Paradlè Loti, Milton has been more fparing in dc-
corating the plumage of his angels. T. WaroN.
Ver. 59. laudunt &c.] Ilom. Il. ii. 62."
"E x î o AFAAAOMENAI f.
ICHARDSON.
Ver. . 8emFer ab Mnc duro, hale, labore vaca.] ev. xiv.
13. " Bleffed are the dead which die in the Lord from hence-
forth : Yea, çaith the Spirit ; tbr they rfrom teir labours."
JOHN WARTON.
Milton, as he grew old in puritanifm, mufi bave looked back
with difuR and remorfe on the panegyric[ of this performance,
as on one of the fins of his youth, incxperience, and orflmdoxy :
for he had here celebraed, hot only a biflmp, but a biflmp who
fupported the dignity and confiitufion of lhe Church of England
in their moR exteufive latitude, the difiiuied favourite of
Elizabeth and James, and the dcfender of regal prerogadve. Cla-
rcndon fays, thal if Andrcws, " who lovcd and underfiood lhe
Church,'" had fuccecded Bancroft in the rte ofCamerbury, " that
infeiou would eafily ha»e been kept out, which could hot after-
wards be fo eafily cxpcllcd," ç. R«b«fl. B. i. p. 88. edl. 171.
T. Wo.
LIBER. 201
ELEG. IV. Anno/Etatis 1S.
CURRE per immenfum fubit5, mea litera,
pontum,
I, pete Teutonicos loeve per oequor agros ;
Tkomas You»g, uow paftor of the church of Englifl merchauts
at Hamburgh, was Miiton's private preceptor, before he was lent
to Saint Paul's fchool. Aubrey, in his manufcript Lift', calls him»
" a puritan in Effex who cutt his haire flaort." Under fuch an
inftru&or, Milton probably firft imbibed the principlcs of puri-
tanifin : and, as a puritan tutor was employed fo educate the fon»
we may fairly guef at thc perfuafions or inclinations of the fathero
13cfides, it is Paid that our author's grandfather, who lived at
Halton, rive toiles eaft of Oxfi»rd, and was one of the rangers of
Shotovcr-foreft, difinheritcd his fon fin" being.a protcftant : and, as
convcrts are apt to go to excefs, I fufpet the fon embraced the
oppofite extrcme. The firft and fourth of Bliiton's Familiar
Epiftles, both vcry refpeful and affeionate, are to this Thomas
Young. Sec P«ofl.-Works, ii. 565, 5(;7. hl ie firft, datcd, at
Jondon, inter urbana diverticula, Mat. 6, 165, he ihys he had
refolved to fend Young an Epifde in verfe : but thought proper at
the faine rime to rend one in profe. The Elegy now before us, is
this Epiftle in verfe, hl the fecond, dated ri'oto Cambridge, Jul.
21, 1628, he Pays, " Rus tuum accerfitus, fimul ac ver adoleverit,
iibenter ad velfiam, ad capeffendas anni, tuique non minus eolioquii,
delicias ; et ab urbano ftrepitu fubducam me paulifper.'" What-
ever were Young's religious inftru&ions, out author profeffes to
bave received from this lcarned mafter his firft introdu6tion to
the ftudy of poetry, v. 29.
.¢.on ELEGIARUM
Segnes rumpe moras, et nil, pr«cor, obitet eunti,
Et tè['tinantis nil remoretur iter.
«' Primus ego Aonios, illo proeeunte, receffus
" Luftrabam, et bifidi fitcra vireta jagi ;
" Pieriofquc haufi latices, Clioque faveate,
" Cafialio fparfi leta ter ora mero."
Yet thefe couplets may imply only a firft acquaintance with the
clafl]cks.
This Thomas Young, who appears te bave returned te England
in or hefore the year 1628, was docker Thomas Young Memher
of the Affemhly of Divines, where he was a confiant attendant,
and one of the authors of the book called S»et-tyn, nuus, defendcd
by Milton ; and who frein a London poeacherfhip in Duke's Place
was prefcrred by the parliament te the mafier/hip of Jefus College
in Camhridge, leale's 1tÇ. Pur. iii. 1 2. 59. Clarke, a calvi-
niiiick biographer, attefis that he v.'as « man of great learning,
of much prudence and piety, and of great ability anti fidelity in
the work of the minifiry," Lires, p. 19.
I bave a Sermon by Young, intitled Hope's Incouragem«t, of
a comfortable length, preached before thc Itoufe of Commons, on
a FaR day, Feb. °8, 16*-t. Printed by order of the IIoufe, Lond.
164¢. 4.,o. At the foot of the Dedication he fi3les himfelf
' Thomas Youlg, Sanci Evangelii in comitatu Suffolcienfi mi-
ifter.'" Another of his publications, as I apprehend, is a learned
vork in Latin clled Die, dondnica, on the obfervation of Sunday.
l'rinted, Arme 1639. No place. 4te. 13ilhop Barlow fays in the
Bodleian copy of this hook, in . Latin note, that it was written
by o». Door l'oung, as he had heen informed in 1658, by N.
ernard, chaplain te archbithop Ufler. He adds, " Quis.fi«erit
lroedicvs D. Younge, nili ,on cette co»at." The Dedcation te
the t.eformed Church» is fubfcrihed, TnEo,ILVS PltlLO-
KVlXCS, Lo,«card, e!/s. The lafi word I cannot decyper. But
there is Loucardie in the/hire of Perth. I learn the following par»
ticulars frein a manufcript Hiftory of Jefus College. He was a
aative of Scotland. He was admitted lX.Ifier of the College by
the End of Manchefter in perron, Apr. 12, 16J,*. He was
cjeed frein the Mafterihip for rcfufing the Engagement. He died
LIBER. o
Ipfe ego Sicanio froenantem carcere ventos 5
_Eolon, et virides follicitabo Deos,
Coerulehmque fuis comitatam Dorida Nymphis;
Ut tibi dent .placidam per fua regna viam.
and was buried af Stow-market in Suffolk, whcre he had becn
Vicar thirty ycars. T. WnRTor.
Among " ler[ons of note that had been affifiants" to the cele-
bratcd Gatakcr, the firft mentioncd is Mr. l'ou»g; whom I fup-
pole to be thc preccptor of Milton. I Ihould add, that the next
mentioned per[on of note is " Mr. Goodal, Miniler at Horton by
Colebrook," the parilh in which Milton's fathcr lived : Gatakcr
vas a Membcr of the Affcmbly of Divines, as well as Young°
Sec the Life of Gataker at the end of a Sermon, preachcd at his
Funeral by Simeon Aflte, 1655, p. 54. To.
Ver. 1. Curre 1)er iramenfitm fubitb, nea litera, pontera, &c.]
One of Ovid's epilolary Elegies bcgins in tltis manncr, vhere
the poet's addrcfs is to his own epiftle, Tr/.]L iii.-vii. 1.
" Vade falutatum fubito perarata Perillam,
" Litera, &c."
And Milton, like O'id, procecds in tclling his Epifile what to
fay. In this firain, among othcr circumfiances, lIiltoninforma
his Epille, v. 41.
" lnvcnies dulci cure conjuge forte fedentcm,
" Mulccntem gremio pignora parva fuo ;
" Forfitan aut vctcrum prcclala volumina parfum
" Verfantem, aut vcri Biblia facra Dci."
So Ovid, v...
« Aut illam invcnics dulci cure marre fcdeutem,
« Aut inter libros Picridafque fuas, &c." T. Wnrtro.w.
Ver. 5. The hcmiftich is from Ovid, l[etam, xiv. .
" 2Eolon Hipotadenfrenantem carcere 'entos.'"
Ont author's wiflaes of fpecd to his Èiftle, arc exprcflèd and
¢xhibitcd uuder a great and beautiful varicty f poet;,cal fi&ions
and allufions. T. Wallon.
04 E LEG IARUM
At tu, fi poteris, eeleres tibi fume jugales,
Vec'-ta quibus Çolchis rugit ab ore viri;
Aut queis Triptolemus Scythicas devenit in ores,
Gratus Eleufi:r2 mitths ab urbe puer.
Atque ubi Germaaas flavore videbis arenas,
Ditis ad tIamburgm moenia fle&e gradum,
Dicitur occitb que ducere nomen ab ttamâ,
Cimbrica quem/'rtur clava dediffe neci.
¥ivit ibi antiquoe clarus pietatis honore
Proeful, Chri[ticolas patEere do&us oves:
llle quidem eti animoe plufquam pars altera noçtroe;
Dimidio vitae vivere cogor ego.
Ver. 10. " Take the fwift car of Medea, in which lhe fled
tt ri'oto her hulband." T. WARTON.
Yer. 11. Ant queis Tripgolemus &c.] Triptolemus was carried
from Eicufis in Grcece, into Scythia, and the mort uncultivated
regions of the globe, on winged ferpents, to teach mankind the
æafe of whcat. Herc is a manifeft imitation of Ovid, who in the
faine maer x'ifl, cs et once, both for the chariots of Medea and
Triptolcmus, that ia an inltant he may revifit his friends,
iii. viii. 1.
" Nunc ego Triptolemi cupercm confcendere currus»
" Mifit in ignotam qui rude fcmen humum ;
" Aut ego Medeoe cuperem froenare dracones,
" Quos habuit, fugiens arce, Corinthe, tna, &c.'"
Compare 31ctam. v. 645. fcq. T. Wart'or.
Ver. 15. Dicitur occifo quoe ducere nomtat ab Hamâ,) Krantzius,
a Gotbiek gcographer, fays, that the city of Hamburgh in Saxony
took its namc from Haine a puiffant Saxon champion, xvho was
killed on tbe fpot where'that city ftands by Starchater a Danilh
giant, Saxonia, Lib. i. c. xi. p. 1. edit. Wechel. 1575. fol.
The Cimbrica clara is the club of the Dane. In defcribilg
ttamburgh, this romantick tale could not efcape blilton.
T. WaOro
LIBER.
Hel mihi! quot pelagi, quot montes interje&i,
l,'[e faciunt ali,tt parte carere mei!
Charior ille mihi, quàm tu, do6tifllme Graiflm,
Cliniadi, pronepos qui Telamonis erat;
Quàmque Stagyrites generofo magnus alumno,
Quem peperit Libyco Chaonis ahna Jovi..6
Qualis Amyntorides, qualis Philyrëius heros
Myrmidonum regi, talis et ille mihi.
Primus ego Aonios, illo preunte, receflhs
Luçtrabanl, et bifidi icra vireta jugi ; 3o
Ver. 21. Hei mihi! quot pelagi, &c.] tlomer, II. i. 156.
But I bclieve, under a flmilar fentimcnt, h¢ copied his çavçurite
de,Jack bard, Tr. iv. vil. 21.
" Innumeri montes inter me teque, vieque,
" Fluminaque, et campi, nec frcta pauca, jaccnt."
T. Wa aïo.
Ver. 23. Dearer than Socrates to Alcibiades, who was the
fon of Clinias, and has this apellation in Ovid's Ibis, " Clini-
adoeque modo," &c. v. 635. Alcibiades, the fon of Clinias, was
anciently defcended from Euryfaces, a fort of the Telamonian
Ajax. T. WA ItTOll.
Ver. 25. Ariftotle, preceptor to Alexandcr the Great.
T. W,aTOU.
Ver. °7. Qualis Amyntorides, &c.] Phoeni: the fon of
Amyntor, and Chiron, both inftrut"tors of Achilles, " 4myo-
rides Phsenix," occurs in Ovid, ,4ct. 4mato». i. 337. And
lmyntorides, fimply, in the lbis, v. 61. We find " Philyreius
heros" for Chiron, 2"ffetam. ii. 676. And Fqli, B. v. 391. See
lfo h't. lmator. i. 11. The inflanccs are, of the love oî
fcholars to their maflers» in ancient ftory. T.
o 6 E LEGIARUM
Pieri6fque haut] latices, Cli6que favent¢,
Caçtalio t]ariï leta ter ora mero.
:Flammeus at tignum ter viderat arietis 2]thon,
:Induxitque auto lanea terga novo;
]3ifque novo terrain t]3arfitii, Chlori, fcnilem 5
Gramine, bifque tuas abfiulit Auçter opes:
:Necdum ejus licuit mihi lumina pafcere vultu,
Aut linguoe dulces aure bibiffe fonos.
Vade igitur, curffique Eurum proeverte fonorum ;
Quàm fit opus monitis res docet, ipt:a vides.
Im enies dulci cum conjuge fortè fedentem, 4a
Mulcentem gremio pignora chara fuo"
Forfitan aut veterum proelarga volumina parfum
Verïmtem, aut veri Biblia facra Dei ;
Coelettive animas faturantem rote tenellas, 4
Grande falutitroe religionis opus.
Utque folet, multam fit dicere cura çalutem,
Dicere quam decuit, fi modb adeffet, herum.
HOec quoque, pau!ùm oculos in humum defixa
modefios,
Ver. 33. Two years and one month. In which had paffed
three »-ernal equinoxes, two fprings and two winters. Sec the firft
:Note. Young, we may then fuppofe, went abroad in FebruLv ,
16°3, when Mihon was about fifleen. But compare their profe
¢orrefpondence, here lilton fays, " quod autem plufquaan
tritnio nunquam ad te fcripferim." T.
Ibid. Some editiçns corruptly read vidit inftead of riderat :
as Tonfon's in 1695, which is redified in the edition of 1713;
but the errour is again admitted in the edition of 1727.
Ver. 49. oculos in humum de.fixa ode.flos,] Ovid,
mor. iii. ri. 67.
" llla o«ulo humum djea raod¢q'tos." T. Wa
LIBER.
Verba verecundo ris memor loqui :
HOec tibi, fi teneris vacat inter proelia Mufis,
littit ab Angliaco littore fida manus.
Accipe finceram, quamvis fit fera, falutem ;
Fiat et hoc ipfo gratior illa tibi.
Sera quidem, fed vera fuit, quam caçta recepit
Icaris à lento Penelopeia viro. 6
Art ego quid velui manifePtum tollere crimen,
lpfe quod ex omni parte levare nequit ?
Arguitur tardus merit5, nox,mque fatetur,
Et pudet ofliciuth deferuiflè fuum. eo
Tu mod5 da veniam f«ffo, venifi, mque roganti;
Crimina diminui, quoe patuere, folent.
Non ferus in pavidos rictus diducit hiantes,
Vulnifico pronos nec rapit ungue leo.
Soepe firiffifèri crudelia pe&ora Thracis 61
Supplicis ad moegtas delicuere preces :
Extenfoeque manus avertunt fuhninis i&us,
Placat et iratos hofiia parva Deos.
Jmque diu fcripfiffe tibi thit impetus illi,
Ver. 56. d lento Pendopeia viro.] Ovid, Heroid.
Ep.l. 1.
" Hanc tua Penelope lento tibi mittit, Ulyffe."
ICARDSON.
Ver. . 7', od da «iamfq,] Ovin, EFfl. « Porc. if.
il. o$. ,, Tu modo da veniam faffo." See alfo Ibid. i. vil.
Epij?. Heroid. iv. 156, Ibid. xvi. 11, Ibid. xvii. 2"25, Ibid.
xix. 4. T.
Ver. 65. Swpe fariltiferi] From the Macedonian fariffa or
ïaite; whence foidiers were calledfarbphorL Sce Liv. ix. 19.
And Ovid Met. xii. 466. To.
"2.08 ELEGIARUM
Neve moras ultra ducere paffus Amor ;
:Nain vaga Fama refert, heu nuntia vera ma-
lorum !
In tibi finitimis bella tumere locis ;
Teque tu,4mque urbem truculento milite cingi,
Et jam Saxonicos arma parhffe duces.
Te circum lat campos populatur Fnyo, 75
Et rata carne virfim jam cruor arva rigat ;
Germanifque fuum conceffit Thracia Marrera,
Illue Odryfios Mars pater egit equos ;
Perpetu6que comans jam deflorefcit oliva,
Fugit et oerifonam Dira perofa tubam,
Fugit Io! terris, et jam non ultima virgo
Creditur ad fuperas juçta volflè domos.
Te tamen interea belli circumfonat horror,
Vivis et ignoto folus in6pfque folo;
Ver. 74. Et jam Saxonicos arma parôè duces.] About the
year 166, when thi» Èlegy was written, the imperialifis, under
general Tilly, were oftcn encountered by Chrifiian Duke of
Brunfwick, and the dukes of Saxony, particularly duke William
of Saxon Wiemar, and the duke of Saxon Lawenburgh, in Lower
Saxony, of which Hamburgh, where Young refided, is the capital.
Sec v. 77. Germany in general, either by invafion, or interiour
commotions, was a fcene of the mort bloody war from thc year
1618, till later than 1640. Guftavus Adolphus conquered the
greater part of Germany about 1(31. See Note on EL iii. fupr.
v. 10. T. WARTONo
Ver. 78. Illuc Odryfios Mars &c.] Statius, iii. 2.
" Primus tcrrificam .Mavors non fcgnis in hoftem
" Odrjtfios impcllit euos." RCAltDSO.
Ver. 8a. Vivis et ignoto folus iupfquc.folo ;] Ovid, of Acl-
menides, J]letam. xiv. 217".
" Sol'u', inots, cxfpes."
L I B E R. £09
Et, tibi quam patrii non exhibuere penates0 s»
Sede peregrin, quoeris egenus opem.
13atria, dura parens, et fitxis foevior albis
Spumea quoe pulfat littoris unda tui,
Siccine te decet innocuos exponere tetus,
Siccine in externam tèrrea cogis humum ? 9o
:Et finis, ut terris quoerant alimenta remotis
Quos tibi proticiens miferat ipfe Deus,
Thefe circumftances, a.dded to others, leave us flrongly to fuf-
pe, that Young was a nonconformifi, a,:d probably compelle«l to
quit Engl.and o. acoount of his religious opinions and pratCtiee.
lte feers to bave been driven back to England, by the war in the
Net3erlands, hot long after this Elegy was written, Sec v. 71.
feq. And the firft lote. T. Warto.
To the Ovidian allufion may be here added an tIomerick one,
Od.. il. 265.
Ver. 86. Sede peregrind quoeris egenus opem.] Before and after
1630, many Englifl minifiers, puritanically affe6tcd, left their
cures, and fettled in Holl.nd, vhere they became paflors of fepa-
rate congregations : When matters took another turn in England,
they returned, and were rcwarded for their unconforming obfii-
nacy, in the new prelbyterian eflablifhment. Among thefe were
Nye, Burroughs, Thomas Goodwin, Simpfon, and Bridge, em.i-
rient members of the Affembly of Divines. Sec Wood, .4th.. Oxo
ii. 50-$. Neale's H/ff. Pur. iii. 676. T. Warxo-.
One of the puritanically affefted miniflcrs, to shom Mr.
Warton alludes, tells us, in 1643, that " Thoffnds of late
were driven out of the kingdom into America, &c." llerbert
t'almer's Sermon on the Fafl-day, 8. June, 164, 3. p. 59. Crom-
well 'as alfo once " thinki.g of tranfporting himfelf and his
family into New England, a receptade of the puritans, '1o
flocked thither amain for libert.,v of ¢onfcienc.e." Lire Crom-
,ell, 8vo. 1663. p. 17. TODD.
VOL. vil. P
ç10 ELEGIARUM
Et qui loeta ferunt dc coelo nuntia, quique,
Quoe via pof't cineres ducat ad aftra, docent ?
Digna quidem, Stygiis quoe vivas claut:a tenebris,
yEternâque animoe digna perire faine ! 96
tIaud aliter rates terroe Thefbitidis olim
Prettït inafiheto devia tefqua pede,
Defert,&que Arabum fidebras, dum regis Achabi
Effogit, atque tuas, Sidoni dira, manus" lOO
Ver. 100. -- Si&mi dira,] Jezebel, the wife of Ahab,
was the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians. Sidoni is a
rotative, ri'oto Sidonis, often applied by Ovid to'Europa the
daughter of Agenor king of Syria. Sec FcO. B.v. 610, 617.
Art, Amator. iii. 5, and Metam. xiv. 30. il. 80. Somc of
hefe fcriptural allulions are highly poetical, and lnuch in Mil-
ton's manner. His friend, who bears a facred charaOer, forced
abroad for his piety and religious conftancy by the perfecutions
of a tyrannick tribunal, and diftreffed by war and want in a
foreign count T, is compared to Elijah the Tiflbite wandering
alone over the Arabian deI:arts, to avoid the menaces of Ahab,
and the violence of Jezebel. Sec 1 Ki»gs, xix. 3. feq. IIe then
fele&s a moft ftriking miracle, under which the power of the
Deity is difplayed in fcripture as a prote&ion in battle, with re-
ference to his fdend's fituation, from the furrounding dangers of
war. " You are fafe under the radiant lhield of him, who lu the
dead of night fuddenly difperfid the Afl,rians, while the found of
a unfcen trumpet was clearly heard in the empty air, and the
noires of invifible horfes and chariots rufhing to battle, and the
diflaat hum of claflfing arms and groaning men, terrified their
numerous army." Terruit et den.fas &c. ver. 117, et feq. Sec
2 Kings, vil. 5. " For the Lord had madc the hoft of the Sy-
rians to hcar a noife of chariots and a noife of horfes, even the
noire ofa great hoft, &c." Sioncca arx is the city of Samaria, now
1,clieged by the Syrians, and whcre the king of Ifrael now re-
lided. It vas thc capital of Samaria. Pri./ba Damafcus was the
capital ofSyria. Pavido cure rge is Bcnhadad, the king of Syria.
lu thc fequel of the narrative of this wonterful conflernation and
LIBER. o.11
Talis et, horrîfono ]aceratus membra flagello,
Paulus ab ]Emathiçt pellitur urbe Cilix.
Pifcofoeque ipfum Gergeffoe civis Iëfuln
Finibus ingratus juffit abire this. 104,
At tu fume animos ; nec t]3es cadat anxia curis,
Nec tua concutiat decolor otlà metus.
.Sis etenim quamvis thlgentibus obtitus armis,
Intenténtque tibi millia tela necem,
At nullis vel inerme latus violabitur armis,
Déque tuo cuti»is nulla cruorc bibet. 11o
Namque eris ipth Dei radiante fub oegide tutus ;
Ille tibi cuçtos, et pugil ille tibi:
Ille, Sionoeoe qui rot fub moenibus arcis
Aflrios fudit no6te filente viros; ,,
Inque fugam vertit quos in Samaritadas oras
Mifit ab antiquis prifea Damafcus agris ;
Terruit et denfas pavido cure rege cohortes,
Aere dura vacuo buoecina clara tbnat,
Cornea pulvereum dura verberat ungula campum,
Currus arenofam dura quatit a&us humum,
flight of the Syrians, the fiflitudc of thcir vaft dcfertcd camp af-
fords a mort aflc"ting image, cven without any poetical enlarge-
ment. " We came to thc camp of the 8yrians, atd behold there
was no nmn there, neither voice of man ; but horfcs tied, and
affes tied, and the tents as they were." Ilfid. vii. 10. This is
like a fcene of enchantment in romance. T. WartTo.
Ver. 101. Talis et, horrijbno laceratas membra)qagello, &c.]
Whipping and imprifoument were among the i,unidnnents of the
m'bitrary Star-chamber, the threats Regis Ackabi, which Young
fled fo avoid. T. Waltworr.
Ver. 109..4t nullis »ci inerme latus &c.] Sec the faine philo-
fophy in Comu.ç» ver. 4,21. T. WaItTOr.
£io ELEGIAUM
Audit6rque hinnitus equorum ad bella ruentùm,
Et firepitus ferri, murmurfique alta virflm.
Et tu (quod fupereft miferis) fperare memento,
It tua magnanimo pe&ore vince mala ; le
ee dubites quandoque frui melioribus annis,
Atque iterum patrios poffe videre lares.
Ver. 123. Et tu (quodfuperedt &c.)] For m.any obvious reafons,
af is likely to be the true rcading. T. WaR'ro-.
Ver. 1°5. This wilh, as we have fcen, came to pafs. lle-
returned, and, when at lcngth his party became fupëriour, he
was rewardcd g'ith appointmcnts of opulence and honour.
T. WaRror.
LIBER. 1
ELEG. V. .Anno ,ttatis 0,
la adventicm
iN le perpetuo Tempus revolubile gyro
Jam revocat Zephyros vere tepente novos ;
Induit6rque brevem Tellus reparata juventam,
JAmque foluta gelu dulce virefcit humus.
Fallor ? an et nobis redeunt in carnfina rires, »
Ingenifimque mihi munere veris adet$ ?
* In point of poctry, fentiment, fde&ion of imagery, facility
ofverfilication, and Latinity, this Elegy, written by a boy, is
far fuperiour to one of Buchanan's on the faine fubje&, intitled
Malte Calendoe. T. W^rtTo.
Ver. 1. In fe perpettto Tern191ts revolUbile gyro] Buchanan,
De Slhtera , p. 133. ibid.
" In fe proecipiti femper revolubilis orbe." T. W^Rror.
Ver. 5..lï'allor ? an et &c.] So in the Epigram, Prodit. Born-
bm:d. v. 3. " Failor ? An et rnitis, &c." Sec alfo EI. vii. 56.
This formulary is hot uncommon in Ovid. Sec Note on Cons,
v. 1. T. WARTO'.
Ver. 6. Ingenimque mihi rnunere 'eris adefl ?] See v. 3. There
is a notion tbat Milton couhl xx'rite verfes only in the fpring or
ruminer, which perhaps is countenanced by thefe paflàges. But
what pocticai mind doe hot fecl an expanfion or invigoration at
the return of the fpring, at that renovation of the face of nature
ith which every mind is in fome degree affe£ted ? In one of the
Letters to Deodate he fays, " fuch is the impetuofity of my
tempef, that no delay» no refl, no care or thought of any thing
cife can flop me, tili I corne fo my journey's end, and put a
rlod to my prefent ftudy," Profi-lFort(s, ii. 67, In the Paradifi
Loti, he fpeaks of his aptitude for ¢ompofitioa in the night,
B. ix. 0.
ELEGIARUM
,lunere veris adett, iter6mque vigefcit ab illo,
(Quis putet?) atque aliquod jam tibi pofi:it
opus.
" ue mcnoberrat,
CaI}ahs ante oculos,bjfid6mq cacu
" If anfwcrable flylc I cau obtain
" Froln my cclcftial l,atroncl, who dcigns
' llcr nightbj vifitation, unimph,r'd :
« And dit}atcs to me Iiumbering, or infpircs
" Eafy my unprcmediIatcd crtb."
Again, to Uriana, B. vii. _8.
« Not aloue, while thou
" Vifit'tt my llumbers nigM/, or whcn morn
" Purples thc calL"
Again, he fays that " he vifits »ightQ/the fuicc of facred po-
etry," 11. iii. 3. And adds, v. 37.
" Thon ted on thoughts that vohmtary more
' llarlloniou numbelS."
ht the lixth Eiegy, he hints that he compofcd the Ode on the
Natixity in thc morning, v. 87.
"' Dona quidem dcdimus Chrifii Natalibus ill«b
" llla fitb auroram htx mihi l»'ima dcdit."
That is, as abuse, " when morn purplcs the catt." In a Lettcr
tu Alexandcr Gill, he tys that ho trantlatcd the hundrcd and
fourtcenth Plhlm into Grcck heroicks, " fubito n«cio quo im-
petu auto Lucis e.rmqttm, " Prol-works, ii. 567. Ste allb ver.
9, 10. And the firlt Note on Sonn. vil. T. Waxox.
Ver. 9- (çtalis &c.] Buchanan, EI. 1. . p. 31. ut fupr.
' Grat5quc Phoebeo Cqffali« unda choro." Milton bas " the
infpir'd C«ytalian q,ring."l"arad. Lç#, B. iv. 273.
Buchauan was now lu high rt.pute as a modern Latin claflick.
Ile is thus char:ttqerifbd by a learncd and clcgant writer of Mil-
ton's early days. " Of Latin pocts of our time% iu the judgc-
ment of Beza and the bcti learned, Buchauan is etieemed the
chiefe.llis conceipt in poelie 'as mot[ rich, and his fwcetnefs
and thcilitie in a verre inimitably excellent, as appoareth by that
rnafter-peece his PtMms ; as farre bevond thol" of B. Rhenanus,
LIBER. o_15
Et mihi Pyrenen fomnia no&e ferunt ;
Concit{tque arcano fervent mihi pe&ora motu,
Et fut'or, et fonitus me tàcer intus agit.
Delius ipfe venir, video Penëide lauro
hnplicitos crines ; Delius ipIè venir.
Jaln mihi mens liquidi raptatur in ardua coeli, ta
Pérque vagas nubes corpore liber eo;
Pérque umbras, pérque antra feror, penetralia
rature,
Et mihi fana patent interiora deûm ;
lntuitfirque animus toto quid agatur Olympo,
Nec fugiunt oculos Tartara coeca meos. eo
as the Stauzas of Pctrarch the Rimes of Skelton : but deferving
tnore applaulè if he had lhtn upon ano/her fubject : for I fay with
J. C. Scaliger, Illorum piger qui Daridis lalmos fids coh«znir&
imyiosJe,ratt çicereplatbiliorcs.His Tragedies are lotic, the
fiyle pure : his Epigralns not to be mended, lave here and there,
accordiug to his genius, too broad and bitter." Peacham's Comz
&at Gent&man, p. 91. Cil. x. Of Poetry, edit. [£d.] 1634. 4to.
Milton was now perhaps too young to be captivated by Bucha-
nau's political fpeculations. T.
Ver. 11. Concitt5que arcano &c.] Compare Orpheus, Mr-
gon. ver. 46.
Ver. 13. Deliu, &c.] Blilton tèems to have thought of
beginning of Callimachu's Hymn to Apollo. T. Wam,o.
Ver. 15. gara niai me, &c.] Apoll. Rhod. Arg. iii. 1150.
Vcr. 19. Intuitrçue aius toto çuid gur Ol),mpo,
Shfpcare t«dj: . Dr. A. v. S. i.
'2.16 ELEGIARUM
Quid tam grande fonat diliento fpiritus ore ?
Quid parit hoec rabies, quid fàcer ifte furor
Ver mihi, quod dedit ingenium, cantabitur illo
Protherint ifto reddita dona modo.
Jam, Philomela, tuos, foliis adoperta novellis,
InRituis moduIos, dum filet omne nemus :
Urbe ego, tu fylvâ, fimul incipiamus utriquc,
Et fimul adventum veris uterque canat.
Veris Io ! rediere vices ; celebremus honores
Veris, et hoc fubeat Iufa perennis opus.
Jam fol, 'thiopas fugicns Tithoniftque arva,
Fle&it ad AriJas aurea lora plagas.
" The poet's cye, in a fine phrenfy rolling,
" Doth glance from heaven to carth» from earth, to
heave."
Ver. 25. Jam, Philomcla, tuos, foliis adoperta novcllis,
lttflitui modulos, dura filet omne nemus :] Thcrc is
reat elcgance aud purity of exprcflion infoliis adoperta novellis.
"l'lc xx'htdc imagcry v aftcrwards tx'anferrcd into the fir
Sonm t.
" 0 Nightbg«le., that on yon bloomyfpr¢
" ll'arl, lefi at eve, ï]eR all tle woods areJill."
T. Wa rtTor-.
Ver. ôO. - hoc.fi«beat Mr!fa perennls opus.] Originally
quotannis, edit. l(J-5. Salmafius pretcnds to have obferved
veral falfe quantities in our author's Latin poens. This was
ont, and percnnis appeared in the fecond edition, 1673. 'e
Salmaf. Refpo!f edit. Lond. 1660. p. 5. It is remarkable, that
Tickell and Fe»ton flmuld both have prefcrved quotannis, who
might bave becn taught better even by Tonfon, edit. 1705.
Nicholas Heinfius, lu an Epiftle to Itolftcnius, complains of thefe
falfe quantifies : and, for elegance, prefers our author's De.fenfio
fo his Latin poems. Sec Burman. Syliog. iii. 669. But Heinfius,
likc too many othcr ça'car criticl(s, had no tarte. T.
LIBER. 617
ft breve no&is iter, brevis eft mora no&is
opacoe,
Horrida cure tenebris exulat illa fuis.
Jmque Lycaonius, plauftrum coelefte, BoStes 3
Non longer fequitur feffus ut ante vi;
Nunc etiam folitas circum Jovis atria toto
Excubias agitant ridera rara polo :
:Nam dolus, et coedes, et vis cum no&e receflît,
Neve G iganteum Dii timuere fcelus.
Fort aliquis fcopuli recubans in vertice paftor,
Rofcida cùm primo fole rubefcit humus,
IIac, ait, hac cert caruiçti noe puellâ,
Phoebe, tuâ, celeres quoe retineret equos.
Leta fuas repetit filvas, pharetr{tmque refumit
Cynthia, luciferas ut videt alta rotas ;
Ver. 32. Fle?-tit ad AroeSas aurca lora llagas.] Ovid, Art.
Amator. i. 549. Of Bacchus.
« Tigribus adjun&is aurea lora dabat."
The exprcflïon is finely transferred. T. WARTOr.
Ver. 38. Excubias agitant ridera] See the notes on Comus»
v. 113 Ode.tYaliv. ver. 21. TODD.
Ver. ôg. am dolns, et coedes, et vis &c.] Ovid, 13Ietam. i. 130.
" In quorum fubiere locum, fraudcfque, dolique,
" lnfidioeque, et vis, &c." T.
Ver. 43. Hac, ait, bac certè caruifii hotte puellâ,
Phoebe, tud,] Ovid, Art. Amator. il.
" Soepe tu. poteras, Leandre, careretmdlâ." T. Wnrtxo¢.
Ver. 46. Cynthia, luciferas t vider alfa rotas;] Ovid. Art.
Amator. iii. 180.
" Rofcida h,ciferos cure dea jungit equos."
See alfo Elifl. Hcroid. xi. 46. And Note on EI. iii. 49.
T. Wh ttror.
18 E LEG IAIUM
:Et, tenues ponens radios, gaudere vidctur
Officium ticri tam breve fratris ope.
" De{bre," Phoebus ait, " thalamos, Aurora,
" feniles ;
" Quid juvat effoeto procubuifiè toro ?
" Te manet olides vMdi venator in herbfi;
" Surge, tuos ignes ahus Hymettus habet."
Flava erecundo dea crimen in ore thtetur,
Et matutinos oci¢s urger equos.
Exuit invitàm Tellus rediviva tne&am,
Et cupit amplexus, Phoebe, thbire tuos ;
Ver. 49- " 1)cJbre," lolteebtts ait, &c.] '" Lcave the bed of
od Tithonus." Compare thc Mmle context vith Ovid..4»or. i.
xiii. 37.
" lllum dura refugis, longo quia frigidus oevo,
" Surgis ad invitb.s à lbne ma:;c rotas:
" At liquem manibus Cel»lmlum complcxa tcncres,
" Clamarcs, Lete curritc no&is equi.:'
And fco Eli./?. 11eroid. iv. 96. And the ncxt Note.
T. W+, axor,-o
Ver. 51. " ;le maet ]Eolides &c.] Cephalus, with whom Au-
rora Il:Il in love as the faw him huuting on mount Hymcttus. Sec
Ovid, Mtam. vii. 7Ol, &c. He is callcd, +T, olides, CephMus,
ibid. ri. 681. And «F.olid«s, fimply, ibid. vii. (/72. l-Icnce our
author, EI. iii. 6"7.
" Flebam turbatos C«phaleid pclli«e fomnos.'"
And C.ephalus is " the Attick boy," with whom Aurora was
accuftomed te hunt, 1t PcJ v. 124. T. Wawror.
Ver. 55. Exuit inv(l"am &¢.] Sec the opening of Sidney'
Arcadia : « It was in the time that the Earth bcgins to put on
ber new apparel againft the approach of hcr loyer." And com-
pare the Hymn, Ode lgat. ft. 1. To0.
LIBER. 19
Et cupit, et digna eli: Quid enin formofius ill,,
Pandit ut omnifëros luxuriotà finus,
Atque Arabum fpirat meflès, et ab ore venufo
l,Iitia eum Paphiis fundit amoma rofis!
Ecee! coronatur facto fi'ons ardua luco,
Cingit ut Idoeam pinea turris (_)pire ;
Et vario madidos intexit flore eapillos,
}lloribus et vitlt ett poflè placere fuis.
Floribus effutbs ut erat redimita eapillos, 65
Toenario placuit dira Sicana deo.
Atiice, Pheebe, tibi faciles hortantur amores,
Mellit,zttèlue movent flamina verlm preces :
Ver. 57. et digna e.fl:] That is pulchra, as in El. i.
53. Cicero, de Irent. L. ii. i. " Ei puern. olienderunt multos
inagn'A proeditos dtgttitate.'" And afterwards, lom the b«au
thefe boys, the dignffa," of their lilers is cliimated. lilton, at
thefe ear]y years, lbems to bave been nicely lkilh.d in the lbrce
of I,atin words, and to bave known the full extent «»1" the Latin
tongue. Wawo.
Ver. 58. Pandit ut omniferos luxuriqt finus,] So, in Par.
L, B. v. 338. " Whatever Earth aa-bearbtg inother yields."
3Iilton here thought of Ovid's Tellus, -ho inakes a []»eech, and
who lifts ber " om(/bros vultus," Met. ii. 75. T.
IIe might all think of Buchanan's Elegy, entitled, Mai«
Calendw, p. 35. ed. fupr. « Omni]èros pandens copia largafit.u,.
See allb Sih, oe, p. 54. The phrafe all-bearing is employed by
Lifle, in his Part [Dtt Barta« edit. 165, p. . " AIl tçuite
lhall ceafe to grow vpon th" all-bearing oround.
Ver. 62. The head of his perfonified Earth crowned xvith
çacred wood, n.fembles Ops, or Cybele, crowned with towers.
But in pitea turris, he feens to have confounded her crown of
towm x'ith the pines of Ida. Tibullus calls her Idwa Ops, EI.
i. iv. 6S. q'here are touches of the great pOetl'y in thiç delrip-
tion or perfonification er Earth. T. W,x
o_o ELEGIARUM
Cinname. Zephyrus le-e plaudit odorifer alfa«
BlanditififilUe tibi ferre videntur aves. 70
Nec line dote tuos temeraria quoerit ana-ores
ïerra, nec optatos potit egena toros ;
zXlma falutiferum medicos tibi gramen in ufu
Proebet, et hinc titu[os adjuvat ipt tuos:
Qu6d, ti te pretium, fi te fulgentia tangunt s
Munera, (muneribus t:,pe coemptus amor)
|tla tibi oiientat quafcunque fub oequore vaftoa
Et fiq)erinje6tis montibus, abdit opes.
Ah ciuoties eùm tu elivo/b fflias Ol3:mpo
In vefpertinas proecipitaris aquas, so
*' Cur te," inquit, " curfu languentem, lhoebe
« diurno
" Iiefperiis reeipit coerula Mater quis ?
*' Quid tibi cure Tetby ? Quid cure-Tarteffide
" lymphe; ?
" Dia qfid immundo peduis-ora f, do ?
Ver. 69. Cinnamed Zephyrus ltçe phmdit odo'ifer ald,] Ste
EI. iii. 4-7. And compare Co»a:s, v. 99.
" And weft inds, with mie wing &c."
nd Par. Loti, B. viii. 515.
«' Gentlc airs
" Whifpcr'd it to tlie woots, anti from their wings
" Fhmg fore, Prung odours, from theJvicy lhrub.'"
« Rofe and odours, hich their wings had colle&ed from tle
fpicy thrub." T. W^ta'os.
Ver. 83. Quid tibi «m Tetk.? &c.] la the manner of O,-id
Eli ff. Heroid. ri. 4.7.
" Qtdd mihi emn Minyis
" Qnid tibi cure ptria, navita Tiphy mea
ee above, E1. iii. S3. T.
LIBER.
«' Frigora, 1)hoebe, meâ meliùs eaptabis in
" umbr ;
" Huc ades, ardentes imbue rore comas.
« Mollior egelidâ veniet tibi fomnus in herb ;
« Huc ades, et gremio lumina pone meo.
" Qu',ique jaces, circum mulcebit lenè fufiarrans
« Aura per humentes corpora fut:a rofas.
"' Nec me (crede mihi) terrcnt Scnelëia rata,
« Nec Phaetonteo fumidus axis equo:
" Cflm tu, Phoebe, tuo tàpientiùs uteris igni;
" Huc ades, et gremio lumin pone neo."
Sic Tellus lafciva fuos fifl]firat amores ;
]Vlatris in exemplum coetera turba ruunt:
Ver. 89. mulccbit ienè f«./ùrrans
.4m'a per humentcs co»To,'a fih rqças.] Sec Note
on v. 69. And El. iii. 48.
" Aura fub innumeris humida nata rofis."
See alfo Par. Rcg. B. ii. 363, where flagrant gales are intro-
duced, as enhancing the voluptuoufiefs of the enchantcd banqucç
in the wildcrnefs. T.
Nor ould the defcription of Ilcaven in Par. L@, B. v. 646,
he omitted, where " roJbat dews difpofc to teK."
er. 91. Semelëia fata,] An ccho to
Oyid's Semdda proles, 31etam. v. 39, ix. 60. And in other
places. Semele's flory is well known. Sce Ovid's .4mor. iii.
7. And Fe. vi. 485. T.
Ver. 95- More vifely than when you lent your chariot to
Phaeton, and when I ' conflmmd " by the exce£s of your
heat He alludes to the fpeech or complaint of çllus, in the
flory of Phaon. Sec l]Ietam, il. "27"2. And Note on v. 58,
Not to infilt particularly on the dcfcription of the pcrlbn of
Iilton's Tellus, nd the topicks of perlhalion felced in her ap-
proaches and ber fpcech, the general conception of ber courtlhip
9f the fun is highly poetical. T. Waos'.
eo. ELEGIARU M
Nunc etenina toto currit vagus orbe Cupido,
Languentéfque foyer folis ab igne faces-
]nfonuere novis lethalia cornua nervis,
'|'riIie micant ferro tela coruta novo : lOO
3fimque vel inviam tentat fuperhflë Dianam,
Quoeque fedet facro Vel}a pudica foco.
Ipfk tnefcentem reparat Venus annua formam,
Arque iterum tepido creditur orta mari.
Iarnloreas juvenes clamant Hymenoee! per
urbes, lO5
Littus, Io Itymen ! et cava faxa tbnant.
Cultior ille venir, tunic'que decentior aptâ,
Puniceum redolet vefiis odora crocum.
Ver. 105. Puniceum redolet reflis odora crocum.] Se, in L'.4I-
lcgro, v. 124.
" There let Hymen oft appear
" lnfqff'ron robe."
Hence we muft explain B. and Fletcher, lVoraan's Prize, A.i.
S. ii. -vol. viii. p. 179.
" Pardon me, yellow Hm«."
The text bas a reference te Ovid's IIymen, who is, " crocco e-
latus ami&u," 23fetam. x. 1. T. Wartro.
Sec Ben Jonfon's King's Entertainmcnt at lVelbeck, cdit. 1640,
p. 75. " Here Stub the bridegroome prefented himfi,lfc, being
apparelled in a ]ellow canvas doublct, &c. a Mumnouth cap with
a yellow feathcr, yellow ftockings and /hooes, &c."---Yet in the
reign of James llL we are thus informcd, " That there is a na-
tional as well as a pcrfonal rcfpe& canner be deny'd, a'.d colours
rather then othcr are vulgarly appropriatcd te fpecial vfcs, as
jmboiical te thcm, fo far tbrth as a kinde of fuperftition is growne
-ppon the auoyding, for you ml fcldome fee a bridegroomc wed
in yellow, or a forfakcn louer walke in blew.'" 13olton's Eiements
of.4rmories, 1610, p. 131.Beaumont aud Fletcher have êven
" .ycllozc-trçffëd 1 l.x n)en," Bondttca, A. i. S. i.---The text, "
LIBER.
Egredit6rque fi'eqaens, ad amoen gauda vefis,
Virgineos auro cin&a puella finus"
Votum eÇt cuique fuum, roture e tamen omni-
bus ununl,
Ut ribi, quenl cupiat, det Cytherea virum.
Nunc quoque tèptenâ nlodulatu r arendine paçtor,
Et fua, quoe jungat, earmina Phyllis habet.
Navita no&urno placat tha ridera cantu, lS
Delphivalèlue leves ad vada fumma vocat.
Jupiter iptb alto cure eonjuge lu(fit Olympo,
Convocat et t:,tmulos a(l fua fie[[a deos.
N'unc etiam Satyri, etm tbra crepufizula furgunt,
Pervolitant celeri florea rura choro; o
S3dvanfifque fuâ cypariffi rionde revin&us,
Semicapérque deus, midedt}tue taper.
doler vefds odora crocum;' induces me to cite, from a very learned
and entertaining work, the following pafl:age. " SirJohnChal'din,
in his manufcript, tclls us, ' that in the Indies they are wont to
moifien their clothes rz'ith sarFrto, at marriages and other folem-
nities." This could only be donc, I apprehend, on account of
lhe fragrance of this planq &c. The terre moten |hows, it is
hot on account of the colour they ufe theJbfl'ron, fi»r dry ycllow
clothes would anl\ver that purpofe ; but for itspetjUme." Har-
mer's Comment. on Solomo,t's So,tg, 1768, Additions, N ° 11.
Ïhe text may alfo have t refcrcnce to Catullus's Cupid, Carre.
lxix. « Fulgcbat crocind candidus in tunicd." ToDD.
Vcr. 119. «ùm fcra crclmfcula.oetrg'unt,] Sce
In Quint. _Aroï«mbr. v. 54. And Ovid, Metam. i.
" Trahercnt cumfi'ra creioqCula lucem." T. WartTo,-.
Ver. 12. Semicaperque &us, &c.] From Ovid, Fafl. iv. 752.
Sec alfo 2th'tam. xiv. 515. " Semicaper Pan." T. Watrox.
Semi&us is from Statius, Theb. xi. 110. " Semideumque pecns."
The turn of the whole line is from Ovid,
4 ELEGIARUM
Quoeque fub arboribus Dryades latuere vetufiis
:Per juga, per folos expatiantur agros.
l'er rata luxuriat fruticet@ue Moenalius Pan,
Vix Cybele mater, vix fibi tuta Ceres ;
Atque aliquam cupid us proedatur O reada Faunus,
Confulit in trepidos dum iibi Nympha pedes;
J'tmque latet, latitnfque cupit mal te&avideri,
:Et fugit, et filgiers pervelit ipfa capi. 13o
]ï)ii quoque non dubitant ccelo proeponere fylvas,
:Et fua quifque fibi numina lucus habet :
:Et fua quititue diu fibi numina lucus habeto,
Nec vos arbor«R, dii, precor, ite domo,
'Je referant miferis te, .]upiter, aurea terris
Soecla; quid ad nimbos afpera tela redis ?
Tu faltem lentè rapidos age, Phoebe, jugales,
Quà potes, et fenfim tempora veris eant;
:Brum,"zque produ&as tard ferat hifpida no6"tes,
Ingruat et nof[ro ferior umbra polo.
" Semibovémque virum, femivirfimque bovem." EODD.
Ver. 19. Jmque lateG &.'c.] Here is an elegant imitation
both of Horacc and Virgil. See Hor. Od. 1. ix. 21.
'" Nunc et latcntis proditor intimo
" Gratus puelloe rifus ab angulo."
And Virgil, EcL iii.
" lIalo me Galatea petit lafciva puclla ;
" È fugit ad falices, et fe cupit ante videri." BowLv..
Ver. 134. _h'ec ros arborcâ, dii, prccor, ite domo.] Par. Lotit
B. v. 137. " From undcr flmdy arborous roof." T. Watt'toN.
Ver. 138. . fe!firn tem29ora veris eaet ;] See EI. i. 48.
And the bItc, T.
LIBER.
ELEG. VI.
'ld Carolum Deodatum ruH commorantem,
¢ui cure hlibus Decemb. 'rifft, et fua carmina
e,vcri pqhd,t fi .lito mim)s ènt bona,
qudd inter htutitias, quibus erat ab
ceptus, haud «tis felic«m operam
MITTO tibi çanam non pleno ventre falutem,
Qufi tu, diRento, fort carere potes.
At tua quid no6ram prole&at Mufa camoenam,
Nec finit optatas poffe fequi tenebras ?
Carmine fcire relis quàm te redamémque colfim-
que ;
... Crede mihi, vix hoc carmine fcire queas.
" am neque nofter anaor modulis includiturar&is,
Nec venir ad claudos integer ipfe pedes.
Quàm ben folennes epulas, hilarémque Decem-
brem
Fefifique coelifugam quoe coluere deum,
Delicififque refers, hiberni gaudia ruris,
Hauque per lepidos Gallica muRa focos
Ver. 12. Ha6que ler lepidos Gallica ma focos !] See
Sonnet to Laurence, ver. 10.
" Where flaall we fometimes meet, and by the tire
« Help wafte a fullen day ?
" What neat repaft thall feaft us, light and choice
« Of Attick tafte» with wine, &c."
I)eodate had fent Milton a copy of verfes, in which he defcribed
the feftivities of Chriftmas. T.
," OL. Vil, Q
226 E LEG IARU M
Quid quereris refugam vino dapibfifque poefin ?
Carmen amat Bacchum, carlnina Bacchus
amat.
Nec puduit Phlmm virides gefififçc corymbos,
Arque hcderam lauro proepofitiflè fuoe.
Soepifis Aoniis clamavit collibus, EuoeI
lifia 'l'hyon6o turba novena choro.
Natb (-'oralIs'" mala carluina mifit ab agris "
on illic epultc, non tta vitis erat.
Quid niti vilm, rofiitiluC, racemitrmque Ly-
Cntavit brcvibus Tëia Mutk modis ?
Ver. 19. {/b Coralieis maht carmiwt nt ab agris:] Oçid's
ria, and Epth's.t'om Pontts, fulqotd to bc far inlriour fo
his othcr works. This 1 camot aih,w. Fcw of his work» bave
more nature. And where thé.re is hali« and negligence, there is
oten a beautifill caretefs ,.iegance. q'[e CoralloEi were the mo
çavagc of the Getcs. Ovid cai[s hem " pclliti CoralloEi,'" Epifi.
Pont. iv. viii. 83. Ste aifo ibi&. iv. ii. 37, and out author
above, EI. i. 1. Oid himfclf ackuovledges, ut fupr. iv. ii. £0.
" Et carmen vena pauperiorc fluit." Sec alfo ErOt. i. xi. 5,
iii. xiv. 35, iii. i. 18, v. vil. 59, v. xii. 35. And E. Pont. i.
v. 3, iv, xiii. #, 17. T.
Ver. 0. An illic «puh«, non rata ritis erat.] Ov[d,
Pont. i. x. 31.
« Non «pulis oncror : quarum fi tangar amore,
" 151 tamen in Geticis cepia nulla loci»."
Again, ER. P«»t. i. fii. 51.
" Non ager his pomum, non dulces porrigit
S.e alfo, i. vii. 13, and iii. viii. 13 ibid. T.
Ver. 1. QMd
Caaa«it breribs Tia Muça modls
il.
" Q«id n cure multo venerem confunderc vino
" Precepit-L'rici T«ia 3lnfa l«is "
LIBER. 0.27
Pindaric6fque inflat numeros Teumcfius Euan,
Et redolet filnlptum pagina quoeque merum ;
Dura gravis evertb currus crepat axe fupinus, ."5
Et volat Elëo pulvere fufcus eques.
Quadrim6que madens Lyricen Romanus Iaccho,
]) ulcè canit G lyce tan, flavicom mque Chloen.
Jam quoque lauta tibi generotb nlentà paratu
lentis alit vites, ingeniflmque fovet, ao
Again, .4rL A»mtor. iii. 330.
" Vinofi Tia bfa fi'nis."
Sec alfi Metam. xv. 413.
" Vi¢ta raccmi.fero lyncas dcdit India Bacch."
And F, yt. vi. -r83. T. Wartrox.
Ver..'23. Tcumcfius Euan,] Tcumas,
T.v뢢, is a nountain of Boeotia the diliri& in which Thebes
was lituated ; and its inhabitants wcre callcd
The Grccian Bacchus, the fort of Jupitcr and Scmcle» is ofter
denominatcd Thcbanus. But Bacchus |lad a more immediatc and
particular conno[ion with this mountain. Paut:ania relates a
fable, that Bacchus, in rcvcngc for fome iffult which he had
rcccivcd from the Thcbans, nourihcd a fox in this mountain for
the dcftrution of thc city of Thcbes ; and that a dog being font
from Diana to kill this fox, both fox and dog werc turncd into
ftOIleS. The fox was called T«'tr,a ; dZrr,, TeumeJia rulpes.
Paufan. BOII2TIK. p. 296. 10. cdit. Francof. 1583. fol. Ste alfo
Stephanus Byzant. Voc. TEYMHZOZ. And Antoninus Libcral.
23Ietam. p. 479. apud Gai. I-li.flor. Poetic. Script. Poetic. Parif.
1675. 8vo. Miiton here puzzles his readers with minute and
unneceflhry learning. The meaning of the line is this. " The
Theban god Bacchus infpires the numbers of his ¢ongenial lindar»
the Th&an poet." T.
Ver. çT. Quadrimque &¢.] Hor. Od. I. ix.
" benignius
" D,,Tromc q«adrbnum
"££8 ELEGIARUM
Maffica fcecundam defl»umant pocula venam,
Fundis et ex ipfi) condita metra cado.
Addimushis artes, fut'fimque per intilnaPhoebum
Corda; f,,vent uni Bacchus, Apollo, Ceres.
Scilicet haud mirum, tare dulcia carmina per te,
Numinc colnpofito, trcs peperiflè deos. 36
Nunc quoque Thref/à tibi coelato barbitos auto
lntblmt, arguta mollitèr i&a manu;
Audit6rque chelys fiffpenf, tapetia circum,
Ver. 33. l,h',imus hls artcs, &c.] IIor. Ep. I. v. 18.
" addocet artes :
" Foecundi calices qucm non fecere difertum."
Ver. o°7. _Atnc quoque Threffit tibi &c.] The Thracian harp.
Orpheus was of Thrace. Ovid, Etfifl. Heroid. iii. 118.
" Threicia»t digitis increpuiffe lyram."
Fhc faine pentamcter occurs, ztmor, il. xi. 3. Milton has : the
Orphean Lyre," l'af. Loti, B. iii. 17. Where the epithet Or-
phean is pcrfetly Grecian, and the combination " Ort)hean 1.qre"
is litcrally from Apollonius Rhodius, il. 1(1.
OPtEIH OPMIFFI o'vvotz'*ov [/zro
Or from Propertius, who fervilely copies the Grccks E1. i. iv. 4£.
" Olhece carmina fcfth
But thc epitl,cî is in his fitvourite Ovid Uct. x. 3. " OrÆhea
nccquicquam voce vocatur." And fce xi. o£. And in Buchana%
an autl, or with whofe Latin poetry Milton was wcll acquaintcd.
El. vil. 2,0. p. 44. Opp. edit. Lond. 1715. fol. « Et nemora
OT/«is capta fuiè modis." And « tl, c Orphcan lyre" is ibid.
3o. " Aurcaque Ophaë fila fuiffe lrte." T. Wartro_w.
See the ,,ote on "Par. Loti, B. iii. 17. Whcre the phrafe is
alfo ciwd from an old Englith poet. To».
Ver. 39..4uditbrquc chels fufpenfa tapctia circum, &c.] Mr.
Warton bas obfervcd that hcrc is a reh.rcnce to the mode of
furni/hhag halls or tiate-apartments with @@, -which had hot
L[ B E R.
Virgineos tremul',ï quoe regat rte pedes. o
llla tuas faltem teneant fpe&acula Mufas,
Et re»ocent, quantum erapula pêllit iners.
Crede mihi, dura pthllit ebur, comitatfique
plerum
Implet odoratos fefta ehorea tholos,
Pereipies taeitum per pe&ora ferpere Phcebum,
Quale repentinus permeat ofl ealor,,
Pérque puellares oculos, digitfimque fonantem,
]rruet in totos lapt:,,. Thalia tinus.
amque Elegia levis multorum eura deorum efl,
Et voeat ad numeros quemlibet illa fuos ; ,o
Liberadeft elegis, Emtoque,Cerétètue,Venfifque ,
Et eum purpreâ Matre tenellus Jkmor.
Talibus indè licent eonvivia larga poetis,
Soepits et veteri commaduiflè mero.
At qui bell refert, et adulto fib Jove eoelum, s»
c.afed in llilton's time. Compare Comus, v. 324. tlere a feftive
fcene is painted, and may in lbme degree be illuftrated by an
elegant paflhge ri'oto Pe,cham's N«pt. Hymn. iv. ed.
" Now Pleafure take ber fill ; bring, Graees, flo,ers !
« With torches, Hymen, plant the lofty towers !
" Twine, Concord, double girlonds ! Cupids, you !
" Some gather branches from the myrtle bough,
« And guild the roofe with waxen lights on high ;
" Tacke (others) p rich Arra. bufily ;
" Some caft about fweet water, &e." TorD.
Ver. 55. At qui bella refcrt, &e.] Ovid, Anacreon, Pindar,
and tIoraee, indulged in convivial felii,ity : and this alfo is an
indulgence whieh mur be allowed to the profeffed writer of
elegies and odes. But the epick poet, x'ho has a more fêrious
and important kafl, muft lire fpal'ingly, aceording to the die-
tates of Pythagoras. liltol's panegyricks on ternpel'ance both
0 ELEGIARUM
Ierofque pios, femide6tilue duces,
Et nunc fan&a canit fuperûm confidta dcorum,
Nunc latrata fero regna profunda cane,
ille quidem parcè, Samii pro more magiFtri,
Vivat, et innocuos prbeat herba cibos; 6o
Stet prope fagineo pellucida lympha catillo,
Sobrifique è puro pocu]a fonte i)iL)at.
Additu r. huic fceleri fque vacans, et ca!ta j uventus,
Et rigidi mores, et tlne labe manus.
Qualis, veçte nitens facrâ, et luçtralibus undis, 6
Surgis ad intntbs, attg,r, iture deos.
Hoc ritu vixiflè ferunt poPt rapta tàgacem
Lumina q'irefian, Ogygi6mque Linon,
Et lare devoto profugum Calchanta, fenémque
Orpheon, edomitis fola per antra tris ; 70
Sic dapis exiguus, fie rivi potor Ilomerus
Dulichium vexit per freta longa rirum,
in eating and drinking, refulting from his 0Wh pra£tice, are fre-
qucnt. Sec Par.
46. _And Comus, in feveral places. T. Wa
,Ver. 68. Tirefian,] So, in Par. L?#, B. iii. 35.
'ç Blind Thamyris, and blid Moeonides,
" And "l"iroEas, and Phineus, prophets old.'"
Do¢'-tor 13entlcy propofes to rcje¢'-t entircly the fecond of thcfe
lines. But, to fay
pany with other celcbrated b:trds of the higheli antiquity, would
atone ferve for a proof that the fitfpe[ed line is genuine. And
Tirefias occur again, De Idea Platonica, v. 6. T. Waa'os.
Ver. 72. Dulichium ve.rit &c:] It is xxorthy of rcmark, that
Milton herc illuftrates Ilomer's poetical chara¢ttcr by thc
nd hOt by thc lliad. T.
LIBER.
Et per rnonftrificam Perfei,'e Phoebados aulam,
Et vada tl.eminei intldioti tbnis ;
Pérque tuas, tex ime, domos, ubi limguine nigro
Dicitur umbrarum detilmitté greges. 76
I)iis etenim lacer eft rates, divftmque timerdos ;
Spirat et occultum pertus, et ora, Jovem.
t tu, tlquid agam, t:itabere (ti mod6 t:altem
lftè putas tanti not'ere fiquid agam,) so
Paciferum caninlus ca'lelii |:mine l{cgcln,
Fautifique thcratis tivcula pmçla libris ;
Vagitflmque Dei, et flaimlantt'm paupere tec"to,
Qui fuprema fuo cure Patte regna colit;
Stelliparfimque polmn, modulant('tilue ,thcre
turmas, 85
Et fubit) elifos ad fua fana deos.
I)ona quidem dedimus C.hrifii Natalihus illa,
llla fub auroram lux mihi prima tulit.
Ver. 73. Et per monflrijïcam Perft.ioe l'hcrbados aulam,] Circe
was the daughtcr of thc Sun, and, as fomc fay, of tlecate. Ovid,
lIetam, vit. 74. " ItccatcsPc(Ièidosaras." And Rcm«d.
263. " Quid tibi profucrunt, Circe, l'erf«idos herbre.v" And
Ovid mentions Circe's aula, Mctam. xiv. 45.
" perquc fi:raruln
'« Agmcn adulantum lncdia proccdit al» au[a.'" T. WAtt1"O..
Ver. 78. Spirat et occultum &c.] Claudiun, Rapt. PrqI; i. 6.
" totumfRb'ant pl'oeeol'dia Phtrbunl.'"
RIClIaItUSOX.
Vcr. 88. Illafub auroram &c.] Sec thc clofc of lr. War-
ton's note, Eleg. v. 6. Aud compnre, as the laie Mr. Hcadlcy
remarkcd, Ilor. Ept. lI. i. 11'2.
" prius orto
'« Soit,, vigil,calamum et chartas et ferinia pofco." "l'oot.
232 ELEGIARUM
Te quoque pretYa manent patriis meditata cicutis,
Tu mihi, cul recitem, judicis inftar eris. * 9o
Ver. 89. Te quoque preffa marient paltis meditala cicutis,] His
Englifh Ode on the Nativity. This he means to fibmit to Deo-
date's infpe&ion. " You thall next bave foëne of my E»gli.[h
poetry." T. WalWO.
Ver. 90. Tu mihi, cul recitem, judicis bar eris.] In Comus,
I fippofe the fimple " flepherd lad," fkilled in plants, to be the
faine Charles Deodate, to wholn this Elegy is addreffed, v. (/19.
For, as here,
« He lov'd me well, and oft would beg neJï»g;
« Which when I did, he on the tender grafs
" Woud fit and hearken even to extafy, &c.'"
Sec Ovid, Ep. Pont. iv. il. 37.
" Hic, mca cui recffcnb &c."
Again, Tr. iv. i. 18.
" Sed neque cuirecitcm, &c." T. WarTo.
There is a very poetical defcription in Browne's Brit. l'afloral«,
B. ii. S. iv. ed. 1616, p. 88, where the poet begs his friend to
delight him with his mufick, and hearken er«n fo ca'tafy, as in
Cornus, v. 63, &c.
" As in an euening, when the gentle ayre
" Breathes to the fullen night a foft repayre,
«' I oft hae fi:t on Thames' f'eet bancke to heare
" My Friend with his fweet touch to charme mine eare;
« When he bath plaid (as well he can) tbme ftraine
'« Tlat likes me, flrcight I aIk the faine again%
'" And he, as gladly granting, flrikes it o're
"' With fome f'eet relifl was forgot belote :
"' I ,ould haue been content, if he would play,
" In that one ftraine to paffe the night away." ToI).
* The tranfitions and conneqions of this Elegy, are conduc"tcd
with the tkill and addrefs of a marier, and form a train of allu-
fions and digrefiîons, produ&ive of fine fentiment and poetry.
From a trifling and unimportant circumftance, the reader is
gradually led to great and lofty imagery. I ill give a fliort
and hatIy analyfis.
LI BER.
« You bave well defcribed in your verres the merriments of
Chriflmas. But why do you intinuate that your poetry is
weakened by featting and wine . Bacchus loves poetry. And
Phebus is hot alhamcd to decorate his brows ith ivy-berries.
Even the Mufes, mixed with Bacchanalian titanes, have joined
in their lhouts on mount Parnaffus. Thc woct of Ovid's poetry,
is that vhich he fent from Scythia, where noyer vine was plauted.
What were Anacreon's fubjetets but the grape and rofes . Every
page of Pindar is rcdolcnt of winc ; 'While thc broken axle-tree
of the proftrate chariot rcfounds, and the rider flics dark x'ith
the dufi of Elis. It is when varmed with the mellow catk, that
Horace fweetly chauts his Gi)ccre, tnd his yellow-haired Chioe.
Your genius 1,as thercfore been invigorated rather than deprcffcd
by mirth. You have bccn l:acrificing to Bacchus, Apollo, and
Ceres. No wondcr your verfcs are lb charming, which have been
di&ated by three dcities. Èvcn now you are liftening to the
harp, which regulatcs the dance, and guides the fleps of the
virgin in a tapeth'ied chamber. At lcaft give way to this milder
relaxation. Such fccues infufe poetick warmth. Hcnce Èlegy
frtlncs ber tenderel tbtlg. Nor is it only by Bacchus and Ceres
that Elcgy is bcfrieuded ; but by other fcliive powcrs ; by Erato,
and by Love with his purple mother. Yet although the elcgiack
poet, and thofe who deal in the lighter kiuds of vcrfe, may en-
liven thc imagination by thefe convivial gaicties; yct ho who
fings of wars, aud Jovc, pious heroes, and leaders exalted to
dcmigods, thc dccrccs of heaven, and thc profound rcahns of
hell, muft follow the frugal precepts of the Samian rage, muft
quaff thc pellucid ftream from thc beechen cup, or from the
pure fountain. To this philofophy bclong chafie and blamelcfs
youth, fevcre manners, and unfpotted hands. Thus lived Tirefias,
fitgacious after the lofs of fight, Ogygian Linus, the fugitive
Calchas, and Orphcus the conqueror of beafts in /he lonely
caverns. It was thus that the temperate Homer condu(tcd
Ulyffcs through the tedious tbs, thc monfter-brecding hall of
Circe, aud the flmllows of the Syreus, enfnaring men with femalc
voices: and through your habitations, O king of the abyfs,
where ho detained the flocking ghofls with libations of black
blood. For in truth, a poet is facred ; he is the pricft of hcaven,
and his bofom conceives, and his mouth utters, thc hidden god.
Meanwhile, if you wifl to be informed how 1 cmploy mytblf as
a poet, &c." T. WtmTO.
$4 ELEGIARUM
ELEG. ¥I1 dnno .]tatis 19.
NONDUM, blanda, tuas leges, Amathufiu,
IlO ra FII
Et Paphio vacuum pe&us ab igne fuit.
Sepe cupidineas, puerilia te]a, fagittas,
Atque tuum fprevi, maxime, numen, Amor.
'l_'u, puer, irnbelles, dixi, transfige columbas ; 5
Conveniunt tcnero mollia bella duel:
Aut de paflèribus timidos age, parve, triuml»hos;
Hoec funt militioe digna troph,'ea tue.
In genus humanum quid inania dirigis arma ?
Non valet in fortes ifia pharetra viros, lO
Non tulit hoc Cyprius, neque enim deus ullus
ad iras
Promptior, et duplici jam ferus igue caler.
Ver erat, et fummoe radians per culmina villae
Attulerat primam lux tibi, Maie, diem :
At mihi adhuc refugam qu;erebant lumina
Nec matutinum fiçtinuere jubar. 6
Aat Amor le&o, pi&is Amor impiger alis;
lrodidit aftantem mota pharetra deum :
Prodidit et racles, et dulcè minantis ocelli,
Ver. 15. ,dt mihi adhuc rçf«gam qucerebant lmhta noc3em,
-hrcc matutinum fufiinuere jubar.] Ilcre is ]e
eleganee of poetical expreflion. But he really complains of the
weaknefs of his eyes, which began early.
ftfferable.'" Ode Nativ. v. 8. T.
LIBER.
Et quicquid puero dignum et Amore fuit.
Talis in oeterno .juvenis Sigeius Olympo
Mifcet amatori pocula plena .lori ;
Aut, qui formoths pellexit ad ofcula nymphas,
Thiodamantoeus Naiade raptus tlylas.
Addiderfitque iras, td et has decuiflë putares,
Addideffttque truces, nec fine felle, minas.
" Et mifer, exemplo thpuiffes tutiùs," i,quit,
" Nunc, mea quid pottit dextera, tefiis eris.
" Inter et expertos vites numerabere hot[ras,
Ver. 21. Talis, &c.] This line is h'om Tibullus, iv. ii.
" Talis in oet«rno ft.lix Vertumnus Olympo." .T.
Ver. 5. .4ddider6tque iras.d et bas decui- putar«s,] This
reminds us of vhat Olivia fitys, of the fuppofed boy, ith hom
lhe falls in love, Tzccth right, A. iii. S. i.
" O, what a deal of fcorn lool,s beautful
' In the contempt and a»ger of his lip."
Compare Anacreon's Bat@llus, xxiii. 12. And Theo¢fitus,
EPATH, IdfllL xviii. 1.
And Sakfpeare's çnus and.4doni«, edit. 1596.
" Which bred more bcaut& in hi at, gric eyes."
Ve find alfo the lame idea in his nt. and Ch'op. i. i.
" Fye, vrangling queen l
« Whom evcry thing becomes: to chide, to laugh,
" To weep ; whofe e'cff paon fully flrives
" To make itfell in thee, fair and admir'd !"
T.
eç alfo Statius, ix. 704.
« multfimque fcveris
" Afpcrat ora minis, fed fronfis fi}rvat honorera
çt 1fa decens." To.
36 EI,EGIARUM
" Et faciam veto per tua damna fidëm. 3o
« lpfc ego, il nefcis, ftrato Pythone fuperbum
" Edomui Phoebum, ce(fit et ille mihi;
« Et quoties meminit Peneidos ipfe fatetur
" Certiùs et graviùs tela nocere mea.
" Me nequit addu&um curvare peritiùs arcum,
" Qui po terga folet vi»cerc, Parthus eque.:
" Cydonidfque mihi eedit venator, et ille
" Infcius uxori qui necis author erat.
" Eff etiam nobis ingens quoque rictus Orion.
" Hercule&que manus, Herculefifque cornes.
" Jupiter ipfe licèt tire fulmina torqueat in
" Hoerebunt lateri fpicula noçtra Jovis.
" Coetera, quoe d ubitas, meliùs mea tela docebunt,
" Et tua non levitèr corda petenda mihi.
" Nec te, fiulte, tuoe poterunt defendere Mufoe,
Ver. 37. Cydonikfque mihi &c.] Perhaps indcfiitely as the
Parthus eques, juft bcfore. The Cydonians wcre famous for hunt-
ing, 'hich irai)lies archery. Ovid has, Metam. viii. 22. « Cydon-
«qfque pharctras." And Callimachus, K'fANION 'o», lIJnm
JDia. v. 81. If a pcrfon i hcre intended, he is moft probably
Hippolytus. Cydon was a city of Crete. Sec Euripides,
Hippol. v. 18. But then he is mcntioncd here as an archer.
Virgil ranks the Cydonians, with the Parthians» for their tkill in
the bow. eEn. xii. 852. T. Wao.
Ibid. --et ille &c.] Cephalus, who unknowingly flaot
his wifc Procris. T. W,TO-.
Ver. 39. Efl etinm nobis i»gens quoque riCTus Orion,] Orion
'as alfo a famous hunter. But for his amours ve mufl confult
Ovid, Art. Amator. i. 731.
" Pallidus in Lyricen fylvis errabat Orion.'"
Sec Parthenius, Erotic cap. xx. T.
LIBER. '2-37
" :Nec tibi Phoeboeus porriget anguis opem."
Dixît ; et, aurato quatiens mucrone ihg}ttam,
Eolat in tepidos Cypridos ille tlnus.
At m}hi rithro tonuit ferls ore minaci,
Et mihl de puero non metus ullus erat. o
] modb qu'à noiri fpatiantur in urbe Quirtes,
Ver. 46. " Nec tibi Phoeboeusporriget anguis op«m".] " No
racdicine will avail you. Not even thc fcrl)cnt , which Phoebus
lbnt to Romc to cure the city of a pefiilcncc:' Ovid, Mda»t.
xv. 74.
« Ituc fo de Lati pinu P]b«us
« Contulit,
Whcre fe thc fable at large. T. WAllon.
Ver. 47. ixi ; et, aurato quaticns muoronegittam,
Erolat i» tTidos (pridos ille finus] Statius, Syt. I.
ii. 103.
" Dixcrat, et tcncra matris cervicc pcpendit
" Blandus, et admotis tepefecit peora pcnnis."
RICIIRDSON.
Ibid. aurato quatiens mucrone fagittam,] So,
Parad. Lt, B. iv. 763.
"" Hcrc Lo-c his golden flafts cmploys, here lights
"' His confiant lamp, and waves bis purplc wings."
Whcre by thc way, as Mr. Steevens bas obfervcd to me,
is a palpable imitation of Jonfon ttynenoei ol. v. p. 291.
" Marriagc Lov's obje is, at .hofe bright cyes
'« He lights his torches, and calls thcm his ics ;
« For hcr hc vings his thoulders, &c."
But out author bas a rcfcrencc to Ovid's Cupid, 'ho bas a golden
dart with a arp point, which is attractive ; and onc of Icad
blunted, vhich is rel)uliivc , Metam. i. 470. " Quod facit
rature cri, et cuf!»ide fulget acuta." So again, of Ihithlefs lo,
" Straight his [Love'si arrows lofe thcirgolden heads," Divorce.
B.i. ch. ri. T.
ç38 ELEGIAI{UM
Et modb villarum proxhna run placent.
Turba fi'equens, lhci(que limillima tu,'ba dearum,
Splendida pe," medias itque reditque vias
AuStfique luce dies gemino fulgore corufcat ;
The paflhge of JollfOll, citcd in thc prcccding note, is an imi-
tation of Tibullus :
" Illius ex oculis, quum vult accendcre divos,
« Acccndit gcmilms lampadas acer Amor."
Jou
Ver. 53. Turl,« &c.] See El. i. 5. In Milton's youth the
faflfionable places of alking in London, wt,re IIyde-Park, and
Gray's-hm -alks. Thi appears from tir A. Cokain, Iilton's
contemporary, l"o¢ms, Loml. 166. lmo. Writtcn mch
earIicr. A young lady, he thys, p. 5.
" Frequents the theaters, Hide Par, or els talkes
" Away hcr prccious time in Grag's Imt al«s."
Sec alfo, p. 8, p. 39, and p.
llide Park vas rendered attractive alfo by raccs. See Gayton's
ot¢ on Don uixotc, 165$, p. 4&. But the falhionable places
f 'alking 'ere hot in Mi[ton's youth confincd as [r. Warton
ouhl infinuate, fo lIide Park and Gnty's lliil. For, fee Par-
thcneia Sacta, publiflmd in 1633 under the I)ilourfe of the
Garden, p. 1I. " 1 make not heer of the Coucnt-Garden, the
Gardctt 1" the Tcmple, nor that t" the Chartcr-lw{, or of
Grç'«s-lnne lllacs, to be had and enioycd at home ; nor of
the Gardca of Padua, &c," TODD.
Ver. 55. du«gq,«c htce dit, &c.] Spenfer, defcribing Brito-
matt " mmly veming up her umbriëre, alld fo lctting ber goodly
ifitge to appere," aolk degantly Ct,lnpares ber bcauty to the
moolt thining through a chmd in thtrketbme night, and coucludes
t,ith a coupl.t which wus evidcmly now in 3Iilton's mcmory.
ee aer. ,t. iii. i.
*' Such was lhe b«autie and thc.inb,g raff,
' Ilïth wld«h fi, yrc Britomarl
LI B ER. o_3 9
An et radios hinc quoque Phoebus
l?allor ?
habet ?
lhec ego non fugi fpe&acula grata fererus ;
hnpetus et qu6 me fert juvenilis, agor ;
Lumina luminibus malè providus obvia mifi,
Neve oculos potui continuiflè meos. t;o
Unam tbrte aliis fupereminuiflè notabam ;
Principium noftri lux erat illa mali.
Sic Venus optaret mortalibus ipfa ideri,
Sic regina de6m eonl]ficienda fuit.
IIunc memor objeeit nobis malus ille Cupido,
Solus et hos nobis texuit ante dolos. 66
Nec procul iptb vathr latuit, multaéque thgittw,
Et thcis \ tergo grande pependit onus"
Nec mora: hune ciliis hoelit, hune virginis ori ;
Intilit hiae labiis, infidet inde genis: " 7o
Et quati:unque agilis pattes jaculator oberrat,
Ilei mihi! mille loeis pe&us inerme ferit.
Protints itdbliti fubierunt eorda furores ;
Uror amans intus, flamm,4que totus eram.
Interea, mitèro quoe jam mihi fola plaeebat, 's
_Ablata eft oculis, non reditura, meis.
APo ego progredior taeit6 querebundus, et exeors,
,t dubius volui tepe referre pedem.
Findor, et hoec remanet: fequitur pars altera.
'OtUlqrl
lRapt,"tque tare fubit6 gaudia flere juvat., so
Ver. 76. ... non rcditura,] IIe faw the unknown lady,
who had thus won his heart, but once. Thc fervour of his love is
iaimitablï expreffed ia the following lines. Torr.
0.4 0 ELEG IARUiXI
Sic doler amiflhm proles Junonia coelum.
Inter Lcmniacos.proecipitata tbcos"
Talis et breptum folem refpexit, ad Orcum
Ve&us ab attonitis Amphiarus equis.
Quid theiam infelix, et lu&u ri&us ? Amores
Nec licet inceptos ponere, neve fequi.
0 utinam, fpe&are femel mihi detur amatos
Vultus, et coram triftia verba loqui !
lVortitan et duro non eR adamante creata,
Fortè nec ad noRras furdeat illa preces
Crede mihi, nullus fie infe]iciter arfit ;
Ponar in exemplo prinms et unus ego.
Parce, precor, teneri cùm ris deus ales amoris,
Pugnent officio nec tua th&a tuo.
Jam tuus 0 ! certè eft mihi tbrmidabilis areus,
Ver. 84. Treus ab attonitis Amphiariius equis.] An echo to
a pentameter in Ovid, Epi.#. Pont. iii. i. 52.
" Notus humo merfis .4mphiaratts equis."
Sec Statius, T&b. vii. 8°1.
" Illum ingens haurit fpecus, et tranfire parantes
« 5Iergit equos ; non al'nl; manu, non fl'ena remifit :
" 8icut erat, re&os defert in Tartara currus ;
' Refpexitque cadens ccelum, campumque coire
« Ingelnult, &c."
The application is beautiful from a young mind teeming with
claifical hiftory and ilnagery. The allufion, iii the lait couplet,
to Vulcan, is perhaps lefs happy, ahhough the compliment is
greater. In the example of.-mphial'aus, the fudden and flriking
tranfition ri'oin light and the fun to a fubterraneous gloom per-
haps is more to the poet's purpofe. T. Wa-rox.
Ver. 8. FoJitan et duro wn adamante creata,] See Theo-
critus, ldsll, iii. 39.
LIBER.
Nate deS, jaculis, nec minfis igne, potens:
:Et tua fumabunt notris altaria donis,
Solus et in fi, peris tu mihi fummus cris.
:Deme meos tandem, verùm nec deme, furores;
Nefcio cur, mifer eft fuavitbr omnis amans :
Tu mod6 da i:acilis, pofthac mea fiqua futura eft,
Cufpis amaturos figat ut una duos. ,oz
Ver. 99. Deme meos tandem, verm nec deme, furores
_lVqfcio c,tr, miCr e.fl fuavitr omnis amar, s :] There
never was a more bcautiful defcription of the irrefolution of love.
Ho wifhes to bave his woe removcd, but recalls his wifh ; pre-
fcrriug the fweet mifer.y of thofe who love. Thus Eloil:a wavers,
in Pope's fine pocm :
" Unequal tat ! a paflîon to refign,
" For hearts fo touch'd, fo pierc'd)fo loti» as mine."
Top»,
Vor.. vxr. R
£4 ELEGIARUM
HOEC ego mente olim loev, fludi6que fupino,
Nequitioe pofui ,,'ana trophoea meoe.
Scilict abreptum tic me malus impulit error,
Indocili|'que mtas prava magifira fuit"
Donc Socratlcos mnbrot:a Academia riros
Proebuit, admiflhm dedocuitque jugum.
Protinùs, extin&is ex i11o tempore flammis,
Cin&a rigent multo pe&ora noflr,'t gelu.
Unde luis frigus metuit puer ipfe fagittis,
Et Diomedeam viro timet ipt:,t Venus.
Ver. 1. tloEc ego &c.] The clcgiack pocts vcre among thc
favourite clallical authors of Milton's youth, Apol.
" Othcrs were thc finooth Eegiack Pocts, whcreof thc fchools
are uot fcarcc : whom, both for thc pleafing fi, und of thcir
nerous writing, which in imitation I fonnd moft cat, and mort
agrecable to naturc's part in me ; and for thcir mattt'r, which
vhat it is, thcre bc few who know hot, I was tb allurcd to
rcad, that no rccreation came to me better wclcomc," Pro.ff:-
works, vol. i. 100. T.
Ver. 3. tic me malus h»laulit crror,] Suggeftcd per-
haps by Virgil, Ecl. viii. 41.
« ut me malus abflulit crror!'" TODD.
Ver. 10. Et Diomedeam rira tb»ct il:tà Irnus.] Ovid makes
this fort of allufion to Homcr's incident of Venus woundcd by
Diomed. In the beginning of the Remtdff of Love, Ovid with
great livelinefs introduccs Cnpid alarmed at fuch a title, and
anticipating hottilities. But with cquai livclincfs thc poct apo-
logifcs and cxplains, v. 5.
" Non ego Tydidcs, "h quo tua çaucia matcr
" lu liquidum rcdiit oethera, Martis cquis."
Sec alfo ]1et«m. xiv. 491. And Epifl. Pont. ii. ii. 13. Thcfe
LIBER.
lines are an epilogifllck palinode to the laft Elegy. The Socra-
tick do&rines of the flmdy Academe ïoon broke the bdnds of
bcauty. In othcr words, his return to the univerfity. Tqwy
were probably written, when the Latin poems were prepared for
lhc prel's in 1645. T.
« Milton bore, at an early period of tire, renounccs the
levitics of love ad gallantry. This was hot the cafe with
Buchanan, who unbccomingly prolongcd his amoro,«s defcant to
graver ycars, and who is thcrcfore obliquely cenfured by Milton
in thc following paffage of Lycidas, hithcrto hot exatly under.-
flood, v. 67.
"' Were it hot bettcr donc, as others .fe,
" Tofport with tmar,dllis in the fl,ade
" Or with the ta»gles of recra's hai» ?"
The 4marfllis, to wliom Milton alludes is the 4mar?dlis of
Buchanan, the fubjc(t of a poem called Dç[iderim* Lutctioe, a.
fond addrcfs of confiderable length from an importunate loyer.
Sec Si&'oe, iii. tom. il. p. 50. 01 p. Eding. 1715. fol.
begins,
"' 0 formoça ,4marflli, tuojam feptima bruma
" Me procul afpeu, &c."
It is allowed, that the common poetical naine, ,4marfllis, might
bave bccn naturally and accidentally adopted by both poets ; nor
does it at firlt fight appear, that Milton ufed it with any re-
flric"tive or implicit meaning. But Buchanan had another mif-
trcfs whom he calls Aecera, whofe golden hair makes a vcry
fplendid figure in his verfes, and which he has comptimented
more than once in the mort hyperbolical flyle. In his
Elegy, he raife the following extravagant ri&lori on the lux-
uriant ta»glcs of this lady;s hair. Cupid is puzzled how to
fubdue t.he icy poet. His arrows can do nothing. At length,
he bits upon the ftratagem of cutting a golden lock from Neera's
head, while the is afleep, with which the poet is bound; and,
thus cnlangled, he is delivered a prifoner to Neoera, El. ix. p. 46.
ut fupr.
" Fervida, rot telis, non proficientibus, ira
" Fugit ad auxilium, dia Neoera, tuum ;
24 ELEGIARUM
« Et ep:.ti artifices, te dormitante, ¢apillur
«: .4ur.ohtm.flaroe tollit ab orbe come :
" Et mihi ridenti (quis enim non talia ,incla
" Rideat ?) arridcns brachia vinxit Amor ;
" Ludantémque diu, fcd frttftt'à, evadere, traxit
" Captivum, domine rcflituitque
This fiqion is again purfucd in his Epigrams. Lib. i.
p. 77. ibid.
" Liber eram, vacuo mihi cm fib corde Neoer
" Ex octtlis fixit fpicula miffa fuis :
' Deinde unam evellens ex auricomante catilltt
" Vertice, captivis rincla dedit manibus :
" Rifi equidem, fatcor, vani ludibria ncxus,
" .Hoc laqueo lkcilcm dura mihi fpero fugam :
' Art ubi tentanli fpes irrita ceit, alwnis
" Non ICus ac manicis implicitus gemui.
« Et modo membra 1ilo Uuqus mill.,l- abfirahor
And to this Neoera many copies are addressed both in Buchanma's-
Èpigrams, and in his tlcndecafyllabicks. Mihon's infinuation, as
otlterstfc, cannot thcretbrc be doubted. " Why flaould lri(?l!l
»editate thc thanl«lçl mufe, aud vrite fi«blime poetry which is
aot regarded ? I had better, |ikc fome olhcr pocts, who might
be more propcrly cmployed, 'ritc idle compliments to Amar.yllis
and Neoera." Perhaps thc ohl reading, " Ilid in tlle taugles
of Neera's hair," tends to confirm this fenfe. It /houhl be
remembcrcd tbat Buchanan was now a popular .and lhnfiliar
modern Latin claflick, and that lilton was his' rival in the
faine mode of compolition. And, of out atdhor's allufions to
him, i»liances have before occurred, and will occur again. I
ara obliged to an unknown critick, for the leading idea of this
vcry juft and ingcnious elucidation of a paflàgc in Lycidas.
T. WatTO.
Theztaryllis of Bnchanan is not his mi/refs : It is the naine
by which he obvioufly dcfcribes the city of Paris ; to whicla he
repeated|y profcffes bis att-chment in his writings. Sec alfo thc
Life ofBuchanan, prefixed to thc Edinburgh edition ofhis Works,
Fol. vol. i. p. 5. " Ceeterùm Lut«tiam ab co relit'tare anno
alt.'m 1545, Bec pofiea confpc&am ad annum ufque 155:., oten-
dit lilw iii cui titulus eR D.str.tttuax LçTX.. Ejus cnim
LI B E R.
initio fe Lutetiâ, quam paflorali more At, LtRX'LLIDA vocat, fep-
rem annis abfuiflè teffatur, ira canens,
O.]brmqlh A a " L, tuojam fiTtima b»uma
3Ie procul q/e'tu, &c."
In the firme poem he is fuppofed to intend, under the pafioral
laames of Lycifi-a ami Meloenis, Lion and Coimbra. Milto'a
ma?lllis then, tout[ be conlidered as hot exatly applicable
flac .4ma'flli« of Buchann. '1'o.
EPIGRAMMATUM
LIBER.
E P I G RAM MAT U M
LIBER.
I. IN PRODITIONEM BOMB.t.RDICA3L
C uM fimul in regem nuper fatrapfifque Bri-
ltlllnos
Aufus es infandum,'perfide Fauxe, nefas,
allor ? An et mitis voluifii ex parte videri,
Et penfire malPt cure pietate fizelus ?
Scilicet hos alti miflhrus ad atria coeli, s
Sulphureo curru, flammivolitlue rotis :
Qualiter ille, tèris caput inviolabile Parcis,
Liquit liSrdanios turbine raptus agroso
II. h eandem.
SICCINE tentâfii ccelo don',ïflè Ii.cobum,
Qure fcptemgemino, Bellua, monte lates ?
]N'i meliora tuuln poterit date munera numen,
Parce, precor, donis infidiotk tuis.
Ver. _'2. Qu¢fcl, tcmgemino , Bellua, &c.] The Pope, called
the theological l:mguagc of thc rimes The Beq#.
T.
50
EPIG RAMMATUM,
llle quidem fine te contbrtia ferus adivit 5
Alra, nec inferni pulveris ufus ope.
Sic potiùs tbedos in ccelum pelle eucullos,
Et quot habet brutos I{onm prothna deos:
_Namque hac aut ali, nifi quemque adjuveris arte,
Crede mihi, cceli vix bene fi:andet iter. o
III. .[n eandem..
PU Il G ATOI? E 5I animaz derifit Iicobus ignem,
Et fine quo fuperflm non adeunda domus.
Frenduit hoc trinâ monflrmn Latiale coronâ,
Movit et horrificum cornua dena minax.
" t nec inultus," ait, " temnes lnea thcra,
]3ritanne : s
" Supplicium, fpretâ relligione, dabis.
" Et, fi flelligeras unquam penetraveris arces,
" Non nili per flammas trifie patebit iter.'"
0 quàm funefto cecinifii proxima veto,
Veïb'aque ponderibus vix earitura fuis ! lO
Na,n prope Tartareo fublim rotatus al» igni,
Ibat ad oethereas, umbra perut[a, plagas.
IV. eandem.
QUEM modb Roma fuis devoverat impia diris,
Et Styge dammrat, T,'enari6que finu;
Ilunc, vice mutatâ, jam tollere geflit ad a,Ctra,
Et cupit ad tbperos evehere ufque deos.
LIBER, c5I
lr. IN INFENTOREM BOMB_IRD.E.
IAPETIONIDEM laudavit eeca vetuflas,
Qui tulit letheream tblis ab axe fhcem ;
Jit mihi major erit, qui lurida creditur arma,
Et trifidum fulmen, furripuiflè Jovi.
Ver. 4. Et trfid,m ./'ulrnet, fi«rripuifle Job'l.] This thought
xvas afterwards transferred te thc Paradë L«fft, where the th[len
ngels are exultlng in their new invention of fire-arms, B. i. 490.
" They flmll fi.ar we bave difhrm'd
"' The thundercr of his only dreaded boit." T. WAItTO.
Compare, with this epigram, Drunamond 2]Iadrç'a» 11.
The Cannon :
" When firl flac cannon, frein er gaping throte,
ci Agailflt thc heauen her roaritg thlphure thote,
"' Jove, waken'd with the noilk., did a, xvith wonder
* $hat nortal a'igt lmdJiobJi'om him his thmldcr
.fl EPIG1RAMMATUI
VI. Ad LEONORAM lome canentem.*
ANGELUS unicuique thus, tic crelite gentes,
Obtigit oethereis ales ab ordinibus.
Quid mirum, Leonora, tibi ti gloria major ?
Nain tua proetbntem vox tbnat ip!'a Deum,
* Adriana of 5Iantua, for hcr beauty furnamed the Fair, and
her daughter Leonora Bar(mi, the lady vhom 51ilton celcbratcs
in thelh three Latin Epigrams, were elteemed by ttwir ctmtem.
poraries the fineà tingcrs in the orld. Giovanni Battilia Dont,
iii his book De pr,tantia Mqflcoe rctcrt«, nu',liflcd m 16"47,
fpealdng of the merit or" lbme modern vocal pt rlbrmt'rs, declurcs
that .driana, or ber daughter Leonora, would fuffer injury by
being eomparcd to the ançient Sappho. B. ii. p. 57. There is a
x'olume of Greek, Latin, Italian, l:reneh, and Spani, pocms in
praife of Leonora, printed at Rome, entitted " Mpplmfi poetici
alleglorie della Signora Lro'oRa Baao." Nicius Erythreus,
in his Pinacotheca, calls this colleion the TIteatrum of that ex-
quifite Songltrel Eleonora Barom, " in quo, omncs hîc Rome
quotquoç ingenio et poetice lcultatis laude proeliant, carmi-
nibus, cure Etrufcè tutu Latinè fcriptis.fi»gulari ac propè dirino
nu6eris illius eanendi artificio, tamquam lauflos quofilan cla-
naores et plaufu cdunt, &c." Pimc. ii. p. 427. LipL 171. lmo.
In the Poqie Liriche of Fulvio 'l'etfi, there is an encomialiiek
Sonnet to Leonora, Po Lyr: del Conte Fulvio Fe!ti Ven
69. p. 36.
" Se 1' angioletta mia tremolo, e ehiaro, &c."
I. 5Iaugars Pl'iour of S. Peter de 5Iae at Paris, king's inter,
preter of the i-.nglilh language, and in his time a eaFital pra&i-
tioner on the iol, has left this eulogy on Leonora and ber
ther, at the end of his judieious DQ'oursJùr la Mt/ique d' ltalia,
printed with the lilç of ialherbe, and other treatilbs, at Paris,
167. 12mo. ' Leonora bas fine parts, aud a happy judgement
di[tinguiflfing good from bad mulick : flac underliands it pelctly
vell, and e'en compofes, which lnakes her abri»lute mifirel of
'aat Ne fings, and gives ber thc mv exa& pronunciation an
LIBER.
Aut Deus, aut vacui cert men tertia cceli,
Pcï tua i.crct5 guttura ferpit agens ;
exprcfli,on of thc fenfe of thc words. Shc does not prctcnd
beauty, yct file is far irt»m bcing difagr,'cablc, nor is flac a coquct.
She fings 'ith an air of confident and liberal modelé)', and ith
pleafing gravity, tlcr voicc rcachcs a large compaf.s of notes, is
jult, clcar, and mclodi(»us ; and flc foftens or raifcs it without
confiraint or grimace. I lcr rapturcs al'ld li:.d,s arc hot too tendcr;
hcr looks havc nothing impudc**t, nor do ber getiurcs bctray any
thing bcyond thc rcli,''e of a mo(Icl girl. In paflil,g ri'oto one
fong to ahothcr, flac fl,ews fometimcs the divi[ions of thc inhar-
monick and chromatick fpccics with fo much air aml fwectncfs,
thnt cvcry hearcr is ravilhcd with that dclicate and diflcult mode
of linging. Shc bas no necd of any |»crfon to
thcorbo or ,iol, one of which is rcquircd to makc hcr finging
complcte ; for lhc plays perfc&ly well hcrfclf on both thofc in-
ftrumcnts. In flaort, I havc bccn fo fortunatc as to hear her ring
fevcral timcs above thirty difl'ercnt airs, with f«cond and third
lanzas of ber own compofition. ]3ut I mul[ hot forger, that onu
day flac did roc thc pnrticular favour to ring with hcr mother and
ber fiflcr: ber mothcr played upon thc lute, ber liltcr upon thc
harp, and hcrfelfupon thc thcorbo. This concert, compofcd of
threc fine voiccs, and of three diflërent inftruments, fo powcrful[y
captivatcd my lbnfcs, and thrcv me into ri,ch raptures, that I
forgot my morta[ity, et crus erre deja parmi les anges, joui.[litnt
«les contentemens des bee»herucux." See Bayle, Dit. Baroni.
lla'kins, tliJt. _hl iv. 196. To the excellence of the mothcr
Adriana on the lute, 5lilton alludes iu thcfe lines of the fecond
of thefe three Epigrams, v.
" Et te Pieria fenfiflèt voce canentem
" Aurea nmternce fila movcre 1.¢rte."
Whcn 5Iilton was at Romc, he vas introduccd to thc concerts
of Cardinal Barberini, afterwards Pope Urhau thc cighth, whcre
lac hcard Leonora ring and hcr mothcr play. It was thc thflaion
for ail the ingenious ftrangcrs, who vifitcd Romc, to lcavc
verres on Leonora. Sec the Canzone before. And Sotn. iv.
Pietro Della Vallc, who wrote, about 1(J40, a ve-y judicious
Di./bou:/è on the ml.trick of" his own timcs, fl)caks of the fanciful
and malierly ltylc in which Leonora touched the arch-lute to
e54 EPIGRAMMATUM
Sertit agens, facilittue docet mortalia corda
Senshn immortali affuefcere poflè fono.
Qu)d ii cun.ta quidèm Deus efl, per cun&;que
fuths,
in te unâ loquitur, cetera mutus habet.
ber own aeeompaniments. At the faine rime, he celebrates ber
fifier Catefine, and their mother Adrimxa. 8ce the works of
Baltifia Doni, vol. ii. at Florence 1763. T.
The Cardinal Barberini, to whom Milton was introdueed, was
Francefeo Barberini, one of the aephews tt Urban ; and the Car-
inal patron ot" the Engliflb as I have ïelated in the Life of th
poet. Sir Joha llawkins, in his Hifl. of Mufick, vol. iv. p.
feems to have led Mr. Warton into the milmke of alfi.wting lhat
BIilton was introduced to Cardinal Barberini, aj'tcrwardn Pope
Urban the eighth. When Miltox was at Rome, Urban had filled
the papal chair fixteen years.
Fulvio Tefti, I fhould add, has another poem of confiderabl
lcngth and rcmarkablc elegance, infcribcd " Alla Signora Leo-
nota Baroui, Dama cclcbrc per la ftm imparcggktble cccellenza
nella 3lulica.
" Che incuitabili .fono lefaetti d" tmore.,
" Fal[otbtta Sirena,
" Che da' Partcnopci liti odorofi
" St't la Romana arena
« Se] venuta a turbar gl" altrui ripofi,
" E con la dolce pena
" De[ diuin canto, e de' begli oechi ardenti,
« In martirio di gioia il cuor tormenti.
« Scema de la fuperba
"' Tua libertà, &c.'"
Poelie del Sig. F. Terri, Milan, 1658. Parte I. '" p. 175.
To the " Teagene, Poenm del Cavalier Gio. Battifta Pafile,
4to. l-fore. 1607, are alfo prefixed two Sonnets; the firl by
A. l;arbazza, la praife of the author, "' e s' allude al canto
della Signora Leonora Baroni, fua nipote ;" the other by F. dclla
Corgna, & " fi atlude alla rit/u, c bdlezza, della Signora Leo-
xra Baroni, &c." TorD.
VIL 4d eandem.
ALTERA Torquatum cepit Leonora poetam,
Cujus ab inthno ceflit amore trens.
Ver. 1. Altera Torq«atum. cit Leonora] In the circumflan
account of the Idë " T«a]b written by his friend and patron
G. Battifla Manfi, mention-i nmde of threc diflbrent Ladies
the naine of Ltnora, f whom Taffo is there çaid to bave b
fucccvely enamoured, Gier. Lib. edit. tlaym, Lond. 4to.
p. 3. The.h'fl was Leonora of Ee, fiflcr of Alphonfo, Duke
of Fcrrara, at whofe court Taffo refided. This Lad3ç who w
highly accomplilhcd, lived unmarried with ber chier tifier D.
Lucretia, ho had been married, but was tbparated from ber
huand the I)ukc of Urbino. Thc ('ountefs San Vitale was the
Jbcond Leonora, to whom Taffo was laid to bc much attacheà,
p. 6. Mmffo relates, that the tlird Leonora xas a young lady
in the fervice of the Princefs of Ee, who was very beautiIM,
and to whom Taflb paid great attention, p. 7. lle addrcflèd
nmny very elegant Love-verlbs fo each of theff three different
Ladics ; but as IIe pieces addrcfiëd to Leonora Princet f Efie
bave more 15tl;on than G«llanlry, it mayjufily bc intrred, not-
xvithRanding thc pains he t«ok to conceal his aflçffion, that
was the rem favourite of his heurt. Among thc many remar
that bave bccn ruade on the Gie«kmme Liberata of Taflb,
do hot rcmember t« have len it obtbrved, that this grcat
probably took thc hint of his fine thbjet, from a book very
popular in his time, writtcn by t-he celebrated Bcdetto
colti, and entitled, "' DE BELLO A CIIRI3TI&Is
BOS SOEO, pro C«?i Sepulc]ro et Jttlctî
Lib. iv. Ioet'n«tiis per «rn. l»etum de îtalibts. 153"2." 4to.
is dcdicated m Piero de' Mcdici. Jos.
This alluflon to Taffo's Leonora, and thc tn which it tak,
are inimitably beautiful. T. WITO-.
Mr. Walker is of opinion, thut Tab was imprifoned by A1-
honfo, on accourir " lffs amitiots h,ïe ; but that, wiflmu
«rhniual paflion, thc Princefs Leonora was n,t i:fenfible t
alents, accomplilhmcnts, and pertbnal charms, of the p)et.
o56 EPIGRAMMATUSI
]iii! mifer ille tuo quant6 feliciths levo
l)erditus, et propter te, Leonora, foret!
[Et te Pierii tènfittët vote canentem
iurea maternoe fila movere lyroe !
Quamvis Dircieo torfiflèt lumina Pentheo
Soevior, aut totus defipuiflèt iners,
Tu tamen errantes coecâ vertigine fenfus
Voce eadem poteras compofiiffe tuâ;
JEt poteras, oegro fpirans fub corde, quietem
[Flexanimo cantu retituiflè libi.
10
Whatfoever grounds there were for cenfure in regard to this
amour, fays Ch ingenious biographer of Taftb ; " the Princefs
Leonora's cafe in this conliunturc," he adds, " was highly to
be pitied. 'Twere barbarous hot to employ her interelt in his
thvour; and to final him ahvays ufed the worfe for it, was a
v.retched dilemma to which unfortunate loyers are often re-
duccd." Thon he relates, (what may ferre as an illuftration of
the context before us,) that " Taffo had from a child a fpice of
madncfs in his conftitution ; as thofe of exccflïve, or, as thcy
bave bccn catled, of immoderate parts ufuatty have.--The lors
Cf thc duke's favour, a gloomy apartment in the prigione di
fimta Anna, and a tcdious folitudc coinciding with his tem-
pcramcnt, got the bettcr of that underftanding which had becn
the admiration of mankind, &c." Layng's Lire of Taffo, 4to.
1748. pp. 7174. Prefixed alfo to Doync's Tranflation of
Taf»'s Gier. Lib. 17(31. To.
Ver. 6. Aurea mternæ fila to'ere lyroe !] Compare Bu-
chanan, Eleg. vii. cdit. fupr. p. 44.
" -4tre'quc Orphezea6/a fififfe lyrce." Too.
Ver. 7. For the ftory of Penthcus, a king of Thebcs, fee Eu-
ripides's Bacchtr, where he fecs two funs, &c. v. 916. Theo-
critus, I@ll. xxvi. Virgii «En. iv. 469. But Milton, in tor./#7ét
lurnia, alludes to the rage of Pcntheus in Ovid, Metam. iii. ,577.
" Afpicit huuc oculis Pcnthcus» quos ira trcmendos
" Feccrat." T. W rtwo'.
LI B E I]. 57
YIII. .'ld eandem.
CREDULA
ja&as,
Clar@ue Parthenopes fana AcheliSiados;
Littoremque tu, defun6tam Naiada rip',ï,
Corpora Chaleidico tàcra dediflè rogo ?
llla quidèm vivitque, et amcen' Tibridis undâ
Mutavit rauci murmura Paufilipi.
Illie, Romulidum ftudiis ornata tcundis,
Atque homines cantu detinet atque deos.
quid liquida,n Sirena, Ncapoli,
Ver. 1, 2. Parthenopc's tomb vas at Naplcs: flic vas one
of the Syrens. Sec Comus, v. 878. 8he is callcd ParthcnoTe
.4rceloias, in Silius Italicus, xii. 35. Chakidicus is eltèwhcre
explaincd. Sec ETitapl*. Damon. v. 182. T. Wallon.
Compare alfo Apollooius Rhodius, one of Milton's favourite
pocts, Argon. iv. 892.
Ver. 6. Pagil;pi.] The grotto of
Paufilil, o Milton no doubt had vifited with delight ; of which
Sandys had written, hat it « paflès vnder thc mountainc for
thc fpaçe or" fixe hundred paces,. Ibmc fay a mlle ; a0bording
4elightful] paflhge to fuch as paflè betwcene Naples and Putzol,
or that part of ltaly ; rcceiuing fo much light ff'oto fl,e ends and
iunncl] in he middle, M, ich letteth in day from he toppe of the
high mountaine, as is fuNçient br direction. Throughout hcwne
out of the living rocke : paued under fooe, and being fo broad
that three çarts vith ealh IDay paffc cach by other." Trard»
edit. 1615, p. 263. TODD.
:'o,.. vu. S
8 EPIGRAMMATUM
IX. In S.,'ILM.4SI[ HUNDRED.4M.
QUIS expedivit Salmafio fuam tIundredam,
Picmque docuit verba noçtra conari ?
- This Epigram is in 3Iilton's Defe,fio againfl Salmafius ; in
the tranflation of which by Richard Waflaington, publi/hed in
1692, thc Epigram is thus anglicifed, p. 187.
" Who taught Salmafius, that French chattcring py%
" To aim at Englilh, and Hundreda cry ?
" The flarving rafcal, flufh'd with juif a hundrcd
" Englifh Jacobuffcs, Hundr¢da blunder'd :
« An outlaw'd kin» lafl flock.A hundred more
°« W0uld Inake him pimp for the Antichriftian whorc;
" And in Rome's praife employ his p¢ifon'd brcath,
" Who threatcn'd once fo ftink the pope to death."
V,'afltington's tranflation of the Dèo was publifhed after hi$
death, as we learn from the Prcfacc: lle had tranflated itt
" partly for his own private entertaimnent, and partly to gratifie
one or two of his friends, without any dcfign of making it pub-
lick, and is rince deceat;:d." Toland admitted it into his edition
of Milton's Profe-Works, in 1698. Dr. Birch has alfo reprinted
it. Toland defcribes Mr. Waflfington, " ofthe Temple," Lire of
hIilton, fol. ed. p. 31, 'here he cites both Milton% epigram and
the Engli[h verfion.
Salmafius is here ridiculcd by Milton for altempting, hot vcry
lmppily indeed, to turn into Latin fome of out forenfick phrafes,
as the Counl.-Court, Hundred, &c." " Iam Anglicifmis tuis
magnopcrè dclcttamur, COUNTIE COURT, TIlE TUR, HuN-
rtr:Da ; mirh ncmpè docilitate cente, os Iacoboeos tuos Anglic x
numerare didicifti." I)efens. cap. viii.
The publilher of Wafhington's tranflation adds, at the end of
this book, his advice to " fuch readers, as may perhaps receive
imprcllïons from whal they may read here, [in the Defcnfio,] iii-
j urious to the mcnmry of kin,-_, Charles the firft, to confuh" thofe
books of which he gives a lil : in which " they will find vindi-
cations of his facred majcfiy from fuch-like afverfions.'"
LIBER.
Magiler artis venter, et Jacoboei
Centum, exulantis vitera marthpii regis.
Qubd fi doloti tiges refulferit nummi,
Ipfe, Antichrifti qui modb primatum Papoe
Minatus uno el[ diflipare fufllatu,
Cantabit ultrb Cardinalitium nelos.
259
Ver. 4.. King Charles the fecond, now in exile, and Iheltered
in Holland, gave Sahnafius, who was a profeffor at Le)den, one
huadred Jacobufi:s to write lais Dctimce, 16 gg- Wood altirts that
ahnafius had no reward for his book. lh. t:ays, that at Leydcn,
the King fent do&or Morlcy, afterwards biIhop, tu the apologili
with hi thanks, « but hot with a purfe of gold, as John Milton
the imtud«nt lyer reported," Athen. Ocon. ii. 77O. T.
",'er. 6. This topick of ridicule, drawn from the poverty of
the cxilcd king, is feverely reprobated by dodtor Johlffon, as
what " lnight be expeçted from theJàvagenç/;" of Milton.'" L(tè
of Addi./bn. Oldmixon, he addz, had meannU's e:lough to delight
in bilking an alderman of London, vho had znore mone77 than the
Pretender. T.
Ver. tt. This Epigram, as Mr. Warton obferves, is an imita-
tion of part of the Prologue to Perlius's Satire».
' Quis expedivit pfittaco fuuln
« Picfque docuit nolh'a verba conari ?
" Magiftcr anis, iugcnîque largitor
« Venter, negatas artifex fcqui voces.
« Qu6d fi dolofi fpes refulferit nummi»
' Corvos poctas & poctrias picas
«' Cantare crcdas Pegafeium lnelos."
There is an imitation of this Prologue, i may add, in the
Utopia,.fett Sales z]lt[lici Jac. Bidermani, &c. 12mo, 1640. lib. i.
pp. 28» 29. TODD.
S
£60 EPIGRAMMATUM
X. .In SALM.4SI'UM. *
GAUDETE feombri, et quicquid ef pifcium
falo,
Qui frigidâ hyeme incolitis algentes freta !
Vetrûm mifertus ille Salmafius Eques
Bonus, amicire nuditatem cogitat ;
Chartoeque largus apparat papyrinos
Vobis cucullos, proetrentes Claudii
/nfignia, noménque et decus, Salmafii:
Geftetis ut per omne cetarium forum
Equitis clientes, fcriniis mungentium
« This is in the Dcfen.flo fecunda. It is introduced with ih«
following ridicule on Morus, the fubje& of the next Epigram,
for having prcdi&cd the wonders to be worked by Salmafius's
new edition, or rather reply. " Tu igitur, ut pifcilus ille
anteambulo, præcurris Baloenam Salmafium." Mr. Steevens
obferves, that this is an idç.a analogous to Falaff's " Here do
I walk beforc thee, &c" although reverfed as to the images.
T. Wo.
Ver. 7. Mr. Warton obferves, that Milton here fneers at a
circumancc which was true : almfius was relly of an ancienV
and noble family.I may add, that Milton feems fond of fneering
at Salmafius's rank, as an " equcs :'" He was prefented with the
order of St. 5lichael, by Louis XIII. Thus Milton calls him
" mmcipium equb'e»'" Defeuf. cap. v. Again, " O equitcm
ergaularium & mangonem," &e. Ib. cap. vi. To,-
Ver. 9. Cub#o mungentium, a eant ppellation among the
Romans for Fçhmogcrs, It was faid to Horace, of his father»
by way of laughing at his low rth, " Quoties ego vidi patrem
tuum cnbito emungentem ?" Sueton. Vit. IIorat. p. 55. Lipf.
178. Horace's Ither was a feller of fi. The joke is» that
LIBER. o61
Cubito virorum, et capfulis, gratiffimos. «
10
the flieets of Salmalius's new book, would be fit for nothing
better than to wrap up filh; that they lhould be configned to
the ftails and flaelvcs of fiflmaongers. He applies the fame to
his Coffi«ter xvho defended epifcopacy, Apol. meltymn. §. viii.
" Whofe beft folios are predeffined to no better purpol, than to
making winding lheets in Lent for pilchards.'" T.
* Chrifiina, quecn of Sweden» among other learned men xx'ho
fed her vanity, had invited Sahnafius to ber court, where he wrote
his Defenfio. She had peflered lfim with Latin letters feven pages
long, and told him lhe would fet out for Ilolland to fetch him, if
hc did hot comc. When he arrived, he was often indifpoid
.'tccount of the coldnefs of thc clinate : and on thefe occafions,
the queen would herfelf call on hlm in a morning ; and, locking
the door of his apartment, ufed to light his fire give him break-
fafi, and fiay with him fome hours. This behaviour gave rife to
fcandalous flories, and our critick's wii'e grew jealous. It is
feemingly a flander, wha/was firlt thrown out in the 3Iercurhts
I)oliticus, tiret Chriftina, when Salmafius had publi/hed his vork,
difmiffed him with conteml)t, as a parafite and. an advocate of
/yranny. Sec alto 5Iilton againl 1lore, ProJë-works, ii. 017.
39. and Philips, ibid. p. 397. But the cale was, t« fay nothing
that Chriflina loved both to be flattcred and to tyrannife, Salma-
fius had now been long preparing to return to Ilolland, to fulfil
his engagemcnts with the uuiverfity of Leydcn : file offercd him
large rewards and appointments to remain in Sweden, and greatly
rcgretted his departure. And on his death, very fiortly after-
xvards, lhe wrote his widow a letter in Freoch, full ofconcern for
lais lofs, and rcfpe& for his memory. See his Vita and Epifloloe,
by Ant. Clementius, pp. 3°, 71. Lugd. Bat. 1656. 4to. Such,
however was Chrifiina's levity, or hypocrify, or caprice, that it is
poflible flac might have a&ed inconfittcntly in fome parts of this
bufinefs. For what I have faid, I bave quoted a good authority.
It appears indeed from fome of Voffius's Epiftles, that at leaft lhe
commended the wit and ttyle of 5lilton's performance : merely
perhaps for the idle plcafure of piquing Sahnafius. Sec Burman's
82/11og. EpiJtol. vol. iii. p. 196, 59, 70, 71, 313, 663, 665.
Of hcr majcfty's oftentatious or rather accidental att«mion» ta
6 EPIGRAM_MATU3I
learning, fome traits appear in aletter from Cromwell's
at Upfall, 1653. Thurlow's State-Palers, vol. ii. 1134. " While
the was more b«o.'i./My givcn, fle had it in her thoughts to infiitute
an Order of Parmflhs; but flce being of iate more addied to
the court thanJhol«rç, and having in a pafioral comedie herfelfe
çte«l a fhcpheardcfl prt callcd Amaranta : Ihce in the crcation
invefis with a fcarfe, &c." l-let lcarncd fchemcs were fomctimcs
interruptcd by an anmur vith a prime minifter, or forcign am-
baflàdour : unlefs pcrhaps any of her literary fycphmts had the
good fortune to poflbfs tbmc other plcaling arts and kncw how
to intrigue as wcll as to writc. She flmwcd neithcr tae nor
judgement in rcwzrding the degrees or kiads of the merit of the
authors with which tire was furrounded: and tire fometimcs
eareffed buflbons of ability, who entcrtaincd the court with
burlcfque of ber mort favourite litcrary charac"tcrs. It is per-
haps hardly pofiïble to rcad auy thing more ridiculeus more
unworthy of a fcholar, or more dilraceful to learning itfelf»
than Nicho]as Ilcinfius's epiftles to Chriftina. In which, to fay
nothing of the abjec"t expreffions ef adulation, he pays the moti;
fervile cmpliments to her ro.yl knowledgc, in confulting her
majcy on variou» matters of erudition, in telling hcr what libra-
ries he had examiued what Grcek maaufcripts he had collatcd»
vhat Roman infcriptions he had collcc2cd for her infpe&ion, and
what conje&ural emendtions he had ruade on difficult paflàgez
of the claflicks. I do not mean to make
but Chrifiina's pretenfions to lcarned criticifm, ami to a dccifion
evcn in works of profound philofophicai fcicncc, at lealt remind
ris of the affcoEtions of a queen of England, who was decp in
the mort abflrufc myfierics of thcology, and vho held folema
contbrcnces with Clarke, Waterland, and tIoadly, on the doc2rine
of the Trinity.
See Notes on the lal Epigram, .4d Chri.flinam, &c. Salmafius'
Reply wns poflhumous, and did hot appcar till aller thc Reflora-
tion; and his DeJètfio had no fccond edition. T. Walvro-.
There are feveral editions of Salmafius's 1.).:fettfio, in folio,
quarto, and fluallcr fizes. fheïe is alfo an edition of the wort
it, French.
L I B E R. 6
XI. In MO/U3L
GALLI ex concubitu gravidam te, Pontia,
Mori,
Quis beni moratam, morigertmque, neget ?
* From Milton's Defen.lio 8ecunda, and his Ite.£po,o to Morus's
Supplement. This dilich was occalioned by a report, that Moru
had debauched a favourite waiting maid of the vith of Sahlmfius»
Milton's antagonifi. See Burman's Syllog; Epijt. iii. 307. Miltoli
pretends that he picked it up by accident, and that it
at Leyden. It appeared firlt, as I think, in the Mer«urius Poli-
ticus, a fort of newfpaper publilhed at Lol,don once a week in
two fheets in quarto, and commencing in June 1649, by March-
mont Needham, a virulent but erthtile party fcribblcr, vh 9
fometimes libelled the republicans, and lbmetimes the royalifts,
vith an equal degree of fcurrility ; and who is called by Wood a
great cro»y of l,liltOll. Thefe papers, in or after the year 165-,
perhaps at the inftigation of oui" author, contain many pafquit-
ades on Morus. Bayle, in the article Morus, cites a Letter from
Tanaquil Faber. Where Faber, fo late as 1658, t, nder the word
calumnioloe and runuU'culi, alludes to fome of Morus's gallantries :
perhaps to this epigram, which ferred to keep them alive, and
vas ftill very pt, pular. Morus laid himfelf open to Milton's
humour, in afferting that he miftook the truc fpelling of the girl'»
naine, " Bontiam, lkteor, aliud apud me manufcriptum habet.
8ed prima utrobique litera, quoe fola variat, ejufilem fer apud
vos poteftatis eft. Altcrum cgo nomen, ut notius et elcgantius,
falvo crit{corum jure, proepofui." Autor. rofe, &c. ut fupr. ii.
383. And flae is called Bontia in a citation of this Epigram in
a letter of N. IIeinlius, dated 1653. Sfllog. ut fupr. iii. :307.
Where çays the critick, " Agnofcis in illo Ouweniani acuminis
ineptias." He adds, that the Epigram was lhown him by Ulac,
from the London newfpapers, Gazettis Londinenfibus, ,«here it
prcceded by this unlucky anecdote of our amorous ecclefiaftick.
..nd in another» dated 165» « Gazette cert Londinenli: tkbel-
0.6 4 EPIGBAMMATUM
lam narrant lepidifSmam, &c." Ibid. p. 305. Again, in a Lettct'
ri-oto J. Voflius to ll. lleinfius, dated 165:2. " Mihi fanè 2ZEthiops
[Morus] multo re&its fa&uru fififfe vidctur, fi ex Ovidii
proecepto à Domina incepibt. Mhmr quidem voluptas illa fuifli't,
fi.d longè majorera iniviflbt gratiam. Divulgata cri pafl]m hoee
fabella, etiam in gazettis publi¢is Londinenfibus. Addita etiam
Eïçrammat«." lb. p. 64.9. Again, from J. Ulitius at the
IIaguc to N. IIcinfius, dvtcd 1652. " Prodiit liber cul tir.
Clamor, &c. Angli Morum pro aut¢,re habcntes, nupero Novo-
rum [News] Schedio cure vehementer perftrinxere, inter alia
facinora objicientcs adulterium cure Salmafianâ lwdiffcquâ, da»e
f«ivante, quam hoc epigrammatc notarunt, Galli a concb#u, &c "
Ibid. p. 746. Ste allb p. 665. M. Colomies tiys, that Milton
vrotc, among othçr things againfi Morus, " un fimglant difiique
Latin dans la azetc de Londrcs, qui couroit alors toutes les
,maincs," Bibi. Ckoi,. A La Rochellc, 1689_. p. 19. lmo.
In 1(.51., Milton publiflicd his Dcfet!fio S«cumla above-men-.
tic, rient, againfi M«wus, or A|cxander More, a Scotchman, a pro-
tcftant clergyman in Languedoc, an excellent fcholar, and a man
of intrigue, although an admircd prcachcr. Morus was firongly
fufped to haro written l«gii 8"angui»is Cl«mor ad Ctrlum, in
1652, an appendix to Salmatius againfi the King's murther. But
the book was rea]ly writte, by l'eter du Moulin the younger,
afterwards prcbendary of Canterbury, xvho had tratfinitted the
manufcript to Sahnafius, Morus's friend, hIorus was on]y the
publiiher, except that he wrote a Ddication to Charles the
fecond. Afterwards Salmatius and 5Iorus had an irreconcileable
quarrel about the divifion of fixty copies, xhich thc printer had
agreed to givc to the ont or the other. Eurman's S!/llog, Epifl.
iii. 648. Du Moulin a&ually owns the Rcgii Sa»guinis Clamor,
in Ms Repbj to a Po:lbn o.?'tIonottr, &c. Lond. 1675.4to. p. 10.
45. t' I had fich a jealoulic to fee that Tra):or [Milton] praifed
for his language, tiret I vrit againft him Clamor, &c." A curious
Letter in Thurloe's State-Palocrs , relating to this bufinefs, bas
been ox'erlooked, from 13 urdeaux, the l"renck ambafl:,ulour in
England, to Morus, dated Au,,._.. 7, 1654. " Sir, at my arrival
here, I round Milton's book f,» publick, that l perceived it as
impofiible to fupprefs it. This man [Milton] bath bcen to]d,
that you were hot thc author of the book which he refutt.d ; to
ahich ho alll\Vel'ed, that ho axs at leaft alTtll'Vd tiret :}'ou had
L1B E I1. 3
caufed it tobe imprinted : that you had writ the Preface, and,
he be|ieves, fome of the verfcs that are in it : and that, that is
enough to jul[ify him tbr fetting upon you. lle duh alfo add,
he is vcry angry that he did hot know lbverM things which he
hath hcard tince, being tzar worli,, as he litys, than any he put
forth in his book ; but he doth rcfcrve them tbr another, if fo be
you anlkver this. 1 ana very lbrry tbr this quarrcl vhich will
bave a long fcquence, as I perccive ; for, ai'ter you have ant,vercd
this, you may be furc he will reply ith a more bloody one : for
your adverlhry hath tact with fomebody bore, vho hath tuld him
ftrange lIories of you." Vol. ii. p. 5°.9. Morusxeplied in Fid«s
publica, chiefly containing telimonics of his morals and ortho-
doxy: and 1Milton anfwered in lais Authori« lrofc DeJ'ttgïo, pub-
lifled 1655. llorus thon publilhed a Supplcmenlum to his 1ïdes
.t)ublica: ald Milton, in a lhort l[t2tjo!lïo, lbon clufed the con-
trovert3". Sce allb a Letter of intelligence from the Ilaguc to
'l'hurloc, datcd Jul. 3, 1654. Ibid. p. 394. " They have here
t'o or three copies of Millon againlt the famous Profeflbur
loru% who doth ail ho can to fupprefs the book. Madam de
Saumaili [S:dmafius's wife] bath a grcat many lettcrs of Morus,
which lhe hath ordcred to be printcd to rcnder him fo much the
more ridiculous, lle lkith now, that ho is hot the authour çf the
l'reface [Dedication] to the Clau,,or : but we know very wcll to.
thc contrary. One Utack [thc primer of thc Clamor] a primer,
is reprinting llilton's book, with an apology foi" himfeh': but
Ulack hulds it for an honour to bc rcckoned on that ride of Sal-
malius and 1Morus.--Morus doth ail he can to perfuadc him liom
printing il." Salmafiu's wife, laid to bave been a li:old, and
callcd Juno by his brother-criticks, was highly indignant al
lorus's familiarity ith her ft'mme de ckarnbre, and thrcatcned.
him ith a profecution, which I believe was carried into execu-
tion. See Sfllog. ut fupr. iii. 3°,4. Perhaps Morus vas too in-
attentive to the miltrcfs. Heinfius relates no vcry decent hiftory
f ber whipping one of the young valets of the famil)-, a boy
about feventeen ; a piece of difcipline with hich he fays lhe was
highly delighted, and which undoubtedly fle thought more effica-
cious when inflided by herfclf in perfon. It appears, that out
vaiting maid, whom Heinlàus call Hebe Caledonia, fometimes
attili.ed al thcfe caftigations. Burman' Sfllog. iii. I o. 670. Vdlius
266 EPIGRAMMATUM
caI]s the girl .4nglic«na puell«, Ibid. p. 643, 650, 651. Sec alfo
. 67, 65S, 66, 663, and il. 748.
This diiiich is inconfiflent with out author's "ffual deliçacy.
But revengc too natura]ly fceks gratification at thc expece of
propriety. And the lame apolgy mu bc ruade for a fcw othcr
obfcene ambiguitics on the naine of More, in th¢ rofe art of
ur author's two Replies to More. T. Wa'ro.
The writer of the article torus (leavndre) la the Nouveau
Dit. Iti. Cacn, 1786, obfer'es, that " Milton 1' a cruellement
déchiré dans fes écrits ;" yet acknowledges More's grofs mifcon-
du ; " ça paon pour les femmes, & fit conduite peu rguliére,
lui fiffcitérent un grand nombre d" ennemis." From the letter
f Tanaquil Faber, it appears that Morus had been much hurt
at the calanmiol¢ & n(fo«B. See Tanaq. Fabri Epifi. lxvi.
lib. i. edit. 167, p. 19. " Nam de calumniolis et rumufculis ;
mge veto ill:e tiret: quels fi nmveare, tui oblitus flieris. Id
uoefo in te juris habeat popellus, ut anb»i tranquillit«tem tib
«avutiat ? Alios, ô More, judices, alios oeimatooes tue virtutis
habcs. Neque ver5 te (etian!fi ira credi pulas) mrum et in-
]èlic«m dicam ; fed virum fortcm, virum eggi induffrium, &c."
LI B E R. c
XII. A/)o/Nus de l?jiico et It«ro. *
RUSTICtYS ex malo fapidiftima poma quotannis
I,egit, et urbano le&a dedit domino-
Hinc, ineredibili frucCttîs duleedine eaptus,
lX'Ialum ipfam in proprias tranttulit areolas.
Hac'-tenùs illa ferax, fed longo debilis oevo, 5
Iota folo aflheto, protinùs aret iners.
Quod tandem ut patuit domino, fpe lufus inani,
I)amnavit celeres in t'ua dalnna manus ;
Atque ait, " Iteu quanto thtius thit illa eolonî,
" Parva lieèt, grato dona tulit]è animo ! lo
" Poffem ego avaritiam frenare, gulfimque vo-
" racem :
" Nunc periere mihi et foetus, et ipfe parens."
* This piece firft appeared in the edition 11373.
"268 EPIGRAMMATUM
XIII. Ad CtlRISTIN\4M SUECOR (çl[ RF, GINAM.
omine C.RO'.MII"ELLL "
BELLIPOTEIg$ virgo, feptem regina trionum,
Chriflina, Arc-toi lucida flella poli!
Cernis, quas merui durâ thb catqide, rugas,
Ut'que tbmex, armis impiger ora tero:
Invia fatorum dura per vefiigia nitor,
Exequor et populi tbrtia juflà manu.
Ait tibi fubmittit fronlem reverentior umbia :
:Nec funt hi vultus regibus Utilue truces.
* Thefc lines arc fimple ed fitewy, They prerent Cromwcll
in a new and pleafing light, and throw an air of amiable dignity
on his rough and obliinate chara&er. They arc too great a com-
laiiment to Chriliina, 'lo was contemptible both as a «*le¢n and a
veoman. The uncrowncd Cromwell had no reafon to approach a
princcfs with fo much revercncc who had reneunced ber crown.
The frolicks of other *'himfical modcrn qucens bave been oftcn
only romantick. The prauks of Chriftina had neither elegance
1,or e,en deccncy'to dctirvc fo candid an appellation. An ample
and livcly pi¢ture of ber court, politicks, religion, intrigues,
rambles, aud mafqueradcs is tobe gathercd from Thurloe's 8tare
aapers. Of her traveis through fevcral citics in a fantaflick
mafculine drcfs, I relent the following anecdotcs, from various
Letters of that colle&lori, about the ycars 165, 1655. This
lucidflar of the northern pole foon defertcd ber bright flation, and
became a defultory mt.teor. " Thc quccn hen tire came into
the inn [at Elfineur], had boots on, and a carbine about hcr
neck." Vol. ll. 44. " We hcar [at Bologne] ftrange ftories of thc
Swedilh queen with ber Amazonian bchaviour :--in ber difcourfe
/he talks loud and fwcareth notably." Ibid. 546. " The quecn
came this veek to Antwcrp in man's apparcl, dituifed as a page
LIBER.
to one of her o'n fcrvants : hot fo much as a maid befides in ber
compary." Ibid. po 44.9. " Shc arrivcd al Bruflbls iaff week,
more man-like than xvoman, tler train here yet confifis of twa
earls, two men fervants, and one ,voman." Ibid. p. 536. " Sha
travails a hors back lyk anmn, bcing clad lb fi'om middle up-
wards, x'ith doublet, caffock, band, bat, fether, in fo much that
the Italians fay /he as un ltermofrod3"te." Ibid. vol. iv.
" In ber pafiing through the multitude [at Franckfort] flic ruade
feveral ftrange grimaces and laces, and was hot able fo keep her
countcnance long. When Ihc approached thc forts, file fat in the
right boot of the coach, in a black vclvet coat, and a hat 'itla
feathers, &c.Con, ing nearer to the city itlll; flac fi,ddenly
changed ber black coat, and put on a grey, with a black hooel
about ber hcad, and gott to thc left boot, &c." Ibid. p.
She had ail the failings of her own fex, vithout any of the
virtues of the fex lhe aflb¢'ted to infitate. She abdicated lier
kingdom in 1654. So that this Epigram could hot have beera
writtcn aftcr that aime. la was lent to thc queen with Crorn-
well's piêture, on which it was infcribed, Il as fl, ppofcd tobe
fpoken by the portrait.
Do&or Newton, whofe opinion as weighty, afcribcs thefe lines
to Milton, as coinciding with his dcpartment of Latin Sccreta),
to Cromweli. Sce alfo Birch's Lire oJ'lilton, p. lxii. Toland,
by whom they were firft printed, ri'oto common report, indeci-
fively gaves them either to Milton or to Andrew Marvell,
. 8. Profe-z,orks, vol. i. p. 38. Toi. I fufpc't, that Milton's
habit of facility in elegiack latinity lmd long ago ceafed : and I
ara inclined to attribute them to Marvell, fo good a f«holar, an
to be thought a fit affinant to Milton in the Latin Sccrctar3"lhip,
and who, as Wood fays, " -as very intimate and converfant with
that pcrfon," _/lthen. Oxon. il. 818. Again, he calls Marvell,
" fomelimes 9ne of John Milton's companions," Ibid. p. 817.
And he adds, that Marvcll was " cried up as the main witmong«r
furviving to the t:anatical party." In other words, Marvel! tti-
rifed the diffipatioos and proflig,te amours of Charles the fecond
'ith much wit and freed.om
I muff however, obferve, tha.t this Epigram appears in Marvell's
21lifcellaneousPoems, fol. Lond. 1681. p. 134. Where il fi»llows
other Latin poems of the faine clafs and fubjc& : and is imme-
diatcly preceded by Latin diftich, intided, In E.[]igiem Oliïeri
ïo EPIG 12AMMATUlXl
Cronztelli « Iloec cri quoe toties, &c." q'hcn cornes thi.s Epi-
grain thcre intitled " In eand«m [etïîgiem] regine Succioe tranf-
lmli:,tm." Where the fccond difiich is thus printed,
" Ccrnis quas mcrui dur fub cal'ride rugas,
" Sicue fenex armis impiger oto fcro."
And in To the Rcader, thcfe poems are faid by lais pretcnded
'ift,, hlary, to be " printed according to the cxa& copies of my
late dcr hufb«md, undcr his own hand-writing, &c." I think we
nmy thcrcfore faidy give thcm to hIarvell. But fee hlarvell's
ll"orks, Lond. ,to. 1766. vol. iii. p. 489. hlrvcll 's
pointed at]iltant 8ccretary to hlilton in 1657. See Sec. Part
Reheaf. ïra!l)ro.f. ut fupr. p. 17, 1'28. And I lmve before
obfcrved, that Chriftin ceafed to be qucen of Swcden in 1654.
Ai leal[ therefore, when thcl lines xx'ere written, Marvell
hot affocitcd with lilton in the fi, crctaryfhip.
Milton bas a prolix and moft fplendid panogyrick on queen
Chrif6na, di¢tated by the fuppofirion that the difiniffcd Salmafius
from her court on account of his Df/'ence oJ" thc King'. Ste
Blilton's Prq/ë-r':or],'s, ii. ô.°9. T. Warïolv.
' This Chriftinrt Queene of Swedcn, as being the Daughtcr to
lhe Greate Gutavus Adolphus, aud brcd vp a Proteftant in the
Luther.n way, quitted ber Crowne and lter Religion too ; turn-
ilxg Papift : and was rccciucd at hafpruck in Tiroll by that Arch-
Duke and Prince, with extraordinary greate Pomp and Magni-
ficence ; that bcing the appoyntcd place, at the confines of ltaly
and Germany, for ber to reouncc her former Religion of a Lu-
thcran Proteltant, and to be receiued into the boufome of the
('hurch of Rome ; whiclx was donn with greate Solemncty. At
which I 'as Prcfcnt, ftaying there a nonth for that purpofe.
Allmofl all the Emperors Court and other 1Nobilcty werc thcre.
The Pope, Alexander vii, fending thither as his Intcrnuntio,
5lonfig r Lucas Holltenius to rcceiue hcr Rcnunciation, and adroit
her into the Roman Fayth. That Internuntio was a Iligh Ger-
man, of Itamburgh, and had binn bredd vp a Luthcran, but
turncd as Shee did ; and, being a greate Scholler, he was the
Keeper of the Vatican Library, and Canon of S t Peters at Rone,
and my former courtcous Acquaintance, which with ail Kindncfu
he rcncwcd at oure nceting hcre ; IIc giving mee 3 flaects of
l'apcr printcd in Latine of the Solemncty, of which Shee rcade
LIBER.
laalfe an one very rcadily in a loud mnn|y voicc, vnclauntedly.
lqut lier carryage in the Curch was very fcandalous, laughing,
tnd gigling, and curling ald trimming ber locks ; and the motion
of ber hands and body was fo odd, that I heard fome Italians
tlat were neare me fay, E B[atta per Dio, bi/God Shce is madd;
tnd truly I thought ri» too, there being in her no figne of Deuo-
tion, but ail was as to her, as if Shee had binn at a play, whilt"
Shee receiued the Sacrament in the Roman moad«, and all the
time of the lhort Sermon : But Shee had lhort Serinons all the
veeke after; euery day in a feuerall Language, all which Shee
,nderftood well, as I was told there by Monlig' IIolftenius the
Pope's Internuntio, with whome I was often : That night Shee
vas entertavned with a moft excellent Opera, all in lIufick, and
in Italiau ; the Ad'tors of that Play being all of that Nation;
and, as fome of themfelves told me, there were 7 Calrati, or
Eunuchs ; the ref were whoores, moncks, fryers, and priefts: I
ara fure it lafled about 6 or 7 howres, with mort ftraingely ex-
cellent Scenes and rauifhing Mufick, of ail vhich, by the Arch-
Dukes Order, the Sig: Conte Collalto prefented me with a booke
in Italian, w I have now ia nty ftudy, with all the Scenes in
excellent brascutts. Tht. title is, L'ARGIA, Dramma Mufi-
cale, Rapprefelitato a INSPRVGG. Alla Maelia Della Seren-
illïma Chriftina Regina Di Suezia &c.
" Shee fiayd at Infprugg about ten dayes, and eueray day
laad its variety of Entertaynement, what in Dancing, Mufick,
Banquetings, I-Iawking, and ltunting all fortes of wild fowles,
and wilde beafts, ineompafcd in To3"les of Canuas, making a
«all (as it were) with "/)'mber, poles, and Canuas, 5 or 6 toiles
in Compaffe to bïiug in the Seueral heards of vilde beafts that
Inhabit that Alpine Mountanous Country ; (amongft which the
Camuccij, or Chamois, or Mountanous wild goates are moft in
number ;) there being Culuerines aud finale Cannons placed here
and there, for ber lXla tic" to f)Zl-e at whole Droues, or Flocks of
them, as they rann and lepped to and againe. In fhort, I
told there by an Englilh-nmn of the Archdukes muliek, That
thot 10 dayes colt that Prince aboue 30000 " Englifli.
" I defigned the Figure of the Queene my felfe, and had if
cutt in brafs at Infpruck for me, '«t' I haue in my ludy : Dr.
John Ba.rgraue Canon of Chrift Church Canterburà', 1662."
72 E PIGRAM3IATUM
OEhe preceding ncçount of Chriflina is taken from the « Effigies,
1Nominn, Et Cognomina, Pape et Cardinalium nunc viventium.
Edit. Jo. Jacobo (le Rubeis, Roma', 1638. folio," numbered
G. iii. 33. in the Library of Camerbury Cafledral ; fo which it
v¢as one of he many curions and valuable prefents, ruade by
Dr. Bargrave, Prebendary of the Church, xx'lo had been a great
traveller, nd lived chiefly in Italy during Cromwell's ufurpa-
tion. On the margins md backs of fle engrarings in the afore-.
named volume, he has written many curious rcmarks from
printed books and manufcripis, n(! has added feveral diverting
necdotes, the fruits of his own obfervation ; among which is
he account of Chrifiina. The.R'ure will be confidered a curi-
ofity ; flae appears in tbe man's apparel, as defcribed iii the be-
ginning of glr. Warton's Note.
I agree with glr. Dunfter, in believing thefe verfes to Chrif-
tina to have been written by Milton, hot by llarvcil. Ste the
Note on Par. Reg. 13. ii. 481. I think it moi[ probable that,
|ilton being the foie Latin fccrctary when thcfe verfes wcre
'ritten, no application wouhl be ruade to anothcr perlbn to
vrite them. 1 may add a various rcading or two in this Epi-
'am, as it is printed in larvell's Poems, edit. 1681, befidcs
$icqne inttead of Utque, already noticed by lr. Warton ; for,
in the faine line, Marcll's copy reads " ora jèro" inftead of
"' ora tero" as in Milton's ; and, in the ftwenth line, «' /t" in-
ftead of " '/JL" The latter is an immatcrial variation; but
the former is hot fo ; « ora t«ro," as I conccive, bcing much
more fignificant than « ora .f«ro :" See Toland's Life of llilton,
fol. 1698, p. 69.
" Behoid vhat ftrrows ,ge and fleel can llow ;
« The hclmct' weight oppref'd this wrinid«d brow. '
Poflîbly Marvcll might have been favoured with a lranfcript of
this epigram, after he bccame aflbciatcd with lilton in the
ïecretaryflfip.
Perhaps, by calling Chriftina Bdlil»otens virgo & lncida jc[la
lilton might intend an allufion to a gold coin of the quecn, on
one ride of x'hich flae is reprefented with a helmet as 2lincrra;
the other ride exhibiting the fun. Ste an engraving of the
coin, in Sarravii Epiftoke, a Burmanno, Ultrajet$. 1697",
p. 230, and an account of it from 8arravius to IF, tac Voflius,
eT.,. I
LIBER. 278
dated 6. Mart. 1650, in pp. °28, 29. There are alfo feveral
copies of verres OlX the coin; from vhich I fric& the txo
following :"
«' Attica falfa fuit, fed ver,'t hmc Ar&ica Pallas;
" Dicere me verum, 8ol mihi teftis adeft."
« Sol, radios expande tuos ; ecce! emula terril'
" Chriflina qff'ulget lumine inocciduo.'"
I have quoted the Eglifla verfion of bliltox's epigram t
Chriflina : It appeared as follows, in Toland's Lire of the poet»
toi. 1628, p. 39.
" Bright martial Maid, Queen of the frozen Zone !
" The Northern pole fupports thy flining thronc :
" Behold what furrows age and fieel can plow ;
" The helmet's weight opprefs'd this wrinkled brow.
" Through fate's untrodden paths I more ; my ha, nds
' Still a& my frceborn people's bold commmxds :
« Yet this ficrn/hade to you fubmits his frowns,
' Nor arc thefe look al,.va-s feve're te crowns." Too.
VIL "
SILVARUM
LIBER.
PRELIMINARY OBSEttVATION$
THE G REEK VERSES.
WHEN it is confidered, how frequently the life
of MI.ToN has been written, and how numerou
the annotations have been, on different parts of his
works, it feems ftrange, that his Greek verres,
which, indeed are but few, ihould have paffed al-
mort wholly without notice. They have neither
been menti6ned, as proofs of learning, by his ad-
mirers, nor expofed to the ordeal of criticifm, by
his enemies. Both parties feen to have ihrunk
from the fubjee'-t.
To invetigate the motives for this filence is hOt
neceffary, and the fearch might poffibly prove fruit-
lefs. The prefent obfervations attempt to fupp]y
the deficiency of former Commentators, whofe ftores
of critical knowledge have been lavifhed, :«»
merely on the Englifh poetry of Milton.
It will, perhaps, be afferted, that the followlng
remarks are frequently t0o minute. Yet it tem
the duty of a commentator, on ,the Greek produc-
tions of a nodern, to point out, in general, the
fources from which each expreffion flowed» aad to
7'8 SILVARÇM
defend by colle&ed authorities, what to fome readers
may appear incontrovertibly right, as well as to
animadvert on paffages, of which the errom's will
be difcovered by thofe only, who have devoted a
large portion of their rime and attention to the
ftudy of the ancients. Çfitical ftri&ures on fuch
works.flaould be written to dire& the judgement of
the lefs learned, and hot merely to confirm the
opinions of profound fcholars.
In thefe Remarks, the reader .will find fome ob-
jec"tions ftarted, which are to be confidered as re-
lating rather to points of tarte, than of authority.--
In paflhges of which the. propriety or impropriety
eould be decided by appea!s to the Ancients, refe-
rence has generally been ruade to Euripides, in
prèference to all other Writers. It is well known,
that he was much ftudied by Milton, and he is
p'operly termed, hisJàvourite poet by Mr. Warton,
in his Note on Cornue, ver. 297.
Thofe, who have long and juftly entertained an
high idea of Milton's Greek erudition, on perufing
thefe notes, will probably feel difappointed; and
may aferibe to fpleen and temerity, what, it is
hoped, merits at leati a milder title.--To Milton's
claire of extenfive, and, indeed, wonderful learning,
who fhall refufe their fuffrage ! It requires hOt out
comlnendation, and may defy our cenfure.If Dr.
Johnfon, however, obferves of tbme Latin Verth of
Milton, that it is not feeure againft a ftern gram-
marin, vhat would he have faid, if he had be-
ftowed his time, in examining part of this Greek
Lire of Milton. Works»vol. ii. p. 9. .
LIBER. o_79
poetry, with the lame exa&nefs of taflê, and with
cqual accuracy of criticifm.
If Milton had lived in the prefent age, the ne-.
cefiity of thefe remarks would, in all probability,
bave been fuperfeded, tlis native powers of mind,
and his ftudious refearches, would have been aflïf[ed
by the learned labours of Bentley, Hemfterhufius,
Valckenae; Toup, and Ruhnkenius, under whofe
aufpices Greek criticifin has flouriflmd, b in this
[the lati] century, with a degree of vigour wholly
unknovn in any period, rince thc revival of letters.
lSA L lI CXIVo
This Greek verfion, as Dr. Jofeph Warton bas
juftly oblirved, is fuperiour to that of Duport. It
has more vigom; but is not wholly tiee fi'om
accuracies.
In verfe 4. the prepofition » might have been
omitted, as in Honer, Od. H. 59.--r,,«*,
Ver. 5. «,, and v. 12. ,«ç, ould bave
been in the middle voice.
Ver. 5. and v. l. ,zv, ould bave the ant
penult long, as it h ufed by Homer.
Ver. 7. and v. 14. Io«has the penultimate
tort in Nonnus's verfion of St. John's Gofpel, i. £.
and in x. 40. where it appears
firiptum , fays Sylburgius.The fyllable A is
[Thi criticifm was fir printed in 1791.]
'2.80 SILVARUM
utd long by Apollinarius, in his tranflation of thls
pfalm.
Ver. 9. and 16. t[raçt, This word is fupported
by no authority.
Ver. 1. «,»« 3««¢««. A,»« Docb for A,» ha
the A long.
Ver. 17. B«oT,«, r, g «e or a' ould have
followed B«&e«,.
Ver. 19. T«' %to»% does not appear intel-
ligible. Should it bc T«« roT«? In thc fol-
lowing verre r,«' had bcttcr havc bccn rêoE» as
çt«« prccedcs.
II.
.Philqfophus ad Regem quendam, &c.
Ix this flaort compofition, the ftyle of the Epick
Poets is imitated very inaccurately, and is ftrangely
blended with that of the Tragick Writers.
Verre 1. EI OAEYHZ] Milton ought to have
written E, ' o, Eo-¢.The fubjun&ive o, Eo-.¢, as in
II. A. 559.and muft neceffarily be added to ,.
when it is followed by this mood.
EI, in the Dramatick Poets, is ufed with the In-
dicative, and the Optative, but never with the Sub-
junc--tive mood; thoughit is joined to ail the three
moods, in ttomer. Yet this is hot allowed indif-
ferently, nor without diftin6tion.
- Er, in the Iliad and Od.gffëy, when it is jolned to
an Imlicative, ftands fingly, and independent of any
other particle, as in Od. 'ê. o.qeo. EI ,&» a/*
and in a great variety of pafl:ages.
LIBER. 281
H, with an Optative, is fometimes accompanied
by , or E, as Il. t. 60.--EI KEN ««'ou ,
ffYFOIMEN. O. 196. EI KE AABOIMEN. 05. EI
7«ç K' E®EAOIMEN--and it is alfo ufed without this
adjun& in Il. . 257. EI 0-ço''u -r«o w«'« I1T®OIATO.
l. 98.EI wor" «-¢ YXOIAT'.and in a multitude
of other places, by the infertin of which it is hOt
neceflhry that thetb remarks flaould be extended.
EI, with a Subjuncive mood, is "never utd by
Homer, without the addition of E or , or its
equivalent
It may hOt be ufelefs to enumerate and corre
the patçagcs, which, in the prefent copies of the
]liad and OdyJ]i, feem to militate againft thefe
Cnons.
EI KE, inftead of EI, wifl an INDICATIVE [OOD.
Iliad 1. 5-°6. EI
Ody Z. 82.--EI K"
ETFEN.--ead EI F'
which Clarke gives as a various reading, and which
he ould have admitted into the text. In
A. 1 lç. he has rightly publiflmd
Ody: P. 79. EI KEN
««% is mentioned by Clarke, in his note, as
wrious reading. This aheration wou!d remove the
error ; but EI MEN is the true reading, as EI E
" 7 follmvs in ver. 8.To thct mui hot be
aaea o«: . lO9,
.8, LVAllUM
which verre is repcated in Odff M. 1 7, for EAAZ
may be Subjunive, as well as Indicative. The A
is only doubled.This Ernefti pronounces to be
the true leion. The Author of the life of Homer,
however, whom Gale, Clarke, and others, fuppot
to have been Dionsfius Ilalicarnaffenfis, cites the
former of thet paffages, p. 340. Ed. Ga&i, gh.
1688, and reads ««¢ for teck, which, as Clarke
bas remarked, mut be pronounced d«ç. This
feems to be the genuine reading ; and might readily
be ndmitted into the texç if it is fupported by ma-
nufcripts. Euftathius altb, as Ernefti obtrves»
habuffb ««çç videtur.
EI, inftead ofEI KE, with a Svstc'rlvv. Moog.
Iliad A. 81. EI r y« rE X0o------KATAI'IE"FHo
It fhould be Y«e KE.So in Iliad . 61. I
te '«e r" «?o,HINEIN, and in l!iad M. 45.
EI T« r" aZoUEPIKTEINMEOAth
reading ould be EI we 7« K' «aao. A Subjune-
tire preperly follows E T« in-Iliad A. 580,
M. 0. Odyff . 46. o. 355,
lliad A. 541. 'EI wo ' aor
X¢w rENHTAI
Here is a manifefi blunder. E is unneceffar)ç but
the frequent occurrence of ' «7, in the Iliad and
Odffby might eafily occafion its admiffion. Homer
altb, QziJhllor) would have written : , & w0r' «o7,
Vol. III. p. 1675. 9 Etë.t. Rom.
LIBER. 0_83
and hOt fs -ort " «dE. « After the Canons, which
have been laid down, the mode of corre&ion is ob-
yious : EI or K' ar. s E, and E », how-
ever, are frequently in juxtaption, the reading
might have been: E a wor' «ur.--K «or or
«ur may be found in lliad z. 7. o. 6. I. 195,
77. P. $9, and . 69.
Iliad E. 58.I 7» irfo¢ Ts TFHZIN.
Read EI K' çvyV¢,. In Villoitbn's Editiot ofthe
lénice Homer and Scholiafts, the leion is
;r*e¢ T*. It might be EKE çoT¢, , which would
obviate the double
lliad A. 116. EI w, e r TTXH,EI
Read EI w, e KE.
Iliad o. 16. .EI «vr ax«nç a,Tn
Hfrn EATPHAI.
ead K' &TTE, which indeed aNfts the mette.
Put a fuller op at the end of the preceding
verfe, and read H «« for EI x«*, whid, is given as
a various le&ion in Clarke's note, in wholb Edition,
it is remarkable, that the true readings are hot un-
eommonly the rçeed readings.
lliad . 576. EI t Tx çOaF.vo¢ y.*v z OTTAZIh»
BAAHXIN.I[ead EI Tuf KEN--
Iliad X. 8. EI wf T«ç çt KATAKTANH.
a No validity can be allowed to 0«l I. 311. and
Which the Coçmentators allow to be wrong. Ernefti's fuppo-
fition, that the repetition of $, hiatus ritandi cmÇà.#eri Totuit,
erits no attention.
8 SILVARUM
The t[arl. ,MS rightly 'gives, +«-t«s-tt. Or et
t K«o«o«follows ; where Ovr ¢" t feem
prcferable.There appear to be many paffages of
Homer, .in which TE " locloiz ltoit.fitltm occupat,"
as the learncd Annotator on Toup in $tid. Vol.
p. 489. obfcl'ves, on a fi'agment of Calllimachus.
I[iad x. 19I. EI w e v, AAOHZI
Ilere, and in O(ly: . 188. E w e rt
EIPHAI, tbr r read KE.
In this lift mut not be included Od E.
EI $' «ur,¢ PAIHIfor P«,F¢, is not only 8bjunc;
t&'e, but allb IIMicative, according to the
leSendi lndicativi oetis f/itatzts',: qui dicitur à
Gra»mlaticis lhcg'inorltm.]i« diale[ti, to ufe the
words of Valckenaer, whol note on 3«, for
well merits peruthl, Acbot. i2 doliaz, Theocrit.
p. 254.--Nor muft Iliad r. 288.
for Homer ufes E, « or E, f «, in the faine way,
s E, , vith a fubjunive Mood. So in Iliad . 7.
EI ' AN 0 ««
-lere the Ilarleian MS. rends m00p0«, though ,
ith an ()ptativc, docs hOt occur in Homcr.E
, with a Subjun6tive is to be %und in Iliad ç. .
Mny examples of the Pr«'Ç 1mL
may be %und in Homcr.Thus, Od: . 0.
E e ,««-' XH,Imuft hot be folicited.--
In l[iad K. 5.poç g, ,ç r
of ,o«y--lems pretrable to e o¢, as
tbr ,X«, and voF« Nr vÇ, are produced as eaample
- .LIBER.
of the o'ZF Ivx,,0, or "P7», in the Itym. 1VI. V.
g«¢«,,V«. Nov«, is alfo mentioned by Eufiathius,
in Ody? H. p. 1176. 61. E(l. om. which paflhge
is cited, from the Commentary on Iliad H. by
Valkenaer, Adon. loc. cit. This is a typographical
errour, as the reference is rightly given, in his notes
on LeNonax, p. 179.orf,«,» occurs, in the In-
dicative, afier , , Od. . 573.
To evince the propriety of correcting flefe few
paffages, « it nced only be obferved, that
uthd by Homer, with a Subjunive Mood, in above
forty different places. E g however, is fometimes
joined to afitttre Indicative, r apparently for want
of a future Subjun&ive. Iliad
x,Zn«,#,. K. 449. E , «hv«oV,.Otly F.
E g rorçr. E. 417. E "
76. E, xt
To» ENNOMON] "O E**oo, qui efl bttra lem,
f eourfe does not occur in Homer.Th word
»,oo, however, may be found in the Tragick
Writers; but they do hOt apply it to
chylus, SuppL 89.
« As thefe inftances of E, with a fubjun&ive are fo rare in
-7omer, lIilton probably fuppofed, that the corrupt paffages in
the Tragedies, in which fuch a conftruc'}ion may be found» would
defend his E,
r This ufage of the Indicative is termed «),t« K,,f»0*o* by
Lefbonax, p. 178--and by the Etym. M.V.r.,, p. 3Ol. In
the Sch. on lliad 1. 7. Should hot the reding be
rv«ro,, for I«»» ?
e86 SILVARUM
whence Euripidcs, Pheen. 165. Ed. lralck, appears
to have derived his Evvoov $,v.In the faine play
alfo, 408.
And again 575, where the Scholiaft explains
In the Choeph. 481. likewife :
In Sophocles, Oedip. Trann.
The application of E,ooç to Perlons appears to
be peculiar to the later Writers.St. Paul to the
Corintk. . ix. 1. fays, ,vvoFo, xwv:Lucia,
Jupit. %)'ag. Vol. II. p. 671,
and Libanius, in a very laconîc Epiftle, "o
Evvoo«, howeveç is applied to objets
lire, by the ancient Greeks, and, indeed, by the
ecentiores :Efchines, x«« T,«Z. vol. v. p. 51,
«r« Kr«,ç. Vol. ri. p. 415, x«,
,»oov xr« rsro.Xenophon, K. n. p. 651. d.
iodorus Sic. Vol. I. p. 117. #«,
«o, **o.-ov.Several other inftances may be round
in Dio. Caus; to which may be added Lucian,
de Saltat. Vol. II. p. 67. ubi ariant interprete.
To thefe paffages mufi hot be added a defcive correion
of Canter, SuIL
LIBER.
.--Thueydides, iv. p. _o72. vt. p. 403.Pollux vti.
92.But to accumulate authorities is unneccffary. *
Evv#/0« is hot an pick word, in the fignification of
aj and irreproachable
which appears of little trvice in this paffage,
hot iu Homer, and very rarely, if ever, in the Tra-
gedies. In Rhefits, 737. for " ¢, ,y«
Mufgrave has rightly ri'oto a manutript edited
which occurs in two other paffages of this play,
and once in a Chorus of the 1on, 695. and tbme-
tines in Elhylus.
is not ufed in the lliad, In the Od o.
55. «e«t««,, or «« ««,, and 55.
may be found.The formula, fo r,« ,,, may
be termed Homerick, as Homer fays in II. r.
554. ,,¢ox ner« [«, but , with a double
accufative, is perfe&ly in the yle of the dramatick
Writers. Euripides alone will aflbrd a thciency
of examples: Hecub. 53. 6fç ¢'
Or. 581.,, ' « ,troc' g ,«q3«,«,. HippoL
178. r ¢" , e««u. [ph. AuL 371.f
From thefe two ]a paflhges, it appears, that Mil-
ton ould have written, r" «f TI
which is more manifeft from led. 0 :
,for after , the Adje6tive in the fingular
number is accompanied by r,, but in the p[ura[ it
is ufe .alone, as in Or. 67. ««««
Ipb. 7ur. 1177.-« «e f«x. Bacch.
h Pindar's .vr,,$,v ,,to muft not be omitted; where
t.,o,.o, is ufed adr«rbialiter, izt the fcnl; of legithnè.
ee SILVAItUM
ç. Y_O¢TATONap--] It fhould be
TATOT «p,o. Thus Homer has «,«
Jliad A. 1,58. for Tç.--z«« «$«, in the faine
Book, v. 500. for «oç, and--v«
for 0«« «ë,gç, in O0/ff2 K. 51. to which.paffage
Aritiophanes alludes, in a fragment of his
pretçrved by Galen, in the preNce to his
nor O«rç are utd fimply in the tnfe of AOf«o by
I«0, ï,« «,z0,0,] With refpeoE to the expref-
fions, "Pi2,ç «çzw0x, or 'Pi'«ç «çh, they are
ftri&ly Homerick. ltiad . 689.«çzr
"PnZ,ç, which is repeated in 1l. P. 177. In Ody
I«0 «çz0 is, however, utterly indefenfible,
it is neither tIomeriek nor Attiek Greek; it is the
language neither of vertç, nor of protb. Milton
thould have written «0, «çzoo«, which would have
but an awkward appearance in an Hexameter verre»
or rather, perhaps, «ç«p«00ç, in the futée.
, Should if be affcrted, that «0 is propotd to be
oearentletical, which does not feem natural, nor to
bave been the Author's intention, tiill after
the reader would rather expe a Suiunaive mood.
This uthge of the Partieiple in the Nominative
Çatç after verba Twfrxe has becn ably illuftrated
by alckenaer in his notes on Ilerodotns, III. p.
194, and on the tlippo@tts of Euripide:',
p. 196
i Thc rcader may alfo c«)vfult Ilenry .caphoti,2s Index to hîs
Tbcf.,.:trus, p. 109.
LIBER.
To the examples, which he produces in thefe
notes, from the Tragedies, may bc added Eu,'ip}de
in Hippol. 54. «" « çog0,«' «O,.Helen. 460.
oza¢ç ,«0" .So alfo is w nfed. Euripides in
«¢w,in Melanipp. apud Slob. Lxxv. p. 451.
Grot. xxvL p. 331. I« $' açê whiehwords
are altb round in a fragment of the Alemena,
Stob. xt, p. 30.. Grot. xv. p. 175. In the
ihme way altb I¢. Euripides, Mttdrom. 727.
peffue.
In Homer I«O, is twice ufed in the Odyy,
A. . If» occurs much more fi'equently, and
If», in lliad B. 485. . 76. Olff: H. e 11. . 110 ;
but in ail thefe paffages, the conftru&ion of the
fentence is fuch, as hOt to require a Participle in
the Nominative Cafe, after the verb.
Milton appears to have had the comtnon idom
ofthe Tragedies, with regard to thefe 7¢,r,« erba,
floating on his mind, though he has failed in ex-
" preNng his ideas. That he was hOt unacquainted
with the proper ufage of «0 with a Participle, may
furely not unfairly be concluded from a pafl?ge in
his Paradi L, B. x. 791.
" Greedily Ne ingorg'd, xvitllout rèftraint
" And knew not eating death."
Richardfon, in Iris notes, has obferved, that this is a
Greek phrq, a,,a a qe,, »y the Latins . He
The adoption of this eonru&ion by the Latins, in verfe and
profe, has been pointed out by Davies, in his notes on Cicero's
Tufculan queRions» iv. 15. p. 94. Ed. 4to. 1738» and by othe.
voL, vl-t. U
290 SI LVARUM
then quotcs Oppian, tlalieut. II. 106. It is, how-
ever, vcry remarkable, that lilton fhould adopt
this Grec]in in his Englçh poctry, and ncglec2 it
in a Greek COlnpofition.
Aço,o, if, in othcr rcfpcs, it wcre right, might
be utdne «, nec in optandi qfi, according to
the pra&ice of Homer, if the prefent copies are
corre.--It is tarcely neceflhry to obtrve, that, in
tke Tr'edies, an Optative without «» always ex-
prefls a wiflb but when «» is added, potentia&m
habct gnicationem.
¢ «,] If A»0 be an Adverb of rime,
as well as of place,, after » it feens unneeeffary.
In Homer, iad Y. 17. indeed, Juno fays of
Achilles, that in the preibnt day's confli&, he all
be prelçrved ri'oto danger, but that
In this page, however, «r tetns improperly add-
«1 to çtf ; tor in all the other places, in which dz,»
and «ur or «r,ç,for rtf, «0, is hot to be found
occur united in Holncr, the repetition of an
aion, which has already happened or the fequel or
continuation of one commenced but hot yetflnhed,
is implied . Thus in B. . 6. Agamemnon fays
to Chryfes :
i It may, perhaps, be urged in defi'nce of this paffitge, that,
though Achilles had hot yet fuffered, what he zt'as to fuffer, yet,
as his deftiny rzas fixcd, Itomer might confider his death as the
certainJèquel of ail acCtion commenced, but hot yet.fini./ied ; at leaft
fufficiently to vindicate the ufage of «vr, in the lnfe of contiua-
ti#n though hot of retition.
LIBER.
H u» ,u»oyr 'YY-TEPON ATTI, m y
while he was at the Grecian cmnp.--In 11. H. ô0.
Apollo fays to Minerva of the Trojans
PON ATTE t«Z,-0»r'--affel- they had fought, and
ftill were fighting.In the l«ame Book,-Heor ufes :
'TZTEPON ATTE #«Z¢0F.0'V. flgl- in his fpeech
to Ajax, after they had fought ; as does Priam, V.
77. and Idoeus, V. 596. in fpeaking o.f the two ar-
nfies, affer they had engaged. In lliad o. 14.
Nefior cries out to Diomedes, when he intreats
him to retire from the battlc, during the ftorm:
Zu¢ u$o¢ TZTEPON ATTE « »A¢t, witb the
idea that they had before been honoured by Jupiter.
In fentences of this fort, re» may of courl be
uld without «rç or «o.In Odyff: o. 0. Ulyf-
tbs, ter having thrown a quoit, fays :«Z« $'
When an eveng which kas hot 3/et corne to
is mentioned as about to happen, rq» is ufed with-
out «*. In lliad K. 450. Diomedes fays to
Dolon, if we ould now fer you at liberty,
m Euftathius readç Av0çErnefli, Villoifon, and others,
Aa-,ç, which alfo appears in the rare Edition of Luc. Ant. Junta,
12 TM 1537. cclebrated by Dorville, Crit. l/'ann. 390. dcpreciated
by Ernefti, Prcef. Hom. X. and defended by Villoifon, Prolegom.
i Hom. ex Cod. l/'enet, xliv. Not. 1.Ao'ç is furely right ; and
the Editors of Homer thould hot have fo often negleed the
diftinions pointed out by the Gramnmrians, refpedting
Aça-,ç, and .vO, To Tzetzes, Corinthus, and ltelladius, quoted
by Valkenaer in .4mmon. 7. may be added Ilcfychius, Etym.
Magn. Apollonius Suidas and Phavorinus; and Euftathius in
lliad B. 30. K. 789. _'24. rt. lO. 51. a-. 1175. 63.
92 SILVARUM
'TZTEPON «,¢0« .%«¢ rr, «, implying though your
prçnt intention of reaching the fifips bas proved
abortive.
In lliadA. 365. Diomedes exclaims to tleor.
though Apollo has now prelçrved you,
A/hillcs altb ufes thet words to Heor, when he
is delivered from death by the lhme God, lliad
In Ili«.l . C 0. when Juno propofes vifiting
Occanus ad Tethys, 3upiter, dcfirous of detaining
her; bcgins his teech with
ïn Od l. 551. Ulyffes fays to the Cyclops, "rince
3-ou aoE thus,
In Od g. 7. Ulyfls, after defiring Tclemachus
to go to the Palac in the morning, adds:
Aor« w0ç cru «vçrnç 'TETEPON
So allb « &m is ufed in Od[: M. I6, where if is
laid that Cratwis, the mother of
çrom condering thç poEagcs, if appears ex-
tremely doubtful, whether Miltofs ro «0,, in
the fignification fimply of phac, be proper, even
though it may be alleged, that the King had ce.
tainly heard of the Philolbplmr's value, in this very
leech : aud it allb lem probable, that «or ould
be corre6ted in lliad T. I7.
LIBER. °.93
:- IIPO $/ '.] Milton, in theçe hex-
mneters, ould have written ro KATA bvv, afler
the example of Homer, 1I. . 549.
In tiie Timon of Lucian, Vol. I. p. lç. Jupiter
tys to Plutus: Teur« 7v «x$op HPOX r, vhich,
hotvever, is almd me lamcntabari«.
o$,,] In the Edition of 1675, and in Biflop
Newton's of 1785, the final z is circumflexed. An
iota.fitfi'riptum fliould altb bave been added, if
$? be the Future Middle.
o$,o«, however, like 14«,v,,«, is one of thot
verbs which have tire ,lon long, i), l»r«#ntibus
et lmpeç]ëSis omnibus, and fliort h, Jhturis, if they
bave any futures in utb. This point of Protbdy
has been accurately and clearly illurated by
Clarke, in his notes on Itolner, Il. A. 338. B. 45.
O$,0«, with the fecond long occm's in Euripides,
In 7ph. Taur. 485. T, ,«,' O&TPH,--ndrom.
405. A«¢ , ,«vÇ O&TPOMAI.----h,e)t. 1806.--
,«, «,zv O&TPOMAI. So $vov, the Imperih&,
in Homer, Biad a, 166.
Since the filon in M«¢=ov#«,ttlo't,z, as Clarke
obçerves, .#$er co'ripitur, the faine lnut alfo be
th quantity of the Ul;lon, in o$o0«, if thcl a
word exitis.
To,ov #'] It fllould be printed ,0ov$', in one word.
H0z,=ç is the reading in the Edition of 1643. This
genitive occurs only twice in Itomer, Biad A. 168.
g4 SILVARUM
nd ''. o. ln the ]tter p]ce oz« is noted as
various reading.
IIEPINTMON aX׫] t[oc minus placet. When
.axx« t, occurs in Homer, itis ufed without a»j/epi-
thet, and rezt,o is hOt an Homerick Word.
As to oX:«««, rince Milton utis 0x0-:ç, fimplici , in
the firft line, 0a0-0-«ç, fo nearly after it, feems excep-
tionable, in point of tafte, in fuch a thort compofi-
tion.
In the various readings of the fourth verre, t«ç
tç « r,'«, for t«ç-,ç, the word «ç thould
bave been afpirated, as it is in Homer, after Me+,
Iliad "ï'. 348. Od[/J rt. 1 ! 1, and, indeed alwms,
when it is ufed in the fenfe of temerè, orjïc remetS.
III.
In Ef]ïgiei ejus &ulptorem.
This Epigram is far inferiour to thofe, which are
weferved in tl:e Greek Anthologia, on Bad Painters.
It has no point: it bas no «¢o,«. It is deflitute
of poetical nerit, and appears far more remarkable
for its errours than ibr its exeellencies.
To eonfefs the truth, the Poet does hot appear to
bave fufpeêted, that, while he was cenfuting the
Ejfigiei Sc«lptor, he was expofing himfelf to the
feverity of c:'iticifm, by admitting into his verres,
diïputable Greek and falfe mette.
As thefe lines are Iambick«, it may be eoneluded,
that Mihon meaned to imimte the ftyle of the Tra-
giek anti Iambiek Writers. Sueh, at leafi, ought
to have been his model.
LIBER.
In the firft line, X,,ç, is properly applied to th,
Artift, as in Lucian, Amor. l'oL II. 42. Ed. Reit.:.
Z++¢o« Tp«¢v, though «t.,«0,, as an epithet to
appears liable to objeSion. Euripides in a fi'ag-
ment of his Andromeda has: «0er«
which cannot defend «t«0 Z, in the Dative
Cale, without «T«z/«, nor yet quite juftit)" the
Epithet. It feems to be a I.atinifm. An Infcrip-
tion apud Reinef. p. 86"3. givesl)ocwA fabricare
monilia IWXTrtA, as Ovid «le Art..1mat. I. 518.
does--IOCa'A barba rç]ca .t^,xu ; rand Quintilian,
Iit. Orator. xi. p. 118. E.d. Ilurm. thys, not,
indeed, fpeaking of an artift: IIOCT., rtica've
MANUS o.
In this line, thc Particlc is placcd much too
iar diftant from thc bcginning of thc Ibntcncc.--.
The latcr Comick Writcrs, arc hot always vcry
chaftc in thcir pofition of ' and ,«, and, perhaps,
of » and fimilar words.
V. . ¢«,m cri This is perfcly Attick, and
ufed by Sophocles, Trach. lO7. Elec%'. 5'S. Ed.
runcl«ii.In tb flort a compofition, an AnapceJ?us
in the fifth foot of two tbllowing lines might better
have been avoided.
Eo ATTOTEZ] A'oçv, in the fenfe intended
by Milton, jï ritb recordo', is not warranted by the
dranatiek poets, if it is by any of the more aneient
writers.A fragment of the Pirithous of Euripides,
v¢hich bas been fi'equently quoted, begins with
The application of :ç¢ to Artifts ofall kinds bas been ex-
plained by Cupêrus, in his Apoteofis Hom«r. p. 116. and 18(/.
q Confult Burman on this paffage, and on the verfe quoted
from Ovid.
£96 SILVARUM
-r0 «vr0¢r,--and in the I'f,o, of Ariftophanes, a D.
Hephe.fl. p. 4°. is found :
which, howeveq form no defence for d¢ «vr0¢aç.
. To EKTTUTONJ This word is not right.--
To«r0¢ is an Adjeive ufed by Lycophro, £6.
,Çç, but no authority for it at prelnt occurs. With
more propriety then Milton would bave written:
TE0 ' txVr0V, ff'il, t$ç or «%«. The thbftantive,
however, are,wv« and tx,«. Euripides ufes
the former, in the Phten[ff." 165. Ed. alck. ,wv«
wf¢çThe latter is explained, in Hetchius by
4. FEAATE ç«vAn AXMIMHMA Çyf«çn.] çtxgv in
the Tragick ll'iters tbmetimes governs a Genitive,
but more frequently a Dative Cafe, either with or
without a preceding Prepofition». Tov,o fignifieS,
Ita, Ad hunc ntodum, and is not go, erned by the
Verb, in the Nubes of Arifiophanes, 818. T $
," Tx«««« ; though in a paffage frotn Gregory of
Nazianzen, adduced by H. Stephens, in his The-
faurus, V. I. p. 81. E. loc. ç,x«% this verb go-
verns an Accufative Cat. This conftruion is
P r,z«, tutu Genitivo. Soph. Philoc2. 1125. in a Chorus. Cure
1)ativo, without a Prepofition. Eurip. Ilah..4ul. 917. Iph.
Tau. °77. Troaà. ¢10. Soph. ,4j. 957. 10-. Ariftophanes.
Nub. 560. Eq. 693.C, um Dativo, with a Prepofition. Soph.
Eler. 880. Arifi. Plut. 799. Ban. . ,4v. 8oe.Brunck ob-
ferres in a note on 8oph. Philotet. 1125. that «z,av with a
riti'e is ufed for ,«r«yz,a», and with a Dative for
The faine Critick may alfo be eonfuited on Ariftoph. Equit.'6O6.
See _lonthly Review for Auguft, 1789, p. 108.
LI B E R. 97
very unufual, and can have no rcference to Attick
poetry. In Sophocles, ./lj. 79. there is yz.»
,Z0ço, , in Sextus Empiricus, adz'c('f Rhctor. II.
p. 293. d. br. y w =' «ç, and
7xr is very common, in the Attick Writers; yet
ftill x o«tv is, I ara pcrthaded, wrong, and
ould not be imitated.
The word o«, teems with errour.The
Antepenult is long, tb that a Spondus occupies
the fourth place, which even the advocates for the
toleration of ,hmpafii in dibusparibus would not
readily allow.This is evident from Eripides,
Herc. Fur. 93.
and ffom a fragment of his Antiopa, ap. Plalon,
Geo. I. p: 485. Ed. brran, p. I. Ed. Routh.
Valck. Diatrib. p. 74.
and from the Prometheus of Efchylus, 100.
mB [rom Chorus o[ ufipiBes, in Bath. 90.
It tan fcarcely be imagined, that Milton fuppofed
the fecond fyllable of ff«¢,¢,« to be flwrt, from
the following fragment of Euripides, preferved by
Plutarch, de OracuL deSu, V. vii. p. 640.
Ee'ii.
Fro EHI. Stephen. Thef. 1. c.
98 StLVARUM
This fragme,t is alfo quoted by Plutarch,
fuait..c. Eic. Vol. x. 485. as far as
whcre hc rcads ««, for «««. The laçt line is re-
jeed by Muçgrave, Fmgm. Inccrt. ccxviL but
thppoçed to bc an I«mck verçe by Turncbus and
ylander, whojoiu in changing «,o,» into
The former altb propotbs ,o çor ,».Grotius
in Ewce@t. p. 4. reads, without any apparent
thfpicion of the falfe quantity :
Thus Barnes bas pub]ied it, {n Fmgm. Inc«rt. 85;
but bas not condeçcendcd to mention the namcs
of ether Plutarch or Grotius. Rhunkenus has
quoted the former part of the paffage, iii a Note
on Timoeus, V. «rwe.At length Heath deteed
the errour in the word ¢,,«, but does hOt appear
to bave been aware of Grotius's alteration, though
he refers to one of the places in Plutarch. Valcke-
naer, indeed, in his Diatribe,.illuftrates thefe lines,
in p. 56, where he adnfits «f,,, and reads
-and joins the fllowing words to the text of
utarch.
Toup, however, in a Note, publied from his
manufcript papers, in the new Edition of his re-
marks on Suidas, I. p. 23. though he refers to
Valckenaer, does hOt appear to bave difcovered'.
any errour in the word ,np«, for he quotes the
line as an Iambick verre, and reads,
LIBER. o_99
intead of Nt,0v.--Yet who would venture to pro-
duce fuch a Verfe, as a defence of Milton's ufage
of J'0-t,t« , fecundgt bvi ?
In the next place, this word «¢« does hOt
occur, I believe, in any ancient writer; and if it
did, it could hOt pofiîbly be uthd in the fignification,
in which it has been employcd by Milton.
The Adjeive «¢¢,« is thus explained by
IIenry Stephens: " liv imitabilis, çttem imitari et
eaprimere dgculter queas." He does noç how-
ever, produce any authority for the ufage of iç nor
has Scott in his Supplement remedied the defiei-
eney. It may not, therefore, be improper to add,
that Plutareh ufes the word in his Cato Minor:
ço «a0, , 0 «0. Vol. IV. p. 374.
in Demetrius: Av«¢r0« i' « ç«m«. V.
p. 5. and in other paffages. Thefe, however, will be
fufficient to point out the true meaningofAv«o ;
and, at the faine time, they may ferve to demon-
ftrate the impropriety of introducing a compound,
into Greek poetry, with a fignification fo contrar
fo analogy as ,¢«. I). C. Bçyr-.
800 SILV.ARUSI
P8ALM CXIV.
* Whoever will carefully compare this Pfalm with Duport's
verfion, vill find this o Miiton far fuperiour ; for in Duport's
verfion are many fo}eeifins. " Quod bfortu»ium," fays Dawes
very candidly, " in coeteros itidem quoque, qui à foeeulis recen-
tioribus Groecè fcribeÆe tent.runt, eadere dieendum
cellan. Crit. p. 1. Jos. WanTox,
3Iilton fent this tranflation fo his fi'iend Alexander Giil» in
return for an elegant copy of hendecafyllables. " lIitto itaque
quod non plan Ineuln ell, fed et vatis etiam illius verè divini,
cujus banc oden alter etatis fcptimanfi, nuilo certo animi pro-
lofito, fed fubito nefcio quo impetu, ante lucis exortum, ad Groeci
carminis hcroici legem, in le&ulo fel' concinnabam." He adds,
" It is the firft and only thing 1 bave ever written in Greek,
fiuce I left'your fchool; for, as you know, I ana now fond of
compofing in Latin or Englifl. They in the prefent age who
vrite in Grcek are finging to the dcaf. Farewell, and on Tuef-
day next expc-t me in London among the bookfellers." Epift.
Fam. Dec. 4, 165& Profc-lVork8, vol. ii. 567. l]c was now
therefore tventy-eight ycars old. In lhe Poffcript to Bucer on
Divorce, he thus expreflès his averfion to travflation. " lIe,
xvho never could delight in long citations, much lefs in vhole
traducCtions; whether it be natural difpofition or education in me,
or that my mother bore me a fpeaker of 'hat God ruade mine
own, and not a tranflator." Profe-'a'orA-, vol. i. '293. It vas
once propofed to Milton to tranflate IIomer. T.
Ver. Q. 8«fç«ç»o»,] As in the original,
.4 peoplefpeaMng barbarou./t. 8% in our elder tranflation fthis
Pfaim, "a people of.flca»ge language. " And Duport, in his
,erfion, ' &rr' 8»f BAPBAP(2I2NI2N." ltomer thus demominates
LIBER. 3ol
I
o $ILVARUSI
Ver. 4. 1MAI'IAI2Z o ' E,-r TEON YIPOE YMON
To* o " x YIOAIOZ] In the edition of 1645, thu».
To" OAE.
The paffge was altered, as it ands at preffnt, in the edition of
1673. T. Waa'oN.
In the following verres in the Iliad, OAEE occurs both in the
text of Barnes, a,d Clarke, Il. il. 811, xi. 168, xx. , xxi.
563, 67, 608. In ail thefe places, except the fecond,
is noted as a various reading. This is mentioned in confequence
of the remark marie by the learned annotator on the Greek
»'erfes in p. 293, 94, whofe affertion I conclue to be founded
on the deff& of Seber Index Homericus, in whieh there are
nl two dire referenees to z».
L I B E R. o; -
In Effigiei E jus Sculptorem.
Ver. e. lïo¢ «drodç] 8ee «r0çd¢ xzxoç,
nativa, naturalis, genuina pulchritudo, in lien. Stcphens's The-
Jàur. Gr. Ling. Tom. iv. col. 28-t. Tot)t).
* This infcription, a fatire on the engravcr, but happily con-
cealed in an unknown tongue, is placed at the bottom of llilton's
print, prefixed to llofeley's edition of Milton's poems, 1645.
The print is an oral : at the angles of the page are the Mufes
lelpomene, Erato, Urania, and Clio ; and in a back-ground a
landfchape with Shepherds, evidently in allufion to Lycidas and
L'Allegro. Confcious of the comelinefs of his perlbn, from which
he afterwttrds delineated Adam, llilton could not help expreffing
his refentment at fo palpable a diffimilitude. Salmafius, in his
Defenfio Regia, calls it comptulam imaginera, and declares that it
gave him no difitdvantageous idea of the figure ofhis antagonil.
But Alexander More having laughed at this print, Milton replies
in his Dènfio profe, " Tu.efllgiem mei diflimillimam, pre.lixam
ooematibus, vidifti. Ego verb, Il impulfu et ambitione librarii me
imperito fcalptori, proptereà qu6d in urbe alius eo bclli tempore
non erat, infabre fcalpendum permifi, id me neglcxiflè potius
eam rem arguebat, cujus tu nfihi nimium culture objicis."
Profe-lVorks, vol. ii. 67. Rou,td itis infcribed JoIIax-IS
ilLTONI ?kNGLI EFFIGIES ANNO :ETATIS 't'IGESSIMO PRIMO.
There was therefore fome drawiug or painting of Mihon in 169,
froln 'hich this engraving was ruade in 1645, eo belli tempore,
when the civil war was now begun. The engraver is William
lIarfhall; 'ho, from the year 1634, was often ëmployed by
llofeley, lIilton's bookfeller, to engrave heads for books of
poetry. One of thefe heads was of Shakfpeare to his Poems in
o4 SILVARUM
1640. BIarfhall's manner has fometiraes a neatt, efs and a deli-
cacy difcernible through much laboured hardnefs. It is di-
verting cnough, that M. Vandergucht engraved for Tonfon's
edition, 1713, a copy of llarihall's |,rint, vith his own naine,
and the accompaniment of this Greck infcription, an unper-
ceived rcfle(ti»n oa himfell: T. Wawror.
Iart,.all's etagraing is the firl publilhed portrait of Miltt, n.
Tovv,
LI B E R. o5
In oitum Procancellarii, medici%
Anno _TEtatis 17.
PARERE Fati difcite legibus,
Manfifque Parcoe jam date fipplices,
Qui pendulum telluris orbem
Iipeti colitis nepotes.
Vos fi relic'to mors vaga Toenaro
Semel voc'ârit flebilis, heu ! moroe
Tentantur incafst'tm, dolique ;
Per tenebras Stygis ire certuln efL
Si deçtinatam pellere dextera
* This Ode is on the death of do&or John Goflyn, iIafter of
Caius College, and king's profeflbr of medicine at Cambridge ;
who died while a fecond rime Vice-chancellor of that univerfity»
in O&ober, 16°.6. Sec Fuller's///. Cambr. p. 164. Milton was
now feventeen. But he is here called fixteen in the editions of
1645, and 1673. A fault which bas been fucceffively continued
by Tonfon, Tickell, and Fe,ton.
I ara thvoured in a letter fro,n do6tor Fariner with thefe infor-
mations. " l find in Baker's MSS. vol. xxviii. Clmrgis ofburyall
and funeral of my brother door Gofllin rz'ho departed this lè the 1
of OL 1626, and ki«3'knerall folemnized the 16th of JVov.Jbllorcing.
And tb it ftands in the College Gefla-Book. He was a Norwich-
man, and matriculated Dec. 8, 158. A bencfa&or to Caius»
and Catherine-Hall ; at which lait you once dined at his ex-
pence and faw his old wooden pié'ture in the Combination
rooln.
For his confiderable benefac"tions to Caius college, fee Blome-
field's .4aal¢ of that college, in Ives's 'ele Papers, fond. ]773.
p. 76. And Blomefield's Colle(tan. Caatai»'ig. l a. 10. For thof
to Catherine-Hall fee Fuller» ubi fupr. p. 83. And fe Kennet
2eg. p. 870. T. Waox.
VOL. vxx. X
3O6 SILVARUM
Mortem va]eret, non refus Hercu]es,
effi venenatus cruore,
_/mathiA jacuifl'et Oetît.
Nec fraude turpe l'alladis invide
Vidiflèt occifiun Ilion Ile&ora, a.ut
Quem larva Pelidis peremit
Entè Locro, .love lacrymante.
Si trifte fatum verba Hecatëia
Fugare poflint, Telegoni parens
Vixiflèt infhmis, potentique
yEgiali tbror utk virgS.
10
0
Ver. 11. igeffi &c.] IIorace, _Epod. xii. ôl.
" Atro delibutus Ilcrcules "
" Nçffi cruore."--
On this fable of Hercules, our author grounds a comparifon,
Par. Lq#, B. ii. 543. T. War¢To.
Ver. 13. 2Vec fi'aude &c.] See Hom. //. xxii.
".çlç «/xv» z« KEPAOZYNH ««' 'A0,. TODD.
Yer. 15. Quem htrra Pd[dfs &c.] Sarpedon, who was flain
by l'atrochts, difuifbd in the armour of Achilles. At his
dcnth his father xx'ept a fliower of blood. Sec lliad xvi.
T.
Ver. 17. Si triaqe.fat'um &c.] " If enchan/ments could bave
ftopped death, Ciree, the nother of Telegonu hy UIyflès, would
have liill lived ; and 5Iedea, the tirer of gialus or Abfyrtus,
with ber magical rod." Telegonus killed his father Ulyflès,
nnd is the lhme 'ho is called parricida by Ilorace. 51ilton
dcnominates Circe Telegoni parens, from Ovid, ;Epifi. Pont. iii.
i. 123. " Telegonque parens &c." And verba ltecatëia are
from Ovid 7tletam. xiv. 44. " II«cateia carmina mifcit."
T. Wro-.
Abfyrtus is called T,g{alius by Juftin, .?'tfl. Lib. xlii. cap. iii.
fpeaking of Jafim and 7Eetes-- « Filiam cjus lledcam abduxerat,
et fi]ium ,gialium interfecerat." Toge.
LIBER.
Numénque trinum fallere fi queant
Artes medentfim, ignotque gramina,
Non gnarus herbarum ,lachaon
Eurypyli cecidiflèt ha :
Loefiflèt et nec te, Philyreie,
Sugitta Echidne perlita fanguine ;
Nec tela te fulménque avitum,
07
25
Ver. . Artes .mcdcntûm, ignotdque gramina,] Not fo much
the power, as the lkill, of medicinc. This appears from the
names which follow. T.
Compare the Epitaph. Damot. v. 153.
" Ah pereant herboe, pereant artéfilue mendentnb
" Gramina, &c." To.
Ver. 23. x1achaon] Machaon, the fon of.Efcula-
plus, one of the Grecian leade at the liege of Troy, and a phy-
lician, was killed by Eurypylus. See the lliad. But the dcath
of Machaon, by the fpear of Eurypylus, is hot in the lliad, but
in Quintus Calaber, whe it is circumffantially related» as lr.
Steevcns rcmarks, Paralip. ri. 406.
I mu add, that Quintus Calabcr is hot an author ai prcfent very
familiar to boys of fcvcntccn. According to Phillips, he w
ne of thc clacks whom lilton taught in his fchool.
T.
Ver. 25. PMlyreie, &c.] Chiron, thc fon of Philyra,
a prcceptor in mediciuc, was incurably wonnded by Herculcs,
with a dart dippcd in thc poifonous blood of the fcrpent of
Lerna. Sce before, EI. iv. 27. T. WaTO.
Ver.CT. rec lela te &c.] fculapius, who was cut out of his
mother's vomb by his father Apollo. Jupiter ftruck him dead
vith lightning, for rcoring Hippolytus fo lift. T.
x
:305 SI I,VARUM
Coefè puer genitricis alvo.
Tuque, O alumno major Apolline,
Gentis togate cui regimen datum, o
Frondotà quem nunc Cirrha luger,
Et mediis Helicon in undis,
J am proefuifçes Palladio gregi
Ltetus, fuper['tes; nec fine gloria ;
:Nec puppc luçtrâffes Charontis 35
Horribiles barathri reeefihs.
At fila, rupit PerIphone tua,
Irata., cùm te viderit artibus,
- Suec6que pollenti, tot atris
laucibus eripuiffe nortis. 4o
Çolende Prletès, membra, precor, tua
Ver. 9. Tuque, 0 ah«mno major Apolline,] Certainly we
thouid read .4polliais. But who was this pupil of Apollo in medi-
cine ? Had it been ,E/kulapius, the tranfition would have been
more eaIy. But lç-ulapius was lat by Apollo to Chiron, to
be educated in that art. I think therefore, although Milton's
allufions in thefe pieces are chiefly to eabli Greeian fable,
we ould here uuderfiand Virgil's I«pis, ho was Phoebo
alios d-i&us, and to 'hom he imparted Jha, artes, fi,a nmera,
IEn. xii. 391. fcq. It ould be remembered, that the word
alumnus is, more extenlively, Jhrourite, t'otm, &c.
In Miltoa's Latin poems, it is often difficult to afcertain the
names of pcrtbns and places. To flow his learning, he frequently
clouds his meaning by obfcure or obfolcte patronymicks, and by
the fubffitutiou of appellations formcd from remote genealogical,
hifforical, and even geographical, allufions. But this was one of
Ovid's afl&ations. T. $VaRTON.
Ver. ôT. (Kla rupit &c.] Compare the cpigram of Lucil-
lius on the phyfician Magnus, nthoL Gr. lib. i. cap. xxxix. 7.
LIBER.
Molli quiet'cant ceçpite, et ex tuo
Crefi=ant rofoe calthoeque buo,
Purpure6que hyacinthus ore.
Sit mite (le te judicium/Eaci,
SubrideAtque 2Etnoea Proterpina ;
]ntérque felices perennis
F, lytlo tatiere campo.
so9
45
Ver. 42. 111olli quiefcant cefpite, &c.] Virgil, Ecl. x. 33.
" 0 mihi tutu quhm nwllitr offa quicfcant, &c."
This clafllcal wih is more fully illufiratcd by Juvcna], Sat. vil.
207.
" Dii majorum umbris tcnucm etfiw ondere terrain,
" Spirantéfque crocos, et in urnd poTetuum ver, &c."
See alfo Jac. Gutherii de J.ure Maniunt. Lib. ii. p. 33. Pre-
cationem Manes ipii proetereuntibus exoptabant. Tabula
marmorea apud Gentilem Delphinium Romoe :
ROGO. VT. DISCEDENS. TEltRA,!
IIIIIo DICAS. LEVEM. TODD.
S 10 SILVARUM
In Quintum Novembris*. Anno 2Eatis 17.
JAM plus extremâ veniens Icobus ab arCto
Teucrigenas populos, latéque patentia regna
* I have formerly rcmarkcd, that this littlc poen, as contain-
ing a council, confpiracy, and expedition of Satan, may bc con-
fidercd as an carly and promiling prolulion of Milton's genius to
the ParadiJë Loti. T. Wa'roI.
I have already obferved that P. Fletcher exhibits, in his Lo-
ci#te, &c. a couucil and confpiracy of devil. Sec thc Notes
oa Par. Loti, B. i. 795, B. ii. '2.85, and Par. Reg. B. i. 4. But
this poem was writtea in 1626, and Fletcher's was not publifhcd
till 16°7. Flctcher's fubjc(t, however, is fimilar.
Therc are certamly fome coincidences of thought and exprclX
tion in the two poems. BIarino and Crathaw alfo attbrd, in their
language and imagery, lbmc rcfemblances. But here Milton's
poem is earlier than Marino's Strage «le gli Innocenti alfo, which
did hot appear till 1633: And Cralhaw's tranIlation uot till
nmny ycars aftcrwards. BIilton feems to have becn, in a flight
degree, indebted perhaps to both, in his Paradife Loti. And
with ,fpe& to Flctcher's Locuflce, it has been faid that Milton
himfclf acknowledged the obligations which he derived from
that poem to his Poradife Loti. But fce the Inqui, into the
Origin of Parudife Loti, in this edition.
I will now prefent the reader with fome interefiing extrais
from a very fcarce Latin poem, entitled P.leVs, and printed
at Oxlbrd by Jofeph Barnes in 1585 ; which defcribing, in more
than four hundred hexmneters, the treafons pra&ilèd by W.
Parry againlt queen Elizabeth, fometimes introduces fentinents
and imagery hot diflimilar to what Milton has here exhihited.
The poem thus opens :
Qui Phrygio quondam certantes vertiee diras,
Et malum, Troioe cinerem, rapt5mque Lacoenam,
Aufpicio lufi vatis modulatus Achivi ;
Nunc aliud canere adgredior, rem6que Faludem
LIBER. 811
Albionum, tenuit; jftmque inviolabile firdus
Sceptra Caledoniis conjunxerat Anglica Scotis"
Pacificfltèlue novo, tèlix divétèlue, fedebat s
Cocyti tralmre meo : juvat alta viderc
Tartara, et hinc f;evam Parei deducere fratuh'm
lleginam immcritam contra, gentémque Britalmamo
Tu mihi per dumos, arque aëra lucis egc,um,
llulh, proei, et pa;,ido cundantcm dirige grcflit.
Viderat infcrna loetus rcgnator ab unda
Afflias pietatis opes, arque omnia foedis
Artibus, et lhcro late x loca irvere bello.
Solam autem imlnUlCm fcclerum, cladifque jacere
lnfulana in Oceano lnagno : hîc nain virginis altoe
Imperium, et loetos pacem florel'e per agros.
Tuln ver5 imidia mentem ïufl'ufus amara,
Sic ïecum : '« MeS.ne hanc Unaln mod6 temnere gentem
" Nulnina ? nec diras quicquam curare ïorores
'« lteu fortem invifam ! quid tot lnihi dextra Latini
" Fuhnina? quid coecoe moles? quid claflîs lberûm ?
" T6tque ducum validoe per bella horrentia vires.
" Si tamen hinc animos et opes interrita ducit.
"' Méne igittlrfeffum, vidfimque l'efidere tanto
"' Fas crit incoepto. noftrfque impune per oras
" Mortales icrint dextr'e.# Plutonifique ehcu !
' Rcgna rot ercptis patiar lugere trophoeis
« UlfiUS oh merita, et juffum Teutheris Elifoe ?
" Confiliis, ferr6que ncfas hanc vincier ? efto:
' At fraude unius potero fuperare-Britanni,
« Ni me fata vetant, ni lnens improvida fallit."
Sic ait, arque inlis excitaln Acheruntis ab oris
Evocat ad 1 Fraudem : vcnit Illa vocantis
Ad nutum, et celeres per nodtem concutit Mas.
(ui crines Lycioe fallentia colla columboe
Allimilanb ol[r6que genoe, mini6que rubefcunt.
Ore fedet rofeo, tremul6que in lumine rifus.
Flores loeva gerit, rigiduln relier altel'oE fel'rum
Verte tegcns, guttis maculos5 et peilibus atris.
flanc erg6 alloquitur Pluton, ac talibus infit,
" Vade agc ; et hune Froprium latri fcr» nata» lahorem.
1 $I LVARUI[
In folio, occultique doli fecurus et hofiîs :
Cùm refus ignifluo regnansAcheronte tyrannus,
]umenidum pater, oethereo vagus exul Olympo,
Fort per immenfum terrarum erraverat orbem,
Dinumerans fceleris focios, x-ernfifque fideles,
Participes regni port funera moefta futuros: 11
Hîc tempeftates medio ciet aëre diras,
]llie unanimes odium tiruit inter amicos,
Armat et invi&as in mutua vifcem gentes ;
:RegnAque oliviferA vertit florentia pace : 15
Et quofcunque videt purae virtutis amantes,
tlos cupit adjicere imperio, fraudflmque magifter
« Romuleas, i, fcande arces, arque atria nota
" Pontificis, foevt'mque infpira iupeêtora virus
" Commuui ut coedem naaturet callidus hofli,
" Reginoe Britonum coedem, popul6que ruinam.
" Tu potes &c.'" To99.
Ver. 10. Dinumerans cleris focios, &c.] As in Par." L.
B. i. 606.
" The fellows of his crime, &c. To99.
Ver. 13. Illic unanimcs &c,] Virg. n. 385.
" Tu potes unanimes armare in proelia fratres, &c."
Ver. 5. Regn«I9ue olivifer &c.] Oli[fer is an Ovidian
epithct, FcO. iii. 151. « Primu oliv(feris Romain dedudus ab
arvis." A great fault of the verfification of this poena is, that
it is too monotonous, and that there is no intemaixture'of
variety of paufcs. But it ould be remembered, that young
writers are mifled by fpecious beauties. T. Wa
Ver. 17. .fi'audmqte mager] He calls the
devil, arrêter (fi'aud, Par. Lo, B. iv. 11. In the beginning
of Gregory Nazianzen's Chrus Patiens, the old dragon is termed
«7voxnç, and in the Latin tranflatiou.fi'audis art(tèx, S. Greg.
az. Opp. tom. il. p. 254, edit. fol. Lut. Paris. 1611. Ton.
LIBEr.
Tentat nacceffum fceleri çorrumpere pe&us;
Intidititue locat tacitas,, catétlue latentes
Tendit, ut ilcautos rapiat; ceu Cafpia tigris
lntquitur trepidam detrta per avia proedam
No&e fub illuni, et tbmno nic%antibus aftris :
Talibus infeftat populos Summanus et urbes,
Cinus coeruleoe fumanti turbine flammre.
Jhmque fluentitbnis albentia rupibus arva
Apparent, et terra Deo dileoeta marino,
Cul nomen dederat quondam Neptunia prolcs
Amphitryoniaden qui non dubitavit atrocem,
_/Equore tranato, fiiriali potizere bello,
Ante expugnatoe crudelia foecula Trojre. so
At fimul hanc, opibfifque et fefi pace beatam,
Ver. S. Summanus] Sunmamts is an obfolele and uncommon
aame for Pluto, or the god of ghofls and night,fummus
vhich .Milton mort probably had from Ovid, FaJL ri. 731. The
aame occurs in Plautus, Cicero, Pliny, and othcr ancicnt cri-
ticks. T. W^txoN.
Ver. $. Cinus cerulece fumanti turbine .flammoe.] Satan is
robed with a mautle of flamcs, in Marino's Stroge de gli Innocenti
1633, Lib. i. ff. ri. To.
Ver. 0.7. Cul nomen drderat qttondam Ncptunia proles ;] "Albion
a giant, fon of Neptune, 'ho callcd the [thi.] ifland aftcr his
own name; and ruled it forty four ycars. Till at lcngth pailing
over into Gaul, in aid of his brother Lefirygon, againft whom
Hercules vas hafting out of Spain into Italy, he was thcre flain
in fight, &c." llilton's HiC. Etg. B.i. Drayton hds the thme
fable, Polyolb. S. xviii. T. Wart'roN.
Ver. 31. .4tfimul banc, opib6fque et fcfla pace beotam, &c.]
The whole context is from Ovid's Em, hlctam, ii. 794.
" Tandem Tritonida confpicit arcem,
" Ingeuiifque, opib[zjque et.]ëjtd 1race, virentcin :
" Vixque tenet lacrymas &c." T.
314 SILVARUM
Afpicit, et pingues donis Cerealibu's agros,
QuSdque magis doluit, venerantem numina veri
Sancçta Dei populum, tandem fufpiria rupit
Tartareos ignes et luridum olentia thlphur; .%
Qualia TrinacriA trux ab Jove claufus in J-Etn'
]àfllat tabifico monçtrofus ob ore Tiphoeus.
]gnefcunt oculi, ftridétque adamantinus ordo
])entis, ut armorum fragor, i6tfique cut]3idc
cufpis. 9
" Atque pererrato folum hoc lacrymabile mundo
" Inveni," dixit ; " gens hec nfihi lbla rebellis,
" Contemtrixque jugi, noi[rque potentior arte.
" Illa tamen, mea iiquicquam tentamina poflhnt,
" on tret hoc impunè diu, non iblt inulta."
Ha&enus; et piceis Iiquido natat aëre permis :
Qu volat, adverfi proecurl:ant agmine venti, 6
Dençantur nubes, et crebra tonitrua fulgent.
Ver. 34. tandem fifpiria rulfft
Tartareos ignes et lurid«mol«ntia.hdphur ;] Craflmw
thus amplifies Marino's defcription of the devil, Po«ms, Sofpctto
d'llerode, &c. edit. 1648, p. 59.
" From hi black noftrills, and blew lips, in fpight
" Of Hell's own fiinke, a worfer liench is fpread,
" His breath tlell's lightning is." Toov.
Ver. 38. Ignefcunt octH,] Satan bas the t:ame bla:btg eyc.,.',
Par. Loft, B. i. 193. Too3.
Ver. 46. Que2 rolat, &c.] Compare Taffo, Gier. Idb. C.
xvi. 70.
" Calca i nubi, e tratta l'aure a volo,
" Cinta di nembi e turbini tbnori." Too.
Vcr. 47. 1)enfanttr nubes,] When Sa/an fteers his flight, the
¢irfccA unufuul zcei'ht, Par. Loti, B. i. 27. TODD.
LIBER. 315
J'£mque pruinot:as velox fuperavera.t Alpes,
Et tenet Autbnioe fines; à parte finiflr'
çimbifer Appenninus erat, prifcique Sabini,
])extra veneficiis intïunis Hetruria, nec non
Te furtiva, Ïibris, Ïhetidi vider otula dantem
Hinc Mavortigenoe confifiit in rce Quirini.
Reddiderant dubiam jam tbra crepufcula lucem,
Chm circumgreditur totam 'l'ricoronitir urbem,
l)anificSfque deos portat, tapulifque virorum
]vehitur; proeeunt fubmiflb poplite reges,
]t mendicantûm feries longiflima fratrum ;
Cereque in manibus geflant funalia coeci,
Cimmeriis nati in tenebris, vtmque trahentes
'Fempla dein multis fubeunt lucentia toedis,
(VetO)er erat tàcer içte Petro) fi'emitflfque ca-
A
nentttm
Soepe tholos implet wcuos, et inane locorum.
Qualitr exululat Bromius, ]3romiique cater
Orgia cantantes in Echionio Aracyntho,
Dura tremit attonitus vitreis Afopus in undis,
/gt pr0cul ipfe cav refponfat rupe Cithoerot..
llis igitur tandem tblenni more pera6tis,
Nox tènis anaplexus Erebi taciturna reliquit,
Ver. 48. JSmque pruh«ofas 'clo« fiqcravo'at Alps,] "/his
line is from Lucan, i. 183.
" .lan gclidas Coefar curfu fuperaverat Alpes."
STEEVE'S.
Ver. 55. Cùm «ircumgreditnr &c.] He defcribes the pr,'.-
«effion of the Pope to Saint Peter's church at Rome, oh thc ç.
of Saint Peter's day. T.
Ver. 58. The orders of mendicant fiiars. T.
ô 6 SILVARUM
Yroecipitéfque impellit equos fiimulante flagello,
Capture oculis Typhlonta, Melanchretémque
ferocem
Arque Acherontoeo prognatam patte $iopen
ïorpidam, et hirfuti8 horrentem Phrica capillis.
]nterea regum dolnitor, Phlegetontius hazres,
]ngreditur thalamos, neque enim fecretus adu]ter
Producit teriles molli fine pe]lice no6tes ; 76
&t vix compofitos fomnus claudebat ocellos,
Cùm niger umbrarum dominus, ¢"
rectorque
filent6m,
Proedat6rque hominum, falsh fub imagine te6tus
Açtitit; aflhmptis micuerunt tempora canis, so
]3arba finus promiftà tegit, cineraeea longo
Ver. 70. Proecipitçfilue impellit equos &e.] 8ee Note on
Cornes, v. 5M,. And Ovid, Eldfl. Pont. iii. 56.
« Sire pruinofi Notis aguntur equi."
And Sil. Italicus, xv. 285.
" Nox, atro circumdata corpus amiu,
« Nigrantes invexit equos."
Our author has " Night's car," Par. Loft, B. ix. 65. Where
Bentley propofes care. Many of Bentley's emendations are
acute: lout he did not underfland Milton's manner, nor the
genius of the Englifh language, or rather the genius of lhe
languge of Englifh poetry. Compare Eripid. Ion. v. 1151.
Schol. Phoenifs. v. 3. T.
Ver'. 71. Capture oculis Typhlonta, &c.] I believe Mihon is
the firfl poct who has giveu names to the horfes of Night.
Spenfer defcribes the colour of her four horfes, 1;aer Quecn,
i. v. 8. T. W,I'ro.
Ver. 80. qff'umldiS nicterunt tcmpora canis,
Barba .finns promilTh tegit, &c.] This reminds us
of Satan's appearance to our Saviour in thc form of an old man,
in the wildernefs, Par,«d. Reg. B. i. 497.
" And Satan, bowing low
" I t is gray d(Çmulalion, difappear'do"
LIBER. 817
Syrmate verrit humum veftis, pendétque cucullus
Vertice de rafo; et, ne quicquam defit ad artes,
Cannabeo lumbos conçtrinxit lune çalaces,
'l'arda fenetratis figens veigia calceis, s5
Talis, utl tïama eff, vafi'â Francifcus eremo
In the 84th line Satau is dlfguifed like a cordelier, or Francifcan
friar. T.
SeelIr. Thyer's Note, Par. Reg. B. i. 314. I may add, that
the devil is reprefented, in a curious woodên cut, addrefling
himfelf to Chrilt, utder the appearatce of an aged maa with a
long beard, in La Fita Pqllione di Ckri.#o &c. compo[ta per
Antonio Cornozano, Venet. l_°mo, it Terza Rima. Lib. i.
cap. ri. which contains Tke Temptation. To,,.
Ver. 84. Cannabeo lumbos co*!#rinxitfi«nefalaces,
Tarda feueltratisigen vefligia calceis.
Talis, ut jàma e./t, t:aJh Francifcus eremo &c.]
Francis Xavier, called the .4pqlle of tke btdians, whom he was
fcut to convêrt, about the year 154, by Ignatius Loyola. He
encountered a variety of perils in the eafteru detZarts, which he
traverfed iu a lhort black gown of canvafs or çack-cloth. At
Goa, the people obferving that his floes were patched or worn
out, offeved him new. But Ihch was his mortification, that he
could hot be perfuaded " ut veteres calceos permutaret novis,
&c." Sec his Vita, by Turfellinus, edit. ii. 1627. 12mo. Lib. il.
p. 141. Ilere we bave Milton's cal«ei feteflrati. Among his
many pretended miracles it is one, that, during this extraordi-
nary progrefs, he preached to the lions and other beafls of the
wildemefs. There is an old print of faint Francis in a defart
taming lions.
But an unknown correfpondent bas thrown new light on the
xvhole of the context. '" The paflàge has properly nohing to
do xith the Jefuit S. Francis Xavier. The feneflrati cal«ei are
the çandals, or foals, tied on the foot by ftraps, or thongs of
leather, crCèd, or lattice-xvife, which are ufuaIly worn by the
Francifcan Friars although they are dechatèz. Thefe are men-
tioned by Buchanan, as a regular part of the drcfs of the
çifcans» k'rancifcanu» v. 4i r. p. 2. edit. ut fuir.
! 8 SILVARUM
Tetra vagabatur folus per luRra ferarum,
SilreRrique tulit genti pia verba thlutis
Impius, atque lupos domuit, Lib.yc6tlue leones.
" Longo fub.llrmate
" Cerno caput, tortum.]}tnem, lat(tmque galerum,
« Atquejbmratum folcas captare cot&trnum."
Again, v. 88. " Solcafque oeflivum a&»ittere folcm." Again,
beh»w: " Solcequc J}çflra reclut." lilton tbems to have
advcrted to this lmem, which is a fevcre and laboured thti on
the Francifcans. Sec alb Buchanan's So»,ffum, in the
['aterrimi, where, as hcre, S. l"«ancis appears to the poet.
Czrm. xxxiv.
" Cure nihi I.'rancif«us, uodosA camtabc cimqus,
« Afiitit ante tuum, fligmata nota gerens :
« lu manibus facra xeûis erat, mm.l}mc galerus,
« Palla, fi'n«jlrat«s calccua, hatia, liber." Confifiently with the figure here defcribed by Millon, the 'afla
l}'ancus cremo ought to be the tbunder of the Order of friers,
S. Francis d'Affile. And this was certaiulg his meauing. ut
although the lafi S. Francis wrought many pretended miracles
in the defarts, and tmvelled into Syria to convert the Soldau of
abylon, and was at the fiege of Damieta in the crufides, yet,
I cannot, with our author, accufe him of the imiety of convvrt-
bg the Lybian lions. So lhat at prcfent I ara inclined to con-
jeure, that Milton, at the age of feventcen, confounded the
açtions of the two fynonimous Saints, aud attributed the
dors of S. Francis Xavicr to the Fouuder of thc Francifcans'
T. Watro.
In a very rarc book in my poffcflion, entitlcd " Clcri totiu5
omanoe Ecch.fioe fubjcdti» feu Pontificiorum Ordinum Omnium
omninb utriul2lUC fexus, habitus» artficiI/bnis figttris, &c.
FrancoL 1585," 4 °. the fandal or Iba[, tied on thc lbot by Itraps,
is vcry vifiblc in thc figurc of the Francifcan, and of thc Fran-
cifcan only. Thcfc figures of thc difibrcnt orders arc rcmark-
ably wcll cxecutcd. TODD.
Ver. 86. vafiâ Tranc/Ds eremo] Par.
B. i. 7. « The «c «ildcw" whcre ic thc otcs.
LIBER. 519
Subdolus at tali Serpens velatus ami&u 90
Solvit in has fallax ora execrantia voces ;
« Dormis, nate ? Etiamne tuos fopor opprimit
" artus
" Immemor, O,fidei, pecorfimque oblite tuorum
" Dura cathedram, venerande, tuam, diadem,-
" que triplex,
" Rider Hyperborco gens barbara nata fub axe;
" Dflmque pharetrati fpernunt tuajura Bfitanni:
" Surge, age ; furge, piger, Latius quem Cfar
" adorat,
" Cui retèrata pater convexi janua cceli,
" q'urgentes animos, et thçtus ti'ange procaces, 99
" Sacrilegique fciant, tua quid maledi6tio poffit,
" Et quid Apoftolicoe poffit cuçtodia clavis ;
" Et memorHeterioe dis je&ara ulcifcere claffem,
" [ersAque Iberorum lato vexilla profundo,
" San&or6mque cruci tot corpora fix probrofoe,
" ThermodoontëA nuper regnante puellA. o
Ver. 9 °. Dormis, natc ?] This is Homer's, E,I¢, "A'f,'¢ i' ;
II. ii. 560. Sec al[b Par. Lo, B. v. 67. " Slcep'ft thou, com-
panion dear ?" And Virgil, ,En. iv. 560. " Nate dea, pores hoc
lkb cafu ducere fomnos ?" T. WagTo. ._
The faine form is adopted by-Marino, and alfo b)" Sylvcler,
jgu Bart. 16"21, p. 350. Too.
Ver. 95. Sec _'ffanftts, v. 6. T. Wav,ror.
Ver. 10.5. Therrnodoontëà nqer r«gmtntc p«'ll&] The ama-
zon, queen Eiizabeth. She is admird»ly chara&erifed. ludetqtte
«'iris concurrcre virgo. Ovid has 7"h«rmodontiacus Mctàm. ix. 18.
And fee Ibid. xii. 611. T.
lilton's word is from Propertius, wlao ufes TI, ermodoont««s.,
III. xiv. 16.
oo SILVARUM
" At tu fi tenero mavis torpefcere le&o,
" Creientéfque negas hoçti contundere rires ;
" Tyrrhenum implebit numeroço milite pontum,
" Signque Aventino poncr fulgentia colle :
".lelliquias veterum tanget, flammifque cre-
" mabit ; 1o
" Sacr@ue calcabit pedibus tua colla profanis,
" Cujus gaudebant foleis date bafia reges.
" Nec tamen hunc bellis et aperto Marte laceffes;
" Irritus iIle labor: tu callidus utere fi'aude :
" Quoelibet hoereticis ditonere retia las eçt. 115
"" J5.mque ad coniilium extremis tex magnus ab
« oris
" Patricios vocat, et procerum de çtirpe creatos,
"' Grandoev6fque pattes, trabeâ canifque ve-
" rendos ;
«' Hos tu membratim poteris confpergere in
«« aLII'IS»
" Atque date in cineres, nitrati pulieris igne 1o
" _,ZEdibus inje&o, quà convenere, fib imis.
« Protinfls ipfe igitur, quofcunque habet Anglia
" fidos,
" Propofiti, fa&ique, mone: quifqufimne tuorum
" Audebit fummi non juffa faceffere Papoe ?
" Perculs6fque metu fubito, casfique flupentes,
" Invadat vel Gallus atrox, vel foevus Iberus.
" Secula tic illic tandem Mariana redibunt,
Ver. 10. nitrati ulz'cris igne] Compare
Par. Loti, vi. 519,, &c. To.
Ver. 1-°7. The timcs of qucen Mary,
flored, T.
LI BER.
« Thque in belligeros iterum dominaberisAnglos.
" Et, nequid timea.s, divos divtfque fecundas
" Accipe, quotquc tuis celebrantur numina
" thtis." 13o
Dixit ; et, adti:itos ponens malefidus ami&us,
lugit ad infandam, regnum illoetabile, Lethen.
Jam rofea Eoas pandens Tithonia portas
Vetit inauratas redeunti lumine terras ;
loeAque, adhuc nigri deplorans funera nati,
Irrigat ambrofiis montana cacumina guttis : 136
Cùm fomnos pepulit fiellatte janitor auloe,
:No6turnos virus et fomni grata revolrens.
Ef[ locus oeternâ feptus caligine no&is,
Va['ta ruinofi quondam fundamina te&i»
Ver. 135. nigri dcplorans f«nera nati,] As
Virgil, En. i. 493. " _Nigri Memnonis arma." And fec 11.
Pet v. 18. Aurora, as Mr. Warton obfcrves, ftill wceps the
amtimcly death of her fort Memnon at the ficge of Troy. Com-
pare alfo Ovid, lllet, xiii. 82. To.
Ver. 138. _Aro(htrnos vs ¢t fomnia grata revolvens:] Door
Newton ingenioufly conjeé'tures re.lblrens. But the poet means,
literally, rolling back. The Janitor of the fiarry hall drove away
flumbers, and rolied back again into darkncfs the vifions of the
night. T. W,to.
Ver. 139. Efl locus &c.] ttere is fome refemblançe to
Claudian In Rfi. lib. il. 123.
" Eft locus extrcmum pandit qu' Gallia litus
" Oce.ani proetentus aqui% quo fertur Ulyflès
« Sanguine libato populum moviffe Silentum.
« llliC Umbrarum tenui ftridore vohmtum
" Flcbili auditur quefius, fimulacra coloni
« Pallida, defunc"tafque vident migrare gurao
« Hinc Dea profiluit, &c."
VOL.
.5o, SILVARUM
Nunc. torvi fpelunc Phoni, Prodoteeque bi-
linguis,
Fffera quos uno peperit Difcordia partu.
Hîc inter coementa jacent, "
proeruptaqt e thxa,
Of'là inhumata virfim, et trajeHa cadavera ferro ;
Hic Dolus intortis retaper tèdet ater ocellis, 145
Jurgifique, et thmulis armata Calumnia fauces,
Et Furet, atque vioe moriendi mille videntur,
Et Timor, exanguifque locum circumvolat
Itorror
Ver. 141, 1Vunc torvi fpehmca Phoni, Prodotaéçzw bilbguis,
ee the perInifications of Phonos Murtlcr, and Prodotes Treafon».
ih Fletcher's Purlde ]flaud, c. vil. 69, 7. But l:lctcher's poem
m'as publiflied in 1633. Milton's vas written in 162. This
cave with its inhabitants is fine]y imagcd, and in thc lio'le of
Spenfer. T. WARWO.
Ver. 148. e2"ongu(/çtte l'um drcumz'olat [Iorror ;]
Spenfer, having defcribed the pertbnages that fate by the lide of
the high-way leading to hell, adds this image to complete the
dreadful groupe, Yaer. Qu. il. vii. 3.
" And over them fad ltorrour with grim hcw
" Did alwaies lbar, beathg his iron 'inges."
Horrour is perfonificd in Para& Lfl, B. iv. 9S9. In te
figure of Satan.
" ltis flature reach'd the lky, and on is crclt
" Sat Itormur plum'd."
Vhere, fays do&or Nex ton, « lhrror is perfonified and ruade
the plume of his helmet." Other and better explications might
be ored. But, I belicve, ve bave no precilb or determinat
conception of 'hat Milton means. And ve detra&'from the
fublimity of the paflhge in endeavouring to explain it, and to
give a diIiin& fignification, tlere is a namclelg terrible gracc»
relhlting fi'om a mixture of ideas and confufion of imagery.
LIBER. soEs
l:'erpetutSque leves per muta filentia :[anes
:Exululant, tellus et fanguine eonfeia ftagnat. 1
Ipfi etiam pavidi latitant penetralibus antri
Et Phonos, et Prodotes ; null6que fequente per
ant.rum,
Antrum horrens, £copulofim, atrum fera]ibus
umbris,
I)iffugiunt fontes, et retrb lumina vortunt :
Hos pugiles Romoe per foecu]a longa iideles ss
:Evocat antiçtes ]3abylonius, atque ita fatur.
" Finibus oeciduis eircumfufum incolit oequor
" Gens exofi mihi ; prudens Natura negavit
" Indignam penits noçtro eonjungere mundo
" Illue, iic jubeo, eeleri contêndite greffu, 16o
" Tartare6que leves difflentur pulvere in auras
" :Et rex et pariter fatrapoe, fcelerata propage
Ver. 149. per muta filentia ])Iancs] Milton
fond of the expreffion. Sec the Note in p. 69. of this volume.
See alfo Buchanan, Sih,. p. 49. ed. fupr. " Tacitoe per nuta
ilentia filvoe."
Ver. 15-k Diffagiunt] There is great poetry and ftrength of
itnagination in fuppofing that Murther and Treafon often fly as
alarmed from the inmol receffes of their own horrid cvern»
looking back, and thinking themfelves purfued. T.W.«lo..
Ver. 156. Erocat ant;fles BabflonUts, &c.] The Pope. " The
Whore of Babylon." The addrefs is in imitation of Virgil,
i. 67". " Gens inimica mihi, &c.'" T.
Ver. 158. prudens A'atura &c.] Hot.
Od. I. iii. I.
« Nequicquam Deus abfcidit
" Prudens Oceano diffociabili
« Terras. ))
4 SILVARUM
" [Et, quotquot fidei caluere cupidine veroe,
" Contilii tbcios adhibete, operifque rninitiros. »
Finierat ; rigidi cupidè paruere gemelli, x6s
interea longo fle&ens eurvamine eoelos
Defpicit oethereâ Dominus qui fulgurat aree,
Vanfique perverle rider conamina turboe ;
Alquc fui eaufam populi volet ipfe tueri. 769
Eflè ibrunt fpatium, quà diftat ab Aride terr,
Fertilis [Europe, et fpe&at Mareotidas undas ;
Hic turris polira ei Titanidos ardua Famoe,
Ver. 165. parueregemelli.] In parucre is a
falfe quantity, yet very cxculZable amidtt fo much good poetry
and expreflion, eq)ecially from a youth of lbventeen. But 5lilton
fight fairly defend himfelf, by rcading u as the v confonant
for which there are authorities. T.
Ver. 166. lo»go f, ecens curvamUe coelos] See
v. 1015o
" Whcre the bow'd welkin flow doth bend."
But Ovid has a like contexture, wlth a diffcrent idea» Mctam.
64. of a rainbow.
" Inficere ingenti longum curvamine coelum.'"
T. Wartxor.
But/Iilton's allufion is fcripturd. Ile was thinking of that
mol[ fublime compofition, the xviiith PJàlm. See ver. 9, &Co
" lle bow«d the heavcns allb, and camc down :--lle lent out lais
arovs, and fcattered them ; and hcJhot out lightnhtgs and dif-
co»fited th«n.'" To.
Ver. 171. 3Iareot.idas undas ;] l%Iarcotis is
large lake in Egypt, conneeted by ma:ay fnmll chmmcls vith
Nile. See O'id, 3l«tam. ix, 77. T. Warros.
Ver. 17°. 11c turris pofita ç//&c.] The gencral model of
this Tower of lame is Ovid, Metam. xii. 39. Milton bas re-
tuuched and variegatcd Ovid's imgery. The reader lhall coin-
p.,re both poets t large.
LIBER.
.¢'Erea, lata, fonans, rutilis vicinior atris
Quàm fuperimpofitum vel Athos vel Pelion
' Orbe locus medio cft, inter terrfifquc frctdmquc,
«' Cceleftéfque plagas, triplicis coq/inia mundi ;
'eU ride, quod elI ufquam, quamvis rcgionibus abfit,
"-Infpicitur ; penetr'tque cavas vox omnis ad aurcs.
" tma tcnct, fllmmâque locum fibi lcgit in arce
" hmumcrTfque aditus, ac mille foranfina tcoeis
" Addidit, et nullis inclut limina portis.
«' No(te diéque patent: tota e ex 'rcjbnaMi :
" TTtque frcmit, vocéfqe rcfcrt, iter£tque quod audit.
" Nulla quies intus, nullâque filentia parte.
" Nec tamen eR clamor, fed parw vttrlntra ,ocis»
ç Qualia dc pclagi, fi quis procul audiat, undis
« Effe folcnt ; qualélnVC fonum, Cùlll Jupitcr atras
« Increpuit nubes, e:trema tonitrua reddunt.
" Atria turba tcnent ; vcniunt levc vulgus» cfintquc.
'ç hlixtque cure veris l)aNm comlnent vagantur
" hlillia rumorum, confusque verba volutant.
« Equibus bi vacuas implent trmonibus auras,
« lti narrata fcrunt alio ; lnenfurque fiti
« Crefcit, et auditis aliquld novns adjicit au&ox.
« Illic Credulitas, illic temerarius Error,
« Van£que Loetitia efl, contteroatique Timores,
" SeditiTque repens, dubioqe aurore S@«rri, &c."
In the figure of his Faine, however, out author adverts to Virgil.
ee the next Note. T.
er. 172 Titanidos] Ovid has « TitaMda
Circcn," Iet. xiv. 376. ame is thc filtcr of Cacus and Encc-
ladus, two of the Titans, «En. iv. 179. T. Wawo.
Ver. 17. Quàm fitperimpoEtum 'el Atho..] Chaucer's Ito
ame ands on a rock, highcr than any in Spain, H.F.
B. iii. 27. And totidemqtte
B. iii. 0.
« Imagerlcs and tabernacles
" I fawe, andfidl eke " lVindowes
" As fiekis fallin in gretc fnowes:
5-26 $ILVARUM
]lille fores aditflfque patent, totidémque fe-
nef'trm.
Ampl-aquc pet" tenues tranflucent atria muros :
]_,xcltat hïc varios plebs agglomerata fufurros ;
Qualitèr intt'epitant circum mul&ralia bombis
Agminu mufcarum, aut texto per ovilia junco,
Dura Canis oefiivum cceli petit ardua culmen.
]pf, t quidem liamm,"t fedet ultrix matris in arce ;
Auribus innumeris cintCtum caput eminet olli,
Quels fonitum exiguum tratfit, atque leviffima
captat
lurmura, ab extremis patuli confinibus orbis.
Nec tot, Arifioridc, trvator inique juvencoe 15
111dos, immiti volvebas lun,ina vultu,
]umina non unquam tacito nutantia fomno,
Lumina fubjeCtas lati fpe&antia terras.
But Chauccr recrus to have mcntioned the numerous, windows as
ornamcnts of the archite5ture of the ltoufe, rather than with
glilton's allegorical meaning. T. Wa.or.
Ver. 177. Not to copy Ovid too perceptibly, Milton adopt
this comparifon from Holner, which is here ver). happily and
elegantly applicd, 11. il. 469. " Hvr V,vdr, &c." See Parad.
Loti, B. i. 768. Much the faine comparifon is it Para& Reg.
13. iv. 15. See alfo 11. xvi. 6,tl, I muft however obferve,
that Chaucer, in the faine argument, bas the outlirte of the
faine comparifon, H. F. iii. 431.
" I heard a noire approchin blivc,
" That fareth as bees don in an hive,
t' Againff thcr time of outflying, &c." T.
Sec the notes on Par. lcg. 13. iv. 15. And the concluding
lines of the citation from P. Fletcher's Loctce, which I have
gien in the Inquiry into the Origin of Paradife Lolt» in
fcond volume of this e_dition. To.
LIBER. 327
Iftis illa folet loca luce carentia çoepe
Perluftrare, etiam radianti impervia foli: 9o
llillenifque loquax auditfi.que visque linguis
Cuilibet etlhndit temeraria; verfique mendax
Nunc minuit, modo eonfittis fermonibus auget.
Sed tamen à noth'o merui{i carmine laudes,
Fama, bonum quo non aliud veracius ullum,
Nobis digna cani, nec te mcmorâffc pigebit
Carmine tam longo ; férvati fcilicèt Angli
Oflïcii.s, vaga diva, tuis, tibi reddimus ,'equa.
Te Deus, oeternos motu qui temperat ignes,
]:ulmine prelnitlb alloquitm; terrâque tremente:
« Fama files ? An te latet impia Papiftarum :o
« Conjuratacohors in reCue lne5fque Britannos,
" Et nova teptrigero eedes neditata Iiicobo ?"
Nec plura; illa flatim fenfit mandataTonantis,
t, fatis ante fugax, firidefites induit alas, (,s
Induit et variis exilia corpora plumis ;
]_)extra tubam geftat Temefeeo ex oere fonoram.
Ver. o00. The voice of God is preceded by thunders anti
carthquakes. This is ilt the"ftyle of Paradfe Loti. T. Wa
Ver. 207. De.rtr tubam geJ?at Temefieo ex cerc fonoram.] Ilcr
brazen trumpet is front Chauccr, which is furniflmd by/Eolus,
II. F. B. iii. 34.7.
« What did this/Eolus, but he
" Toke out his blake trone of bras, &c."
Temcfc is a city on the coaft of the Tyrrhene fea, famous for its
braf. Sec Ody. i. 183. °Eç TEMEZHN p.rd XAAKON &Co
And Ovid, letam. xv. 707. " Themcfefque mctalla." And,
ib. 52. hlilton has the epithct from Ovid, 211«dicam. kbc. 41.
« Et quamvis aliqui Temef«a rcmoverit oera, &c."
S28 SILVARUM
Nec mora, jam permis cedentes remigat auras,
.Arque parure eft curfu celeres prevertere nubes"
Jam ventos, jam folis ëquos, poÇt terga reliquit"
Et prim6 Angliacas, blito de lllOl'e per urbes
Ambiguas voces, incert'$que murmura, fpargit :
ox arguta dolos, et deteflabile vulgat
Proditionis opus, nec non fa6ta horrida di6tu,
Authorétlue .addit fceleris, nec garrula crecis
]nfidiis ]oca trucCta filet; tupuere relatis
Et paritr juvenes, paritbr tremuere puelloe
Effoetique fenes paritr; tantoeque ruinoe
SenÇus ad oetatem fubit6 penetraverat omnem.
Attamen interea populi miferefcït ab alto o
JEthereus Pater, et crudelibus obftitit aufis
Papieolûm ; eapti poenas raptantur ad actes:
At pia thur.a Deo, et grati folvuntur honores;
Cornpita loeta fbeis gen.ialibuÇ omnia fumant;
Turba choros juvënilis agit" Quint6que No-
vembris
Nul!a. dies toto oeeurrit eelebratior ,anno:
.Again, Fa, L. v. 4-1. " Temefoeaque concrepat oera.'" See alfo
21letam. vii. 207. T.W.«rt'rom
Ver. £08. am permis cedente rernigat auras,] Cedt'nteS
auras as in Par. Loti, B. ii 842, " the uxom air :" Where fee
the Note. To».
Ver. 0. tlttamen &c.] We are difappointed at this abrupt
ending, after curiofity and attention had been ex.cited by the in-
troduc"tion of thc goddefs Faine with fo much pomp. But young
compofers are eager to difpatch their work. Fame is again exhi-
bited in the next poem, written alfo at feventeexa. T.
LIBER.
In obitum l:'rtefulis Eles *. /knno/tatis 17.
ADHUC madentes rore fqualebant genoe,
Et ficca nondum lumina
Adhuc liquentis imbre turgebant falis,
Quem nuper effudi plus,
Dum moeta charo jufia perfolvi rogo 5
Wintonienfis Proefulis.
Cùm centilinguis Fama, prohl femper mali
Cladifque vera nuntia,
Spargit per urbes divitis Britannire,
Popul6fque Neptuno ttos, o
Cefiiffe morti, et ferreis fororibus,
Ïe, generis humani decus,
Qui tex facrorum illt fuiçti in inful,
Que nom«n Anguilloe tenet.
Tunc inquietum pe6"tus irâ protinfls
Ebulliebat fervidâ,
Tumulis potentem f,'epe devovens deam:
Nicholas Felton, bifhop of Ely, died O&ob. 5, 16°,6, hot
rnany days after biflop Andrews, before celebrated. He had
been alfo mafter of Pembroke Hall, as well as bi/hop Andrews ;
and bifhop of Briftol. He was nominated to the fee of Lichfield
but was tranflated to that of Ely in 1618-9. He is laid to
bave been a pious, learned, and judicious man. Sec Bentham's
Hift. of Ely Cathedral, p. 199. Toi)I).
Ver. 1¢. QuoE nomcn Anguillm t«net.] Ely, fo called from
its :tbundance of eels. Mr. Bowle cites Capgrave, " Locus ille
Ove cmnobium a copia anguillarum tlely modo nuncupatur." Yit.
,S'at. f. 141. b. Capgrave wrote about 1440. T. Wara'oo
SO SILVARUM
Nec vota Nafo in Ibida
Concepit alto diriora pecCtore ;
Graiflfque vates parciùs
Turpem Lycambis execratus eft dolum,
Sponfmque Neobulen fuam.
At ecce ! diras ipfe dum fundo grayes,
It imprecor neci necem,
Audîffe tales videor attonitus fonos
Leni, fub aurâ, flamine :
" Coecos furores pone ; pone vitream
" Bilémque, et irritas minas"
" Quid temer violas non nocenda numina,
" Subit6que ad iras percita ?
« Non efi, ut arbitraris elufus nfifer,
" Mors atra Noc'tis filia,
" tgrebSve patre creta, rive Erinnye,
" Vaft6ve nata fub Chao:
" Ait illa, ccelo miflà fiellato, Dei :
"' Meffes ubique colligit;
"' Anim'fque mole carne reconditas
" In lucem et auras evocat:
« Ut cùm fugaces excitant Horoe dieln,
" Themidos Jovifque filie ;
Ver. 0. Archilochus, vho killcd Lycambcs by thc fevcrity
,f his iambick. Lycambes had efpoufed his daughter Ncobule
to Archilochus, and afterwards gave ber to anothcr. Sec Ovid'
Jbis, v. 54. T. Wuo.
And fce Hor. Epod. vi. 13. To).
Ver. 40. Temidos &c.] Orpheus, Hym.
See alfo Itefiod's Theogony. knd Ovid 2Uetam. ii. 118
i. 15. T. WaITO.
LIBER.
« ]t fempiterni ducit ad vultus Partis
" At jutt raptat impios
« Sub regna furvi luuoça Tartan,
" Sedéthue fubterraneas."
liane ut vocantem letus audivi, oit6
Foedum reliqui carcerem,
Volatiléthue çauftus inter milites
Ad açtra fublimis feror :
rates ut olim raptus ad coelum fenex,
Auriga currûs ignei.
Ton me ]3o)tis terruere lucidi
Sarraca tarda frigore, aut
Formidolofi Scorpionis brachia;
Non enfis, Orion, tuus.
Proetervolavi fulgidi iblis globum,
Longque fub pedibus deam
¥idi triformem, dura cçërcebat fuos
Ver. 8. Ad aflra fablimis feror :
l'ates ut offre raptus ad clum fenex,
Auriga curnîs ,nci.
Zon ne Bobtis turru¢re &c.] This fomewhat
femblcs, but infinitely excecds, the fentiment at the beginning
of Du Bartas's fourth day of the firft week, as tranflated by
/Sylvefter, Du Bart. 1621, p. 72.
« Pure Spirit, that rapt'ri aboue the firmett fphear»
" In fiery coach, thy faithful meffenger.--
« O ! take me vp ; that, far from earth, I may,
« From fphear to fphear, fee th' azure heav'ns to-day.
« Be thou my coachman, &c.
« Driue on my coach by Mars his flaming coach ;
« Saturn and Luna let my xvheels approach, &c."
S'er. 57. dum coërcebat fitos
roenis dracones aureiæ.] As in I1. P«f. v. 59.
.3 ILVARUM
lrenis dracones autels.
rraticorum fiderum per ordines,
Per la6teas vehor piagas, 60
Velocitatem foepe miratus novam ;
Donec nitents ad fores
Ventum eft Olympi, et regiam çryt'tallinam, et
Stratum fmaragdis atrium.
Sed hc taceb0; nam quis effari queat, 6s
Oriu;adus humano patre,
Amcenitates illius loci ? Mihi
Sat eft in oeter.num frui.
t, While C.nthia chec]s her &'agon yoke." Sec alfo Connts, v,
131. Shakfpeare bas " the dragons of the night," Midf. N. Dr.
/. iii. S. ii. edit. Malone, vol. ii. p. 505, where it is obferved,
Chat " the image of dragons drawing the chariot of Night is de-
rived from thc watchMl.nefs of that fabled anirnai."--ln Co.us,
ve have ' the dragon u, atcl, of unenchanted eye," v. 395 ; 'her¢
the allufion may be to the enchantments of EritCtho, who employs
the eyes qfdragons, Lucan, lib. i. 675. " Octflique draconum."
On .hich paffage the annotator obferves, « Quibus rnelle tritis
inun6ti, oculi rcdduntur bnpavidi adversùs nocurnas imagines.:
17,dit. Amflel. Schrcvclio, 1658. Tours.
Ver. 6e. Donec nitcntes ad fores &c.] Milton's natural dif-
pofition, fo confpicuous in the Paraàijè Loti, and even in his
_Profe-lYorks, for defcribing divine objecïts, fuch as the blifs of
the faints, the fplendour of heaven, and the rnufick of the angels
is perpetually breaking forth in forne of the earliefi of his juvenile
poerns. And here more particularly in difplaying lhe glorics
of heaven, x'hich he locally reprefents, and clothcs with the
brigbteft rnaterial dccorations, his fancy, to lhy nothing of the
apocalypfe, was aidcd and enriched with defcriptions in ro-
mances. By the way, this fort of imagery, fo rnuch admircd
in Milton, appears to me to be rnuch more praicab],e thaa
many reader» fee.m to fuppofe. T.
LIBER.
Naturam non pati fenium *.
HEU, quàm perpetuis erroribus a6ta fatifcit
Avia mens homînum, tenebrifque immerfa pro°
fundis
Oedipodioniam volvit fub pelote no&em !
Quoe vefana fuis metiri iha deorum
Audet, et incifas leges adamante perennl 5
« This was an acadeinical exercife, written in 1628, to oblige
one of the fellows of Chrift's college, who having laid aride the
levities of poetry for the gravity and lblidity of profe, impofed
the boyifh tatk on Milton, now about ninetecn years old. « Qui-
dam oediuin noftraruin Socius, qui Comitiis hifce acadeinicis in
Difputatione philofophic$ refponfurus erat, cannina fuper quoeffi-
onibus pro Inore annuo coinp6nenda, proeterve(tus ipfe jam diu
leviculas illiufmodi nugas, et rebus li:riis intentior, fortè Incoe
puerilitati coinmifit." Milton's Letter to A. Gill, dat. Cam-
bridge, Jul. . 168. Epift. Fana. Profc-lYorks, il. 566. The,e
-'ere printed, not for laie, aud lent to Iris late fchoohnaflcr at tint
Paul's, Alexander Gill, aïorcfaid. For he adds, " IJoec quidem
typis donata ad te lnifi, utpote qucin nôrin reruin poeticarum
judicem acerrimuin, et mcaruin candidiflîmum, &c." It is ftill .
cuftoin at Cambridge, to print the comitial vcrfes accolnpanying
the publick difputationsg" What a curiofity wouhl be the fheet
vith Milton's Copy ! To be able to write a Latin Verfe called
l/'«r.flficari, was looked upon as a high accomplifhinent in the
dark ages. This art they folnetilnes applied to their barbarous
philofophy : and the prac'-tice gave rife to the Tripos I/erres al:
Oambridge, and the Ctrmina Qntdragç/h»alia at Oxford. From
fuch rude beginnings is elegance derived. T. W2ttxor.
See the obfervation on Hakewill's treatife upon the fubjed
here poetically defcribe0, in the Lire'of Milton prefixed to this
cdition. To99.
Ver. 5. incifas leges adamante 2¢renni] 8% in n
Sonnet of Drummond's :
$4 SILVARUM
Atîïmilare fuis, null6que folubile
Confilium fati perituris alligat horis !
Erg6ne marcefcet fulcantibus obtita rugi
N-aturoe i:acies, et rerum publica mater
Omniparum contraêta uterum ftêrilefcêt ab oevo
Et, le ihffa fenem, malè certis paflibus ibit
Nidereum tremebunda caput? Num tetravetuflas,
Annorfimque oeterna lames, fqual6rquefitfifque,
8idera vexabunt ? An et ini:,ttiabile Tempus
Efuriet Coelum, rapiétque in vifcera patrem
Heu, potuitne fuas imprudens Jupiter arces
Hoc contra munïffe neths, et Temporis if'to
Exemiffe malo, gyr61?lue dedii]è perennes ?
Ergo erit ut quandoque fono dilapfa tremendo
Convexi tabulata ruant, "atque obvius iu
tridat uterque polus, fuperfique ut Olympiusaulâ
I)ecidat, horribilifque rete& Gorgone Pallas ;
Qualis in _/Egoeam proles Junonia Lemnoa
« Eternal lights ! though adamant&e lars
" Of Deftinies to more ftill you ordain,
« Turn hither ail your eyes, &ci' Ton.
"Ver. 9. et rerum publica mater
Omniparun contraa uterum flerilcfcet ab cevo]
Compare Shakfpeare's Tivon o.fAthe»s, A. iv. S. iii. of the earth -"
« Common mother, thou
« Whofe =,omb mmeafitrable, and infinite brca
« Teems, and feeds ail ---" To.
Ver. £3. Qualis in T.goeam &c.] Sec before, E1. vil. 8I,
" Sic doler amiffum proles Junonia coelum &c. »
.And Par. Loti, B. i. 740.
" Men call'd him llulciber, and how ho fell
«' From heaven, they fabled, &c.
LIBER. S&
I)eturbata facro cecidit de limine coeli ?
Tu quoque, Phcebe, tui cafus imitabere nati ; .-
Proecipiti curru, fubithque ferere ruinâ
Pronus, et extin6tâ fumabit lampade Nereus,
Et dabit attonito feralia tibila ponto.
Tunc etiam aërei divulfis fedibus Hoemi
Diffultabit apex, im6que allifa barathro 3
Terrebunt Stygium dejea Ceraunia Ditem,
In fuperos quibus ufi, serat, fi'aternhque bella.
At Pater Omnipotens, fundatis fortiùs afiris,
Confuluit rerum fimmoe, certSque peregit
Pondere fatorum lances, atque ordine fummo .
Singula perpetuum jufllt fervare tenorem.
Volvitur hinc lapfu mundi rota prima diurno ;
Raptat et anabitos fociâ vertigine ceelos.
Tardior haud tblito Saturnus, et acer ut olim
Fulmineum rutilat criftat cafiîde Mavors. «
Floridus eternum Phtebus juvenile corufcat,
Nec foyer effoetas loca per declivia terras
Devexo temone Deus; fed, femper amicâ
Luce potens, eadem currit per figna rotarum.
Surgir odoratis paritèr formofus ab Indis, «
;Ethereum pecus albenti qui cogit Olympo
" Dropt from the zenith like a falling ftar
" On Lcmnos the .,Egean ifle."
In the laft line Bentley reads, " On Lemnos thence his i./2e." But,
to fay no more, .gean is perhaps afccrtained by our Latin text.
T.
Ver. 34. Co«htit forum fummce,] So, in Par. Loti, 13. vi.
67ô, the Almighty Father is reprefented
" Confitlting on the fum of things." To»v.
6 SILVARUM
Man vocans, et refus agens in pafcua coeli
Temporis et gemino difpertit regna colore,
Fulget, obitque vices alterno Delia cornu,
CoeruleOmque ignem paribus comp]eitur ulnis.
Nec variant elementa fidem, folit6que fragore 51
Lurida perculfas jaculantur fulmina rupes.
Nec per inane furit leviori lnurmure Corus
Stringit et armitros oequali horrore Gelonos
Trux Aquilo, fpirfitque hyemem, nimb6fque vo-
lutat.
Ut'que folet, Siculi dlverberat ima Peleri
lRex matis, et raucâ circumf'trepit oequora eonchoE
Oceani Tubicen, nec vat}, mole minorem
2goeona ferunt dorfo Balearica cete.
Sed neque, Terra, tibi foecli vigor ille vetufti 6o
Priti:us abeft, fervfitque fuum Nareiffus odorem,
Et puer ille fuum tenet, et puer ille, deeorem,
Phoebe, tuf fque, et, Cypri, tuus; nec ditior olim
Terra datum fceleri eelavit montibus aurum
Ver. 5I. Nec ;ar;.ant elementa fidem,] Claudian, De
l'oferp, i.
« P¢enè rclu-tatis itcrt'tm pugnantia rebus
«' Rupiffent elementafidem.'" Tom).
Ver. 63. Hyacinth the favourite boy of Phoebus, Adonis of
Venus. Both, like Nareiffus, converted into flowers.
T. W,o.
Ver. 64. 7"crra datum fceleri cda,it montibts aurum
Confia, cl fub afttis gonmas.] Sec El. v. 77.
nd Comus, 718.
« in hot own loins
« She hutch'd tk' all-worlhipt ore,
LIBER. S7
Confcia, vel fub aquis gemmas. Sic denique in
3VUlll 65
Ibit cunarum feries jufliflima rerum ;
Donee flamma orbem populabitur ultima, lat
Circumplexa polos, et vafii euhnina coeli;
Ingentique rogo flagrabit machina mundi «.
Again, ibid. 732.
" And the unfought diamonds
" Would tb imblaze the tbrehead of the deep,
T. Wa tTOr¢.
* This poem is replete with faneiful and ingenious allufions.
It bas allb a vigour of expreffion, a dignity of fentiment, and
elevation of thought, rarely lbund in very young writers.
¥0I,, Vl,
$ SILVRUM
De Ideâ Platonicâ quemadmodum _/h ifloteles intelleacit *.
DIC1TE, acrorum proefides nemorum deaz ;
Tflque, () noveni perbeata numinis
]lemoria mater, quoeque in immenfo procul
Antro recumbis, otioI _/Eternitas,
Monumenta fervans, et ratas leges Jovis,
Coelique falios, atque ephemeridas Deûm ;
Quis ille primus, eu jus ex imagine
I find this poem intbrted at full length, as a fpecime» of un-
intelligible metaphyficks, in ,-t fcarce little book of univerfal bur-
lcfqne, much in the manner of Tom l?,rown, feemingly publifled
about the year 1715, and intitled " An Effay towards the Thcortj
of the intelligible ='orld intuitively confidered. Defigned for forty-
nine Parts, &c. by Gabriel John. Enriched with a faithfui ac-
count of his ideal voyage, and illutrated t'ith poems by feveral
hands ; as likewife ith other ttrange things, hot infufferably
clever, nor furioufly to the purpofe. Printed in the year One
thonfimd fcvcn hundred et coetera." T. War«rox.
Ver. 3. This is a fublime perfonification of Eternity. And
tht.rc is a great reach of imagination in one of the conceptions
which follows, that the original archctype of 3Ian may be a huge
giant, talking in fome remote unknown region of the earth, and
lifting his head fo high as to be dreaded by the gods, &c. v. 21.
" Sire in remota forte terrarum plag
" Incedit ingens horninis archetypus gigas,
t' l'2t diis tremendus erigit celfum caput,
" Atlante major portitore fiderum, &c." T. Wartro;.
In the opening of this poem there is fome refemblance to
21audian, /)e Laud. Stil. il.
" Eft ignota procul, noftroeque impervia menti,
« Vix adeunda deis, annorum fqualida Matert
" Immenfi fpelunca oevi, &c:' "I'o.
LIBER. 339
Natura folers finxit humalmm genus,
-Pternus, iacorruptus, oequevus polo,
Unfifiiue et univerfus, exemplar Dçi ? lo
Haud ille Palladis gemellus innuboe
Interna proles inlidet mcnti Jovis ;
Sed quamlibt natura tlt communior,
Tamen feorsds extat ad morem unius,
Et, raira, certo tringitur fpalio loci:
Seu fempiternus ille tiderum cornes
Cceli pererrat ordines deeemplicis,
Citimfimve terris incolit lunoe globum :
Sire, inter animas corpus adituras fedens,
Obli'iofas torpet ad Lethes aquas: o
Sire in remot, fortb terrarunl plag,
Ver. 11. Haud ille Palladis gemellus inmdoe &c.] « This
nboriginal Man, the twin-bl'other of the virgin Pallas, does hot
main in the bi'aih ofJupiter whel he wa generated4 but, al-
though partaking of 5Ian% common nature, liill exifls fomewhere
by himf«l] in a tiare of fi»glcnefs and abRrai-n, and in a de-
terminatc place. Whethçr amongthe ars, &c." T.
Ver. 13. " Quamlibet us natura fit communior" that is
communis. T. W a ,to .
Ver. 15. " E (res raira
Vr. 19. SeC Virgl,
-- " animoe, quibus ultera
« Corpora debentur, lthoei ad flumins undam,
« tel'nOs latices et longa oblivia potant."
ut this s Plato's philofophy, Phoed. Opp. 1590. p. 400. C.
col. 1. T. VAKTO.
Ver. 21. Sire in remot &c.] See Hefiod t Theog. 731, 76,
et fcq. And compare Virgib a. iv. 40,
340 SILVARUSI
Ineedit ingens hominis archetypu.s gigas,
Et diis tremendus erigit celIhm caput,
Atlante major portitore tiderum.
Non, cul |)rofimdum eoeeims lumen dedit, n
Dirceets augur vidit hune alto finu;
Non hunc lilente no6"te Plëiones nepos
Vatum fagaci proepes olïendit ehoro ;
Ton hune facer(Ios novit Affyrius, lient
Longos vetufli commemoret atavos Nini, ao
Prifcdmque Belon, inclytflmque Ofiridem.
Non ille, trino gloriofus nomine,
' Oceani finem juxta folemquc cadentcm
" Ultimus Athiopum locus cft, ubi maximus Atlas
" Axem humero torquet ttcllis ardcntibu aptum."
13t If Il A R D SO.N'o
Ver. "23. Et diis] Thc edition of 1673 rcads " Et ils," an
errour of the prefs. Tom).
Ver. 25. Tirefias of Thebes. T. WatTor.
Ver. C7. Plëiones ncpos] Mercury. Ovid,
Epifl.. lteroid, xv. 6. " Atlantis nmgui lh',onefque ncpos.'" And
Mettra. il. 743. " Atlantis PleioneJoue "nepos." Sce alfo,
13. v. 83. 613. T.
Ver. "29. _Aol h,tncfaccrdos *tovit .4.1ïïjrius,] Sanchoniathon,
the eldeft of the profane hiftorians, llis exiltcnce is doubtcd by
I)odwcll, and othcr writcrs. T. Vart_o,.
His exiflence, however, is believcd by Fourmont, and by other
vriters.
Ver. 3"2. trino gloriofus nomine,
Ter rnghus Hermes,] H«rmes Trifinegius, ara
Egyptian philofopher, who livcd foou alter Mofcs, as Mr.
Warton obfi'rves: " Thrice-great I Iermes," Il. Pe v. 88.
Suidas fays he was ri, ealled, becaul'e he was a philofopher, a
I»rieft, and a kig. To).
LIBER.
Ter magnus Ilermes, ut fit arcani t'tiens,
Talen, reliquit llidis cultoribus.
At tu, perenne ruris Academi decus,
(tlec monli,'a ti tu primus induxti tholis,)
Jam jam poetas, urbis exules tuoe,
llerocabis, iptb thbulator maximus ;
.Aut in[titutor ipti migrabi» tb,'as.
5
Ver. 35. lt tu. pere»e &c.] " You, Plato, who expelled
tlm i)octs from vtur rcpublick, muft now bid thcln return, &c.'"
St't" Piato's 7ïmwu, and Prolagor«s. Pl.,to and his fi,llowcrs com-
lnumcatcd their uottons by cmblems, fablcs, fjmbols, parables
alh.gorics, and a variety of m 3 fiical n'pref«t.tatio,,s. Our author
:haractcrifeb Plato, Par. Rcg. B. iv. 295. T. Watt'fox.
Ver. 36. induxti fi'holis,] Edit. 1673
idnxit fcholi" atxother errour of the prefz. TOo
S4'2 SILVARUM
Ad _Palrem .
NUNC mea Pierios cupiam per pec"tora fontes
Irriguas tor uere via., totfimque per ora
Volvere laxatum gemino de vertice rivum ;
Ut, tenues oblita fonos, audacibus alis
Surgat in oFficium venerandi Muth parenlis.
Hoc utcunclue t;,bi gratum, pater optime, carmen.
:Exiguum meditatur opus; nec novimus
Aptiùs à nobis quoe pof/hnt munera donis
Retondere tuis, quamvis nec maxima poffint
lefpondere tuis, nedum ut par gratia donis o
Efçe queat, wcuis quoe redditur arid verbis.
Sed tamen hoec noflros ofiendit pagina ceffus,
F,t quod habemus opum chartâ numeravimus ifiâ,
Quoe mihi funt nulloe, nifi quas dedit aurea Çlio,
Quas mi|fi femoto fomni peperere filb antro, .
Et nemoris lauretu iàcri Parnaflides umbroe.
Nec tu vtis opus divinum det]ice carmen,
« According to Aubrey's manufcript Lifc of Milton, Milton's
fathcr, although a fcrivener, was hot apl;rcntict, d t« that trade :
he fays he was bred a fcholar and of Chrifi Church )xtbrd, and
tha he took to trade in confequence of bcing difinberitcd, llihon
xvas therebre writing to his tather in a Ingu«ge hich he uuder-
fiood. Aubr. adds, that he xas very ingeuious, aud delighted
in mufick, in which he i ,ftrued his fon J)hn: that he died about
!647, and was interrcd in Cripplegate ¢hur¢h, from his houle in
Barl»ican. b18. AJk»,. Sec Note on v. 66. below. T.
Ver. 16. See Ihe Notes on v. 9. 2la«s. Toc)p.
Ver. 17. Here begins a fine panegyrick on poçtry.
T.
_L I B E R. 34.
Quo nihil oethereos ortus, et femina cceli,
[Nil magishuruanam commendatorigine mentcm,
San6ta Promethëoe retinens veçtigia flammre. 2o
Carmen amant thperi, tremebund'que Tartara
Cal-llltll
Ima ciere valet, div6fque ligare profundos,
Et tril,lici duro 3lanes adamante coercet.
Crmine tèpotiti retegunt arcana futuri
Phtebades, et tremulre pal[entes ora Sibyll-e : 2s
Carmina t:acriticus tbllennes pangit ad aras,
Yer. 2 1. ¢remcbultd¢'¢t«c Tartara carmtlt
l,,ttl cicre ialct, dR'd.lgt,e liga»e p»ofmldos,
Et triplici duro 21lacs adamale co«rctt.] \s in Il
Pe v. 06.
" Such notes as, warbled to the tiring,
" Drew iron tears ,h,wn Pluto's check,
" And ruade llc.ll grant what love did feek."
And below, of Orpheus, v. 5-t. Where fce the Note. T.
Conpare alfo Valerius FI. iii. 40ï.
« lnfontes errore luit, culpamque rcmittens
" Carnfina turbatos volvit placantia 1Mtnes:" Tours.
Ver. £5. /hoetad««,] The prieûefl'es of Apollo's teml,le at
Delphi, who always delivered theiï oraclcs in verfe. Out author
here recollec"ted the lo. of Euripides. To Phemonoe, one of the
mot c«lcbrated of thefe poetic«d l-dies, the Grceks were indebted
for hexameters. Others bund it more commodious to ring in the
fpecious obfcurity of the Piudarick meafure. Horner is laid to
have borrowed many lines rioto the retonfes of the prieftefs
Daphne, daughter of Tirefias. It was fufpe¢ed, that pertbns of
dittinguifled abi|ities in p,etry were fecretly placed near the
oracular tripod, who immediately clothed the anftv_ in a me-
trical form, xthich was lmolt as fon conveyed to the FrieRefs
in waiting. PhoEbas is a word in Ovid. And Caflh, ndra. a pro-
phetet, is callcd P/cebas, Amor. il. viii. 12. And Tri.ff. ii. 400,
See our author before //. ri. 3. T.
344 SlLVARUM
Aurca feu fternit motantem cornua taurum ;
Seu cùm t;,tta t:aax fumantibus abdita fibris
Confulit, et tepidis Parcam £crutatur in extis.
:Nos etiam, eatrium tunc cùm rcpetemus Olym-
pLIm, 30
_tEernoeque more ftabunt immobilis oevi,
Ibimus auratis per cceli templa coronis ;
Dulcia fuaviloquo fociantes carmina p]e6tro,
Aftra quibus, geminique poli convexa, fonabunt.
Spiritus et rapidos qui circinat igneus orbes, 35
:Nunc quoque fidereis intercinit iptë choreis
Immortale melos, et inenarrabile carmen ;
Torrida dura rutilus compefcit fibila Serpens,
Demit6que ferox gladio manfuefcit Orion ;
Stellarum nec fentit onus Maurufius Atlas. 4o
Carmina regales epulas ornare folebant,
Cùm nondum luxus, vafloeque immença vorago
:Nota gule, et modico fpumabat eoena Lyoeo.
Tutu, de more fedens fera ad convivia vates,
./Eculeâ intonfos redimitus ab arbore crines, 45
tterofimque a&us, imitandfique gefia canebat,
Ver. 37.
Ver. 41.
Immortale mdos, &c.] See Lcidas, v. 176.
T. *tVA RTO o
Carmbm regoles epulas &c.] Vida, Poetic. i. 542.
:' .Quoe primùm I"auni Vatésque canebant
" Carmina mortalcs pafli m didicere per urbes,
" Poil epulas laudes heroum et fat.Cta cancntes."
See alfo ltomer, Odtjff: xvii. 70.
Ver. 4.
]OWLEt
Tutu, de ,ore &c.] Sec Homcr, Od.y.: viii. 65.
TODD
LIBER.
Et chaos, et pofiti lat fundamina mundi,
1Reptantéf[lue deos, et alentes numina glandes,
Et nondum ]Etnoeo quoefitum fulmen ab antro.
])enique quid vocis modulamen inane juvabit, 50
Verborum fbns(tfquevaeans,numeriqueloquaeis?
Silveflres deeet içte ehoros, non Orphea, eantus,
Qui tenmt fluvios, et quercubus addidit aures,
(armine, non cithara;
canendo
Compulit iu lac,'ymas"
laudes.
fimulachr{tque funa
IIabet has A earmine
Nec tu perge, precor, f'a c ras contera nere I us,
Nec vanas inopétlue puta, quarum ipfe peritus
I unere mille tbnos numeros eomponis ad aptos;
]Millibus et vocem modulis ariare eanoram
])o&us, Arionii merit6 ris nominis hoeres, ao
Nune tibi quid mirum, fi me genuifiè poetam
Ver. 5'2.. ih'eflre, &c.] He alludes to the Song of Orpheus,
in Apollonius Rhodius, i. 77. tic " fimg of Chaos to
Orphean Lyre," Paa'. LÇlt, B. iii. 17. See allb Onomacritu,
o. v. 438. T. Wa To'.
'er. 53. quercubus addidit autos, &c.] Sec Par.
Lq1, B. ii. . And Manilius, v. 321. " Et filvis addidit aures."
Ver. 5 4. .flmM«rque/ù»Sa] 8o of Oqhcu
going down to tldl, Ovid, Metam. x. 1. " Peque lees
pulos, flmuhwraque Jima fipulcris, &e" Out author adds,
" Compulit in lacrma." 8o Ovid, continuing the çame
ibid. 45.
" Tutu primum lacr5ds viarum enrmine fama e
" Eumenidum maduiltè genas, c.'"
Here we bave,
" Drew iron tea, clown Plut ehe. » T.
S4ô SILVARUM
Contigerit, charo fi tare propè fanguine jun6"ti
Cognatas artes, i]udiumque affine, fequamur ?
Ip[è volens Phoebus t difpertire duobus,
Altera dona mihi, dedit altera dona parenti ; 65
Dividuflmque Deum, genit5rque puérque, tene-
ITItl $o
Ver. 66. Dividufimque Deum, genitdrque puCque, tenemus.]
The topick of perfuafion is haplily felec'ted. Divid«us our au-
thor has tice anglicifed in Paradlê L, B. vii. 38, and
xii. 86. Dividuus is an Ovidian adjeOive, Amor. i. s. 10.
"' Candida dividua colla tegente coma." Ibid. ii. x. 10. "
viduumqte tenent alter et Mter amor." And fee Art. mator.
il. 488. sllet«m, il. 68ç ; and Note, On 'me, v. 12.
Mil-ton% father was well iiled in mufick. Philips çays, that
he compofed an In wmie of forty parts, for svhich he was
honoured with a gold chain and medal by a Polifli prince, to
whom he prefented it. IIe lu mentioned by Wood in his manu-
fcript History of Engli 5Iuficians. " John Milton, a mufician
living in thc l'cigare of queene Elizabeth, James i. Charles i. Wo
haro fome of his colnpofitious in the publick muficke fchoole
t Oxford." MS. 31 AJhm. D. 19. 4to. Among hc Plhhn-
tulleS, publicd by Thomas Ravcnfcroft in 1633, arc many ith
the namc of John Milton ; more particularly, thal c«)mmon one
callcd York tune, thc cnour part of which was fich a favt, uritc,
as to bc uf(.d by nul'fes tbr a lullaby, and as a chimc-tuue
churches. IIe bas fcvcral fi)ngs lk»r rive voiccs, in " The Teare8
or l, mentations «tf a jbrrow/hli.[bule, compofc,l wi th muiical ayres
and fongs bolh for voices and divers inlbnments," containing all
compfili«»ns by Bird, Bull, Orlando Gibbons, Dowland the lu-
lenifi, Ferrabofco, C,,perario, Weelks, Wilbye, and others the
moû celebratcd maftc of the limes, written and publilhed by tir
William L.ight«)n, knigh, a gentleman-penfioner, and a good
mufician, in 161 . He hasa madrigal for rive [fix] voices,
alnong the numerous contrihntions of the moR capital perform-
There is an edition of the poem in 161, 4to. tic rote alfo a poem
vallcd Virtue Triumpl, a:,.t, &v. l'ubliihcd in 1603.
LIBER. 347
Tu tamen ut hmules teneras odiffe Camoenas,
:Non odiffe reor ; neque en|m, pater, ire jubebas
Quà via lata pater, quà pronior area lucri,
Certtque condendi fidget fpes aurea nummi : 7o
ec rapis ad leges, malb cuttodittque gentis
Jura, nec infultis damnas clamoribus aures;
ers, in the Triumphs ?f Or|ana, publifhed by 5Iorley in 101.
Sec Note on Cous, v. 495. This colle&|on is Fai(t to havc bcelt
plalmed by the ëari of N«,ltigham, lord lligh Adlniral ; vho,
with a ietv to fi»oth«, qtlet'll Elizabeth's defl)air for the rccent
¢'xccutlOn of Lord Eltcx by ttattrrig ber prcl)Oflcrous vanity,
gav(' for a prizc-l'uli, et tothr I»cl ports and mullcians, whom
he lib(rally rrwal'ted, thc beaut:" anti accoiaq)liflments of his
royal nilh'cfs, now tt dccrcpil irgill on the brink of feventy.
]3ut nlaidrn quccns ;tre in i»Cl'|)ctual bioom. T. WartTot,-.
I take this occafion to obfervc, in confcquence of the hiftorical
anecdote at tile c|(»fe of the precedilg note, tllat the origittal
xvarrant fir the exccution of Lord Effex, figted wid thc trem-
bling hand ot hi r(,yal miflrefs, is now in t|l(. 5lar(luis of Slaf-
ford's collcOion of l)upcrs and record'.;, vhich bclong(.d to the
late Duke of Bl'idgewatcr, and tbrmvrly bcionged to his Gracc'$
iilulirious anccftor Sir Tholnas Egerton, Elizabeth's Lord
Keepcr of the Grcat Scal, and .lames the firfl's Lord Chancciior.
5'lr. Wartou has takela no notice of the pvetical attenapts ronde
by Miiton's father. Sec howevt'r the Life of 51ilton, prefixcd
to ths edition.
Ver. 71. lit had Ovid in his head. 7bnor. i. xv. 5.
" Non me vcrbofis loges edi(ccre, nec tue
" ]ngrato voccm proliituiffe foro, &c.'"
I-Ie fpeaks with a like contcmpt for lhe fiudy of thc Law fo
ltartlib, Trac'-t. Edacat. " Somc, al|ured to the "15adc of Law,
grounding their pttrpofes hot on the prudent and i,eavenly con-
templation of juftice and equity wh|cil was noyer taught them,
but on the promifing and plcaling thoughts of !itigious terres, fat
contentions, and flowing fee»." T.
34S SILVARUM
Sed, magis excultam cupiens ditefcere mentcm,
]Ie procul urbano firepitu, |bceflibus a]tis
Abdu(%um, Aonie jucuuda per otia ripoe,
Phoebeo lateri comitem finis ire beatum.
Officit, m chafi taceo comnlune parentis ;
]'Ie potunt majora: tuo, pater optime, çumptu
Çùm mihi Romulcoe patuit facundia linguoe,
:Et I,atii vcnercs, et quoe ovis ora decebant so
Grandia magniloquis elata rocabula G raiis,
Addcre fuafifii quos .iaat Gallia flores;
]Lt quam degeneri novus ]talus ore loquelam
Fundit, barbaricos tefiatus voce tumultus ;
Quoequc Paloefiinus loquitur myficria rates.
Denique quicquid habet coehlm,|hbjeftque coelo
Ver. 7-. Me procul urbanoflrepitu, &c.] He thus writes, in
lais epifllc to his prccvptor Thomas Young, dated in
ttrbanofitWittt fubducam me paulifpcr." BowLE.
Ver. 75. Aubrey, in Milton's manufcript Life, fitys that he
« was io ycares old by his pi'ture, ad then a poet." Tho
piOure is that byCornclius Jaufcn. T.
Ver. 84. barbavicos teflatus voce tumultus;] The pure
Roman languagc was corruptcd, fiys 5Ir. Warton, by Barbarick
or Gothicl,, invadcrg. Barbarick occurs in Par. L«J, B. ii. 4.
And the etylnology of thc word has been thus explained. " Bruce
has flmwn, that Barbarick, Barbariae, and Barber:.n, are namcs
dcrivcd from Berber, t»r Barbar, the natie naine of the coaft
thc .Tro.gloditick, lcthyophagi, and Shcpherds. It gocs down
the wholc weftcrn coalt of the Red Sca. The Egyptians hated
and fcarcd them. It was, thereforc, in Egypt a tcrm b)th of
drcad and contumely ; in which fenfe it paflèd to the Gret'ks, and
ri'oto them to thc Romans.'" Dr. Vincent's Periplus 'the
tian Sça: Part the.[iç#, &c. 1St)0. p. 103.
LIBER. 349
Terra parens, terroeque et ccelo interfluus aer,
Quicquid et unda tegit, pontiqu agitabile mar-
Per te n61tè licet, per te, fi nôflè libebit :
1)imot'2tque venir fpe&anda tientia nubc, 9o
Nud'tque confpicuos inclinat ad ofcula vultus,
[Ni fugiflè velim, ni lit libgtffe mole[imn.
I hune, conter opes, quiluis malef, mus avitas
Auftriaci gazas, Perfianaque regna, preeoptas.
Quoe potuit m0ora pater tribuiltb, vel ipti
Jupiter, excepto, dongtitèt ut omnia, coelo
on potiora dedit, quamvis et tuta fuiflènt,
[Publica qui juveni commifit lumina nato,
Arque Hyperionios currus, et froena diei,
-F,t ci,'cthm undantem radiatà luce tiaram. oo
£rgo ego, jam doc'-'te pars quamlibet ima catervoe,
¥&rices hederas inter laur6fque fedebo ;
3fimque nec obfcurus populo mitCebor inerti,
Vitabdntque oculos vefiigia nora prothnos.
£te procul, vigiles Curm, procul eçte, Quel'ele,
Invidiaéque acies trant\ertb tortilis hirquo,
er. 93. I hune, confer opes,] Ovid, Ep. Heroid. xii.
" I aune, Sifyphias, improbe, co,fer oes." î.
cr. lOI. Ergo ego, &c.] Itor. Od. I. i.
" Me doetarum cderoe p,oemi:t fromium
' Diis mifcent fupcris : me gelidum nvmu
« Nympharumque leves cure S .t. ris chori
« Secernunt populo."
Ver. 106. Invid$rquc acier tranJi'erfo ortilis irq»o,] Tha
beft commeat oa thi» line, as lr. Riciiardfon aad 5h'. Watt,on
350 SILVARUM
Soeva nec anguiferos extende, Ca]umnia, ric"tus;
In me trifte nihil, foediltima turba, potetiis,
]ec veftri thmjuris ego; tcur(que tutus
Peora, vipereo gradiar thblimis ail icç'ttl.
At tibi, chare pater, pofiquam i:on oequa me-
rend
Poflè referre datur, nec dona rependere
Sit memorflè fatis, repetitfique munera grato
Percenfere animo, fidoeque reponere menti.
Et vos, O nofiri, juvenilia carmina, lut'us, 11»
Si modb perpetuos fperare audebitis annos,
F,t domini thperetlè rogo, lucémque tueri,
Nec fpiffo rapient oblivit nigra thb Orco ;
Forfitan has laudes, dcantatflmque parentis
Nomen, ad exemplum, fero fervabitis evo : _o
have both remarked, is the following defcription ofenvy, raifed
to the highel pitch, in Par. Loti, B. iv. 50 o.
.." Aride the Devii turu'd
" For envy, yet with jealous leer malign
« E)'d them aflance." TODD.
* Such 12rodu(tions of true genlus, xith a natural and nobl
confcioufnefs anticipating its own immorta]ity, are fe|dom foutd
to rail. T.
LIBER. 351
Ad Salfillmn, Poetam lomanum, oegrotantem *
SCAZONTES.
0 MUSA, greffum quoe volens trahis claudum,
Vulcani8que tarda gaudes inceflh,
Nec ti:ntis illud in loco minus gratum,
Quàm cùm decentes flava Dëiope furas
Alternat aureum ante Junonis levure ; 5
* Giovanni Salfilli had complimented llilton at Pome in a
Latin tetraftich, fir his Greek, Latin, and Italian, poetry.
Milton, in rcturn, |bnt thefe elcgant Scazontes to Salfilli vhen
indifpofed. T. W^'ro.
Ver. 1. 0 !]1v, greffum quw olcns trahis claudum.]
I3owlc here cites Angelinus Gazoeus, a Dutch poet, in PiaHilaria.
Antv. 1629. p. 79.
" Subclaudicante tibi$ redi, Scazon."
It is an indifpenfable fuie, which Milton has hot here always ob-
ferved that the Scazon is to clofe with a fpondee preceded
an iambus. T. W^t'ror.
Mr. Bowle adds from the A.îfanice of Ch. Pitz-Geoffrey, L. ii.
fign. F. 3. b. 101. Scazontes.
" Adefte Scazon, melleum genus metri,
" Sua;' deudicans Iambicum carmen.'"
lIilton, howe»'er regardle£s of the indifpenfable Latin Canon,
rnight perhaps think himfelf countcnanced by the licence ad-
mitted into Greek Seazons. See Hephoeftion. TO»D.
Ver. 4.. Qudm cùm decentes.flava Diope &c.] As the Mufe
ring about the altar of Jupiter, in 1L Pe@ v. 47. This pagaa
theology is applied in Paradife Loti ; of the angels, B. v. 161.
" and with fongs,
" And choral fymphonies, day without night,
" Circle lais throne rejoycing." T.
Ver. 5. Alternat] Compare Par. iL. 13. v. 1('2, and the
on the word alt¢rnate.
se SILVARUM
Adefdum, et hoec s'is verba pauca Salfillo
Refer, Camoena notera cui tantum ePc cordi,
Qu'Amque ille magnis proetulit immeritb divis.
Hoec ergo alumnus ille Londini Milto,
Diebus hifce qui fimm linquens nidum, o
lolique tra&um, pefilmus ubi ventorum,
Infanientis impoténfque pulmonis,
:Peraix anhela fub Jove exercet flabrn,
Venir feraces Itali foli ad glebas,
Vifum fuperb,5 cognitas urbes thm,5,
Vir6fque, doc'ïoeque indolem jut'entutis.
Tibi optat idem hic faufia multa, Salfille,
Habitfimque feffo corpori penitùs fanum ;
Cui nunc profunda bilis infeflat renes,
Proecordiifque fixa dalnnost'tm fpirat ; o
Nec id pepercit impia, qubd tu Romano
Tare cultus ore Letbium condis melon.
O dulce divfim munus, O Salus, Hebes
Germana! Tuque, Phoebe, morborum terror
Pythoue coetb, rive tu magis Poean
Libentr audis, hic tuus thcerdos eçt.
Querceta Fauni, v0fque rore vinotb
Ver. ô. 0 dulce div{zm nnmus, &c.] I know not any finer
raodcrn Latin l),rick poetr)', than fi'om this 'erfe to the end.
OEhe clofe which is digretonal, bttt naturally rires from the fitb-
jcçt, is per&ly antique. T. Wata'o.
Vcr. 5. rive tu magis Poean
Lib«nt;r audis,] So, in Epitapk. Damon. 09. « Sire
«quior audis Diod,«t«s.'" llc has t ansferred ttis clalfical exprcfilon
ito Par. Lfl, B. iii. 7- therc f.c ti,e re)te. TORD.
Ver. 7. Que'ccta I:a«ni, ,xc.] Fauau was one of the deitie
LIBER.
Colles benigiai, mitis Evandri fedes,
Siquid falubre vallibus frondet eftris,
Levamen oegro tbrte certatim vati.
Sic ille, cha,'is redditus rursùm /ufis,
.Vicina dulci prata mulcebit cantu.
Ipfe inter atros emirabitur lucos
Numa, ub beatum degit otium oeternum,
Suam reclinis femper geriam fpeans.
Tumid6fque et ipfe Tibris, hinc delinitus,
Spei favebit annuoe colonorum;
Nec in fepulchris ibit obtèfl'um reges,
imiùm finitro laxus irruens loto"
35
brought by Evander into Latit;m, according to Ovid, Tafl, B. v.
99. This is a poetical addrel to Home. T. W^ol.
Ver. 28. mitis Evandri fedes,] The epithet nitis is
f/nely chara6teriftick of Evander. T.
Ver. 33. lpfc inter atros emirabitltr lucos &c.] Very near the
t:ity of Rome, in the middle of a gloomy grove, is a rolnantick
avern with a fpring, where Iuma is fablcd to have received the
Roman laws from his wife Egeria, one of Diana's l/ymphs. The
grove was cal!ed n«mts Aricinum, and fometimes Lucus Egerioe et
.Camoenarum, and the fpring £ons £gerhe. Sec Ovid's l"q#. iii.
°75. And, when Numa died, Egcria is faid to hayc retired hither,
.to lament his death. See Ovid, .Metam. xv. 487. On thefe
grounds Milton builds the prcfcnt beautiful tic'tion, that Numa,
ftill living in this dark grove it the perpetual contcmplatit, e eno
joyment of his Egeria, from thence will liflen with wonder to
the poetly of the neighbouring bard. This place is much frer
quented in fultry wca.th¢" by the people of Rome, as a cool
retreat. See Montfauc..Diar. ItaL c. xi. p. 15'2. edit. 170o
llilton might have .vilied it while at Rome. T. Wro_,
Ver. 38. 3Vec in feÆulchris ibit obfe.km reges,
_Nirnim finiflro lau irrue loto :] This was
race's inundation of the Tiber Od. i. il. 18.
54 SILVARUSI
Sed f,'oena me]iris temperabit undarum,
Adufque curvi falfiL regna Portumni.
4O
" ,,agus etfi, iflra
« Labitur ripa."
For the lcft ride, being on a dcclivity, was foon overflowed.
ibid. v. 15.
" Ire dej¢&um monumenta regis." T. W^rtTo.
LIBER.
] I .4 N S U S *
3oannes Baptij?a 3Ia».fits, )l[archio lïlles, vit
ingeaii laude, tutu literarum udio, cc aon et
bellic« 'irtute, apud Italos clarus in primis .
Ad quem brquuti TaXi Dial'us eetat De
Amicitia.fi'riptus ; erat enin Tqfli amic(flimus ;
ab quo etiam inter Campai«e principes c«lebratu
in iHo poemate cul tituht« GERU$'.4LE31AIE
CONrIST.42kt, lib. 0.
" Fra cavalier magnanimi, cortefi,
" Rifplende il 3L'INS'O."
Is authorem Aéapoli commorantem .fi«mmg bene-
volentigt profecutus , multhque ci detulit
#mnitatis offcia. Ad hune itaque ho.es il/e,
antequam ab eg urbe di.fi'ederët, ut ne b,gratum
le oen&r«t, /toc cm'men iit.
ItC quoque, Manfe, tuoe meditantur earmina
laudi
Pierides, tibi, ],Ianfe, choro notiffime Phoebi ;
* At 1N'ap|cs lilton was introduced to Giovanni Battifta
,Ianfo, marquis of Villa. Sec Profi'-w,n'ks, vol. ii. 33. Milton
at leaving Naples fent this poeln to lXIanfo. IIe was a nobteman
of dilhnguiiixed rank and fortune, had fupported a military cha-
fa(ter with high reputation, of unblemilhed morals, a polite
fcholar, a celebrated wrlter, and an univerfal patron. It as
mong his chief honours, tllat he had been the friend of'I'altb :
and this circumftance, above ail others» muft hae ruade Mflton
$56 SILVARUM
Quandoquidem ille alium haud oequo eft dig-
natus honore,
:Poil Galli cineres, et Mecoenatis Hctrufci.
ambitious of his acqnaintance, tic is hot only complimented by
naine in the twentieth Canto of the Gerufalemme, but Taffo ad-
dreffcd his Dialogue on Friendfhip to Manfo, "11 lIanfo, overo
Dell' Amicitia. Dialogo del Sig. Torquato T. AI moite
iliuftre Sig. Giovanni Battifla Ma!fo. In Napoli, Appreffo Gio.
lacomo Carlino, et Antonio Pace, 1596." In quarto. Befide a
Dedication exprefting the finccreft regard and attachment, rive
Sonnets from Taflb to Manfo are prefixed, and Manfo is one of
the interlocutors. Manfo in rcturn wrote the LifeofToEb, pub-
li/hcd in 1621. And, as it hcrc feems, of Jllar&o. Seev. 17 to
v. 21 of this pocm. Among Manfo's other works, are " Ero-
eallia, in Vert. 1678." In twclve Dialogues. And "1ParadoE,
1608." Ho dicd in 11545, aged 84. T. W&tor.
Thc Paradqff/hould be more fully defcribcd. They are en-
titled " I Paradoflï overo dell' Amorc, Dialogi di G. B. hlanfo ;"
and conflit of rive Dialogues, in ail of which Taffo is one of thc
fpeakers. Somc particulars of Manfo'$ familv may be found
in this eutertaining volume. Manfo was likewife a very plca-
ring poet. Sec his Rime, 163.5, 12mo. There arc two let-
ters from Lorcdano to Manfo, the former of which relates to
lIanfo's Li.fe of Marino, in " Lettere del Sigr. G. F. Lorcdano,
edit. Bruxelles, 1708," pp. 1I, 195. llanfo was thon writin
the Lifc and Loredano exprcflès his high expcations of it: "
" La vita del Marino fa un' aborto di poche horc: quel& di
V. S. fara nt parto, tanto pi tgerfletto, qtanto pi? farorito del
tem1o: fe bene la divinità dol fuo ingeg»o, anche ne" momenti
sà operare meraviglie."Lorcdano had written a Life of Marino,
which he here modeftly call " un aborto di tgoche bore." llr.
Walker, in an appendix to his tliftorical 1Memoir on Italiar
tragedy, bas given a very elegant and iatercfting illuitration»
entitled " An attempt to afcertain the rite of the Villa ncar
laples, in which the Marquis Manlb received TqlTb and ltIitton.
With notiees of the Manfo family :" at the conclufion of which
he ably vindicates the germineefs of Manfo' Litè " Toffb frora
L I B E R.
Tu quoque, fi noroe tantt'tm valetaura Camoenoe,
Vi&rices hederas inter laur6fque fedebis.
Te pridem magno tlix concordia Taffo
Junxit, et oeternis infcripfit nomina chartis :
]V[ox tibi dulciloquum non infcia Mufa Marinum
Ïradidit ; ille tuum dici fe gaudet alumnum,
I)um canit Affyrios divûm prolixus amores ;
a doubt that had exiIed. See the Memoir, 1799, 41oend. p. xxvi
--xxxi. ToDD.
Ver. 1. IIec quoqzte, ]lIanfe,
caufe he had already been eelebrated by many poets. Quadrio
fays, by mOl than fifty. T. Waa'ro.
Ver. 10. itle tuum dici le gaudet ahtmnum,] Marino
cultivated poetry in the acadelny of the Otiodï , of whieh Manfo
,cas one of the tbunders. Hither he t'as fent by the Mufe, who
vas non bia, not ignorant of his poetieal abilities and inclina-
tions, &e. For at firft, againI his will, his father had put him
to the law. T. W,tTO.
Ver. 11. Dura canit &c.] Theallufion is to Marino's poem
Il .done, prolix enough il" we confider its fubje ; and in other
refpes fpun out to an unwarrantable length. Iarino's poem,
cailed Strtçe degli Innocenti, was publi[hed in 1633, about four
years before Milton vifited Iraly. To this poem Milton is fup-
pofed to bave bcen indebted i Paradife Loti. Mr. Hayley
thinks it therefore very remarkable, that out author fhould hot
here bave mentioned this poem of Marino, as well as his ldone.
The obfervation at firlt fight is pertinent and juf. But it fhouid
be remembered, that Milton did hOt begin his Paradifc Loti
tili many years after this Epifile was written, and therefore fuch
a poem could now be no objetct. Miiton thought it fufficient
to charaCterife Marino by his great and popular work only,
omitting his other and lefs confpicuous performances. See
Kippis's Biogr. Brit. iv. p. 461. From what is here laid, how-
ever, it may bc intrred, that blilton could be no ftranger to the
$trag G and muft bave feen it at an early period of his life.
T.
58 SILVARUbl
lIollis et Aufo.ias ftupefecit carmine nymphaso
Ille itidem moriens tibi foli debit rates
Oflà, tibi foli, fupremque vota reliquit"
Nec manes pietas tua chara fefellit amici ; 5
Vidimus arridentem operotb ex oere poetam.
I have ventured fo cite a fcw paflàges from BItrino's Strage,
in the pages of the Paradife Loti, to which Milton perhaps al-
luded. See altb the lnquiry into the Origin of Paradifc Loft
in thc fecoud volume of the prefcnt edition. To»r.
Ver. lJ. ldivnS arridentem opcro.fi ex ¢re poctam.] Marino's
monument at NapIcs ere&ed by Maufo. But the Academy of
thc HumoriJi are laid, in ,larino's epitaph, to have been the
chicf contributors, q'aflb was buri¢.d, in 1595, in the church
of the monafiery of fifint Onuli'ius at Rome ; and his remains
t'ere covcred, by his own dcfire, only with a plain ftone. Cardi-
tal Cynthio, 'hon he ruade his heir, ri, on afterwards propotid
lo build a fplendid tomb to lais memory ; but the defigu never
w carried into execution. Manfo, to whçln he bequeathed
only lais pi&ure, and to vhom he had committed fimediretions.
about his fuueral, coming from N.aplcs fo Rome about 1605»
and finding hot tb much as lais naine iufcribed on the ftone under
which he vas laid, offered to ere& a fuitable monument, but wa
aot permitted. However, he procured this filnple but expreffive
infcriphon to be engr:tved on the lione, Torquati "l'ti o.ffi. At
length ttxe monulneilt, which now appcars, was given by Car-
dinal Bevilaqua, of au illutrious family of Fcrrara. For a'
more particular accouht of the very fingular attentions and ho-
nours which Mttrino received from Maufo, the reader is refcrred
to the halian Li.['c oj']llarino, by I". Fcrrari., publi[hed at Venice
iu 1(;33. rto. At thc end of Marino's Strage de gli Innocenti,
and other l:ocms. Sec p. 68, 82, 8.), 90. llarino died at
Naples in 1625, aged lifty-fix. T. WatTO'.
It may hot be improper to exhibit, in this place, the following
Sonlet of Marilo, Rime Luë,'ubri, p. 170, ed. Venet. 160.
" Velmi a i colli Latini, e '1 marmo fcel'fi
«' Oue del tuo gran Tasso il fi'l fi polà,
LIBER. 559
:Nec fatis hoc vifum eft in utrumque, et nec pia
ceflànt
Oflîcia in tumulo ; cupis integos rapere Orco,
Quà potes, arque avidas Parcarum eludere leges"
Amborum genus, et variâ fib forte peraam o
Defcribis vitam, motCque, et dona Mincrvoe;
..mulus illius, Mycalen qui natus ad ultam
« E qucfii in rimirar l' vrna famofa
" Furo in vrnc di pianto occhi conuerfi.
« E difli, Ahi bon' h' troppo, onde dolcrfi
" Mcco l' Ita[ia tutta orba, e dogliof%
« Scpolto, e fcco ogni fua luce afcofa
" Il buon teftor deg|i honorati vcrfi.
« Sepolto ah nS, che quanto ammira, e renie
" Il fuo uomc gli tomba ; e 'l crin gli honora
" Ncl Parnafo del Ciel fi'eg]o lucente.
« Tu, fe col n' andrai Ma_'so talhora,
" Pacc ctcrna g|i prega, c riuercn[e
« D' immortali amaranti il faflb infiora." To).
Ver. 7.
Mycalen qui natus ad altam
lettulit IEolii vitam facundus Homeri.] Plutarch, who
wrote the Lith of Homer. He was a native of Boeotia, where
Mycale is a mountain. It is among thofe famous hills that bl-azed
in Phacton's conflagration, Ovid, 3Atam. il. «3. The allufio»
is happy,, as it draws with it an implicit comparifon between Taffo
and l[omer. In the epithetfacundus, there is much clegance and
propriety. Phttarch is the great mat'ter of ancient biography.
T. Wartror.
Thc learned tranflator of this poem into Engli/h verfe, the
Rcvd. Jofeph Stirling, obferves that IIerodotus is here intended ;
and that Mr. Warton is miftaken in fuppofing Milton to allude
to Plumrch : for, he adds, " a mountain of the naine of Mycale
in Boeotia will hot be found either in Paufanias or Strabo: Myeale
was in Afia Minor, the country of Herodotus. The epithetfa-
cundus, vhich Mr. Warton admires, is particularly applicable to
the father of Hiftory ; but I doubt whether it would be allowcd
s ILVAI:tlIM
Hettulit tEolii vitam factmdus Homer:
Ergo ego te, Cifis et magni nomine Phoebi, ,
anfe pater, ubeo longum falvere per evum
Miflhs Hyperboreo juvenis peregrinus ab axe.
Nec tu longinquam bonus afpernabere MuIhm,
Quoe nuper gelid'â vix enutrita fub Af&o,
Imprutiens, Italas aura eft volitare per urbes, m
Nos etiam in noro modulantes flumine cygnoa
Credimus obfcuïas nooEis tènfiflè per umbras,
Quà Thamefis iate puris argenteus urnis
Oceani g|aucos pert'undit gurgite crines :
Quin et in bas quondam pervenit Tityrus oras.
to Plutarch on the banks of the Ilyffus, though he is rich in bio-
graphical and moral reflecCtions. '' Sec Stirling's Poen,, l,.°mo,
Lond. 1789. pp. 190, 1)1. Mr. Stirling's tranflation is exe-
:uted 'ith great elegance. ToIo
Ver. 8. uae mqer geli&î &c.] An infinuation, that cold cil-
mates are uufriendly togeniuso As in Par. Loti, B. ix. 44. " Or
oeld climate, or years, damp my intecle¢t wing, &c." See _Note
on El. ri. 6. T. Waa'ro.
Ver. 2. Q,tt Tlamçl« &c.] Spenfer. Itt*Itn.
This very probable fuppofition may be further illuftrated.
Sp_enlër was born in London, belote defcribed as the « Urbs
re.fl«â quam Thamefis alluit undfi." EI. i. 9. And he is properiy
ranked wit]'Chauccr. And the allufion maty be to Spenfer's Epi
thala»dum of Thames, a long Epifode in the Faery Qucen, iv.
xi. 8. See alfo his Protltalamium. I beliere it is an old tradi-
tion, that if fwans ring, it is in the darkeft and coldeft nights of
winter. Sec Van Trift's JLett. o» Icelad p. 1-*,3. T. WaltTOll.
Ver. 3-. Qviz et in as quondam vervedt Tityrus ora,.] "Like..
me too, Chaucer travc[led into Italy." In Spenfer's Paftorals»
Chaucer is conftantly called Tit2/r«s. T. WA.To.n.
See Speght's Life of Chaucer. ToIn.
LIBEI{. .6
Sed neque nos genus incultum, nec inutile
Phcebo, s
Quà plaga tpteno mundi fuleata TrionL Brumalem patitur longà fub no6te BoiSten.
Nos etiam colimus Phoebum, no munera Phcebo
Flaventes tieas, et lutea mala eaniflris,
Halantémque crocum, perhibet niti van, ve-
tuf tas, o
Mifimus, et le6tas Druidum de gente choreas..
Gens Druides antiqua, lteris operata deorum,
Heroum laudes, imitand,que gefta, eanebant ;
Hine quoties fefto eingunt altaria cantu
Delo in herbosâ, Grai,'e de more puelloe,
Ver. 35. Scd neque &c.] Sec Pindar, Olymp. Od. iii 28.
Ver. 38. as etiam &c.] He avails himfelf oç a notion fup-
ported by Sclden on the Polyolbion, that Apollo was orippcd
m Britain. Sec his Notes on Songs, viii. ix. Sclden fuppofes
allb, that the Britilh Druids invoked Apollo. And fee Span-
heim on Callimachus, vol ii. 492. feq. T.
Ver. 41. ]Inus, et ltias Druidmn de genre ehoreas.] He in-
finuates, that out Briti Druids vere poets. As in Lycidas,
v. 53. " Where your old Bards the famous Druids lie." The
poetical characer of the Druids is attet}ed by Cefar, BeR. Gall.
" ri. 4. " Magnum numerum verlktum edilere dicuntur."
T.
SOe alfo Beaumont and Flctcher} Bonduca, A. i. S. i.
" The holy Druides co,npngngs
' Of everlaRing life to viory."
Ver. 45. Graioe de more.p-uclloe,] Ovid, Metam. ii.
711. " Ill fçrtè die caloe de more pueiloe. &c " T.
36o SILVARUM
Carminibus loetis memorant Corinëida Loxo,
Fatidic,rtmque Upin, cure flavicomâ Hecaërge,
Nuda Calcdonio variata. pe&ora fuco.
Fortunate fenex, ergo, quacunque per orbem
Torquati decus, et nomen celebrabitur ingens,
Clar'que perpetui fuccrefcet lama Marini ; zl
Tu quoque in ora frequens renies plaus(amque
virorunl,
Et parili carpcs iter immortale volatu.
Dicetur tutu tonte tuos habitîè penates
Cynthius, ct tmulas renifle ad limina Mut:s :
At non çponte domum tamen idem, et regis
adivit 6
Ver. 46. Our author convcrts thc three llypcrborcan Nymphs,
'ho fent fruits to Apollo in Dclos, into Britdh goddcffes. Ste
Callimachus, H2/mn. Dol. v.
Milton here cal[s Callimachus's Loxo, Corineis, from Corineus
a Corni giant : and fuppofcs that the naked bofoms of thcfe
three Nynq, hs werc tinged with Caledonian or Piti woad.
Some writcrs hold, that Britain, or rather that part of it called
Scotland, was the/rtile rion of te Hypcrborei. T. Wawro.
Ver. 5. t quoque la ora fi'cquens renies plauskmque virorum,]
So Propertius, as Mr. Bowle obfervcs, iii. ix. 32. " nies tu
quoque in ora virt$m." Sce alfo Virgil, Georg. iii. 9. " Vi6rque
ictîm volitare per ora.'" lr. Warton rcmarks, that this aflbcia-
tion of immortality is happily inferred by Milton. To.
Ver. 56. t nonJontedomum tamen &c.] Apollo, being driven
om heaven, kcpt the cattle of king Admetus in Theffaly, who
had entertained itcrculcs. This wasin the ncighbourhod of the
river Peneus, and of mount Pelion, inhabitcd by Chiron. If bas
ever beea obgzrved that thc whole context is a maaifcl imita-
LIBER.
Rura Pheretiadrê, coelo fugitivus Apollo ;
Ille liceXt magnum Alciden fiffceperat hoti»es ;
TanttSm ubi clamofos placuit vitare bubulcos,
Nobile mantheti ccflit Chironis in antrum, 6o
tion of a fubline chorus in the Alcç#is of Milton's favourite
Gr«'ek dralnatiti, Euripides, v. 570. ri'N-
Ver. 57. Peretiad«,] See Ovid, fq. il.
« Cynthius Admeti vaccas paviffe Phcr«as, &c."
And ?. Beroid. . v. 151. Per«iades occurs more than once
in Ozid. From Homer, 1L ii. 76, xxiii, g76. T.
Ver. 60. Nobih" manfueti ct Chironis in antrum,] Chiron
cavern was ¢nobled by the vifits nd cducation of rages and
eroes. Chiron is ftyled Jels, becaufe although one
Centau» and the inhabitant of a cave in a mounta[n» he
celled in }earning, wifdom, and the mo humane virtues. Or, he
my be called eets, either on ccount of his mildnefs as
teacher, or his hofpitMity to rngers. Sec e beauti1l Poem ix
odfleï's Iifcell,nies, by the late Mr. edingfieId, called
364 SILVAIUM
Irriguos inter faltus, frondosfique te&a,
Peneium propè rivera" ibi foepe fub ilice nigrfi,
.Ad citharoe ftrepitum, blandft prece vi6tus amici,
:Exilii duros lenibat voce labores. 6
Tutu neque ripa fuo, barathro nec fixa fub imo
Saxa ftctere loco ; nutat Trachinia rupes,
Education of.4chilles, lIr. Steevcns adds, " Thc mofi endearing
inftance of the a!lùetude of Chiron, vill be found in his beha-
viour vhen the Ao failcd near thc coafi on which he lived, lle
came down to the vcry argin of the fea, bringing his wife with
the young Achilles in ber arms, that he might ow the «hild to
his lhlher Pcleus who was proccedhag on the voyage wilh the
othcr Argonaus. Apoll«n. Rhod. lib. i. 558.
ç;z ,i«o ai. Chh'on& in antrum, is the end of a verre
in Ovid, Metam. ii. 631. T.
Ver. 6. Exilii duros lenibat voce labvres.] Ovid fays, that he
foothed the auxicties of lovc, hot of banimcnt, with his mufick;
and it is relatcd, or implicd, by Tibullus, and others, that he 'as
enanmurcd of Admetus h«n a boy, or the grandfon of an eldcr
Admetus. Ovid, M«tam. il.
" Dumque amor c curoe, dura te tua fifiula mulcct.'"
Sec alfo Epfl. liera& E. v. 151, F,. ii. ôg. Callimachus
more exprclly, nn. Apo#. v. 49.
But Milton uniformly follows Euripidcs, who fays that Apo}
.« unvillingly forced into thc fervice of Admctus by Jupiter,
for having killed the Cyclopcs, A&. v. 6. Thus, v. 56.
" At nonfponte domum tamen idem, &c.'"
The very circumlance which introduces this fine compliment
d digreffion. T. Wwo.
Ver. 66. nutat Trach&ia pcs,] Iount Octa,
¢ouneed with the mountains, Pelion in which was Chiron's
cave, and Othrys, lnentioned in the paage ju cited frem Eu-
iide. Sec Ovid, letam. ii. 353. But, with no inprricty,
LI B E R. Sû»
Nec fentit folitas, immania pondera, filvas;
Emotoeque fuis properant de collibus orni,
Muleentflrque novo maeulofi carmine lynees.
Diis dilecCte fenex, te Jupiter oequus oportet
]XTafeentem, et miti luth'ttrit lumine Phoebus, 71
Atlantifque nepos; neque enim, nifieharusab ortu
])ils fuperis, poterit magno faviflè poete.
Hine longoeva tibi lento thb flore fene&us
Yernat, et _]Efonios lueratur vivida fufos ; ïs
Milton might here mean Pelion by the Trachinian rock ; whicb,
'ith the refl, had imraania ponderafih'as, and x'hich tlomer calls
doaçzo»,.li'ondqtm. Its Orni are alfo twice mentioned by
V. Flaccus, Argon. B.i. ç6. " Quantum Peliacas in vertice
icerat orn." And in B. ii.
Ver. 69. Iu&entrque novo &c.] Boethius, .5Ictr. iii. 1.
" Stupct tergeminus novo
« Captus carmine janitor."
Ver. 7. neque enim, charus ab ortt,
1)ii. fitpcris, &c.] Pindar, Pflh. O& i. 5.
,,w ai»r«. To.
Ver. 73. magnofia' poetoe.] The greatpt Taffo.
Or a great poet like )our friend "rab. Either fenfe lhows Mil-
ton's high idt'a of the author of the GerÇa&mnte. T. WaTOX.
The great poet is the ufual phrafe applied to Taffo. So, in the
Sonnct cited in p. 350. " Del tuo gran Tq." Again, in Rime
del Sig.G.C. Colonbini, $onetti di diveç «Iccademici Sanç, &c.
8ienna, 1608, p. 184.
« Qu glace eftinto g gran Torquato Tqffb,
« Gloria d' Apollo, onor del fecol noflro."
Ver. 7. lento fu(flore feneus
Vernat, &c.] There is much elegance in lentofub
flore. 1 venture to obje& to z'e7tatf:n¢&us.
66 SILVARUM
"Nondum deciduos fervans tibi frontis honores,
Ingenidmque vigens, et adultum mentis acumen.
O mdai il mea tbr talem concedat anaicum,
Phoeboeos decorâtiCe rires qui tare benh nôrit,
Squand6 indigenas revoc»bo in carmina reges,
Arturdmque etiam fub terris bella moventem !
Ver. 79. Phoebeos] Phaba'os is intirely an Ovidian epithet.
As, "' Phoe!»ra lyra," Epi.fl. Heroid. xvi. 180. And in numcrous
othcr placts. Sec EI. vil. 46. T. Wart-ro.
Pharbceus, it may bc added, is allb a vcry frequent epithet in
]3uchauan's poetry. To.
Ver. 80. iquatdb Utdçg'cnas rerocabo in carmh,a reges,
Arturfimque etiam Jùb tcrris bcl[a noventm ! &c.]
The i»dtence rg'«s arc the ancient kings of Britain. q'his
thê fubjeet for an epick pcem that urlt occupied the mind of
lMilton. Sec the ferme idea repeated in Epitaph. Damon. v. 162.
King Arthur, after his dêath, was fuppotid te be carried into the
fitbterraneous land of Faerie or of Spirits, where he ftill reigned
as a king, anti hence he va te rtturn into Britain, te renew the
Round Table, conquer ail his old enemies, and reeftablifli his
throne, lle was, theretorc, ETIAi moyens bellafitb terris, STX..
mcditating wars und¢.r thc carth. Thc impulfc of Milmn's at-
tachmcnt te this fubjetct was net entirel) fiTprcflbd : It produced
his Hiltory of Britain. By thc cxprcflion, revocabo in carmina, the
poct metns, that thefe anclent kings, which wcre once thc themes
of the Bnti/h barris, thould new again bc celebrated in verti.
hlilton, in hi Church-Covcrnment, rittcn 1041, fays, that alter
the examplc of q'allb, " it haply would be no rafhncfs, frein an
cqual diligence and iuclination, te prefent lhe likc off'er in ont
of our own ancient jtoric«,'" Profe-works, i. 00. It is poflible
that thc «dvice of Manfo, the fi'iend of 'l'aflb, might dctermine
otar poct te a defign ol this kind. T. W,To.
Wc may hcre compare thc llh!flrations of Drayton's Pol9olbion »
S. ifi. p. 5-r, edtt. 1622, whre Lydgate according te the fiètion
of thc Welch bard% fays of Arthur
LI B E R. s67
Aut dicam invi&oe fociali foedere menfe
llagnanimos heroas ; et, 0 modo fpiritus adfit,
Frangam Saxonicas Britonum fi, b larte
phalanges
Tandem ubi non tacitoe permenfus tempora vitw,
Annorfimque çatur, cineri fila jura relinquam,
Ille mihi leva madidis aaaret ocellis,
Aanti fat erit fi dicam, tire tibi cure ;
Ille meos artus, liventi morte folutos,
Curaret parv componi mollitèr urnâ" 9o
Forfitan et noieras ducat de marmore vultus,
eens aut Paphi myrti aut Parnaffide lauri
« IIe is a king crouned in Fairie,
' With fcepter and fword ; and with hls royally
« Shall refort as lord and foveraigne
" Out of Fairie, and teigne in Britaine." Ton.
Ver. S. focialifoedere nenfoe &c.] The knights,
or affociated champions, of king Arthur's Round Table, as Mr.
Warton obferves: but there may be an allufion alfa to btatius
Theb. viii. 240.
" Tutu prim ù m ad eoetus, ciaéque adfoedera menfoe,
" Semper inafpeOum, &c." To.
Ver. 85. Mnnorknquejhtur, &c.] Mr. Stcevens thinks, that
the context is amplified ri'oto a beautiful pa[ge in the Ied«a of
Eripides v. 1032. 5Iedea fpeaks to ber fans.
Ver. 9. Parnaflidc] So, ad Pa[rem, v. 16.
« Et nemoris laureta çacri P«rnoEidcs umbroe. '
Ovid, ]letam. xi. 165.
« llle caput flavum lauro PacnoEi&
irgil's epithet is arnu$. T.
36 SILVARUSI
Fronde comas, at ego fecurâ pace quiefcam.
Tutu quoque, fi qua rides, fi prremia certa
bonorum, 9
/pfe ego eoelieoldm femotus in oethera divSm,
QuO labor et mens pura vehunt, atque ignea
virtus,
Seereti hoee aliquà mundi de parte videbo,
Quantum fata finunt ; et, tot lnente ferenum
Ridens, purpureo fuffundar lumine vultus, 99
:Et fimul oethereo plaudam mihi loetus Olympo.
]Iilton alfo follows Buchanan. Sec Silvce, Buchanan. Opp.
ed. fupr. p. 52.
------ " mutaCue diu Parnq$dos umbroe." ToxD.
LIBER. 569
EPITA PHIU.M DAIONIS.
ARGUIENTUM.
HIMERIDES nymphoe (nam vos et Daphnin,
et Hylan,
Et plorata diu meminiçtis rata Bionis,)
* See Notes on Et. i. Charles Deodate's father, Theodore,
was born at Geneva, of an Italian family, in 1574. tie came
young into England, whcre he nmrricd an Englifl Lady of good
birth and fortune. Itc was a do(tor in phyfick ; and, in 1609,
appears to have been phyfician to Prince Henry, and the princefs
Elizabeth, aftcrwards queen of Bohemia. Fuller's ll:orthies, _'ffid-
dhJèx, p. 186. lle lived then at Brentford, where he performed
a wonderful cure by phlebotomy ; as appears by his own narra-
tive of the cale, in a Letter dated 1629, printed by Hakevill at
the end of his Apologie, Lond. 1630. Sigtlat. Y y 4. Hakewill
calls him, " Dr. Deodate, a French I»hyfician living in London,
&c." See ApoL L. iii. . v. p. 218. One of his defcendants,
Monf. Antou. Jofu Diodati, who bas honoured me with fome
of the.fe notices, in now the learncd Librarian of the Republick
of Geneva. Theodore's /3rother, Giovanni Deodati» was n
VOL. W. B b
70 SILVARU3t
Dicite Sicelicum Thamefina per oppida carmen :
Quas mifcr eff'udit voces, qme murmura Thyrfis,
Et quibus affidui.s exercuit antra querelis,
emincnt tbeologift of Geneva; with wbom Milton, in confe-
quencc of his conneon witb Charles, contra6tcd a friendfhip
during his abodc at Gencva, and whofi: annotations on the Bible
werc tranffatcd into Englifll by the puritans. The original is in
French, and was primed at Gencva, ï638. Ilc alfo publifhed,
" Thclès tx de Pec¢ato in genere ct fpccie, Gencv. 160."
" I sacitt Sl,tt, nçlTi in rime Italiane da Gioranni Diodati,
1631, llno. ''-'t Ait Italian Tranflation of the Bible, 1607."
And " An Anfwer fent fo the Ecclefiaftical Afièmbly at London,
with marginal obfcrvations by king Charles the firft.. Aewcaflle,
1.647."But this laff is a tranflation into Englifl b by one of the
puritms. Perhaps tle only genuine copy of it, for t.here were-
many fpu.rious editions, is now fo be feeit in the Bodleian library.
Sec a curious ftory coneerning this G. Deodati, of his preaching
at Venice in a trooper's habit, and couverting a Venetian
courtezan, in Lord Orrery's 2]It'moirs by T. M-rriee, prefixed to
State Papers, ch. i. In whi¢h it is thid by Lord Orrery, vho
lived a year in his houle, that he was hot unfavourably difpofed
towards the Englilh hierarchy, but wilhed it might be received
undcr fome reRritions at Geueva ; that he was a learned man,
a celcbratcd preacher, and an excellent companion, The family
left Italy on account of religion. Compare Archbilhop Uflmr's
Let&'rs, Lond. 1686. ad calc. Lett.. xii. p. 14. T. Wxrtror.
Giovanni Deodati publiflwd alfo " A Frcnch Tranflation of
Fatber Pa.ul's Ili/oty of the Council of Trent." Tory.
Vcr. 1. Himerides nymphce] Himcra is the famous bucolick
river of Theocritus, who fung the death of Daphnis, and the lof
of Hylas. Bion, in the ncxt line, was lamented by Mofchus.
tn the Argument of this Paftoral, " Rem ita çÇè comperto.'"
Tickcll has ignorantly and arbitrarily ,'dtcred comperto to com-
peritms, lte is followed r as ufual, by Fenton. T. Wtrt'ro.
I muft defend Tickell from the preceding cenfure. He found
comp«r&ns in Tonfor's edition of I713, which, as I have betbree
¢10fer'ed, he feems to have ufually followed. Tolet).
LIBER. s7t
Fluminque, font&que vagos, nemorfimque re-
ceffus ;
Dura fibi proereptum queritur Damona, neque
altam
Lu&ibus exemit no6tem, loea fola pererrans.
Et jam bis viridi furgebat cuhnus arififi,
Et totidem flavas numerabant horrea meffes, xo
Ex quo fumma dies tulerat Damona fub umbras
Nec dura aderat Thyrfis; paftorem fcilict illum
Dulcis amor Iufoe Thufcfi retinebat in urbe:
Arc ubi mens expleta domum, peeorifque reli&i
Cura voeat, fimul affuetfi feditque fub uhno, 1
Tum ver6 amiffum tutu denique fentit amieum,
Coepit et immenfum fie exonerare dolorem.
Ire domum impafii, domino jam non vaeat,
agni.
Hei mihi ! que terris, que dieam numina eoelo,
Ver. 19. Thyrfis, or Milton, was now at Florence. Itis
obfervable, that he gives this naine to the Spirit, affuming the
habit of a fhepherd, in Cornu,. T. WATOI.
Ver. 15. afl'uet, feditque fub ulmo,] So in
Il Penf. v. 60, as Mr. Warton obferves :
'" While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke,
'" Gently Cet the acciom'd oak.'"
The Windfor oak is diflinguilhed, in the Merry If/'. of IVindfor,
by an accuflomed dance around it.
"' But, till 'tis one o'clock,
«' Our dance of cuflom, round about the oak
" Of Herne the hunter, let us hot tbrget."
Milton, however, had probably Ovid in mind. Met. x. 533.
" Hune tenet, huic cornes eft, affaet feraper in nmbr,q,
c: Indulgere fibi, &c." ToDD.
b
372 S I LV A RUM
Poçtqumn te immiti rapuerunt funere, Damon
Siccine nos linquis, tua iic line nomine virtus
Ibit, et obfcuris numero fociabitur umbris ?
At non ille, animas virgi qui dividit aurefi,
Itla relit, dign6mque tui te ducat in agmen, .
Ignar6mque procul pecus arceat omue filentflm.
Ite domum impafli, domino jam non vacat,
agni.
Quicquid erit, certè niti me lupus ante videbit,
Indeplorato non comminuere fepulchro,
Con[abitque tuus tibi honos, longùmque vigcbit
Inter patlores : Illi tibi vota fecundo
Solvere pofiDaphnin,poftDaph nin dicere laudes,
Gaudebunt,dmn ruraPales,d umFaunus, amabit:
Si quid id ef, prilfimque ridera coluiflè, pi6mquc,
Palladi,Ztfque artes, foeifimque habuiflè canorum.
Ite dommn impaçti, domino jam non vaeat,
agni,
Hoec tibi certa marient, tibi erunt hoec proemia,
Damon ;
Ver. £8. Indeplorato
iii. iii. 45.
" Sed fine funeribus caput hoc, fine honore fepulchri,
'« IndtTloratum barbara terra tegct ."
Sec alfo 3let. xi. 670, Ibis, v. 166. And I.ycidas, v. 14.
T. VaTor.
And Chapman's trafiation of the twcnty-fecond Ih'ad, foi.
p. 306, no date.
" But why ufe I a word
" Of any ae't, but what concerns my fric,ad . dead, undqlor'd»
"' U.Feplcler'd." TODD.
LIBER.
At mihi quid tandem flet mod6 ? quis mihi fidus
tterebit lateri cornes, ut tu t:,pe folebas
'rigoribus duris, et per loea ti:eta pruinis,
Aut rapido fub tble, titi morientibus herbis ? 4o
Sive opus in magnos t'uit emints ire leones,
Aut avidos tcrrere lupos prmlpibus altis ;
Quis thndo tbpire diem, ealit6que, tblebit ?
]te domum impafi, domino jam non vacat, .
agni.
Pec¢'tora eui eredaln ? quis me lenire docebit 4s
[h,Iordaees curas, quis longam t:allere notem
I)uleibus alloquiis, grato cfim tlbilat igni
lolle pyrum,et nucibus tirepita.t ti3cus, et malus
/lulLer
Iifcet cun6ta lbris, et defuper intonat ulmo ?
Ver. 46. 3Iordaces curas,] As ili thofc exquifite lines
L',4llegro, v. 135.
" And ever, againff eating care«,
" Lap me in lbft Lydian airs, &c."
Horace has " outan edace," Od. Il. xi. 18. But the phrafe in
the text is Ltlcall'S, Lib. iL 681. " Ctt'/$ animtlln mordacibus
attgit." Whence alto iXlarino, Rime &c. Parte 1 ma" p. 40. edit.
Venet. 1(302.
" Tar|o, e lima d:4mor, cura mordace,
" Che mi rodi &c." Toile.
Ver. 47. Dulcibu, alloquii,] From IIor. Epod. XIII.
" Illlc omne malum vino cantuque levato,
" Deformis oegrimonioe
" Dulcibus alloquiis." JotiN
Ver. 49. ]Mifcet cuuaJbri,] Virgil, z/a. i. 18.
" Interea magno m#U«ri murmure pontum."
So» în the tamc fenfe, Par. Reg. B. iv. 452.
« | heard the wrack,
" & earth and tky would ming!c." ]3owL,
37- SILVARUM
]tedomum impafii,dominojam non vacat,agni.
Aut oeate, dies medio dura vertitur axe, l
Cùm Pan oefcule fomnum capit abditus umbrâ
Et repetunt fub aquis fibi nota fedilia nymphoe,
Pafioréfque latent, fiertit fub fepe colonus ;
Q«is mihi blandititfque tuas, quis tutu mihi riras,
Cecropi6fque l:,dcs referet, cultoilUe lepores ? ti
Itedomumimpafii,dominojam non vacat,agni.
At jam folus agros, jam pafcua folus oberro,
Sicubi ramote denihntur vallibus un].broe ; 9
:l-lîc ferum e, xpec'to ; fupra caput imber et F, urus
Trite fonant, fraOoeque agitata crepufcula filvoe.
Ite dom um ira paKi,d ominojam non vacat,agni.
Heu, quam culta mihi priùs arva procacibus
herbis
Involvuntur, et ipt:a fitu feges alta fatifcit ! "
lnnuba negle6-to marcefcit et uva racemo, 6
Ver. 52. In Theocritus, the fhepherds are afraid to wake
Pan xvho confiantly fleeps in the middle of the day, Idyll. i. 16.
See alfo Fletcher, aitbfnl Slepherdefs, A. i. S. i. vol. iii. p. 107.
ho imitates Theocritus, without feeing the thperfiition annexed
to the time of noon.
" Left the great Pari do awake,
" That fleeping lies in a deep glade
« Under a broad becch's fhade." T. Walvroir.
Ver. 53. Et repetnnt fi«b aquis fibi ota fedilia rrymphoE,]
Homer, Odt?:. xii. ô18.
&nd fee Virgil, ./Z:,n. i. 171. RclaRsol.
Ver. 65. Innuba egleo marcefcit et uva racemo,] The laurel
is termed " i»nuba,'" Osid, llet, x. 9, in allufion to the virgin
Daphne. The vine, beeaufc negleed is hcre called unmarried.
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Nec myrtetajuvant; ovium quoque toedet, at illoe
loerent, in'que fuum convertunt ora inagifirum.
Itedomum impaffi,dominojam non vacat,ugni.
Tityrus ad corylos vocat, Alphetiboeus ad-ornos,
Ad thlices Aegon, ad flumina pulcher Amyntas ;
" Hîc gelidi fontes, hîc illita gramina mufco, 7
"' Hîc Zephyri, hîc placidas interl[repit arbutus
" undas :"
Ita canunt furdo, frutices ego nu&us abibam.
Ite domum impafli,dominojam non vacat, agni.
fopfusad hoec, nain me redeuntemtbrte notârat,
(Et callebat avium linguas, et tidera Mopfus,) 76
" Thyrli, quid hoc ?" dixit, " quoe te c9quit ira-
' proba bilis ?
" Aut te perdit amor, a ut te malè iCatbinat a['trum;
" Saturni grave çzepe thit paf[oribus atrum,
Of the vine cultivated, married go the cire, ee Par. Loti, B..'.
16°19. and the Note. Horace calls the plane-tree coElebs,
becaufe hot married, as the elm is, to the vine, Od. ll. xx. 4.
" platanfifque ttel«bs
« Evincet ulmos." To.
Ver. 66. ovium quoque aedet, af il'
3lm'ent, inque fuum convo'tunt ora »aJtrum.]
in Ldcidas, v. 125. " The hungry lheep look up, and are not
fed." T. WaTo.
Ver. 71. ttc gelidifontes, &c.] Virgil, En:l. x. 4.
"" Hic gelidi fontes, hîc mollia prata, Lycori ;
" Hïc nemus, &c." I{ICIIAI{,DOh'.
Ver. 79. Planet-ftruck by the planet Saturn. See Lycid. v.
138, ,drcm/. v. 52. ]]ut why is the influence o this planet more
.particularly fatal to fhepherds . Unlcfs on account of ifs coldnefs.
| is in general called a noxious fiat : and Propertius fays» L. iv.
376 SILVARUSI
" Intim'$que obliquo figit proecordia plumbo." so
Ite domum impafii,dominojarn non vacat,agr-
Mirantur nymphe, et " quid te, ThyrIi, ih-
" turum eft ?
" Quid tibi vis ?" aiunt; " non hoec folet effe
" juventoe
" Nubila frons, oculique truces, vultdfque feveri;
" Illa choros, lufdfque leves, et femper anaorem
" Jure petit: bis ille mifer qui ferus amavit."
Ite domum impalii,dominojam non vacat,agni.
Venir Hyas, Dryopéque, et filia Baucidis Aegle,
Do6ta modos, cithareeque tiens, fed perdita thtu ;
Venir Idumanii Chloris vicina fluenti ; 9o
Nil me, blanditite, nil me folantia verba,
Nil me fi quid adetï, movet, aut fpes ulla futuri.
Ire domum impafii,dominojam non vacat,agni.
Hei mihi ! quam fimiles ludunt per prata juvenci,
Omnes unanimi tcum fibi lege fodales ! 95
Nec magis hunc alio quifquam fecernit amicum
i. 84. " Et grave Saturni fydus in omnc caput." lts melan-
choly effe&s are here expreffed by its wounding the heart with art
arrow of lead. And perhaps our author had a concealed allufiort
to this Saturnine Lead, in making his 2"ffelancholu the daughter
of Saturn, Il Penf. v. 40.
" With a lad Icadea downward cafl, &c." T. WAttTOy.
Ver. 89. Do&a modos, citharaéque fciens,] From Horace,
Od. III. ix. 9- as Mr. Bowle and 5ir. Warton ahb obferve ;
" Dulces do&a modos, et citharoe fciens."
Ver. 90. The river Chelmer in Effex is called Idumanium3qu-
entum, near its influx into Black-water bay. Ptolemy calls thi»
bay Portus Idumanius. T. WaR0.
I,IBEII.
De grege ; tic denfi veniunt ad pabula thoes,
In'que vicem hirfuti paribus junguntur onagri :
Lex eadem pelagi; det:erto in littore Proteus 99
Agmina Phoarum numerat, vilit[lue volucrum
Paflèr habet tinnper quieum lit, et omnia cireum
[Farra libens volitet, ti3r') tha tea revitins ;
Quem ti tbrs letho objecit, feu mih'us adunco
[Fata tulit roFtro, ti3u flravit arundine tbftbr,
Protin¢ls ille allure tbcio petit inde volatu, lOS
[Nos durum genus, et diris exereita tittis
Gens homines, aliena animis, et pecCtorc difizors;
Vix tibi quitilue parera de millibus im'enit unum;
Aut ti tbrs dederit tandèm non ati0era votis,
Illum inopina dies, qua non fperaveris horâ,
Surripit oeternum linquens in tecula danmum.
Ite domum impafi,dominojam non vacat,agni.
Heu quis me ignotas traxit vagus en'or in oras
Ire per aëreas rupes, Alpémque nivot:,m !
[Ecquid erat tanti Romam vidilIè tèpultam, 112i
(Quam:is illa tbret, qualem dura vitret olim,
Ver. 99. deferto in littore Proteu &c.] Virgi],
(_4eorg. iv. 43 -°..
« Sternunt le fomno diverfoe in littore Phocoe.
" Ipfe [Proteus]
" Confidit fcopulo medius, nulnerfimque recenfet."
Bowv..
Ver. i15. cquid &c.] lh: bas parodicd a verfe in Virgil':i
tclogues, into a very natural and l)athctick comp]aint, Et quoe
tanta.idt Ilomam &c. i. 7. " And thcrc is much addrel in
the parenthelis introducing Virgil, which points out that verfe.
((uamvis illaforet, &c.) i.e. Althotgh Romc was as fine a cty
at prefçnt» a whcn vifitcd by Tityrus or Virgil. T.
578 SILVARUM
Tityrus ipfe fuas et oves et rura reliquit ;)
Ut te tare dulci poffem caruiffe fodale !
lPofl'em tot maria alta, tot interponere montes,
Tot tilvas, tot faxa tibi, fiuvi6fque'fonantes ! o
Ah cert extremùm licuiffet tangere dextram,
Et ben compotitos placid morientis ocellos,
:Et dixiffe, " Vale, nofifi memor ibis ad atira.'"
Ite domum impafii,dominojam non vacat,agni.
Quamquam etiam vefirî nunquam meminifçe
pigebit,
:Paiores Thufci, Mufis operata juventus,
Hic Charis, atque Lepos; et Thufcus tu quoquo
Damon,
Antiquâ genus unde petis Lucumonis ab urbe.
0 ego quantus eram, gelidi ctm firatus ad Ami
ur, mum, popu!e5mque nemus, quà mollior
herba, o
Carpere nunc violas, nunc £ummas carpere
myrtos,
]Et potui Lycidoe certaatem aud:'re Mena]cam !
][pfe etiam tentare aufus fum; nec put% multm
Difplicui; nain funt et apud me, munera veftra,
Ver. 118. Ut te rare dul«i &c.] He addreflC :the faine fen-
riment to Deodate while living, El. iv. 21. Milton» while ia
ltaly, vifited Rome twice. T.
Ver. 18. Lucumonis ab nrbe.] Luca, or
Lucca, an ancient city of Tufcany, was founded by Lucumon
or Leumon, an Hetrufcan king. T. W^gwor.
Ver. 134. . nam funt et opud me, muera veflra
(f,'ell, &c.] Virgil, cl. iii. 6. °,
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Fifcelloe, calathique, et eerea vinc!a cicutoe : a6
Quin et noftm fuas docuerunt nomina fagos
:Et Datis, et Francinus, erant et vocibus ambo
" Et me Phoebus amat Phcebo fla retaper apud me
" Munera funt, lauri, &c." R, ICIIARDSON.
Ver. 137. Et Datis, et Francbms,] Carlo Dati of Florence,
;ith whom Milton correfponded after his rcturn to England. In
a Latin Letter to Dati, dated at London, Apr. £1, 16,7, Milton
?peaks of having fent this poem to Dati, and alfo mentions his
intention of fending his book of Latin poems publiIhed two
:years before, 16,5. Irojè-rorks, vol. ii. 57. Dati has a Latin
ulogy prcfixed to the Poemata, cdit. 1673. So has Antonio
Francini an ltalian ode of confiderable merit.
In Bu. rman's Sflloge, in a Letter from Cuperus to Heinfius,
datod 167£, Carolus Datus is mentioned, " cujus eruditionis
fponforem habeo librum de ita l"i#torum.'" vol. ii. 671. That
is, his Lires of four " tie .4.noient Painters. 2tgain, in another
from the faine, dated 1676, his dcath is mentioned with much
regret, 'here he is called vit in Etrufcis pr«flanti.llims , and one
whofe lors would be deeply felt by the learned, ibid. 693.
anothcr from N. Heinfius, datcd 1647, he is called " amiciffi-
mure mihi juvenem," iii. 193. Again, ibid. 806, 80, 86, 8£7.
In another from the faine, dated 16"5'2, " Scribit ad me Datus
Florcntioe in blediceo codice extare, &c." ibid. °94,. He cor-
refponds with J. Voflïus in 1647, ibid. 573. Voflius, and others,
wilh him to publilh Doni's book of lnfcriptions, ibid. 574. fcq.
Spanheim, in 1661, writes to N. Heinfius to introduce him to
Carlo Dati and othcr learned inetl at Fiorence, ibid. 817. In
Letter from N. Heinfius dated 16ï6, " Mors repentina Caroli
Dati quanto moerore me confccerit, vix efi ut verbis exprimatur.
Ne nunc quidem, clàm virum cogito, "à lacrymis tempcrare pof-
fum &c." vol. iv. 609. Sec aifo vol. v. 577, 578. In a Letter
to Chrifiina queen of Swcden doed 165°, Frora Florcnce, N.
Heinfius rends her an Italian epigram by Dati, much applauded,
on ber late accident, ibid. 767. Again from the faine to the faine,
165£, " Habes et hîc Caroli Dafi Epigrmnma Etrufcum. Et
autem ille» quod et aliA monui occafione, magni inter Florentino
Poetas nominis ; laudes tuas fingulari parat poemate," Ibid. 758.
:SO bILVARUM
Et çtudiis noti, Lydorum tinguinis ambo.
Ire domum impat'ti,dominojam non vacat,ngni.
IIoec mihi tum loeto dictabat rotida luna, -(
Dura folus tencros claudebam cratibus hoedos.
Sec alfo p. 744, 742, 472. lle was cclcbratcd for his fkill in
Romau antiquities. A Diffcrtation is addrcflèd to him from
Odavio Falconieri, conccrning an infcribed Roman brick taken
from the rubbifl of an ancicnt Roman flruc"ture, (lettroyed for
rebuilding the Portico of the Pantheon, 16(51. Groevii Roman.
'Intiquit. iv. 1483. T.
There are two iutcrefling letters from Dati, on literary fub-
je¢'ts, in 51. Gudii et Do¢torum Virorum ad Eum Epilioloe,
Curantc P. Burmanno, Ultraje&. 1697." 4°" pp. 63, 64. Befides
his Lires qf the Painters» alrtady noticed, publilhed in 1667,
Dati committed to the prefs, lu 16159, his Pan«gyrick on Louis
thefourte«nth; which bas been tranflated from the halian into
Frcnch. Rolli mentions other works of Dati. See alfo Voyage
de 5I. 5Ionconnys, fec. part. Lyon. 1666, p. 83. " Carlo Dati
me donna fa lettre i»qrim& pour prouver que Torricelli auoit
trouvé le premier la roulette." Toge)-
Ver. 138. Lydorumfanguinis ambo.] Of thc mort
ancicnt Tufcan familles. The Lydiaus brought a colony into
ltaly, whence canae the Tufcans. On this origin of the Tufcans
froln thc Lydians, Horace founds the claim of the Tufcan 51oe-
«chas to a high and il-luftrious anceltry, Sat. i. ,ci. 1.
" Non quia, 51ecenas, Lgdorum quicquid Etrufcos
« Incoluit filles, nemo generoJior el[ te."
Sce allb Propertius, II1. ix. 1. T. W,rog.
Ver. 140. 11ec mili tutu lctto dic2abat rofcida luna,
Dura fohts teneros claudebum cratibus hcedos.] As in
L!lcidas, v. 9. " Battening our flocks with the frdh dews of
night." The erates are the uattlcd cote" in Cornue, v. ô45.
, T. Watros.
5lilton's allufion is, lu both placcs, to Horace, Epod. il. 45.
" Claudénfque tt'xtis cratibu loetum pecus." ll'attled, it lnay
be addcd, is a participlc of Sylvcftcr's, Du Bart.
*" Their eczttlt'd locks gulbt ail in riuers out." Toi)».
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Ah quoties dixî, chm te cinis ater habebat,
unc canif, aut ]epori nunc tendit refia Damon,
Vimn nunc text, varos iïbi quod fit
Et quoe tutu facili fperabam mente futura 145
Arripui voto levis, et prefentia finxi ;
" Heus bone ! numquid agis ? nifi te quid fortb
" retardat,
" Imus ? et argutâpaulùm recubamus in umbr,5,
" Aut ad aquas Colni, aut ubi jugera Caffibe-
" launi ?
" Tu mihi percurres medicos, tua gramina,
" fuccos, 15o
Ver. 14. cùm te ci»s ater habebat,] Mi|ton has
adopted this expreflion from what many criticks have fuppofed
to be hot a genuine line of Virgil, as Mr. J. Warton rcmarks.
See «n. iv. 633.
" lqamque fuam patria antiqua cinis ater habcbat."
TODD
Vr. 144. /ïmina nunc texit, &c.] Virgil Ecl. ii. 71.
"' Quin tu aliquid faltem potius, quorum indiget ufus,
" Viminibus mollique paras detexere junco ?"
John WA ItTO.
Ver. 149. .4ut ad aqr.as Colni, aut «bi jugera Caflibelauni ?]
The river Colne flows through Buckinghamflfire and IIerfford-
[hire, in Milton's neighbourhood. I|is father's houle and lands,
at Horton, near Colnbrook, werc held under the earl of Bridge-
water, before 'hom Comus xas acd. By jugera Cqibcl«uni,
wc are to underfiand Vcrulam or Saint Alban's, called the town
of Caffibelan, an ancient Britflh king. Sec Camd. Brit. i. 321.
edit. Gibf. 1772. Milton's appellations are often conveyed by
thc poetry of ancient fable. T.
Ver. 150. Tu rnihi pcrcvrres nedico, tua grarnhm, fvccos,]
Deodate is thc fhepherd-!ad in Coin-us, ver. 619, &c. Ste aile
the note on EL ri. 90. T. Wartro.'.
385 sILVARUM
,' Hellebor6mque, humiléfque crocos, foli6mque
" hyacinthi,
" Quafque habet iffa palus herbas, artéfque me-
" dentûm."
_Ah pereant herboe, pereant artéfqué medentûm,
G ramina, pofquam ipti nil prot?cere magifro !
Ipfe etiam, nana neti:io quid mihi grande tbnabat
Fit'tula, al) undeçimfij m lux eft altera noCte,
Et tutu tbrt novis admôram labra cicutis,
Diftiluere tamen ruptâ compage, nec ultra
Ferre graves potuere fonos: d u bito quoque ne tire
Turgidulus, tamen et retram; vos, cedite,
filvoe. 160
lte dommn impafti,dominojam non vacat,agni,
Ipfe ego Dardanias Rutupim per equora puppes
Dicam, et Pandrafidos regnum vetus Inogenioe,
Brennflmque Arvirag6mque duces, prifcflmque
Belinum, 16-
Ter. 155. Ite hints his defign of quitting pafioral, and the
!ightcr kinds of poctry, to write an cpick poem. This, it
pcars, by what follows, was to be on fomc part of the ancicnt
Britifl flory. T.
Ver. 162. Ip.fe ego Dardcudas &c.] The landing tff the
Trojans in England uuder Brutus. Rhutupium is a part of thc
Kcntifl coafl. Brutus lnarried Inogen, the eldeft daughter of
Pandrafus a Grecian king ; from whofe bondage Brutt, s had
delivered his countrymen the Trojans. Brcnnus and Belinus
were the riras of Mohnutius Dunwallo, by fome writers called
the tirft king of Britain. The two forts carried their vi&orious
arms into Gaul and Italy. Arviragus, the fon of Cunobèlin,
conquered the Roman general Claudius. He is fa.id to hav
founded Dover-caftle. T.
L! B E IC 85
Et tandem Armoricos Britonum fub lege ¢o-
lonos ;
Tum gravidam Arturo, fatali fraude, Igernen,
Mendaces vultus, aflimptque GorlSis arma,
Merlini dolus. O mihi tutu ti vita fupertit,
Ver. 165. Et tandem ztrmoricos &c.] Milton, in his H.
of Egland, relates that the ancient cht'onicles of Arm.orica o"
Bretagne " atteft the coming thither of the Britons to be then
firft when.they fled from the Saxons; and indeed the naine of
Britain in France is hot reatl till after that rime." B. iii. fol.
edit. p. 47. " Some think," he fays, " Armorica to bave been
peopled with Britons long belote." Ibid. p. 46. Sec alfo Le-
land's Comme,t. iz C.qg*neam CaMionem, edit. 16.58, p. 58. Too
Ver. 166. Tutu graz'idam &c.] Iogerle was the wife of
Gorlois prince of Cornvall. .Merlin l'alsformed Uther Pen-
dl'agon into Gorlois ; by hich artifice Uther lmd accefs to the
bed of logerne, and begat king Arthur. This was in Tiatagel-
caflle in Cornwall. See Geffr. Monln. viii. 19. The ftory is
told by Selden on the Pol.qolldon, S. i. -o]. il. 674. Perhaps i
will be laid, that I ara retailing much idle hiflory. But this
is fuch idle lliliory asMilton would bave clothed in the richeft
poetry. T.
This transformation of Uther Pendragon is alfo related by
Ia]e : " Utherium regem in Gorloidis transformabat fpeciem, ut
logernoe uxoris potiretur amplexu, ex quo comcubitu Arthurium
et Annam progenuit." Bah.i Script. Brit. edit. Gippefvici, 1548,
4to. fo]. 7. In tkc Iir..for z]lag'ifira!cs, Uther's paflion is re-
lated in a poem of confid.'rable lengtl by Tho. Blenerhaflèt ; ia
which, however, Merlin's artifice is hot noticed. The poet
elegant]y calls logerne " the bright-cheekt Igl'en." Tovv.
Ver. 168. 0 ,Mld &c.] I hure correted the pointing. " And
O, if I lhould have long lire to execute Ihelk. defigns, you, my
rural pipe, ihall be hung up forgotten on yonder an¢ient pine ;
you are now employed in Latin ftrains, but you flmll foon be ex-
changed for Englith poetry. Will you then round in rude Britilh
tones ?YesWe cannot .excell in all thing. I fhall be fuflï-
384 SILVARUM
Tu procul anuosâ pendebis, fifiula, pinu,
Mult6m oblita mihi; aut patriis mutata Carnoenis
rittonicum trides, quid enim ? omnia non licet
Mon fperàfçe uni licet omnia, mî t:atis ampla
Merces, et mihi grande decus (tire ignotus in
Tum licèt, externo penhùfque inglorius orbi,)
Si me flava COlnaS legat Ufa, et potor A|auni, 175
Vorticibfit'que frequens ADra, et nemus omne
Treantoe,
cicntly contented to be cclebrated at home for Englifh verfi..'"
Out author fays in the Preface to Ch. Gov. B. il. " Not caring
to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to that:
but content with thcfe Britilh ilands as my worid," Profi'-x=orks,
vol. i. 60. T. W,o..
Ver. 175. Si rnc/laz'a comas legat Ufa, et potor Alauni,] :fa
is perhaps the Ottfe in Buckinghamthirc. :But other rivers bave
that naine, which fignifies water in general. llaunus is Alain in
Dorfetlhire, Aionde in Northumberland, and Camlan in Corn-
waii ; and is alfo a Latin naine for other rivers. T. WaltrO'.
"' The :/è," fiys ltarrifon, in his Defcript. ?fBritain, p. 49. b,
" ryfeth ahout Wel[ Wicham out of one of Ihe Chiltern hills.'"
I thiuk, with lIr. Bowic. that Miiton has noticed this rill on
account of his refidence in Buckinghamflfire. To.
Ver. 176. Vorticib6fquê frequens lbra,] So Ovid, of the
river Evcnus, 3zretam. ix. 106.
" l/-orticibufquefi'equens crat, arque impcrvius amnis.'"
And Tvber is " denfus vorticibus, Fafl. ri. 502. .4bra bas been
ufcd as a Latin naine for the Tweed, the Humber, and the
Sevêrn, from the Britifl lbren, or lber, a river's mouth. Of
thc thrêc, I think the Humber, rorticibusfrequens, is intended.
Leland proves from fome old monkifla lines, that the Sêvcrn was
oiginally callcd .4bren; a naine, which afterwards the Wel/h
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Et Thamefis meus ante omnes, et fufca metallis
Tamara, et extremis me difcant Orcades undis.
]te domum impafli,dominojam non vacat,agni.
Hrec tibi fervabam lent,5 thb cortice lauri, 18o
Hec, et plura fimul ; tutu quoe mihi pocula
Manfus,
]Hanfus, Chalcidicre non ultima gloria ripre,
bards pretended to be derived from king Locrine's daughter
:4brine, hot 8abrine, drowned in that river. Comm. Cggn. Cant.
vol. ix. p. 67. edit. lï44. In the Tragedy of Locrine, written
about 1594, this lady is callcd 8abrcn. 8t«ppL 8halftp. vol. ii.
p. tï2. A. iv. S.v. " Yes, damfels, yes, Sabren flall furely
die, &c." And it is added, that the river [Severn] into which
the is throwu, was thence called Sabren. Sabren, through Sqfren,
eafily cornes to Scrern. In the lame play, Humber, the Scy-
thian king exclairns, p. 46. A. iv. S. iv. " And gentle .4.bg take
rny troubled corfc." That is, the river .4by, which juft before
is called .,tbis. Ptolemy, enumerating our rivers that" fall into
the caftern fea, mentions .'1bi ; but probably the truc reading is
_4bri, which carne frorn .,/ber'. .'/ber" rnight foon be corrupted
into l-lttnTber. The derivation of the Humber frorn Hurnber,
king of the Huns, is as f, tbulous, as that the name Severn was
from ,4brine or Sabrine. But if Humber, a king of the Huns,
bas any concern in this narne, the beft way is to rcconcile
matters and affociate both etyrnologies in 1-hm-.4ber, or ttumber.
T. WarTo.
Ver. 176. nemns orrme Treantce,] The
river Trent. In the next line, he calls Thamefis, mens, becaufe
he was born in London ; and the river Tarnar in CornwallfuJa
netallis tinturcd with tin-mines. T. Wartror.
Ver. 18°-. ]lCanfits, Chalcidicoe nn "ultima gloria riloe, ] Manfo
celebrated in the laft poern, and a Neapolitan. A people ealled
the Chalcidici are faid to have founded Naples. See the thir, t
Epigram on Leonora, v. a+. " Corpora Chalchlico facra dediffe
rogo." And Virgii's tenth Eclogue,
And :+En. vi. 17. T. W,ror.
VOL. vll C c
586 SILVARUM
Bina dedit, mirum artis opus, mirandus et iptë,
t circum gemino coelaverat argumento"
]n medio rubri maris unda,et odorifirum ver,
Littora longa A rabum, et fudantes balt:.ma tilve,
Has inter Phoenix, divina avis, unica terris,
Coeruleùm fulgens diverlicoloril)us alis,
Auroram vitreis furgentem refpicit undis ;
Parte ali.5 polus omnipatens, et magnus Olympus :
Quis putet ? hîc quoque Amor, picCtoeque in nube
pharet,'oe,
Arma corufca faces, et ticula tin6ta pyropo ;
ec tenues animas, peCififque iguobile vulgi,
flinc ferit ; at, circum flammantia lumina tor-
quens,
Ver. 183. Bina dedit, &c.] Per|reps a poetical defcription
of two real cups thus richly ornamentcd, which Milton received
as prefents from llanfo t Naph.s. He had tlattered hiln|èlf
with the happinef of lhewing thefe tokens of the regard with
vhich he had been treaIed in his Iravels, to Dcodate, at his
return. Or perhaps this is an llegorical dcfcription of fome oï
llanfo's favours. T. ]VAltTOS,
Ver. 189. Auroram vitrcisfitrgentem refpicit undis ;] Sec In
fduint. _Nov. v. 66. Su Buehanan, Sih,. iii. p. 51. edit. fupr.
«' Maris ritreas undas.'" Compare Comus» v. 861, and Paraphr.
Plaira cxiv. ver. 17. TorD.
Ver. 19. Arma cortJCa.faces, et fpicula tincTa pyropo ;] See
the Note on Elcg. vii. 47. And Taltb's Aminta, Prolog. Love
tlie fpeaker :
" Ch' h me fu, non à lei, conceffa in forte
" La face onnipotente, e 1" arco d' oto." To.
Ver. 19. circumflammatia htmina toruens]
Apoll. lhod, iii. 75, &c.
LIBER. 887
Semper in ere&um fpargit fua tela per orbes 95
Impiger, et pronos nunquam collimat ad i6tus :
I-linc mentes arderc çaeroe, forneque deorum.
Tu quoque in_his, nec me fallit fpes lubriea,
DalllOIl
Tu quoque in his cert es, nain qu6 tua dulcis
abiret
Sala&tique timplieitas, nain qu6 tua eandida
virtus ? zoo
Tee te LetlloeO las quoefiviffe fub oreo,
Tee tibi eonveniunt lacrymoe, nec flebimus ultra:
Ver. 195. IIe aims his darts upwards, per orbes» among the
flars. He wounds the gods. T. WarTos.
Ver..q00. Samgque fimplicitas, &c.] Sec Milton's EpitL
])iodato, dat. Lond. Scpt. 23, 1637. " Scribit vicem tuam
--',apud me lua probitas,--lizribit morum fimplicitas» et recCti
amor." RxcnaR,sor¢.
Ver. f01. &rec te Lethceo fas qucrfirè fb orco, &c.] From
this line to the lal but on% the imagery is ahnoft ail from his
on Lycidas, v. 181.
" ,écp no nore, woful flaepherds weelv no fnore;
" For Lyeidas your forrow is hot dead.
" Lyeidas funk 1o% but nonnteà high
" Where, other groves and other ftreams along
i With ne&ar pure his oozy locks he laves»
« And hears the nexproEh'e n.uptialfong
" In the ble.fl kingdorns meek of joy and love.
" There entertain him ail the Saints above»
« In folemn troops, and fweet foeieties,
« Who ring, and finging in their glory move.
« Henceforth thou art the Genius of the.{hore."
Here is a ftrain of myftiek devotion, yet with fome tin&ure of
clacal fi6tion, exalted into poetry. T. WalO.
38S ' SILVARUhl
Ite procul,lacryme; purum colit oethera I)amon,
/Ethera purus habet, pluvium Dcde reppulit
arcum ;
]-/ero6mque animas inter, div6fque perennes, ,:05
/thereos haurit latices, et gaudia potat
Ore facto. Qoin t,, coeli poçt jura recepta,
Dexter ades, placid6fque ri, ve quicunque vocaris,
Seu tu hot"ter eris Damon, rive equior audis
Diodatus, quo te divino nomine cuni ¢o
Coelicolm n6rint, filvifque vocabere Damon.
Qubçl tibi purpureus pudor, et fine labe juventus
Grata fuit, qu6d nulla tori libata voluptas,
"F,n etiam tibi virginei fervantur honores ;
]pie caput nitidum cin&us rutilante coron'S, :1
Let£que frondentis gel}ans umbracula palme,
_}]ternm perages immortales hymeneos ;
Cantus ubi, choreifque furit lyra ,nii}a beatis,
rer. £19.. purpureus pudor,] Ovid, Art. Am. I. iii. 14.
" Nudaque fimplicitas» lurloureufque pudor."
r ICtlARDSO 1.
rcr. 14. En et«;am til, i vbinci rvant«r honores ;] Deodate
and Lycidas u'ere both unmarried. Sec Revclations, for his al-
lution, xiv. 3, 4. " Thefe are they which were not defiled with
women, br thcy are virgins, &c.'" T. Waro.
¥cr. 216. Lwtgtt«.frond«tis gans mbracula almw,
ternùm.erages fmortaks hyenwos ;] OE'he faine
defcriptin, from Jerelat. vil. 9, 10, is transferrcd into Par.
L«, ri. 88, &c. Taflb has the faine ailufion :
" E mille tiare llice è quell' ahua,
« Che ha del beli prar coronu, e palma." To.
LIBER.
Fefta Sionoeo bacchantur et Orgia thyrfo '.
* DoSor Johnfon obfervcs, that this poem is " written with
the common but chi|difh imitation of pafiora| lit'e." Yet
are fome new and natura| country images, and the comm,m toc
picks are oftcn recommended by a novehy ofelegm.t expreflïon.
The pafioral form is a fault of Ihe poet's rimes. It contains alfo
fomc paflhges which xvander far bcyond tire bounds of bucolick
long, and iarc in his own original ft)le of the more fublime
poctry. Milton cannot be a flmpht'rd hmg. His own nadv
powers often break fortI,, and cammt bear the afflmcd d,f,uife.
T. WlOr.
390 SILVARUM
Jan. 23, 1646.
Ad JOANNE 3I R OUSIU'II Ovonies A cademi«e
]3ibliothecariuîn *.
De libro Poematum am(ffb, quem illçfibi denu3 mitti
poflulabat, ut cure aliis oflris in Bibliothecd pub-
licâ reponet, Ode.
Ode tribus conflat Strophis, totidémque A»tiflrophis,
ungt demum Epodo chus ; quas, tametjï otaries ec
e.fitum mtmero, 7ec certis ubique colis exa{tè re-
.fpon&at, ith tamen.cuimus, commodè legendi
potius, quàm ad antiquos concitedi modos rationem
.fpeantes. Alioquin hoc gem«s re3ibs fortqè
dici monropkicum &buerat. 3Ietra partial(tiret
«à ««,, partira doza«. Pha&ucia quoe
.fient, Spond«um tertio loco bis admittunt, çuod
i&m in.cundo loco Catullus ad libitum fecit.
Stroplte l.
G:EM:ELLE cultu fimplici gaudens liber,
:Fronde licèt gemin,
* John Rojë, or Ruffe, Marier of Arts, fcllow of Oriel col-
lege Oxford, was elc&cd chier librarian of the Bodleian, May 9,
16C0. Hc dicd in Apïil, 165. °, and was buricd in the chapel of
his college. Hc fuccccded to Thomas James, thc firti that held
this office from the foundation. In painted glafs, in a window
of the Prov(»fi's Lodgings at Oriel college, are the heads of tir
Thomas Bodley, James, and Roufc, by Van Ling. Hcrne fays,
they were put up by Roule : lhey wcrc probably brought from
LIBER.
Munditiéque nltens non operos;
Quem manus attulit
Roufe's apartnent to the Provofl's Lodgings, 'hen the College
was rt.built " about 16-0." Ilt'arnc, MSS. Coll..xii. p. 13.
Routb's portrait, large as life, a three quarters length, and coeval,
is in the Bodleiau library, lle publi|hed an Appendix to James's
Bodlt.ian Catalogue, Oxon. 16ô6. 4to. In lJ31, the Univerfi W
printed, " Epifiol«t ad Johamaem Cirenbergium, oh acceptum
nodalium Epiltolarum Concilii Balileenfis A6,f«q, proefix va-
riorum carminibus honorariis in eundt-m Cirenbergium. Oxon.
1G31." in quarto. Wher« am,ng the nanes of the writers in
Latin, are Richard Bufl»y of Chrifi Church, afterwards the cele-
bratt'd Marier of Wefimiulter : Jafper Maine, and 'l'hçmas Cart-
wright, both wt.ll known as Englilh poets, aid of the thme col-
lege : ad "['homas Maliers of New-college, author of the famçus
Greek Ode on the Crucifixivn. The Dt.dication, to Cirenberg,
is writtt'n by out librariau Roufe, who fer'ms to bave conduted
the publication. In it he teaks of his Travels, and particularly
of his return from ltaly through Baril. He bas a copy of not in-
elegant Latin Elegiacks, in the Oxford verres, cailed Britmmice
Vatalis, Oxon. 1630. 4to. p. (i'2. llt'arne |'ays, that Roufe was
intimate wih Butte,n, author of the celebrated book on 3lelan-
cholie; aud hat he furniflwd Burton ith choice boçks for that
work. MSS. Coll. cxli. p. I1-1.. He lived on terres of the moR
intimate friendlhp with G. J. Voflîus; by whom he was highly
valued and refpected lbr his learning, anti acbvity lu promoting
literary undertakings. This appears from Voflius's Epifiles to
Rouit', riz. Epp. 73, 130, 1+-1., 56, 409, 4:97. Sec Colome-
fius's Vo.ffii Epiltolce, Lo:d. 1690. fol. There is alfi_ a long and
well-written Epifile |'rm l{.oulç, to Vollius, Ep. 35"2. ibid. ad cale.
p. '21. Degory Wheare, the firl't Camden Pl'ollfir, fends his
]3ook De latione et 3lelhodo lege»di Hi/torias, in 1625, to Roufe,
with a Letter infcribed, " Jo«mi Rou.liro literatiflimo Academico
neo." St, e Wheare EpiJïolarmn EttcltariJticarum oe'tj.i«ul«s, Oxon.
1G28. IQmo. I:- l lC Not only on accout of his friend[hip
with 31ilton bich appears to have fublifit'd in 1637, bot becaufe
he retained his libraianlbip and fellowlhip through Cromwell's
Ufurpation we ma" fuppol Roufi" to have been puritanically in-
39 SILVARUM
]uveni[is o]im,
Sedula tamèn haud nhnii poetoe ;
clined. Sec Notes on Sir tlcnry Wotton's 1,cltcr prefixcd fo
Comt. However, in 1627, he was expelled from his fcllowfifip ;
but, foon afterwards making his peace with the Prefbyterian
Vifitors, ,as reftored, Walkcr's Su.ff. Clef. P. il. p. 13. We
are told alfo by Walkcr, that, when the prelbyterian officers pro-
cceded to fearch and pillage tir Thomas 13odley's chcft in the
library, they quitted their defign, ort being told that there was
to be found there, " by Roufe the librarian, a colfidbg t, rother."
Ibid. P. i. p. 143. Wood ihys, that whcn Lord Pembroke,
Cromwell'sChancellour of the Univerfity of Oxford, took his
chair in the Convocation-houle, in 164.8, fcarcely any of the
loyal members attended, but that Roufe x'as prefent, Hifl. Ant.
Unir. Oxon. i. 401. col. 2. Probably Milton might become
acquainted with Roufc, xvhen he was incorporated a llaiter of
.Arts at Oxford in 1635. !Neale fays, the Affcmbly of Divines,
in 1Ô45, recommended the new verfin of the Pçalms by 5If.
Roufe, to be ufed inttead of Sternhold's which was grown ob-
folete, ttifl. Pur. vol. iii. 315. edit. 1736. But this was Francis
Roufe originally of Broadgate-Hall Oxtbrd, one of the affcmbly
of Divines, the prefbyterian provoft of Eton collcge, and au
ac'-tive inftrument in the Calvinitick vifitation of Oxford : whofe
u'orks were colleOed and publifled together ai London, in 1657,
under the title '" Treatifes and mcditations dedicated to the
Saints, and to the Excellent throughout the threc kingdoms."
His Pfalms appeared in 16-1. 13utler fays of thefe Plairas,
" Whe Roule itood forth for his trial, Robin Wifdom [in Stern-
hold and Hopkins] ,,vas round the better poet," I¢emai, s, edit.
1754. p. 230. I ktaow not if he ,,vas related to the librarian.
But Wood meutions our librarian Roufc, as conveying, in 166,
an old hoftel to Pembroke college Oxford, vhich was converted
into Lodgiags for the 5lafter of that college, then recently
founded in Broadgate Hall; and which Roufe had juft purchafed
of Dr. Clayton, prefe.rred ri'oto the Principality of that Ilall to
the Mafterflfip of the new college, Hifl. Unir. Oxon, il. 336.
col. 2. I recite this anecdote, as it feems to tilggeft a conjeure,
¢orroborated by other circumfiances, that the librarian 'as rc-
LIBER.
Dum vagus Aufonias nunc per umbras,
Nunc Britanniea per vireta lufit,
lated to Francîs Roule abovemeutioned, the prefbyterian provol
*of Eton, who was bred in Broadgate Hall, and at his death in
1657, became a libera.l benefad'tor to Pembroke college.
Mitron, at Roufe's requeft, had given his littIe volume of
poems, printed in IJ-$L;, to the Bodleian library. But the book
being loi't, Roufe requefted his friend Milton to rend another copy.
In 1646, another was font by the author, ueatly but plainly
bound, munditie nitens non opcrofd, in which this ode to Roule,
in llilton's own hand-writing, on one flaeet of paper, is inferted
between the Latin and Englilh Poems. It is the faine now marked
_I. 168..4rt. 8vo. In the faine library, is another finall volume»
uniformly bound with that lafi mentioned, of a few of lIilton's
profe tras, the firft of which is of Rçformation touchiag Churcli
1)ifcipline, printed tbr T. Undcrhill, 1641. 4to. Marked F.
Th. In the firlt blank leaI; in Milton's own hand-writing is
this infcripti,m, never before printed. « Do&iflimo viro pro-
boque librorum eliinlatori Johanni 1o/io, Oxonienlis Academi.,e
]3ibliothecario, gratum hoc libi ri»re teflanti, Joannes Miltonu
opufcula hoec fua, in Bibliothecam antiquillqmam arque celeberri-
mare adfcifcenda, libens tradit : tanquam in memori,e perpetuoe
fanum, emeritamque, uti fperat, invidioe calumnioeque vacationem,
fi veritati bonoque limul eventui fatis llt litutum. Sunt autem De
Reformatione Anglioe, Lib. 2.--De Epifcopatu Proelatico, Lib. 1.
De rationc Politioe Eccleliafticoe, Lib. 1.Auimadverliones
Remonfirantis Dclnfionem, Lib. l.--Apologia, Lib. 1.Doc-
trinact difciplina Divortii, Lib. .--Judicium Buceri de Divortio,
Lib. 1.--Colat'terion, Lib. 1.Tetrachordon iu alîquot proecipua
8cripturoe loca «le Divortio, inftar Lib. 4.--Areopagitica, rive de
libermte Typographioe oratio.--De Educatione Ingcnuorum epif-
tola .--Pocmata Latint, et .4aglicana.lo»fim.'" About the year
170, thefc two volumes, with other finall books, were haftily,
perhaps contemptuoufly, thrown aime as duplicates, cither real or
pretended : and Mr. Nathaniel Crynes, an efquirc beadle, and
diligent colle&or of fcarce Engliflx books, was permitted, on the
* TraoEate of Education fo IIartlib.
394 SILVARUI
Infons populi, barbit6que devius
Indultit patrio, mox itidem pe6tine Daunio
10
promifc of fome future valuable bequeffs to the library, to pick
out of the heap wbat he plcafied. But l,e having luckily many
naorc grains of party prejudice than of tarte, could not think any
thing worth baving that b,»l'C thc naine of the rcpublican 3lilton ;
and thcretbre thefc two curiolities, which would be invaluable in
a modern aucfion, werc fortumttely fuff.r¢'d to rcmain in the li-
brary, and were foon afterwards honourably rcUorcd to their ori-
ginal places. T. Wa
Wood infi»rms us, that Fairfax, Cromwcll, &c. having becn
admitted to the degree of Doelor of Civil Law, \vent, alter the
cerelnoUy, to thc Bodleian Library where they were reccived
xt'ith a fpeech by the keel.er, Roule. 5ce ztm.«ls U»iv. Ox. edit.
(;utch, vol. ii. 60. Rouf," prevented the plulidtring of Bodley's
ClwfL ILid, 6a. lle bequeathed ttcnty pounds to the Library.
]bid, 944.
Ver. 1. Gtmetlc cult«./împlici gaude,s liber,
l"ronde licit gcminà, &c.] By Frondegewi»a, we
arc to underftand, metaphorically, the tco-Jbld l«ql the Poems
both l-]nglllh and Latin, of which lhe volume conlified. So the
]3od|eian Inallul'cript, and prin/cd copies : but./fo»te is perhnps a
better rcading. This volume of Pocms, 1645, has a doublejront
or fitlc-pagc; both ri.patate and detached from each other, th¢
otc, at the bcginning, prefixed to the Latin, and the other, about
the Ini¢]dle, to the Englilh poems. Under either reading, the
volume i Liber gemdlus, a double book, as confifiing of ttto dif-
tint parts, yet «MtaJimplici, uuder lhe lbrln and appearance, the
hobit, ofa lingle book. ri'.
]t muft be menfioned, that in lMilton's book lhe E»gli./h poems
tre placed./:#, and the Ode imlnediately fi,llows thc ride-page of
tht. Latiu poems. This, and lwo or three othcr llight alternti,ns
lu the quotation ri'oto Milt«m's larger volume, in the precediug
'ote, are Inade from the original. TODD.
'cr. 9. h./'o»spop«6] Guiltlefs as yet of engaging in the
popular difl»ues of hefe turbulent rimes. T.
Ver. 10. nmx itidem pcdtbc Daiudo] Ilis Itali;,n
Sonuets. T.
LIBER.
Longinquum intonuit melos
Vicinis, et humum vix tetigit pede:
Antifirophe.
Quis te, parve liber, quis te fratribus
Subduxit reliquis dolo ?
Cflm tu miflias ab urbe,
Do6to jugitèr obterante amieo,
Illuçtre tendebas iter
Thamefis ad inculm.bula
Çoerulei partis,
I?ontes ubi limpidi
Aonidum, thyaffifque lacer,
Orbi notus per immenfos
Temporum lapfis redeunte coelo,
Celebérque futurus in oevum ?
15
2O
Strophe .
Mod6 quis deus, aut editus deo,
Priftinam gentis miferatus indolem,
(Si fatis noxas luimus priores,
]lollique luxu degener otium,)
Tollat nefandos cirium tumultus,
5
Ver. 18. T]antfis ad i»cunabula] The Thames, or Iris, rifes
hot very many toiles weR of Oxford, on the confines of Glocel[er-
flfire. Unlct the poet means the junc-tion of Tame and Iris, lb.nci-
fully fuppofed to producc Thamefis, at Dorcheftcr near Oxford.
T. WatoEox.
Ver. 9. Tollat nefandos ciz'ium tu»,,ultus, &c.] I fear Milton
here eomplaining of evils» which his o x principles contributed
9» SILVARUM
Almque revocet fiudia çanus, ôo
t relegatas fine fede Mut:as
3am pen totis finibus Angligen6m ;
Immundsque volucres,
Unguibus imminentes,
Figat Apollineâ pharetr', a
l"hinem que abigat pefl:em procul atone legasëo ?
either to produce or promote, But his illuflrations are fo beau-
tiful, that we tbrgct his politicks m his poctry. In refleing,
|mwevcr, on thofe evils, 1 calmot cntirely impute thcir orlgm to
a growing fpirit of popular fanion. If tlcre was mmrchy on
one part, there was tyramy on the other: the diflmte was a
¢onfli& " between governours who rulcd by will not by law,
and fubjets who wouhl not fufler the law itfelf to controul their
a6tions." Balguy's Serinons, p. 55, T. VItTO..
Ver. 00. Immund6.fque volucres, &c,] I-le bas almoft a fimilar
allufion in the ReaJbn ofChurch Government, &c, He compares
Prclacy to the Python, and adds, " till |ike that tbn-born ferpent
the be fhot to death with thc darls of the fun, thc puïe and power,
fui beams ofGod's xvo:d" 2rt-works i. 74,, T. Wara'o
LIBER.
In Jovis aulam, remige pennt"
Strophe 3.
Nain te Roiifius fui
Optat peculî,
numeroque judo
Sib, pollicitmn queritur abeflè ;
Rog,tque venias ile, cujus inclyta
Sunt data " " .
vrum monumenta cure"
Téque adyts etiam lb.cris
Voluit reponi, quibus et ipfe proetldet,
:]Etcrncrum operum cuçtos fidelis ;
Qumft6rque gazoe nobilioris,
Quàm cul prie fuit I5n,
5O
Ver. 46. re,dge pe:mg, :] This reminds us of a
kindred allufi,)n in l'aradiJè Loti, " his faii-broad ValS,'" B. ii.
97. And this idea he had ufed befi)re, of the Englifh dragon
SupeUtition, " this inighty .fail-a'ing'd monltcr." Ch. Governm.
B. il. And fce In Quint. Noremb. ver. o08. But Spenfer had
it before of a dragon not lefs formidable, Faer. Qu. i. xi. 10. 18o
And the monftcr in Ariofto, fuggcfted by archbiflmp Turpin:
which fights with Bayardo, bas wings, " che parean duo
Orl. Fur. xxxid. 84. T.
Ver. 55. The paintings, ftatues, tapeftT, tripods, and other
ineftimable furniture of Apollo's temple at Delphi, are often poe-
tically dcfcribed in the Ion. Sec particularly v. 185. feq.
1146. fcq.. lts images of gold are nentioned in thc Phoeni,[/ir,
v. 228. The riches of the treafurcs t)f this celebrated fhrine
were proverbial even in the days of Homer. II. ix. 40,.
thcfe werc offerings, ANA)PIMATA, Dona Delphica, lnade by
¢mincnt perfonages who vifited the temple. T. WAItTO.
Ver. 56. Quàm cuiTrcrfuit ln, &c.] Ion, the tr(afitrer of
the Delphick temple, abounding in riches. Euripides's tragedy
o Ion evidently occafioned this allufion. Euripides calls lori,
XPTZOOT&AK,% V. 54. T.
S98 SILVARUM
Clarus Erechtheides,
Opulenta dei per templa parentis,
:Fuh-6filUe tripodas, donquc Delphica,
IiJrl, 2k&oet genitus Creusâ.
Go
65
70
Vos tandem, haud vacui mei labores,
Quicquid hoc çterile fudit ingenium,
Jam tèr3 placidam terare jubeo 7
Perfun&am invidiâ requiem, tèdéfque beatas,
Quas bonus Hermes,
]t tutela dabit folers Roiifi ;
Ver. 78. Et tutda &c.] If he meant this verre for an hen-
decafyllable, there is a falfe quantity infolers. The firf fyllable
is notorioufly long. T. W,xI,Wo.
LI B E R.
Qt, c neq,,e lingua procax vulgi penetrabit, atq,,e
longè
Turl)a legentûm prava faceffet :
At uhin,i ncpotes,
lt cordatior etas,
Jmlicia rebus eqniora fiMitan
Adhibebit, integro tlnu.
Tutu, livore tL-'pulto, sa
Si quid meremur fana poliel'itas ti:iet,
o51io îgtvente.
Ver. 86. Si q«id mercm«r &c.] The rcadcr will recollc¢"t,
tl,at this Ode was 'rittea and font in 1646. Milton hcre al-
ludes to thc tbvere ccnfircs M,ich he had lately filti.red,
only from thc cpifcol.ml , but even from thc p,'efl*yte,'im,, party.
About the year l(J41, ot, r autlmr, cll knm ing hmv much the
puritans wantcd the affiftance of abilities and lcarning, ttackcd
tl,e ordcr of bilhops and thc entirc conliin,tion of thc Chu,'ch of
England, in thrte or four large and labourcd t,'catifes. One of
/hc(b, his Reply to bilhop Ilall's }[e,nonl,'anc« was anfwered
the ttme year by an a,mny,nous antagonil, fi, ppofed to be the
bilhop's lbn ; who calls Milton : blafl»hemer , a drunkard, a pro-
fane l\vcarer, and a frequenter of brothcls, affe,'ting at the l:a,ne
time, that he was expelled thc Univerlity of Cambridge for a
perpetual courre of riot and debauchery. About the year 164 ,
Milton publilhed his tracts on Divorce. Hcre he quarrelled
with his own friends. Thefepieces were inftantly anathematifcd
by the tl,under of the prctbyterian clergy, from the pulpit, the
prcfs, and the tribunal of the Affc,nbly of Divines at Wefiminficr.
By the leaders of that pcrfuafion, who wcre now predominant,
and who began in their turn to find that novelties wcre dan-
gerous, he was evcn fimmoned before the Hot, fe of Lords. It
is i,, reference to the rough nd perhaps undcferved treatment
which he received, in confequcnce of the publication of thefe
differtations in defence of domeftick liberty, that he complaio.s
in his twclfth Sunnet.
4O0 $1LVARUM
« I did but prompt the age to quit thelr
" By the known rules of ancient |iberty,
t, When firaiglat a barbarous noire environs me
« Of owls and cukoos, acs, apes, and dogs, &c. »
And the preceding Sonnet on the çme fubje&, is thus entitleO,
« On the etraio which followed upon my writing certain
Treatiff.s."
But thefc were only the beginnings of ob]oquy. I-Ie was again .
to appeal to pofierity tbr indulgence. Eril b»gucs, togethcr with
many EvlDaç,, were fiill in referve. Thc commonwealth was
to be dimnul[c, and monarchy to be refiorcd. The Dofonce of
thc King's Murther was hot yet burnt by the common hangman.
In tiic year 166, his ocial Latin Letters werc printed. In the
Prefitce, the editor çays of the author, " E tbrfan digttillimus
qui ab omnibus lcgeretur 31iltonus, nifi flyli fui facundiam et
puritatem ttrp[limis »oribus iuquinafl't." Winflanly thus cha-
raerifes our author. " lIc is one whfe natual parts might
delbrvedly give him a place among the principal of out Englilh
poets.But his faine is gone out like a candle in a fnuff, and
his memory g'ill always fiink, which might bave ever lived
honourable repute, had he hot been a notorious traytor, &c.'"
Li¢,e the Po«ts, p. 17.5. edit. 1687.
I metion thefe defcriptions of Iilton, among many others
of a like kind which appeared lbon afier his death, becauçe they
probably contain the tote of the publick opinion, and feem to
r«prefent the general and efiablifled cfiimation of his charaer
at that rime ; and as they at here delivered difpaonately, and
ot thrown out in the heat of controverl and calmnniation.
Upon the whole, and xith regard to his political writings at
large, even afier the prejudices of party have fubfided, Iihon, I
believe, bas found no grcat lhare of tvour, of app]aufe, or even
of cadour, tom çiifiant generations. Ilis 8i quid mern«r, in the
fenfe here belonging to the words, bas been to fully afcertained
by the mature determination of rime. Toland, about thirty years
afier the Reoration, thought Milton's profe-works of fucient
excellence and importance to be collected aad prmted in onc body.
But they were negle(ted and foon tbrgotten. Of late years, fome
attempts bave been nade to revive them, with as litde fnccefs.
At prefent, they are ahnofi uuktoxx'n. If they arc evcr infpeed»
LIBER. 4,01
itis perhaps oeeafionally by the commentator on Miltou's verf,
as affording materials for comparative criticifm, or from motive
of curiofity only, as the protiu&ions of the writer of Comus anti
Par«d/ Lo, and hot fo much for any independent value of their
own. In point of do&rine, they are calculateti to annihilate
very foundati0ns of out civil and religious efiablifhment» as it nov
îubfifts : they are. fi,bverfive of out legilLature, anti our fpecies of
government. In condemning tyranny, he firikes at the bare exo
iftence of "kings ; in combating fuperftition, he deeries all publick
religio**. Thefe difcourfes hold forth a fyftem of politicks, at
prefent as unconfiitutional, and almoft as obfolete, as the nor, fenfe
of paffive obedience: and, in this view, we might juft as well
thlnk of republiflfing the pernicious theories of the kingly bigot
.lames, as of the republican ufurper Oliver Cromwell. Their
ftyle is perplexed, pedantick, poetieal, and unnatural : abounding
ia enthufiaftiek effufions, which have been miftaken for eloquenee
and imagination. In the midft of the mort folemn rhapfi»dies
**.hich would have fhone in a raff fermon belote Cromwell,
fometimes indulges »ein of jocularity ; but hls wittieifms
as aukward as they are unfuitable, and Miltor never more mif-
tnderfantis the nature and bias of his genius, than when he affe
to be arch either in profe or verre. His want of deferenc to
fuperiours teaches him to write without good manners and, when
,ve confider his familiar acquaintance with the elegancies of
*iquity» with the orators and hifiorians of Greece and Rome
few writers will be founti to bave ruade fo entier a facrifice to
the Graces. From fome of thefe îtri&ures, I muft except
Trecate on Educetion, and the Areoloagitice,which are written with
a tolerable degree of facility, fimplicity, purity, and perfpieuity
and the latter, fome tedious hifiorieal digreftions and fome littl
fophilry excepted, is the mof clore, conelufive, eomprehenfive,
and decifive vindication of the liberty of the prefs that has ye*
appeared, on a fubje on which it is dificult to deeide» between
the lieentioufiefs of fceptieifm and fedition» and the arbitrary
exertions of authority. In the mean time Milton's profe works,
I fufpe&, were never popular : he deeply engaged in mort
eeelefiaftical difputes of his rimes, yet he is feldom quted or
mentioned by his eontemporari«, eitl, er of the pretyterian or
independent perfuaffon : cven by Richard Batr paftor of Içd°
¥o/. vil. D d
402 S [LVA RU M
dcrminiter, a judicious and voluminous tidvocatc on the tîde OE
thc prlhyterians, who vehcnwntly ccnfurês and oppofes fevcrul of
hJs coa,ljutors in the caui of church-independency, he is paffcd
over in profound filence. For lais brethren the indepcndcnts lin
feems to Ime been too lcarned and unintelligible. In 1652, tir
Robert Filmer, in a general attack on the reccnt untimonarchical
writcrs, bcitows but a vcry lhort and flight rcfutation on lais
politicks. It appears from thc CenJhre of th« IoIa, a pamphlet
publilhed in 16(/0, laid t,, bc fabricatcd by llarriagton's club,
that cvcn bi., brotlwr party-writcr ridiculed thc affcOations and
abfurditics of his ltylc . Lord 3Ionboddo is thc on]y modcrn
critick of note, who ranks Milton as a profe-writer xvith IIookcr,
prat, and Clarcndon.
I bave hitherto been fpcaking of Milton's profc-works in
Englifla. I cannot allow that his Latin performances in profe
are formed o: auy one chafie Roman modcl. They confifi of a
modern fatCtitious mode of latinity, a compound of phrafeology
gk.aned from a general imitation of variotts ltyles, commodious
cnough for thc author's purpofc, tlis Dffctgiopropopuloztnglicano
againft ahnafius, fo liberally rewarded by thc prefbyterian
miniftration, thc bel- apology that ever was ofli:red for bringing
kings to the block, and vhich diffulbd his reputation all over
Europe, is remembcred no more.
Do&or Birch obferves of this prophetick hope in the text, that
« the univerlhl admiration with which his Works arc read, j uli-
fie 'hat he himfelf fays in his Ode to Roufe," Liffè, p. lxiii.
But this hope, as 'e bave feen, our author here refiri(ts to his
political fpeculations, to his works on civil and religious fubjes,
'hich are liill in expeOation of a reverlionary faine, and fiil|
awai t the partial fuffrages of aJàna pofletqtos, and a eordatior cetas.
'l'he flattering anticipation of more propitious rimes, and more
cquitable judges, af fome remote pcriod, vould have been julily
applicable to his other 'orks } lbr in thofe, and thofe only, it has
been amply and confpicuoufly verified. Iris ff'ont the ullimi nepotea
that juftice bas been done to the genuine claires of his poetical
chara¢'ter. Nor does any thing, indeed, more ftrongly mark tho
impoved critical difcernment of the prefnt age» than that it has
* Oldys attrihutes this paroi)hier to Hatrittol, la hi Catalogue of tl
pamphlet in he Hafleiaa Library.
LIBER. 4o
atoned for the contemplible talle, the blindnefs, and the neglt=tct,
of the laft, in recovering and exalting the poetry of Milton toits
due degree of cultivation and efteem : and we may fafcly pl'og-
n,fticate, that the pofterities are yet unborn, vhich will bear tcfti-
mony to the beautics of lais cahner ilnagery, and the magnificence
of his more fuhlime dcfcriptions, to the dignity of his fentimcnts,
and the vigour of his laaguage. Undoubtedly the Paradife
had always its readers, and pedmps more humerons and devoted
admirers even at the infacy of its publication, than our biogra-
phers bave commonly fuppofed. Yet, in its filent progreflion,
even after it had bcen recommended hy the popular papers of
.çddifon, and had acquired the diftin&ion of an Englilh claflick,
many years elapfed before any fymptoms appeared, that it had
influenced the national rafle, or that it had wrought change in
our verlification, and out modes of poet;.cal thinking. "lhe re«
mark might be flill farther extended, and more forcibly direc"ted
and brought home, to his earlier poctry.
Among other proofs of our revereuce for Iilton, we have feen
a monument given to lais melnory in Wcflmiufl¢'r-abbey. But this
fplendid memorial did hot appear, till we had overlooked the
author of ReJbrnation in England, and the Defeo: in other
words, till out rifing regard for Milton the poet llad taught us
to forget llilton the politicien, lqot long belote, about the year
lïlO, when Atterbury's infcription for the monument of John
Philips, in which he was laid to befoli 3liltonofict,ndus, was
to do(tor Sprat then dean of Winchefler, he refufed it admittance
into the church ; the naine of Milton as doc2or Johnfon obfi'rvcs,
'ho firft relates this anecdote, " being in his opinion, too detcft-
able to be read on thc wall of a building dedicated to devotion."
Yet when more enlarged principles had takcn place, and lais buft
was ere(tcd where once lais name had been deemed a profanation»
do&or George, Provoft of King's College, Cambridgc, who vas
folicited for an epitaph oaa the occafion, forbcaring to draw his
topicks of reconciliation from a bettt'r fourcc, thought it expe-
client to apologiti for the reception of the monument of lXiilton
the repulican into that vencrable repofitory of kings and prelates,
in the Ibllowing hexameters ; which recall our attention to the
text, and on account of their fpifited finlplicity, and nervous
elegance, deferve to be brought forward and to be more univer-
fally circulated.
404 SILVARUM
« Augufti regum cintres, thnOzequc t'a'«iloe
" Hcroum, v6fque O, vcncrandi nominis, umbroe
" Parcitc, quod vctiris infcnfum rcgibus olim,
" Scdibus iutrtur nomcn : licctque fuprcmis
« Funcribus finirc odia, et mors obruat iras.
,l NIIllC flb foe«leribus coeat tblicibus, llll;[
" Libertas, ('t jus tkcri inviolabile fceptri.
« Rege thb .4ug#to f lit laudare Catonem." T. Wallon.
Dr. S)'mmons, il his rc'nt I.ife of Milton, is vehemently
indigtmnt at Mr. Warton's w:(nt of tarte in ccnlhrig thc pro
wfitings, and elaborately lcarncd it difcufling the chdllcaI
merits of thc ode to vhich this ccnlkrc is appendcd. 3ly
rioto thc opifion of Mr. Warton I bave ftated, with bccoming
rel]e I trufl, in my Acc(,uut of the great poct's Lift and
Writings. Pcrhaps thc contcmpt, with which Dr. S)'mmots
plcafcd to treat the iitçrary charatcr of Mr. XVarton, will
deemed by many, uot t.cond to the eloqucnt biographer in th,
po'ers of critical inquiry and dil])aflionatc judgement, as
aerited and indcfemible. But from diflrenccs of this kind
will be ore profitable and l)lfant to pals on to diluifition,
which ¢crtaiMy exhibits (as indced thc difq«ifitions of
Svmmons repeatcdly exlfibit) the union of grcat erudition and
a very ornate mode of writing.
« Whcn he conftrued this ode to Eout, 'hich is now
'ild chaos of verres and no vcrfcs heaped togcther confuldly
and licentioufly, Milto»," Dr. Symmons rt'marks, " rouit be
regarded as imprudent for hot ting any ont model of
acknow}edgcd authority, by a perfe aflimilatiou to daich,
the conruton and tbe combina.tion of his mctres, he might
bave fecured himfclf from errour and reprehenfion. Inatten-
tive or tawlefs he mul certainIy bc dccmed, either for hot no-
ticing, or tbr hot following the rule of l)'tiematizig, which
moderation of the tin poets chofc to affc, rather than to
iulge in that incxhauliible variety, that rapid imerchang
of numbers» which enchan and affoniflms in the tragick
folenmity of the chorus of the Grecian Mule, or in the il
roll of her dithyrmnbick. This pretçrencç'of a ffem may
obferved alnongoE alt, even the late of the Roman poets
th6ugh exceptions to it will bc found in two or three chorufls
an Sec«'s plays» (dgcintre, 90, 810, OediT. 403.) 'hick
LIBEr.
the çame rime exhibit tranfgreflions of every rule of metre and
of rhythlu. Te difapprove, then, of the general plan and con-
firuion of this ode is only te adroit, that, iii matters of this
lmture, innovation is tlangerous and te be avoided ; ibr, in com-
pofitious itt the clafllcal languages, what is without precedent
r, lay be contrary te priiiciple ; and iii every art, fcience, an,1
department of knowlcd2e , the vague fitrmifes of probability,
xvhich arc doubtful, mt net bc balauced againff the conclufions
f ncceflity, xhich are certain. Next in order te be regarded.
is the exectttion of the ode ; which m,ed net have followed the
licentioufnefs of the plan: and it would have been more be-
eoming in our poet te adhere te attthority in the foriner, than
it was cenfurable te depart ri'oto it in the latter ; for, te deviati
ri'oto authority iii the former, was te produce lll.w fabricks of
xerfe, and thus te indulge in a violence of itmovation at which
round judgemcnt muff ncceflhrily rcvolt. It was te be expcc2ed,
thon, that Milton would tbrtify cach of his lines with example,
3r, in dcfctCt of example, would, at lcaft, advance foi-his deed
the pleaof reafon, and would attempt te conciliate criticifin
vith the effec"t of harmony : but te neither of thcib dic2atcs of
prudence bas he invariably attended. For fome of his verfes
individual cxample will be fought in vin, while iii others, net
ftriiy conformablc te thofe models which they moit nearly re-
retable, the lefs fcvere and fafiidious will adroit the principle of
¢onflru¢fion net te bc wholly coutrary te the genius of the Latin
ianguage ; and will acknowlcdge that the rhythm diitinguifhes
thcm frein the afperity of the.ir neighbours. With lines of this
deli:ription may be claflèd the 56th, 48th, 49th, 54th, 55th
ïlit, 77th, and 79th, of which the 54th and 77th are net Pha-
loecians, wh:ttever Milton may call thcm. The tire lait lines are
too cumbrous with fpondees, but they ara conflrutqed al'ter the
rnanncr of Pinda-r, the niolt beautifui and the mort frequent of
'hofe verres arê formed by prefixing or pofifixing trochaicks te
datylicks. Thefe lines, though net very itri¢.ly formed on any
rnodel and indefenfible by example, may be admitted as net
deficient in rhythm; but others are te be round, in this com-
pofition of Milton, net only unprecedented by the ltrong
bulwark of authority, but unrecommended aile by the wily in-
fluence of harmony ; monfters, fiich as Seneca, or whoever was
the author of Ocdit, us and .4gam¢mnon, fcarcely ever begot, or
406 SILVARUI
Georgius Fabricius chrificncd. To rejc& difdainfully fuch fpe-
eirncns, as arc ¢ontaincd in the following lift, (verfes 3, 6, 7, 9,
13, 2 °, 25, 30, 36, 4,2, 45, 74, ïS,) requires not the fuper-
bure auriamfiudicium. King hlidas would have difapproved of
thcm; and c may dcci(le dogmatically, and may animadverl
fcvercly, without caution and without delicacy, on a fa which
is fo obvious, and on uncouthnefs which is fo barbarous. As
Antifpatticks (a mcafure though difficult and obfcurc, yet hot
lawlefs and liccntious,) are in ufe only among the Grccks, and
wcre rejccd by thc Latius as unplcaçant to their cars, and re-
pugnant to their accent, it vould bc in vain to jufiify thc pre-
¢cding liucs by referring them to that nmtre, to 'hich they
may, pcrhaps, bear fomc thadowy rctbmblance ; with any
grce of rcfcmblancc, thcy could hot be pcrmittcd to avail thcm-
fclvcs of fuch far-fetchcd and forcign authoriy, citra mare »ati.
« Of the remaining lines of flfis ode, it will be fuffi¢icnt to
fay that they are good, and that mort of thcm arc wcll known
.and wcll authorifed, withou eneringinto a tedious demil of
the namcs of daOylicks, iambicks, trochaicks, afclcpiadems,
It bas been obferved, in the prcccding noie of ]lr. Warton,
that, on thc rcccption of 5Iilton's monument into Weftminftcr
Abbey, Dr. Gcorgc's vcrf«s were written; lb were the lbllow-
ing, which I firft tact with in manufcript, infcrtcd in a volume
vf TratCts and fubiiribcd lnthore Petro Keith, 2Edis Chrifli
Mlumn. Bacc., but which, it feems, are thc production of
¥incent Bourne, as they appear in the cdition of his poems
printcd in 17ï, although they do hot occur in an earlicr edi-
tion which I bave fcen. They are too fpirited not to command
the attcntion of thc learned rcadcr.
" llaximus antiquis venifti fedibus Hofpes
« Jam tandem, nitid6que graves in marmore vultus
" Erigis, 0 decus 0 tanti laus optima tec"ti !
" Non talis prifco Chat«erus conditur ingens
" In tumtalo pater, mat vario modulamine dulcis
« Spencerus; non arte pares, non divitis hauftu
* Afcribed alfo, as I bave been informed» to the Hon. Tho. Townfh¢ad,
fathe of he late lord idaeo
LIBER. 4O7
« Caftalioe tanto, liquidivc afperginc fontis.
" Ipfe novoe virtute ingcntes fortior aufus
« Aggrederis Vates, valid6que agis i,npete nairum
" Certus iter ; curf6fque novos ultra avia longi
« I.imina Mufarum, veterillue cacumina Pindi.
" Quautus per Graias olim mirabilis urbes
« Ibat Mteonid«s, divftmque ferebat honorera ;
« Quantus in attonitis volitabat rupibus OtTltetts
" lllc de6m rime'tas fiirpcs et nomina vates,
" /F.tern6mque canit dccus, antiqu6fque labores,
" Aut homiuum genus, aut dize primordit lucis,
" Turbat-fque domos fuperis, immifs'que bella,
" (Immaues aufus) tutu vitisTartra tritie
" Èffugium, horrentéfque umbras ; ftupet uudique turba
" Fulgura vcrborum, et do&i miracula cantfts.
" "I'.L a'uv C.'.Rr, rOtS : Quin pulchra recludi
" Ilortorum fpatia, irriguillue ingentia campis
'« Flumina concelcbras, primoevi regna parentis.
« At dulcis conjux fee'ta inter lucida florum
" Mollibus invigilat curis ; ubi dives opacat
' Umbra toros, myrtfifque virer, dubiique rubores
« Nafcuntur violis, et li: crocus induit auro.
« At, poftquam rupto fatali foedere, triftis
«' Exilii legem fubeuntes, rura peragrant
« Sola fimul, trepido greffu, mnbiguique viarum :
« Limina, dileCl'lklue domos, feralia flammis
' 'lela nitcnt circum, et foevoe formidinis ora.
« Tare facili polles citharze modcramine, tanto
« Numine verborum, variarfimque ubere rerum
« lngcnio ; ergo animos quoedam divina voluptas
« Percipit, aut trepidos fenfus perlabitur horror
" lntimus, aut vero perculfi petCtora lucCtu
« Solvimur in lacrymas tecum, et miferefcimus ultrb.
" Salve, fancCta mihi fedes ! T6que, unice Vate» !
" Extru&fimque decus tumuli, et fimulacra verendi
"' lp£ fenis, lauri atque comoe ! Et tu, muneris author
" Egregii ! Tanto fignatum Nomine marmor
' Securum decus» et feros fii?.i vindicet annos:'
APPENDIX.
BARON'S IMITATIONS OF MILTON'$
EARLY POEMS.
ROER'r B^RON'S " imitations, or rather open plagiarîfms,
from Milton," ere firR noticed in Mr. Warton's pofthumous
edition of the Smaller Poems. To the paflhges 'hich he had
feleed from Baron's book, entitled the Cyrian Icademy, dated
1647', and now become fcar:e, I bave added others; and it would
be no difficult tafk to point out, in the une volume, t.hefts from
Shakfpeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Randolph, and 8if John
Suckling. Langbaine only obferves, that Baron borrowed muclt
from Waller.
« Baron vas a young man," fays lIr. Warton,
¢ouraged and efteemed by James Howell, the juflly celebrated
Letter-writer ; to whom he de«licates his Cypria«
Oldys, in his I,lS. Notes on Langbaine, fays he was born in
1630. He was educated at Cambridge. A variety of the mot
flattering commendatory verres are prefixed to tho Cyprian 4ca-
demy by the wits of the time. Olle of them, IIcnry Bold, fellow
of New Collegs, thus punningly addreffes him :
« Baron of Witt ! 'twere fin to blazon forth,
« Under a meaner fille, thy mighty worth :
« 'Twere but a trick of ftate if we fhould bring
« The blufes" Lower Houle to 'ote thee King, &c."
The C2]prian tlcademy, as lX[r. Warton obferves, is a fort of
poetical romance, parfly formed on the plan of Sidney's tlrcadia.
The author, Mr. Warton adds, " bas inrroduced the fine old
French flory of Cozci's heart, B. ii. p. 15 ; which he prob.bly
took from Howell's Letters :»--Or perhaps from the old dram
of Tancred and Gifmund.
Baron alfo wrote a tragedy, called 2Mirza, which, Mr. Warton
fays, is a copy of Jonfon's Catilim. He is the author likewife
of An lpol%Mefor Paris, 12mo. 164,9, and of Pocula CaValier &c.
$VOo 1650. See tho Bot« oa o»n«t vil. ver. 1.
10 APPEND1X.
13.«os-, B. i. p. 5. [.lt a Solemn M«.fick, v. o.]
B. i. p. 6. [Traltd. /àbt cxxxvi, v. 69.]
" large-limb'd body," and again in 13. 31»
" large-limb'd Hercules."
Ibid. [Tra,,fl. PJitl» cxiv. v. 11.]
" nleafure huge-bellied mountains."
[B. i. 13. 21.] Edait. 31arch. lVinch, v. 28.]
" Why may hot Atropos for Lucina corne."
B. i. p. 23. [Com. v. 8.]
" But to our talke ;" repeatcd in ]3. ii. p. 88,
13. i. p. 30. [Coin. v. 96.]
', Whcn as thy gilded car of day
« tlis glowing axle doth allay."
13. i. p.
" Whilft thus lhe fung, the winds grew whift."
13. i. p. 37. [Com. v. 862.] of a beaufiful flacpherdefs.
" In twifted braids of filver lillies knitting
" The loofe traine of ber ambcr-dropping hai'e."
13. i. p. 54. [L'Alhgr. v. 1.]
" Avaunt from hencc thou fnake-hair'd dcvil,
« ltence to th' abyffc below, &c."
Ibid. [Elit. March. Winch. v. 20.] Hymen fpeaks."
' This my well-lighted flame."
13. l.'p. 55. [Ode JVativ. v. 125. L'Allegr. v. 33. Coin. 117.]
Chorus of Fairies.
t Ring out, yee criftall fpheares,
" Once bleffe out liftning eares !
« Let your fweet filver chime
« Keeping harmonious time
« Carroll forth your loud layes
« In the winged Wanton's praife.
« Mab, lhou majeftick quene
" Of fairies» be thou feene
APPEN DIX.
" To keepe this holiday,
"' Whilfi wc dance and play ;
"' And fritk it as wc goe
« On the light fautaltick toc.
" The Satyrcs al,d thc Fawncs
" Shall nimbly croflè thc lawnc :
« Orc tawny fands and flwlves
« Tl'ip it, yc dal)per cires !
" Dancc by the fountainc brim,
" lqymphcs, dcckt with daifics trim."
oo 128.]
B. i. p. 59. [Coin. v. 97, 141,
" Sol has queneht his glowing beame
" In the coole Atlanticke flreame :
« Now there Ihines no tell-tale fun
" Ilymen's rites are to be donc :
" Now Love's revells 'gin to keepe,
" What have you to doe with fleepe
" You have fweeter fweets to prove,
" Lovely Venus wakes, and Love ;
" Goddeffe of no(turnall fport,
" Alwaies keep thy jocond court,
B. i. p. 61. [Trar. Pfabn cxiv. v. 8.]
" Of froth-becurled Neptune---"
B. i. p. 61. [Coin. v. 143.]
"' Dance nimbly, ladies, beat the meafur'd ground,
" With your light fcet, in a fantaftick round."
B. il. p. _o. IOde. Nativ. 64, 65, 66.]
" The winde fweetly kift the waters whifpering new joye
" to enrich'd Thetis--"
B. il. p. 3. [L'Allegr. v. 12, 35. Coin. 103.]
" Euphrofyne,
" Right goddeflè of free mirth, corne lead with thee
"' The frolick mountaine Nymph, faire Libcrty,
« Attended on by youthfull Iollity."
. ii. p. 8. [Il Penf. v. 1.]
" Hence, hencc, fond mirth ; hence vaine dcludingjoye%
« Olee and Alacritie, you be but toyes
B. iii.
B. iii.
1. iii. p. ¢5. [Ljt¢id. v. 140. 1S5.]
,le APPENDIX.
,, ,,oe, gildcd elves, love idle traine poffcffc"
,6 With fickh, fancics, thick and numberlcffc :
" Sorrow the fubje:t of my long fhall be
'" My harpe |hall chant my heart's anxictie."
Ibid. [Lycid. v. 170.] of the fun.
« ]3rigbt car of day, which doit diurnailic
" Flame in the forehcad of the azurc flie."
13. il. p. 9. [.-lrcad. v. 65.]
" Fatcs, that hold the vital!/hcarcs,
°' And fit upon the ninc-intblded fpheares,
"« Whirling the adamantine fpindlc round,
"' Oa vhich the hrittlc livcs of mcn are wound.'-"
B. il. p. 3. [L'All«gr. v. I2.]
" The godd«llbs, fo debonnaire and free,
*' Aglaia, Thalia, Euphrofyne,
" Eliet.m'd by men fi»r their heart-eafing mirth ;
" Whom thou, faire Cytherea, al one. birth
"' Bore te thc ivie-crowncd god of wine."
p. . lit/¥,¢: v. 133.]
Thefe archt valkes of midnight groves
And Silvan's lhad,wcs,
And tirades that Clarida loves,
Wherefilver-b,!/kin'd tripping Nymphs
Werc never affrightcd,
By harfh blowes of the rude axe
Frein their hallowed haunt."
p. 43. [II Pe»J: v. 122.]
1Net trickt and frounc't up
As in frefh flowry May,
But, civil-fuited, kerchift
In wintcr-atfire."
Te Fiera.
" Te purple the frefl, ground xvith vernal flowors
*' That fuck in the nec"tariE» honied fhowers ;
" Thou that wear'ft flowrets of a thoufand hues :
« Thou that the fmeoth-fhorn fi¢lds enamel¢fi;--
APPENDIX. 4 t
" Come bring .-ith thec the well-attir'd woodbinc,
" 'Fhe loyers panfic, freakt with flfiniug jet ;
" The tufled crowtoe, gloilg violet,
" Ruddy narciflhs, and pale jeflitmile :
" ll'ilig the faire primrolb, that forfakcn dieso
" The dafldillies, vith cups fill'd vith teare.* ;
" Ail anaranth's brood that embroidery weares,
" To ltrew ber lawrcat hcarfe dlere m,v l«ve lies."
B. iii. p. 51. [Com. v. 225.]
" Walking in a tuftcd grove."
lq. iii. p. 53. [Com. v. 278, 520, 536, 44, 4-t5._] " Placiig
herfclf 'ithin a lcay labyrimh, ix the mvel of thi_
obfcurc inlnol]: bowre, Ihe utter'd thcfe words--l"aile
filver-thaftcd lad, go, burn thy friolous bow, &c."'
B. iii. p. 68. [Lycid. v. 30. fi:q. 89.]
" Thofe rurdl powcrs
' That lire inthrin'd in oaken-curled bowers,
« Among the fapplins tall, 'hot'e lhady roofe
*' Are ringlets knitt of branching elm ftar-proofe.
« Call Naiades from their obfcure
" By hich Alphéus net his Arethufe ;
" Call mountainc Ore«ds, for to cçmply
" To furthcr with us this folelnuity."
B. iii. p. 69. [Com. v. 890.
'" Along the lbftyly-d6ftling rivulct's lidcs,
" And by Icander's rulhie-friltged bank,
" Whcre grows the illow grcele, mad olier dank."
13. iii. p. 7-. [Co». v. 715.]
" in foftnetl tlaey the filke wormes veb furpaflk
" SV)vel in ieavy Ihop "
I3. iii. æ" 88. [Com. v. 0.]
" Sea-girt lands
« So various jemmes inlay a diadem :
,' 1'eptune, his tributary gods that graces,
" Gives thcm the govcrnmcnt of thclie linall places,
,' And lets them weare tlaeir faplaire crownes, and wield
" Their little tridents in thcir watry field ;
414 APPENDIX.
« But this faire Ifle
" Unto his blewc-hair'd dcities he quarters. »
B. iii. p. 91. [Coin. v. 1.] Faine fpeaks.
" Belote Jove's fpangled portalls, with a crew
" Of bright aeriall foules, I dwell infpheared,
i Chanting thc conquefts of the fons of valour, &c:'
I. iii. p. 93. [Com. v. 970. 13.] Virtue fpeaks.
« Your lovcs l've try'd in hard affayes,
" Majefiick paire !
« Now fhail a crownc of deathlcffe praife
" Adornc your haire.
« Then, royM tir, and regal bride,
"" My golden key
« Shall opc thc palace, where abidc
" Eternitie.'"
B. iii. p. fS. [Com. v. 55, 103, 82, 656, 1°9, 140. L'lltgro
v. IY, 8.]
« The fceae changed to a magnificent palace, dorned with
«lI manner of d«liciottefs: Co,tIs appeared and fdd
« Darkc-vail'd Cotytto, ftay thy ebon chaire
" Wherein flmu triumpheft with Hecate :
«« And let hot nicc morne, on the Indian ftecp,
" Pecp from her cabin'd loop-holc: let no cock
«' His matins ring, till pomp and revellry
" Have tarte their fill with mafque and pageantry :
« Let midnight fee otir fealt and jollity,
« And weare a blacker matke, as envious
« Of out dance, jocond rebccks, and wreath'd finiles
" Now that blithe youth, upon whofc cluftrcd [ocks
« A wreath of ivy-berries fet, &c.
" That Jovc may know of [thefc] our quips and cranks
« And, to beare part in ourfi»ooth-dittied pranks,
« Leave vaulted heaven, and his tkie-roabes pu off,
" And pure ambrofiall weeds of Iris' woof." To»o
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
GLOSSA RIAL INDEX
o
WORDS, PHRASES, CUSTOMS, _AND PERSOS.,
ÈXPLAINED OR MENTIONED L THE NOT$.
The flrflfigures denote th« volume, th« fecond the page.
ABADDON, v. 301.
Abaffin kings, iii. 101.
tbfolutc, iii. 463.
Abfyrtus, vii. 306.
acquifl, v. 486.
academicks, v.
-qdamantean, v. 356°
adamantine, ri. 166. "
adamantine chains, ii. 294.
adamantine coat, iii. 311.
adamantine rock, ii. 423.
Ades, ii. 452.
adherc, iii. 459.
admit, iii. 471.
adorn, iii. 465.
advcntures hJgh, v. 485.
Advice, ri. £58.
adufl air, iv. 349.
ael'y wheel, iii. 70.
afflited, ii. 309.
affront, iv.
aficld, ri. '20.
Alabafter's Roxana, vii. 187.
alchelny, ii. 411.
ail car, vi. 334.
alley green, ri.
all-to, vi. 305.
Alp, v. 397.
ahernate, iii. 325.
Amalthea's horn, Vo 14,
,Amaryllis, ri. 150.
amber-droppilg llair ri. 376,
amber fcen b v. 407.
ambient air, iii. 353.
ambition, v. 368.
amerc'd, ii. 350.
amice gray, . 77.
ammiral, ii. 318.
amorous net, iv. ç66o
v. 93.
ample fpaccs, ii. 361.
amplitude, v. 90.
Andrews, bi/hop, vii. 19.
anticks, v. 450.
apoflafy, v.
appaid, iv. 330,
apparition of St.Michael, ri.
appellant, v. 44£.
Appetite, iv. £59,
Appian road, v.
appoint, v. 337".
aquedu&s v. £14.
arbitcr, iv.
arbitrefs, ii. 368.
arch-chemick, iii. 60,
arched neck, iii. 39.
,'OL. VlIo E e
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
archcd roof, v. 473.
arched waiks, ri. 131.
archers, v. 472.
.Archilochus, vii. 330.
_Ardours, iii. 199.
Arethut, vi. 32.
armoury of God, iii. 0.
arreed, iii.
arrive, il.-$03.
Arthur, king, ii. 366.
artiIIcry of hcavcn, il. 43'2..
Afmodai, iii. '2-96".
al'p, iv. 159.
At)hatick flime» iv. 139.
afphaltus, iv. 300.
afièfibur, iii
Aflrian garden, iii. 102.
Aflrian quccn, ri. 401.
athcous, v. 64.
Atlantick front, v. 2-'27.
at large, ii. 369.
Attendant Spirit
attending, v. 14.
attent, v.
Aurora's fan, iii. 176.
aye, vil. 149.
aye me, ri. 46.
azur'd, ri. 434.
azarn, ri. 383..
baited words, ri. 267.
bandite, vi. 311.
balmy fveat, iii. 4,83.
barbarick, ii.
vil. 34.
barb'd with firo, iii. 8I 1.
Barberini, F.Cardinal, vil. 254,
o_55.
Baroni, Leonora, vil. ç52, 53,
&c.
bafes, iv. 10.
barbe in delig.h.t, .ri. 66.
baths, v. 214..
battening, Vio 21.
bauk, vil. 97.
beaked pomotory ri, 33,
beat the ground, ri. 6-1.
beckoning flmdows, ri. 274.
hed of dcath, vil 143.
beds of roi/s, ri. 400.
Bcëlzebub, ii. 298.
behemoth, iii. 397.
belching flame, iv. 13.
Belial's chara¢'r, ii. 55, 338.
Beiicrus old, vi. 48.
Bcllerophon, iii. 350.
belman's charm» vi. 1-°I.
bond, vi. 403.
bendcd dolphins, iii. 387.
benediOion, iii. 4-7.
beryl wheels, iii. 328.
befi»tted, ri. 361,
bclud with ftars, ri. 355.
bcvy, iv. 65.
bickering flame, iii. 330.
bird of Jove, iv. 30.
black enchantments, v. 437.
black lcave, vii. 3.
blanc moon, iv. 174.
blandiflfd, v. 379.
blank» v. 383.
- vii. 116.
blafph,mous, iii. 249.
bla0.ed heath, il. 351.
blaze abroad, vii, 150.
blear i|lufion» ri. 266.
blear thc eyc ri. 266.
bleating gods, il. 338.
blind fury, vi. 30.
blithc, ri. 79.
blithc air, v. '29,
blot, ri. 26.
blow, vi. 399.
boilerous locks, v. 459.
bohl emprife, iv. 71.
Boleyt), Arme, vii. 65,
boit, ri. 359.
bolt of Cupid,
bonnet l.-tlge, ri. 35.
bt, rdering delbrt, v.
boiky, ri. 95.
Bofporus, ii. 457.
boulted language, ri. 359.
boulting mill, ri. 35_9.
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
bourn, ri..095.
bout, vi. 104.
bow'd weikin, vi. 403.
brake, iii. 207.
brand, iv. ôS0.
Branthwait, Michael, ri. 183.
bravery, v. 406.
bray'd, iii. 78.
hrew'd inchantments» ri. 351.
bridai, v..440.
/3ridgewatcr, Earls of, vi. 195,
bridging, iv. 140.
brigandine, v. 435.
bright-harnefs'd, vii. 28.
brimmed, 'i. 388.
briftled, iii. '267.
broad ficld of the .lky, ri. 396.
broodiug, ii. -'291.
brown, ri. 14.
Brunfwick, Duke of, vii. 193.
brulh the dew, ri. 163.
.Brutus, vii. :38, °.
Buchanan, vii. '243.
budge, vi..359.
build the rhyme, ri. 15.
bumbal] ltockings, ri. 15-L
burniflt, ri. 60.
bulkin'd vi. 125.
but, iii. 38.
buttons, ri. 60.
buxom, ri. 79.
buxon air, ii. 4,0.
calling flmpes, vi. 74,
calv'd, iii. 396.
Cambufcan, ri. 16.
canon-laws, ri. 365.
canopied, ri. 39.
caparifons, iv. 10.
capital fecret, v. 78.
captiv'd, v. 346.
carbuuçle, eyes of, iv. 51.
careermg rires, iii.
carevan» v. 48°
eau the fMhion, ri. )..
cafis, iii. 62.
Cafella, ri, 469.
cataphras, v.
cauli.,y, iv. 150.
ceafe, iii. 7".
cedarn, ri. ,999.
centrick, iii.
Cerberus, ri. 75.
Cha.ybean, v.
chambcrlin, vil.
charcter'd, ri. 38.
charities, iii. 146.
Charles I. king, vii. 181.
charming pipe, v. 1'27".
chafit, phns, ri. 387.
Chaucer, ri. 1'26.
vil. 360.
cheeks i" forry grain, ri. 357.
Check, Sir John, i. 465.
chequer'd fhade, ri. 94.
Chiron, vil. 307.
chivalry, il. 31.
Cloeafpes river, v. 177-
Chrittiua, Queen of Sweden, 'ii.
6, "268, &c.
chromatick jars, "'ii.
cieling, iv. '28.0.
Cimmcrian, ri. 76.
citron tab|es v.
city of paims v.
civii-fmted, ri.
cla.d, v. 82.
clad in iron, v. 355.
clang, iv. 288.
vii. 17.
clal)ing charm, ri.
claflick hiearchy, vii.
clear fpirit, ri. 9-
Cieombrotus, iii. 47.
c}ofe, ri. ,331.
clofe-bandcd, v. 434.
ciofe-curtain'd Sleep, ri.
cloud of war, ri. 476.
cloudy chair, vi. ..
clouted thoon ri.
cloylter's pale, i.
duftering 19¢ks » ri.
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
Colkitto, ri. 464.
Colne, river, vii. 381.
commércing, ri. 11-$.
committing, ri. 468.
compare, iv. '2,7.
complete lceel, ri. 310.
comr'3.des, v. 458.
concent, vii. 53.
conclure, ii. ô69, 370.
confus'd, ii. 419. "-
Confufion, iv. 305.,
congeal'd front, ri. 317. "
conglob'd, iii. 669.
¢onj'.'tr'd, il. 430.
¢onfilory, v. 11.
cod'cience, iii. 459.
contbrted, iii. 353.
Conftable, llenry, ,ci. 440,
Contemplation, ri. 116.
¢ontcmptuous words, ri. 861.
contrer.y, v. 42'2'.
contrarlous, v. 400.
convulfion, v. 475.
coral-pavev ri.
Corineis, vii. 361.
¢orners of the moon, ri. 40.
¢orny reed, iii. 377.
Cotytto, ri. o61.
couch thcir fpers, il. 41t.
countcrpoint, w. 281.-
cover'd field, ii. 365.
coy, ri. 17.
Craig, Alexander, ri. 70, 71.
cranks, v. 78, 79-
erazc, iv. ,317.
create a foui, ri. 284.
crefl;ets ii. 862.
crefled cock, iii. 394.
creRed helmets, v. 357.
crifped lhades, ¢i. 898.
CroInwcl|, Olivcr, .ri. ,176.
erude old age, .v. ,1-03.
cry of hounds, ii. 4'2.5.
cryftal battlements, il..363.
¢ryttal and myrrhine cups, v.
Ctefiphon, v. 182.
,tubick phalanx iii. 99.
cunning, vi.
curl the grole, ri. 16OE.
curl'd man ofthe fword, vi.415.
curs'd crew, ri..346.
Cynofure, ,ci. 91.
cypreff bud, vii. 61.
Cyprus lawn, i.
l)agon, v.
daiuty limbs, ri. 350.
dame, iv. 64.
I)anaw, ii. 25.
I)anite, iv. 101.
darkling, iii. 10.
])arkncfs, iii. 68.
vi. 85.
darkncf vifiblc, ii. £96-
dark flcps, v. 34J,.
darts, v. 268.
l)arwcn ffrcam, ri. 477.
I)'Allifc, Francis, vii. 315.
Dati, Carlo, vii. 379, &c.
dazzlig fenc% vi. 363.
dazzling fpells, ri. 266.
dcaling dolc, v. 464.
dcath likc flcep, iv. 33-1,.
dcath's door, vil. 141.
dcbcl, v. 300.
debonair, ri. 79.
deccnt, ri. 11.3.
decrcpit winter, iv. 174..
Dee, river, vii. 83.
de«p-throatcd engines iii. 315.
deft'nds iv. 316.
d(.ll, ri. 95.
dcje, v. 60.
Delos, iv. 137".
delv'd, vii.
Demogorgon, ii. 45.
demons, vi. 12.
demoniack holds v.
demur% vi. 111.
Deodate, Charles, vii. 176.
Derby, Countefs of ri. 148» &c.
dcfcan b iii.
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
defccnding fword, iii. 291.
Deva, ri. 25.
dew-befprent; ri.
dew-drops, iii. 244.
diamond rocks, ri. 380.
diffus'd, v. 354.
dight, ri. 87.
dilatcd, iii. t.65»._
dira darkncfs, vi. 89.
dimplcd brook, ri. 259.
diminution, v. 3"71.
dingle, ri. 295.
dint, ii. z38.
dire chimera«, ri. 274.
dire neceftity, v. 476.
Dre&ory enforc'd, vil. 91.
dififftrous twilight, fi. 349.
ditburden, iv. 183.
dili:ontinuous wound, iii. 291.
disfiguretnent, ri. 251.
difglorified, v. 38.
ditui!i, vii..30.
dilinhcrit chaos, ri.
difparity, iii. 449.
difpens'd, iv.
diflblve, iv. 34?.
diftrat, v. 467.
diturb, «'ii. 1
divan, iv. 153.
diverted, v. 12.
divide, vil. ,°9.
dividual, iii. 284.
divine, iv. 84.
divulge, v. 156.
diurnai fiat, iv. o09.
dizzy multitude, v. 130
doff, v. 456.
dogs of Hell, iv. 170.
dole, iii. 158.
dolorou, v. 52.
double-tirade, v. 67.
dove-like, il. 291.
draff, v. 391.
dragon, iv. 161.
drenches, ri. 400.
drop fereue, iii. 6.
drowfy-fi-ighted fteeds ri.
drugg'd» iv. 164.
Druids, vii. 361.
Drummoml, William, vi. 441.
Dcyden, vil. 162.
duck, -.vi. 394.
duel, v. 31, 433.
duell'd, v. 375.
dulcct, ii. 360.
dumb fil'cnce,vii. 72.
duu air, iii. 14.
dun lhadcs, ri.
duagcon of himfclf, . 006,
d.yiag to rcdecm, iii. ,0.
ca lern gare, i. 8.
eating carcs, ii. 373.
cbon lhades, ri. 7(3.
]':cbatana, v. 177.
cccentr2ck, iii. 4(i.
Echo's lhell, r ccll, ri. 7'8o
Edcn, iii. 94.
ctlge f battle, v. 19.
ed, iii. 47.
Edward., Thomas, vii.
Egeria, cave ot; vii. 353.
Egeria's grovc, vii. ,53.
clement, ri. .93.
Elizabeth, Queen, vii. 319.
Eluid,n, Edm. v. 65.
Ely, city, vil.
Elyli.a.n flowcrs, ri. 105,
embh'm, iii. 140.
embofs, iv. 314.
emboft, v. 4:80.
embowcd, ri. 13G.
cmbroidery, ri. 379.
embry«,n, ii. 445.
emprife, iv. °71..
empticd, vii. 9-
"4
empyreal air, iii. o 9,
empyrcal Heaven, ii. 461.
enpyroan, il. 4(i.
cnamell'd green, ri. 17"0.
enchanter vile, ri, 8,
engines, ii,
GL0$ARIAL INDEX.
:Enna, iii. 101.
enthron'd, v. 239.
envermeil, vit. 41.
envieus daxknefs, ri. 273.
erecled fpirit% v. 151.
eremite, v 7.
errand, vi. 240.
Effex, Earl of, ¢ii. 8t7.
eten,al courfe, iii. 191.
Ethiop Queen, vi. 110.
evinc'd, v. --1.O.
eul)hrai, iv. 251.
Euphuitin, vn. 7.
excellence, iii. 219.
except, ii. 3,'29.
excefs, vit. 40.
excrcife, ii. 379.
exile, iv. 157.
expatiate, ii. 367.
Expe&ation, iii. 22,88.
exquitite, ri. ¢302.
exqmfitet[ naine, v. 1'21.
extin&, il. 305.
extreme fwift, ri. 288.
eye of day, ri. 46.
eye of Greece, v. 241.
eye.-lids...of the morn, ri. 19.
eynes, m. 390.
lames, iii. 98.
faet of arms, ii. 38.
faery of the mine, vi. 314.
fair and free, ri. 77.
fifir moon, ri. 299.
Fairfax, Gcncral ri. 473.
fairly, ri. 268.
Fantafticks, vit. 78.
fantaftick toc, vi. 82..
far-let, v. 130.
fatal throne, ii. 381.
Favonius, vi. 488.
feafiful, vi.
feed on grief, v. 468.
feed on thoughts, iii. 9.
fell Charybdis, ri. '285.
fellowl]lips of joy, iv.
felon winds, {5.
Fclton, Nicholas, vit. 329.
fence, vi. 363.
fenel, iv. 6.
fickle penfioners, ri. 108.
fig-trce, Indien, iv. 105.
fighting beafi», v. °32.
figures dira, ri. 35.
flaring beams, ri. 131.
flaunting h,,neyfuckle, ri.
flaw, iv. 180.
flaws, v. 82..
fled, iv. 18.
fledge, iii. 389.
flelhly arm, v. 195.
flclhy tabernaele, v. 299-
Fletcher, Phineas, vit. 310.
flights of Angels, v. 129.
fit,g, ri. 399.
flouts, vit. 124.
flowery-kirtled, ri.
ftown with wine, ii. 339.
foil, vit. 18.
footing flow, ri. 35.
forehead of the tky, ri. 50.
foreft of fpears, ii. 344.
forcftall'd, iv. 207.
forel}alling Night, ri. 289...
forgctful, il. 378.
foughten fields, iii. 00.
founded, il. 359-
-- iii. 369.
fountain-brim, ri. -'259,
Fra,lcini, vit. 379.
fi'aud, iii. 360,
- iv. 67.
fi'aught, v. 3"2.
freez'd, ri. 317.
frequence, v.
fl'efllet, vi. 1°0.
fret, iii. 409.
friar's iantern, ri. 96.
fi'izadncd fireams, vi. 16.
ff'ont, iv. 34.
frore, ii. 417".
froth-b.ecurl'd vii. 147".
fi'o'nc'd, ri. 1 9.
fugue .iv. 263°
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
fuming rills, iii. 176.
funeral verlis, vii. 64, 190.
fur, ri. 352.
futdre, iv. 192.
Go
Gabriel John, vii. 338.
gadding, ri. 2ô.
gait, iv.
Galafp, vi. 464.
Galafpie, vil. 96.
gariih, vi. 45.
garilh cye, ri. 132.
gardcns of Adonis, iv. 45.
garners, ri. 415.
gaz'd, ri. 247.
gemm'd, iii. 378.
genial bed, iii. -467.
g.haiily furies, ri. 043.
gmnt angels, iii. 411.
giant brood, ii. 346.
gilded car of day, ri. 256.
Gill A. fenior, vii. lïJ.
junior, vil. 176.
Gillefpie, George, ri.-$(35.
g!tter!fing, v. 498.
gve, v. 8 o.
glaring monfters, vi. 418.
glaft" wave, vi. 075.
vii. 149.
gliding, iv. 349.
globe of Angels, v. 295.
globe of Seraphim, ii. 410.
glmving ame, vi. 256.
glozing, iii. 15.
-. vi. 267".
goblin, 'i. 96.
God and good Angels, ii. 459.
golden comb, ri. 380.
golden key, ri. 06,
gohlen monarchy, v. 17"5.
golden flmft, vii.
golden flumber, ri. 105.
golden-treffed fun, vil 15-'2.
golden treffes, iii. 106.
golden urn.% iii.
golden-winged, vii. 48.
.golden wings, vi. 116, 276.
good morrow, ri. 84.
Goodal, Mr. vil 203.
gorgcous feafl, v.
Gorgonian rigour, iv..138.
Gotlyn, Dr. John, vii..905.
Grand, th% iy. 150.
gnmgcs, vi. 415.
gray dawn, iii. 383.
Gray's lnn waIks, 'ii. -038.
gray-hooded Een, ri. $71.
gray morning, v. 77.
gray top, iv..318.
grecn-ey'd Ncptune, vii. 76.
grcves, v. 435.
griding fword, iii..°91.
gl'im afpe, ri. ô51.
gripe of lbi row, iv.
Grotius, ri. 183.
grovcs of coral, iii. 387.
grypl,on, ii. 450.
guea'd(,n, ri. 30.
guiltlefs, iv. 39.
guft, iv. 180.
gynmicl; artifts v. 4t.9.
gy'es, v. 433.
It[.
hab(.rgeon, v. 435.
lloemony, ri. 342..
hairy gown» ri. 109.
limes, John, ri. 180.
half-moons, v. 184.
hall or bower, ri. 245.
hallow'd Dee, vii. 83.
Hamburgh, vii.
hand, iv. 4-1,.
hal)py-naaking fight, vii. 51.
Harapha, v. 402.
hard aflhys, ri; 095.
harpies and hydras, vi. 307.
harl)y-tbotcd furies, ii. 418.
harrow'd witb, faar, ri.
GLO$SARIAL INDEX.
Hartlib, Sarqucl, vi. 180.
hauutcd fpring, vii. 21.
haut, vil. I¢4.
healing words, v. 394.
hcaven's heraldry, vii. 38.
Hecat', ri. 26'2.
]aell-born, il. 430.
hell-bru'd opiate, ri. 42.
hell-doom'd, ii. 430.
helliçn charms, vi...q_o.
helmed, vii. 13.
laenchman, vii. 57.
Henderfo», Alexander, vil. 96.
heraltlry ot heaven, vil. 38.
Hcrbert, Sir Henry, vii. 181.
Herbert, Sir Thomas, vii. 181.
herdman, ri. ôS.
]aere, v. 467.
Hermcs Trifmegifius, vii. 340.
Herodotus, vii. 3.59, 360.
Heri'ick, Robert. ri. 70.
Hefperiau, iii. $8, 670.
hierarchy, il. 36°.
high difdain, ii. 301.
high-embowed, ri. 136.
highcft noon, ri. 119.
highth of noon, v. 40I.
him thought, v. 108.
hingcs, v. 275.
hireling wolves, ri. 478.
l-Iippotades, ri. 33.
hoary dcep, ii. 4-.
I-Ioltbn, the carrier, vii. 89.
tlobfon's choice, vii. 90.
holy-days, v. 437.
laollow engines, iii. 305,
laollow ftates, ri. 481.
Immely, vi. 57.
ltonied words, v. 43I.
honour duc, vii. 133.
laorned flood, iv. 287.
lmrned mooo,_vii. 152.
laorrcnt, ii. 411.
lmrrid tirades, ri.
I-Iorton, vii. 381.
lmfpitable, v.
hofting, iii. 268.
lovering vi. 76.
houle of pain, ii. 439.
hubbub, iv. 305.
hugc-bellied, vii. 148.
hull, iv. 288.
Humber, river, vii. 83.
hunger-bit, v. 13'2.
hurricd, v. 271.
- vii. 35.
hurlmg defiance,il. 355.
hutch, ri. 353.
hutcb'd, vi. 353.
hyacinthic locks, iii. 104.
hyoe»a, v. 409.
hyaline, iii. 41.2.
H de-Park, vii. _'2-38.
Hmen's Ihffron robe, ri. 100.
Itymettus, v. 2,
I and ff.
jangling noife, iv. 305.
jar, iii. 247.
icy-pearled, vii. 43.
idolifins, v. 240.
if, iii. 17.
ignis fatuus, ix'. 66.
lliffus, v. 45.
illaudable, iii. 297.
imbathe, ri. 371-
imborder'd, iv. 44.
imbrown'd, iii. 97°
imblazon'd flficlds, iv. 9.
mmedicablc wounds, v.
immortai amarant, iii. 35.
tmmutabl forefeen, iii. 17.
mp, iv. 16.
mp wings, vi. 474.
nnpal'd, iii. 31 o.
mparadis'd, iv. 12£.
tmpearls, iii. 44.
mpcdiment, iii. 311.
mlp6rtune, v. 131.
mpotence of mind, iî. 385.
mpregns, iii.
mlpreffes iv. ID.
inceffant prayers, vil. 138
inclin'd» iv..35.
G LOSSARIAL INDEX.
încumber'd, iii. 340.
indented mcads,-vii. 8?.
individual, vii. 50.
lndors'd, v. 189.
inexpert in var, iv. ô18.
inf,mous, vii 4'2.
infamous htlls, ri. 311.
tngendering pride, iii. 15`'.
lnglorious, v. 15.
inhabitation, v. 463.
nnumerous, ri. 3oi.
iuofli-nfive, iv. 140.
infpher'd, ri. `'37.
inftrud, v. 60.
Interminable, v. ôï.
intend, il. 4.06.
intervein'd, v. 171.
interwove, vt.
intrench'd, il. 34.
invefls, il. 313.
inward eyes, iii. 11.
v. 478.
Iogerne, vji.
jointed armour, iii. 387.
joutL iv. 10.
iron field, v. 188.
irriguous, iii. 99.
judicious, iii. 467".
juglers, v. 449.
]eep flate, vi. 113.
kerchcft, ri. 1-'29.
King, Mr. Ed'. ri. 3, &c.
]dngdom, v. 165.
knight in arms, ri. 458.
knights of Logres, &c. v. 1"5.
knit, vi. '264.
lmot-grafs, ri. -'29.
Lo
labouring pioneers, v. 190.
ladies ol the lteii»el'ides, v. t24.
Lado'a, ri. 171.
lair, iii. 395.
Lancelot, v. 125.
lap of l'àtrth, iv. 87".
iap of Peace, vil 81.
lapped in delight, ri.
lar-e ficld, iv. `'88.
large l,.art, iv. 334.
large limb'd, vii. 154.
Lai-», vii.
Laud, Archbilhop, ri. 41.
Lawes, Henry, ri. 0(;, &c.
Lawes, William, "1. 210.
Lavrence, llenry ft'nior, ri.
487.
Lawrence, Henry junior, ri.
489.
leadcn eye, ri. 115.
l«es of mclancholy, vi.
Leighton, ir William,
34(/.
]eprou lin, vil.
Leo,mra Baroni, vii. 55.
I,eonor«t of Elte, vit. 55.
Leucothea, iv. °_'27.
leviathan, iii. 338°
Icwd, iii.
Ley, Sir James, ri. 46'2-.
Ley, Lady Margaret, vi. 462."
libbard, iii. 397.
lightning divine, iii. '2.43.
lillied banks, ri. 171.
Ltlly's Euphues, vii 7'-'.
Limbo ol Vanity, ii. 39.
iii. 5O.
lilnitary, iii. 1(/3.
liou ramp, v. 356.
]iqu«l at. ri. 397.
liquid fil'C, ,i. 314.
lithe probofcis, iii. Il 1.
livericd Angels, ri. 317.
livery of I'orr-w, ri. 61.
living death, iv. 188.
- v. 352°
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
living grave, vil. 61.
living oracle, v. (;2.
locks of trees, iv. 209.
lofty grave ti'agedimls, v. °.48.
1,fty rhyme, ri. 15..
longitude, iii. 383.
Iong-levell'd fuie of light, i-.
300.
love-darting eyes ri. 3.58.
love-lorn, ri. -79.
Iow reverencc, iv.
}ow-lhcughtçd care, ri. 238.
lubbar fiend, vi. 97.
Ludlow Caille, ri. 187.
Lyceuln, v.
Lyci,las, ri. 52.
Lydian airs, ri. 10ô.
Mab, queen, vil 78.
Macdomlei, ri. 46-1..
raaee of Death, iv. 137.
Machaon, »ii. 307.
madding wheels, iii..
raadrigal, ri.
Moeonides, iii. 8..
magnetiek, v. 94.
Maia' fon, iii. 200..
"Mammon, ii. 356.
mania-dropping, ii. ôS?.
Manfo, Marquis of Vi|la» vii.
355,
Mansfelt, Count, vil. 193.
mantle hairy, ri. 35.
mantliag, iii. 393.
maiul-i;g, iii. 153.
marafinus, iv. 56.
marble ail-, ifi. 56.
Marino, vii. 35î.
marith, iv. 349.
married to verfit, vi. 10ô.
marfha|l'd feal, iv. 11. -
Mai'flon's MS. llafl, ri. 151.
Mary, queen, vil. 320.
lnatks, ri 10I,
------ vii. ôO.
matii long of birds, iii. lïr.
ri. 9.
mazes, vi. 10.
meadows trim, ri. 90.
meatre (a daucc) ri.
neaths, iii.
med'cinal, v. 396.
medicilml, v. 3.
lcgera, iv. 1(i2.
melodious teur, ri.
mellowing year, ri. 15.
melting w,ice, ri. lO4.
memm T or monument, iv. 242.
memory, forts of, -ii. 86.
31ercy, fweet-ey'd, yi. 47,
Merlin, vii. 383.
Miclmel's Mount, ri. 7, &¢-
Midas cal's, ri. 468.
middle, iv. 63.
Milton's Father, vil.
mimicks, v. 451.
miroirs, v. 452.
mincing, ri. 395.
nnmms, m. 98.
minute drops, ri.
mit?reated, il. 429.
mifery, iv. 7.
mix'd dance, v. 458.
moiIt, iii. 15.
moiSI, i. 47.
Mole, river, vil. 83.
mohen cr)/ial, ri. 3..
Moly, ri. 3
moment, iii. 281.
Mona, vi. 3.
monftrous worhl, vi. 47.
mooned, »il. '23.
moon riding, ri. 119.
More, Alexander, vii.
More, IIenry, »-i. 322.
motrice, ri. 258.
mortal eye, vii. 156.
mortal fight, v. 439.
motion'd, v. 366.
mother of eloquenee,
G LOSSAFIA,L INDEX.
ould, iii. 314.
Mount St. Michael's, ri. 7, &c.
rnountain-nymph, ri. 8'2.
raountain unrcmoved, iii. 166.
mountaincer, ri. 311.
oving gve, v. 353.
mued, ri.
murky, iv. 136.
muy winds, ri. 399.
uttering flmnder, iv. 97.
Mycaic, vii. 360.
nyfierious hm, iii. 145.
nyliil dan«e, iii. 3 l.
Namancos, vi. 48.
Naphtha,
nathlefs, ii. 319.
naturc's chime, vii. 55.
tature wantoCd, iii. 213.
navel, i. 37.
necromanccr's banquet, ri. 347.
necromanccr's hall, ri. 346.
necromanccr's wand, ri. 346.
netar'd lavers, ri. 372.
neCtarous humour, iii.
neither and iv. '283.
Nepenthes, ri. 34.9.
nevel'-ferc, ri.
new-fanglcd, vil. 73.
nice morn, ri.
night-toundcr'd, ii. 311.
ri. ô23.
night lhot throgh, iii. '260.
vi. 454.
ninelbhl harmon vii. 14.
lgiphates, iii. 71.
nod, vi. 394.
noifc, vil. 55.
number numberlefs, v. 184.
numerous verfc, iii 1'88.
numming fp«lt, ri.-4.
nut-brown aie, ri.
Nympls of Diana's train, v.
1'24.
obdured, il. 415.
obey to, il. 28, 32.5.
obhge, iv.
6blique, iii. 56.
oblivious, ii. 31ï.
6blizur«, il. 383.
obfi'quiou., iii. 460.
obtai«,, v. 1 ï.
ocean fiream, il. ô11.
Oceanu, ri. 377".
odds, ri. 156
od6rous, iii.
odorous morn, vi. 164.
old Euphrates, il. 33l.
old Oiympus, iii. 348.
OIdmixon, vi. 259.
olive grove of Acadcmc, Vo 243.
ominous, v. 283.
ri. '249.
opeuing e.elids of the morn,
ri. 19. "
Opinion, iv. 166.
Ophiuth, iv. 160.
Old»-rtmw cxcurlion il. 401.
orb'd, vii. lï. "
orbicular, iv. 1.t-6.
orcs, iv. 287".
Orcus, il. 452.
order'd charatters of tears, vil.
34, 35.
orient colours, il. 344.
--- geins, iii. 51.
morn, iii. 309.
- p«arl, iii. 96.
Ormus, ii. 373.
ornate, v. 4 5.
Orphean lyre, iii.
Orpheus, ri. 1 5.
overween, ri. 460.
ougly-headed, ri. 4_'2.
Oufc, river, vii. 384.
¢Oxlord, Earl of, vii. 193.
P.
pageantry, vi. 101,
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
pages black, xii. 3'2.
paintcd heavcns, vii. 151.
paintcd winçs, iii. 39'2.
palaccs, v. 214.
palc primrofc, vil. 67.
palc-ey'd, vii. 20. --
palmer's wecd, ri.
palpable darkwfs, iv. 315.
pampcr'd boughs, iii. 196.
Pari, vii. 11.
l'andemonium, ii. 565.
panim, ii. 366.
panoply, iii. 309.
paragon'd, iv. 150.
paranymph, v. 47.
Paris, city, vil. 44..
Parkcr, Archbilhop, sii. 118.
parle, v. 4.12.
Parry, W. vii. 310.
part, iv. 126.
paflry built, v. li0.
Faflurcs..n.cw,. vi. 53.
Fatron, m. `24.
Favement of ars, iii. -I,08.
pavilion'd, ix:. :233.
Paulilipo, grotto of, vii. 257.
Pccle, Gcorgc, ri. £23.
peeling, v. £30.
Feeping morn, ri. 263°
pcering day, vii. 15.
pendant world, ii. 461.
pendulous, iii. 169.
pennons, ii. 449.
pens, iii. ô89.
penfioners, vi. 108.
pcrnicious, iii. 308.
perpetual, ii. 30.
perfim, iv. 16.
pcrfonating, v. o63.
peft, ii.
porter'd, "
VIo
Phoebadcs, vii. 343.
Phoebus, ri. 31.
pidc, ri. 90.
piednefs, ri. 9&
pillar of ftate, ii. 39.5, 39(L
pin'd with hungcr, v. 48.
pin-fold, vi. 209.
piping Winds, vi. l.q.
pity and ruth, vi.
plague, vil. 192.
plauet-ftruck, ix'. 14.0.
platane, iii. 1'20.
plate and mail, iii. °-96.
pledge, ri. 36.
plighted clouds, ri. 29-,
a94.
plumes, ri. 305.
Plutarch, vii. 359.
pomp, iii. 4-r.
- ri. 10].
pontifical, iv. 141.
ported flwars, iii. 16-1.
portret, ii. 435.
pol, ri.
potent arl, ri. 414..
powder'd fpells, ri. ,15.
powder'd with liars, iii. 405.
prank'd, ri. ô59.
prctentled, ix-. 195.
pr!ck forth, ii. 41.
prHne, ri. °90.
Prince of darknefs, iv. 146.
printlcfs feet, ri. 383.
pritbn'd, ri. °84.
proccl of fpeech, iii. 365.
prodigious, il. 420.
progcny, v. 291.
proof, iii.
- v. ç8.
Proférpine, iii. 101.
profirtc, iii. 366.
Profc-works, vii. 394, &e.
proverb'd, v.
proud ftccd rein'd, iii. 156.
proud towcrs, iii. 255.
proweft, v. 19.
Prynne, vii. 97.
pun(tual fpot, iii. 4'20.
puu3: , ii. 400.
purtlcd, ri. 400.
Puritans, vil. -09.
Puteanus, Erycius, ri.
pyramid of tire, ii. 456.
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
QJ
¶uadrature, iv. 1¢6.
quaint habits, vL "267.
-- ringlets» ri. 162.
quips, ri. 80.
Ro
ragged, vi. 76.
ragged rocks, ri. 7.
Randolph, Thomas, vi. 182.
rapt, ri. 114.
ras'd, iii. 11.
rate, v. 4-t8.
rathe, vi. 44.
rcalty, iii. 271.
rebecks, ri. 93.
rcbell'd, -iii. 326;
rock'd, il. 377.
recoil, vii. 147.
recorded, iii. 379-
recrcant, v. 162.'
reft, vi. 36.
reign, ii. 343. ' -"
religious, ii. 327.
reluêtant flame, iii. 266.
xemark, v. 647.
remedilefs, vii. 39-
removed, vi. 130.
repeal'd, iii.
a, ptile, .iii. 385.
retire, v. 237.
rcvelry, vi. 101.
Rhene, ii. 35.
rhetorick, v. 209.
ri. 366.
rhime, il. 288.
rhombs, v. 184.
richly dight, vi. 137.
ride the air, il. 413.
ridc on a funbcam, iii. 1°6.
rides of rim war, iii.
Ridding, Richard, vii. 189.
rift, v. 274.
rifted rocks, ri.
rights, ri. 260.
rime, ii. 90.
rings, vi. 495.
river of oblivion, ii. 59.
l,obm Good fellow s crcambo» I,
ri. 96.
flail, vi.
robufiious, v. 90.
rock of mhunant, v. 86.
rolling in vice, w 159.
rofc without thorn, iii. 99-
rofy rcd, iii. 469.
root-bound, ri. 348.
round, v. 5. "
round, (a dance) ri.
Rmffe, John, vil. 390, 391%
rouli thcmorn, vi. 85:
rubicd lip, ri. 386.
rubicd ne¢rtar, iii. 233.
v. 388.
ruddy wave's, vii. 15./,.
ruin, v. 74.
ruining, iii. 339.
ruminating, iii. 111.
rural minlirell)', ri. 330.
ruflay-fringed, ri. 381.
ruth, ri. 461.
Rutherford, Samuel, vii. 94.
£tble fiole, ri. 11 ?.
thble-flolcd, vii. 25.
thble-vefted, ii. 45.'2.
fable fhroud, vi. 18.
Sabean odours, iii.-89.
Sabrina, ri. 369.
facred morn, iii. 38.
lhcred well, vi. 17".
rb.d, iii. 310.
tkd Eletçtra, ri. 459.
fadly, ri. 326.
thle, iv. 81.
fafl'ron robe, ri. I00.
fagacious, iv. 196.
rager, ri. 78.
fifil-broad vans, ii. 448.
t'aireto fore$, v. 361.
GLOSSARIAL INDEX,
Salmafius, vil. 258.
Salfilli, vil. 351.
lait flood, vi. 41.
fantitics of hcavcn, iii. 13.
8andys, Georgc, v. Iî4.
Satan, ii.
8avage, Lad)' Jane,Marchioncfs
of Winchelcr, vii. 59, 60.
favour, iv. 98.
faws, ri. 258.
fcalp, ri. 4£6".
fcapcs, v. 99.
fcarf, vi. 400.
fcath'd, ii. 350.
fcazons, vil. 351.
fcepter'd pall, vi. 1°3.
fcorpion, iv. 159.
fcorpion-like git't, v. 3î6.
fcrannel, vi. 39.
Scudamole, Lord, ri. 186.
fculls, iii. 386.
fcumm'd the drofs, il. 359.
fdein'd, iii. 80.
fea of palfious, iv. 18 °.
feagirt ifles, ri. 241.
feal, iii. 387.
fi.cret, il.
ïecret fluce, ri. 1{1.
le&, iii. 272.
feeure, iv. 330.
ïee to, vi. 339.
feek to, ri. 304.
îeldom por'd on, ri. 464.
ïemblance, il. 342.
ïenate-houfe, ri. 307.
fenefhals, iv. 11.
fenfual ftye, ri..'25.
fepfilchred, vii. 87.
ïequel, iii. 169.
Sérapis, ii. 361.
ïere, iv. 210.
ferenate, iii. 147.
ferpent errour, iii. 375.
tèrried, ii. 344.
iii. 317.
ïeverity, ri.
fewers, iv. 11.
thadowy offspring, v. 270.
fhaggy top, ri. 25.
fhaggieft ruffian, vi. 417-
8hakfpeare, ri. 103.
lhak'd, sii. 46.
»]tape, v. 150.
thattering, iv. 09.
fhavt% ii. 421.
fleen, vi. 401.
weny, vii. 46.
thephcrd lad, v. 134.
lhine, vil. 3.
Ihooting fiar, ri. 253.
thops of thunder, vii. ï6.
thowers of arrows, v.
Ihrcwd cil'c, ri. 37-1,.
flrouds, ri. '2.65.
flrunk, ri. 4'2.
flnttting t.ye of day, xi. 4-t6.
filcnt moon, v. 351.
filent obfequy, ,g. 483.
filver chirac, ri. 377.
filvcr lake, ri. 3?7.
filver-bufkin'd, v i.
filver-looted, ri. 378.
fiive'.'-wrilied, vi. 378.
Sin and Death, allegory of,
60.
fincercly, vii.
finilter, iv. 196.
fitting, iii. 15.3.
/kill'd of, iv. 11.
Skinner, Cyriack t ri. 4.90.
/ky-tinur'd, iii.
ilack-hand, iv. 88.
flumbcring morn, vi. 85.
fmiling, v. 23.
fmil'd with fragrance, iii. 439.
finiling hall in fcorn,_iii. 159.
finooth air, ri. 468.
fmooth conceit.s, v. 256.
finooth-flmven green, ,ai. 119.
finooth-fliding flood, ri. 5,'4, 38.9.
fmoothing the brow, v. 4.
fmotc, iii. 97.
fmouldring, vil. lï.
fobcr, ri. 111.
lock, vi. 102. :
foft-fiiding, ri. 58, 389.
G LOSSARIAL INDEX.
fi»lda-n, il. 366.
folemn-brcathing, vi. 33.
f.'»licitous, v. 383.
folitary hand, iii. 27.
fidfiitial, ri. 174.
fort of memory, vii. 86.
footh, vii. 115.
Ibothel, ri. o
,,6.9.
fi)oty flag, ri. 337.
lord, iv.
lbrrow's livery, ri. 58, 59.
f«wran, il..315.
fi)ught, v. 3.98.
fi»w'd with liars, iii. 381.
))angled with fiars, iii. 385.
ri. 401.
vii. 1
l))cakabIe, iv. 61.
l)ecklcd Vanity, vil. 15.
fpcculation, iv. 36.
5penlbr, ri. 127.
vii. 360.
t)»ets, ri. 261.
l))ced lccint, iii.
I]»hery chime, ri. 40.
qfiritcd, iv. 65.
fpreading favour, ri. 271.
t)ungy air, ri.
luadron angelick, iii. 164.
fquadrons bright, vil. 6.
luint lhfpicion, ri. 309.
fiar-beudded, vi. 355.
ar-chamber, vii. 211.
t[ar-empower'd, vii. 153.
fiar-proof, vi. 170.
fiar-l))angled, vil. 153.
tiare, iv. 15.
ri. 168.
atit[s, v.
fieerin, v. 353.
Steuart, Adam, vii. 94.
fiill, vii. 31.
Stoa, v.
fiood, iii.
Roop'd, iv.
fiops, ri. 5.
Rote of ladies, ri. 99.
Roricd window, vL 17
firay, vi. 89.
fireams fl'izadoed, ri. 16.
ltrike, v. 474.
firikes a peaee, vii. 8.
lirucken mute, iv. 101.
liubs, v. 49.
fiol»endious , v. 473.
fitbdue, v. 37.
thbjeted plain, iv. 350.
fiblribe, iv. 229.
fuc«in, iii. 63.
Summanus, vii. 313.
titrant'd, iii. 389.
fitmm'd, their pen% v. 9-
lmptuous gluttonies, v.
l'unbqght chariot, iii.
fun fups with the ocean iii.
15.
fun's team, vil. 5.
lhn clad,, ri. 361.
lhn-proo/] vi. 170.
Ikpplanted, iv. 158.
fitrging waves, v. 213.
l'uR«n, vii. 11.
fivarm of thoughts, v.
lkvart, ri. .
ikvart/qery, ri. 314.
fivart-fiar, ri. 43,
lkveet-briar, ri.
lkveet-winged fquire, vil.
lWCet focietics, ri. 51.
lkvcl[itg epithets, v. 261.
fwelling gourd, iii. 377.
fwerv'd, (the battle) iii.
fwift Hebrus, ri. 6.
lvill'd infilence, ri.
fwim in joy, iv.
lvindges, vil. 18.
lkvink'd, ri.
fword-law, iv. 275.
fword-players, v. 449.
lllable, ri. 76.
To
tag, n. vin
raie, vi. 88.
GLOSSAI{IAL INDEX,
tangled wood, vi. 270.
tapeftry, vit. -o£9.
taflèl'd horn, ri. 16-1..
Taffo, vit. 255, 256.
Taflb's Lconora, vit..'256.
Taflb's tomb, vit. 358.
tafied, v. 88.
tawny king, vit. 154.
tear, vi. 16.
vit. 63.
tears inflruttcd, vit. 3-r.
teats, iv. 6'2.
teddcd, iv. 4(;.
tell-tale fun, ri..'2(;3.
temper'd, iii. 410.
vi. £0,
lempcfl, iii. ô88.
temph" and Iower, vi. 459-
tempted attempt, ii. 35ô.
Tetrachordon, »i 4(/3.
Thamyris, iii. 8.
theatres, v.
thick-warbled notes, v. 244.
thief of Paradffe, v. 300.
thievifh Night, ri. 73.
Thomfon, Mrs. Catherine ri.
471.
thra|l, v. 57.
three-lificd, iv.
thundcr-clafping hand» vii. 153.
thundcrous, vii. 75.
ff|l, iii. 4.
ri[ring, iv. 11.
til]e, iv. °10.
tinfel-flippcr'd, ri. 378.
tongue-battcrics, v. 379.
tongue-douglay, v. 43.9.
top of cloqucncc, v. 267.
tormcntcd ,air, iii.
tortuous, iv. 58.
tournament, iv. 10.
towers and battlemcnts, ri. 90".
tower and terrace, ri.
training, iii. 312.
trauflucent, ri. 375.
tranfmigration, iv. 134.
trappings, iv. 10.
travell'd, iii. 50.
tread a meafure, ri. 395.
Trcnt, river, vit. 82.
treflbs like the mot», ri.
tributary gods, »i.
trick'd, ri. 129.
trim gardens, ,i. 115.
Iri 1) on the toc, ri.
tripi ings, vi. 394.
tripping ebb, iv. '2.00.
tripping fairy, vit. 79.
Tripos verlb», vit. 33.
Triton, vi. ô78.
Iriumphal arcs, v. 214.
triumphs, ri. 99.
troop, v. 48.
troll tire tongue, iv. 268.
trophics hung, v. 484.
tufted trees, ri. 90.
turm» (,f tmrlb, v. 220.
tvo-handed fwo d, iii. 283.
type or" llell, ii. 630.
ty:anny, ii. 303.
V
vacaut, v. 103.
Valdarno, ii. 318.
Vallombrofa, ii. 320.
Vaut, Sir llcnry, »i. 480.
vanquilh'd, v. 30.
vans, ii. 448.
vantbracc, v. 435.
various-mcafir'd verre, v. 247.
varnifla'd, v. 418.
vaflàls ofwrath, il. 379.
vault of Heaven, ii. 355.
velvet head, vi. 383.
vermcil-tintur'd lip, ri. 451..
veflcd prieI[, v. 40.
x.efiure's hem, vi. 169.
vex'd wilderncfs, v. 275.
viewlefs, vi. 255.
igils, v. 31.
villatick fowl, v. 479.
violct-embroider'd, vi. _o79.
,-!rg!n, iv. :9-
rgm majelty, iv. 9-
GLOSSARIAL INDE*.
Virtue's book, ri. 303.
Virtue's bill, v. 102.
volant touch, iv. 263.
volbii, iii. 1o9.
votaril[ vi.
unblelnifla'd form, ri. 77.
unblench'd, vi. 3i3.
unboIbm, vii. 36.
uncouth cell, ri. 76.
uncouth pain iii. 295.
uncouth pafikge, iv. 156.
underftand, iii. 318.
unenchanted eye, ri. :307.
uneffential, il. 405.
unexpreflive, vii. 13.
unholy, ri. 76.
unlaid ghoft, ri. 314.
unmuffle, ri. 298.
unprevented, iii. 24.
unprincipled, vi. 303.
unrazor'd lips, ri. °90.
unreal, iv. 155.
unremoved, iii. 166.
unreproved pleafitres, ri. 83.
unrefpited, unpitied, unre-
prier'd, ii. 387.
unfhorn Apollo, vii. 75.
unfunn'd heaps, vi.'308.
unvalued, vii. 86.
unweeting, ri. 528.
upland, ri. 92.
Urania, iii. 347.
urchin blafts, ri. 473.
ufe, vi. 43.
Uther Pendragon, vii. 383.
Uzziel, iii. 149.
waggons of carie, iii. 43 4-.
'aken, iii.
wak'ft, iv. 246.
wakes and paftimes, ri.
Walton, llac, ri. 185.
wandering fieps, ri. 351.
wan-white leaves, vii. 3, 33.
wantoning nature, iii..'20,.
war in procin&, iii. 261.
ware, iv. 36.
varping, ii. 323.
waflMlers, vi. "-.69.
walie wildernel, v. 6.
watchfui fpheres, ri. o58.
watery bief, ri. 15.
watery plain, vii. 151.
wattled, vil. 380.
weeds of pcace, ri. 99.
weigh'd, iii. 168.
weil-couch'd fraud, v. 19.
weRering, ri. 1.
whelming tide, ri. 47.
whirlwind round, iii. 328.
whifpering winds, v. 78.
whift, vii. 9.
white letters, vii. 33.
white-rob'd Truth, vii. 47.
wide-encroaching Eve, iv. 167.
wild, v.
wildd'hefs, iv. 28.
Winchelter, Marchionefs of vii.
59, &c.
Windlbr Caiile, vii. 84.
winged warriours, vii. 37.
v'ings, v. 18-k
wifards, vii. 6.
wifard ftream, ri. 5.
within, ii. 361.
womb, ii. 356.
wons, iii. 395.
Woodcock, Francis, ri. 496.
woodnotes wild, 103.
Worm, iv. 10.
wormy beds, vii. 45.
Wotton, Sir Henry, vi. 179,
worth a fponge, v. 262.
wreathed fmiles, ri. 81.
written date vi.
vol vxt. F f
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
Xavier, Francis, vii. 317.
Xerxes» iv. 140.
yawn!ng tiens, ri. 418.
yawnmg grave, iv.
yellow bridegroom, vil. 2.
yellov Hymen, vil.
yellow-treffed Hymen, vil. 2e.
yellow fands, ri. 414.
yet once more, ri. 13.
Young, Thomas, vil. 01,
Zephon, iii. 150.
Zephyr with Aurora, ri. 78.
Zephyrus on ¥1ora breathin D
vii. 196.
Zophiel, iii. 310.
Zora, v. ô60.
CONTENTS
OF THE SEVEN VOLUMES.
VOL. 1.
Some Account o the Life and Writings of Milton 1
Nuncupative Will of Milton - - - 16,5
Lift of Editions, Tranflatio, s, and Alterations, of the
Po.TI c,L Wor:s .... 189
Lilt of Detached Pieces of Criticifm relating to the
POETICL WORKS .....
Verbal Index ....... 219
VOL. II.
Prolegomena, &c. Cmnmendatory Verfes - - iii
Addilbn's Criticilin on the Paradife Loti, with notes
by the editor .......
Dr. Johnfoa's Remarks on ,Iilton's Verfffication,
with remarks by the editor .... 154
Inquiry into the Origin of Paradife Loft - - 10
Mr. Boyd's Remarks on the Fallen Angels of blilton * °57
lilton's Apology for the Verfe .... f75
"FHE FIR$T AID SECOND OOK$ OF
Losr, ....... 8:, &c,
VOL. III.
THE THIRD» FOURTH» FIFTH» $1XTH» S]iVENTH
and T OOKS OF
CONTENTS.
VOL. IV.
VOL. V.
preliminary Obfervations on Paradife Regained - i
Origin of Paradife Regained .... xv
PARADISE [/EGAIN E D ..... 5
Miiton's Defence of Tragedy - - - 013
Preliminary Obfervations on Samfon Agoniftes - 319
SAMSON AGONISTES - - - $43
Plau of othcr Tragcdies ..... 4.03
VOL. VI.
prdiminary Notes on Lycidas ; Mr. King ,_q
St. MichaeI's Mount ..... 7
L'CIDAS ....... lA
Various Readings of Lvcidas rioto the Cambridgc
'anufcript ...... (0
Prcliminary Notes on L'Allegro and Ii Penferofo - 65
L'ALLE6I:O ....... 75
IL P..sEoso ..... 107
Pl-eliminary Notes on Arcades: Harefield - - 147
Countefs of Derby ...... 148
Marfton's Manufcript Mark - - - 151
AaCES ....... 157
Various 1Readings of Arcades from the Cambridge
Manufcript ...... 174,
CONTENTS.
Preliminary Notcs on Comus; Lawcs's Dedicafion - 177
Sir Henry Wotton's Letter to Milton - - - 179
Some _Account of Ludlow Caille - - - 187
of the Earls of Bridgewater - - 195
--- of Henry Lawes .... 206
Origiu of Comus ...... 221
ComJs ...... 237
Various Readings of Comus from the Cambridge
aManu fcript ........ 413
Various leadings of Comus from the Duke of Bridge-
water's ]Ianufcript ...... 46
Preliminary Obfervations on the Sonnets - - 437
Henry Conftable's Manufcript Sonnets - - - 439
5Ir. Stillingfleet's lanufcript Sonnet - - 441
ONNF.T viz.
I. To the Nightingale .... 445
II. Donna leggiadra, &c .... 447
Ill. Quai in colle afpro, &c .... 448
CAIZONE. Ridonfi, &c .... 450
IV. Diodati, &c. - .... 451
V. Per certo i bei, &c. - - - - 453
VI. Giovane piano, Re. - - - 455
Vil. On his being a,'rived to the age oftwcnty-.
three ..... 455
VIII. When the affault was intcnded to the City 4.58
IX. To a virtuous yomg Lady - - - 460
X. To the Lady 3Iargaret Ley - - 462
XI. On the l)etra6fion hi«h followed on
my writing certain Treatif«s - - 46:1
XII. On the faine .... 466
XIII. 'Fo Mr. H. Lawes on his Airs - - 46
XlV. On the rcligious memory of Mrs. Catherine
Thomfon ...... 4.7 I
XV. To the Lord General Fairfax - - 473
XVI. To the Lord General Cromwell - - 476
XVII. To Sir Itenr) Vaue !he younger - 480
XVIII. On the 3laflhcre in Piemont 482
CONTENTS.
VOL. IV.
THE N|NTH, TENTH» ELEVENTII» and TWELFTII
OOKS or PA}tADtSE LOST .... l, &c.
Plans of Paradife I,oft as a Tragedy - - - 583
Laudcr's Interpolations .... 589
VOL. V.
Preliminary Oblirvations on Pmadifc Rcgained - i
Origin of Paradife Regained .... xv
PARADISE IïEGAI N ED .....
Milton's Defcnce of agedy .... 313
Prelimina U Obfervafions on Sain f on Agouifics - 319
SAMSON xGONISTES - - -
Plans of other Tragedies ..... 403
VOL. VI.
l'r(llminary Notes on Lycidas; Mr. King - - 3
St. MichaeI's Mount ..... 7
L, CDAS ..... 13
Various Rëadings of Lvcidas frolll the Cambridgc
Manufcript ...... 60
Prcliminary Notes on L'Allegro attd I1 Pcnferofo - 65
L'ALLEçnO ....... 75
IL PF_ SEIOSO ...... 107
Prelimiuary Notes on Arcades : tlareficld - - 147
Countefs of I)crby ...... 148
Marfton's 5Ianufcript Matk .... 151
ARCADES ....... 157
Various Readings of .Arcades from thc Cmnbridge
Manufcript ....... 174,
CONTENTS.
Preliminary Notes on Corons; Lawes's Dedication - 177
Sir Henry Wotton's Letter to Miltou - - - 179
Some Accomt of Ludlow Caftle - - - 187
of the Earls of Bridgewater - - 195
= of Henry Lawes .... 206
Origin of Corons ..... 221
Cotvs ...... 237
Various lïeadings of Corons from the Cambridge
,Ianufcript ........ 413
Yarious Readings of Corons ri'oto the Duke of Bridge-
water's Mauufcript ...... 40.6
Preliminary Obfervations on the Sonnets - - 437
Henry Conftable's Manufcript Sonnets - - - 439
Mr. Stillingfleet's Manufcript Sommt - - - "441
$ONNETS, viz.
I. To the Nightingale .... 445
II. Donna leggiadra, &c .... 447
III. Quai in colle afpro, &c .... 448
CANZOE. Ridonfi, c. - - 450
IV. Diodati, &e. - .... 451
V. Per certo i bel, &c. - - - 453
VI. Giovane piano, c. - - - - 455
Vil. On his being arrived to the age oftwenty-
three ...... 45
VIII. When the atlhnlt was intcnded to the City 458
IX. To a virtuous yomg Lady - - 460
N. To the Lady 3largaret Ley - - 42
XI. On the l)etra:tion vhi«h followed on
my writing certain Treatifes - - 46:;
XII. On the faine .... 466
XIII. To Mr. tI. Lawes on his Airs - - 46
XIV. On the religions melnory of Mrs. Catherine
Thomfon ...... 47 I
XV. To the Lord General Fairfax - - 47:
XVI. To the Lord General Cromwell - - 476
XVII. To Sir I]enr)- Vane file yolmger - - 480
XVIII. On the ),lattàcre in Piemo»t - 482
CONTENT.
XIX. On his Blindnefs .....
XX. To Mr. Lawrence ....
XXI. To Cyriack Skinner ....
XXII. To the rime ...... 4
XXI ll. On his deceafed Wifo - - - . 496
Sonnets of Petrarch and Cens - -
Vari,us Readiugs of dru Sonnets ri'oto the
Cambridge Manufcript -
VOL. VIL
Ous, riz.
On the Monfing of Chrift's Nativity - - - 3
Ïhe Paflion ....... ç9
Upon the Circumcifion ..... 7
On the Death of a fir Iufant .... 41
Ou Time ....... .50
At a folemn Mufick ...... ,5 ° ,
arious lcadings of the Ode at a Solemn l[ufick,
from the Cambridge 3IS ..... .57
On the Deafl» of the Marchionet of Winclaefler -. .59
On Muy 3lorning ..... 66
IlscELLaEs, riz.
Ata Vacation Eercil in the College - - 7 1
Epitaph on Shakfpeare - - - 85
O_t Hobfon, the Univerfity Carrier - - - 88
Oit the faine ....... 89
On the New Forcers of Conlience tmder the Long
Parliameut - - - - - - 92
Various Readings of the faine .... 98
r'RAN S LATIO 1 % viz.
tlorace to P)-rrha ...... 101
lTragments ...... 10-» &c.
Ps,,rs ....... 109» &c.
Paraphrafe of PSALM CXIV..... 147
CONT£NT$.
latap}lrafe of Ps,L CXXXVI.
1,)e Authore Teftimonia ....
Sir. Wartou's Pre|iminarv Obfcrvatious on thc L-afin
Verfes .......
E. I. Ad Carotum Deodatum "- '- ,- 175
II. lai Obitum Preconis Academici Cantabr-
gieufis ..... 189
III. In Obitum Prefidis Wintonenfis - 192
tV. Ad Thomam Junium
V. IlS adveutum veris - - 2
¥I. Ad Caro!um Deodatuln ruri commor:mtern o_.2:5
Vil..Anno e-Etatis XIX ....
Ev«rt,^a'ç,. L, zeP,, riz.
E'. I. In Proditionem Bombardicam - - 0,49
II. Iu eandem ..... _o49
III. lu eandem ..... 50
IV. In em,dem ....
V. In Invcntorem Bombardæ - - - .2o.51
VI. _Ad Leonoram Romoe ca»entetn - -
VII. _Ad eandem .....
VIII. Ad eandem ....
IX. Iu Sahnafii Hundredam - - 2.58
X. In Salmafiuln - - - 260
_-XI. In Morum - - - 263
XII..Apologus de ruftico et hero - - -
XII[. Ad Clriliimm Suecorum Reginam - £68
lanufcript accotmt of Chriflina - 70,
ILVARUM LIBER, riz.
Dr. C. Burney's Prelitninary Obfervations on the
Greek Verfes .... '277
Plhlmus CXIV. Groecè ..... 300
l)hilofot)hus ad regem, &c. Grecè - - - o0z-" '
In efllgiei tjus Sculptorem. Grecè - - 03
In Cbitum Procancellarii, Medici - - - 305
In Quintuul Novembris ..... 310
In Obituln Prefulis Elienfis - - - 329
aturam non pati fcnium
P
CONTENTS.
Pag
De Ide Platonict quemadmodum Ariflotele intellext 388
.Ad Patrem ....... 842
.Ad Salfill,m ....... 851
lanfus .......
Epitaphium Damonis ....
d Joannem Roufium ..... 890
Ba,'on's lmitions of Milton's early Poems - -
çloffarial Index ..... 416
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