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Ad CHRISTINAM Suecorum Reginam nomine Cromwelli *.

B Ellipotens Virgo, feptem Regina Trionum,

Chriftina, Arctoï lucida ftella poli,

Cernis quas merui dura fub casside rugas,
Utque fenex armis impiger ora tero ;
Invia fatorum dum per vestigiá nitor,
Exequor et populi fortia juffa manu.
Aft tibi submittit frontem reverentior umbra;
Nec funt hi vultus Regibus ufque truces.

TRANSLATION, from TOLAND's Life of MILTON.

BRIGHT martial maid, queen of the frozen zone,.

The northern pole fupports thy fhining throne; Behold what furrows age and fitcel can plow, The helmet's weight opprefs'd this wrinkled brow. Through fate's untrodden paths I move, my hands Still act my free-born people's bold commands: Yet this stern fhade to you submits his frowns, Nor are thefe looks always fevere to crowns.

* These verses were fent to Chriftina Queen of Sweden with Cromwell's picture, and are by fome afcribed to Andrew Marvel, as by others to Milton: but I fhould rather think they were Milton's, being more within his province as Latin Secretary.

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A FRAG

A FRAGMENT, from the Italian

Addressed to a young Lady, at Florence, who did not understand English.

WHEN, in your language, I, unskill'd, address

The short-pac'd efforts of a trammel'd Mufe;

Soft Italy's fair critics round Me press,

And

my mistaking paffion thus accuse.

Why, to our tongue's difgrace, does thy dumb love

Strive, in rough found, foft meaning to impart?
He must select his words who speaks to move,
And point his purpose at the hearer's heart.

Then laughing they repeat my languid lays

Nymphs of thy native clime, perhaps they cry,
For whom thou haft a tongue, may feel thy praife;
But we must understand ere we comply!

Do thou, my foul's soft hope, these triflers awe!
Tell them, 'tis nothing, how, or what, I write;
Since love from filent looks can language draw,
And fcorns the lame impertinence of wit.

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THE THIRD VOLUM E.

AMSON Agonistes

SAMS

Poems on feveral Occafions

On the death of a fair Infant dying of a cough
At a Vacation Exercife in the College

On the Morning of Chrift's Nativity

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The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. 1. English'd 166 On the new forcers of confcience under the Long Par

liament

Sonnets

To the Nightingale

On his being arrived to the age of 23
When the affault was intended to the city

To a virtuous young Lady

To the Lady Margaret Ley

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ibid.

On his deceased Wife

Pfalms

Joannis Miltoni Londinenfis Poemata

Elegiarum liber primus

Elegia Prima. Ad Carolum Deodatum

Elegia Secunda. In obitum Præconis Academici Can

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234 Elegia

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Elegia Quinta. In adventum veris

Elegia Sexta. Ad Carolum Deodatum, ruri commo

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Pfalmus CXIV. Græcè

Philofophus ad regem quendam, &c.

In effigiei ejus fculptorem

Ad Salfillum Poetam Romanum ægrotantem
Manfus

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