Ad CHRISTINAM Suecorum Reginam nomine Cromwelli *. B Ellipotens Virgo, feptem Regina Trionum, Chriftina, Arctoï lucida ftella poli, Cernis quas merui dura fub casside rugas, 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. 1.0 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? Then laughing they repeat my languid lays Nymphs of thy native clime, perhaps they cry, Do thou, my foul's soft hope, these triflers awe! CONTENTS CONTENTS THE THIRD VOLUM E. AMSON Agonistes SAMS Poems on feveral Occafions On the death of a fair Infant dying of a cough On the Morning of Chrift's Nativity 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 To a virtuous young Lady To the Lady Margaret Ley 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 tabrigienfis 3 234 Elegia |