Voluit reponi, quibus & ipfe præfidet

Æternorum operum cuftos fidelis,
Quæftorque gazæ nobilioris,

Quàm cui præfuit Iön

Clarus Erechtheides

Opulenta dei per templa parentis

Fulvofque tripodas, donaque Delphica,

Ion Actæâ genitus Creüsâ.

Ergo tu vifere lucos

Antiftrophe.

Mufarum ibis amœnos,

Diamque Phœbi rurfus ibis in domum,

Oxoniâ quam valle colit

Delo pofthabitâ,

Bifidòque Parnaffi jugo :

Ibis honeftus,

Poftquam egregiam tu quoque fortem

Nactus abis, dextri prece follicitatus amici.
Illic legéris inter alta nomina

Authorum, Graiæ fimul & Latina

Antiqua gentis lumina, & verum decus.

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Epodos.

Epodos.

Vos tandem haud vacui mei labores,

Quicquid hoc fterile fudit ingenium,

Jam ferò placidam fperare jubeo

Perfunctam invidià requiem, fedesque beatas
Quas bonus Hermes

Et tutela dabit folers Roüfi,

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Quo neque lingua procax vulgi penetrabit, atque longè

Turba legentum prava facesset;

At ultimi nepotes,

Et cordatior ætas

Judicia rebus æquiora forfitan

Adhibebit integro finu.

Tum livore fepulto,

Si quid meremur fana pofteritas fciet
Roüfio favente.

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Ode tribus conftat Strophis, totidémque Antiftrophis, unâ demum Epodo claufis, quas, tametfi omnes nec verfuum numero, nec certis ubique colis exactè refpondeant, ita tamen fecuinus, commodè legendi potiùs, quàm ad antiquos concinendi modos rationem fpectantes. Alioquin hoc genus rectiùs fortaffe dici monoftrophicum debuerat. Metra partim funt xarà σχέσιν, partim ἀπολελυμένα. Phalencia quæ funt Spondæum tertio loco bis admittunt, quod idem in fecundo loco Catullus ad libitum fecit.

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Ad CHRISTINAM Suecorum Reginam nomine Cromwelli *.

BEllipotens Virgo, feptem Regina Trionum,

Chriftina, Arctoï lucida stella poli,

Cernis quas merui dura sub caffide rugas,
Utque fenex armis impiger ora tero;
Invia fatorum dum per veftigia nitor,
Exequor et populi fortia juffa manu.
Aft tibi fubmittit 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 fteel 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 shade to you fubmits his frowns,
Nor are thefe looks always fevere to crowns.

*These verses were fent to Christina Queen of Sweden with Cromwell's picture, and are by some ascribed 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.

A FRAG

A FRAGMENT, from the Italian;

Addreffed 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, soft meaning to impart?
He must felect his words who fpeaks 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 hast a tongue, may feel thy praise;
But we must understand ere we comply!

Do thou, my foul's foft 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.

CONTENTS

On the death of a fair Infant dying of a cough

At a Vacation Exercife in the College

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

The Paffion

On Time

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Upon the Circumcifion

At a Solemn Mufic

An Epitaph on the Marchionefs of Winchester

Song. On May Morning

On Shakespear

On the University Carrier

Another on the fame

L'Allegro

Il Penferofo

Arcades

A Mask

Lycidas