ARIOSTO.

Then past he to a flowry mountain green,
Which once smelt fweet, now ftinks as odiously:

This was the gift, if you the truth will have,
That Conftantine to good Silvester gave 3.

HORACE h

Whom do we count a good man? Whom but he
Who keeps the laws and ftatutes of the fenate,
Who judges in great fuits and controverfies,
Whose witness and opinion wins the cause?
But his own houfe, and the whole neighbourhood,
Sees his foul infide through his whited skin'.

HORACE *.

The power that did create, can change the scene
Of things, make mean of great, and great of mean:
The brightest glory can eclipfe with might,
And place the most obscure in dazling light'.

1 C. xxxiv. 8o. Tickell and Fenton have added fome lines from Harrington's version.

& From OF REFORMATION, &C. PROSE-WORKS, vol, i. p. 10. h EPIST. i. xvi. 40.

i From TETRACHORDON, PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 239.

* OD. i. xxxiv. 12.

I From A DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, i. 451. Washington's Translation.

HORACE.

All barbarous people and their princes too,
All purple tyrants honour you,

The very wandering Scythians do.
Support the pillar of the Roman state,
Left all men be involv'd in one man's fate,
Continue us in wealth and state,

Let wars and tumults ever cease".

CATULLUS.

The worst of poets I myself declare,

By how much you the best of poets are'.

From Salmacis' pernicious stream ;
If but one moment there you stay,
Too dear you'll for your bathing pay.
Depart nor man, nor woman, but a fight
Disgracing both, a loath'd Hermaphrodite'.

m Od. i. xxv. 9.

" From a DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, i. 467. • CARM. xlvii.

P From a DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, i. 469. 9 METAM. iv. 285.

From a DEFENCE, &c. vol. i. 448.

EURI

EURIPIDES".

This is true liberty, when freeborn men
Having t'advise the public may speak free
Which he who can, and will, deserves high praise :
Who neither can nor will, may hold his peace,
What can be a jufter in a state than this '?

VIRGIL ".

No eaftern nation ever did adore

The majesty of fovereign princes more".

VIRGIL *.

And Britains interwove held the purple hangings".

HORACE 2.

Laughing, to teach the truth,

What hinders? As fome teachers give to boys Junkets and knacks, that they may learn apace".

IKETIA. V. 440.

'Milton's Motto to his "AREOPAGITICA, A Speech for the liber"ty of unlicensed Printing, &c." PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 141. GEORG. iv. 210.

From a DEFENCE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 461.

* GEORG. iii. 25.

y From a DEFENCE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, Vol. I.

533. I fhould

not have exhibited this fingle line, but to fhew a good fenfe of an obfcure paffage. See Note on Comus, v. 544.

Z SAT. i. i. 24.

a From APOL. SMECTYMN. PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 116.

HORACE.

HORACE'.

Joking decides great things

Stronger and better oft than earnest can,

SOPHOCLES".

"Tis you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, And your ungodly deeds find me the words.

No facrifice to God more acceptable,

Than an unjust and wicked king".

TERENCE ".

In filence now and with attention wait,

That ye may know what th' Eunuch has to prate'.

HOMER.

Glaucus, in Lycia we're ador'd as gods,

What makes 'twixt us and others fo great odds!?

SAT. i. x. 14.

APOL. SMECTYMN. vol. i. p. 116.

4 ELECTR. V. 627.

From APOL, SMECTYMN. Ibid.

f HERCUL. FUR.

* From TENURE OF KINGS, &C. PROSE-WORKs, vol. i. 315.

AEUNUCH. PROL.

i From A DEFENCE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 447. *ILIAD. Xiii. 310.

1 From A DEFENCE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, vol, i. 467.

EPIGRAM

EPIGRAM on Salmafius's * HUNDREDA".

Who taught Salmafius, that French chattering pye
To aim at English, and HUNDREDA cry ?
The starving rascal, flush'd with just a hundred
English Jacobuffes, HUNDREDA blunder'd:
An outlaw'd king's last stock. A hundred more
Would make him pimp for th'antichristian whore;
And in Rome's praise imploy his poison'd breath,
Who threaten'd once to stink the pope to death.
PSALM I†.

Done into verfe, 1653.

Lefs'd is the man who hath not walk'd aftray

BLefs'd

In counsel of the wicked, and i' th' way

There are feveral paffages in N. Heinfius's Letters, inferted in Burman's SYLLOGE EPISTOLARUM relating to Milton's Controversy with Salmafius. Some are remarkable. Tom. iii. p. 270. He fays, in a Letter to Gronovius; "Mifer ifte Senecio (Salmafius) prorfus "delirat et infanit: Mifit duas in hanc urbem (Amitelod.) epiftolas, ❝rabiei fycophanticæ non inanes, quibus omne fe virus in me con"verfurum minatur, quod Miltoni fcriptum probari a me intelligat. "Ego vero dixi et dicam prorfus, malam a Miltono caufam tam bene "actam, quam Regis infeliciffimi caufam peffime egit Scribonius.— "Inter Regicidas fi locum mihi dat, at omni procul dubio daturus, "videbis brevi pro meritis ornatum depexum." In a letter from l. Voffius to Heinfius, are the following words, iii 620. "Ex animo gaudet Salmafius, Librum Miltoni Lutetiæ publice a Carnifice esse "combuftum interim hoc fcio fatum effe bonorum librorum, ut hoc modo vel pereant vel periclitentur." Dr. J. WARTON.

A tranflation of his Latin epigram on this fubject, which will be inferted in its proper place. This English epigram is Washington's, in his English verfion of the DEFENSIO, PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 523.

† Metrical pfalmody was much cultivated in this age of fanaticifm. Milton's father is a compofer of fome of the tunes in Ravenscroft's Pfalms.

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