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Huc etiam referenda eft Torrifmeni apud Drydenum oratio, fenis in carcerem detrufi miseram fortunam fimpliciter quidem et poetice fimul defcribentis:

"Antrum profundi carceris adibam nigrum,
"Solis tepenti luce viduatum locum ;
Septum tenebris, atque fqualentem fitu;
"Videbam ibi (vidi licet vix dixerim)

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Regem, revinctum vinculis, regem tamen, "Sortemque magno pectore ferentem malam! "Tremula corufcans luce, dubiaque humidos Lampas vapores vix fugat-madido folo "Stratus jacebat membra fufpiciens fenex : "Labitur ocellis gutta in humentes genas "Subinde, et oris imbre canitiem rigat. Caput levavi-brachia circumdedit

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Humeris, fuumque preffit ad pectus tenens Amplexibus; collo pependi, atque afperi "Socius doloris miscui lacrymas filens!

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I have been in fuch a dismal Place,

"Where Joy ne'er enters, which the Sun ne'er chears;
"Bound in with Darkness, over-fpread with Damps;
"Where I have feen (if I could fay I faw)

"The good old King, majestick in his Bonds,
"And 'midst his Griefs moft venerably great,
"By a dim winking Lamp, which feebly broke
"The gloomy Vapours: He lay stretch'd along
"Upon th' unwholsome Earth, his Eyes fix'd upward,
"And ever and anon a filent Tear

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Eft etiam ubi mens perturbata imaginibus penitus externis, et tanquam adventitiis denotatur. Sic Califta apud Rowium animi fui defperationem indicat.

"Natum dolori mente formavi locum,

(Utinam receffus ifte contingat mihi) "Vallem reductam, nempe, quam claudit vetus, Mufco virens, umbra horridum picea nemus! "Ibi finiftra corvus infauftus canit "Omina; filentium loci rumpit levi "Murmure fluentis amnis exiguus fonus; « Humana nulla cernere eft veftigia, Offa nifi fævo amore quondam perdita, Quali egomet hodie pereo, quæ petiit locum "Moribunda triftem, virgo non patiens fui ©.

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"Stole down, and trickled from his hoary Beard;"He fent for me, and while I rais'd his Head, "He threw his aged Arms about my Neck; "And seeing that I wept, he prefs'd me close. "So leaning Cheek to Cheek, and Eyes to Eyes, "We mingled Tears in a dumb Scene of Sorrow. DOUBLE DISCOVERY.

• "My fad Soul

"Has form'd a dismal melancholy Scene;

"Such a Retreat as I would wish to find:

"An unfrequented Vale, o'ergrown with Trees "Moffy and old, within whose lonesome Shade

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Præterea reperire fæpe eft apud poetas, et præcipue Shakefperium, fimplicitatem iftam poeticis coloribus haudquaquam carentem. Teftor illam in Hamletio narrationem vividam de morte Ophelia ;

Eft in fluentum prominens viridis falix, "Frondefque liquido fpeculo denfæ tremunt ; "Huc venit Ophelia floribus variis manu "Ferens corollam textilem, bullis, rofis, "Violifque, nulla lege compofitam; ftatim "Confcendit incauta arborem veluti volens "Figere corollam pendulo ramusculo; Infidus ille deficit planta, ruit "Virgo coronam floream fecum trabens ; Sufpenfa paffis veftibus undis natat, "Et cantilenas voce ceu Siren dedit "Triftes canora; nefcit infelix adit "Pericla quanta; Nereis tanquam, maris "Incola videtur, donec epotis aquis

"Ravens and Birds ill-omen'd only dwell:
No Sound to break the Silence, but a Brook
"That, bubbling, winds among the Weeds: No Mark
"Of any human Shape that had been there;
"Unless a Skeleton of fome poor Wretch,

"Who had long fince, like me by Love undone,
Sought that fad Place out to defpair and die in.

FAIR PENITENT.

« Onusta

Onufta veftis fidit; heu! fundens melos "Obruitur undis turbidis ‘.

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Cui cognatam quidem et fortaffis parem apud Fletcherum carceris cuftodis filiæ defcriptionem æquum eft hic loci adeamus, quam certe ab ipfo Shakefperio fcriptam nonnulli judicaverunt :

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Pifcans in amplo regiam juxta lacu, "Dum pone denfas carices latui, meo "Intentus operi, et facile patiens, perfonat "Aures acuta, nefcio qualis, procul "Vox refona; miror audiens dein canticum

f❝ There is a Willow grows aflant a Brook,
"That fhews his hoar Leaves in the glaffy Stream,
"There with fantaftick Garlands did the come,
"Of Crow-flowers, Nettles, Daifies, and long Purples ;→→
"There on the pendent Boughs her Coronet-weeds
"Clambering to hang, an envious Sliver broke,
"When down her weedy Trophies and herself

"Fell in the weeping Brook: her Cloaths spread wide,
"And Mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up,
"Which Time she chaunted Snatches of old Tunes,
"As one incapable of her own Distress,

"Or like a Creature native and indued

"Unto that Element; but long it could not be,
"Till that her Garments, heavy with their Drink,
"Pull'd the poor Wretch from her melodious Lay
"To muddy Death.

HAMLET.

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"Mulieris ore fuaviter, exigue tamen,

Puerive miffum; protinus juris fui "Arundo vibrat undulis; peto locum ;

At ille juncis confitus, cannis frequens "Fallit tuentem; forte qua cæcum fibi "Pifcator aditum fecerat fpectans, fatis Agnofco certis filiam fignis tuam.

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" Humi recumbens auribus dulces fonos
" Attentus baufi; concinit multum; nibil
"Diftincte; præter ifta, quæ miris modis
" Iterat iteratque; Palamon in fylvas abit,
"Abit rubetis mora lecturus nigra ;
Luftrabo nemora craftino quærens die;
"Prodent fed illum compedes tinnitibus ;
Quid inde de me fiet ?—aftabunt mihi
"Centum puellæ, innupta virginum cobors,
"Cincta coronis capita, floribus comas
"Nigras decora, labra purpurea velut

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Cerafis rubentes rofcidis, genas rofis"Nos rege coram pedibus antiquo modo "Motis, choreas rite ducentes leves, "Veniam precemur; inde fermonem novum Capit, querela temet ingenti dolens " Cras perditurum regio juffu caput; "At unde carpam funebres flores, ait, "Niteantque pulchre cuncta curabo domi? "Tum cantilenas recinit infauftas, abes "Formofe Palamon, Palamon O juvenis nimis "Formofe, dilecte nimis, beu Palamon abes,

" Unda

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