Docto jugiter obfecrante amico,

Illuftre tendebas iter

Thamefis ad incunabula

Cærulei patris,

Fontes ubi limpidi

Aonidum, thyafufque facer
Orbi notus per immenfos

Temporum lapfus redeunte cœlo,
Celeberque futurus in ævum ;

Strophe 2.

Modò quis deus, aut editus deo
Priftinam gentis miferatus indolem
(Si fatis noxas luimus priores,
Mollique luxu degener otium)
Tollat nefandos civium tumultus,
Almaque revocet ftudia fanctus,
Et relegatas fine fede Mufas
Jam penè totis finibus Angligenûm;

Immundafque volucres

Unguibus imminentes

Figat Apollineâ pharetrâ,

Phinéamque abigat peftem procul amne Pegaséo.

Antistrophe.

Quin tu, libelle, nuntii licet malâ

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: 25

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35.

Strophe 3.

Nam te Roufius fui
Optat peculi, numeróque jufto
Sibi pollicitum queritur abeffe,
Rogatque venias ille cujus inclyta
Sunt data virum monumenta curæ :
Téque adytis etiam facris

Voluit reponi, quibus & ipfe præfidet
Eternorum operum cuftos fidelis,
Quæftorque gazæ nobilioris,

Quàm cui præfuit lön

Clarus Erechtheides

Opulenta dei per templa parentis,

Fulvofque tripodas, donaque Delphica,
Iön Actæâ genitus Creusâ.

Mufarum ibis amœnos,

Diamque Phoebi rurfus ibis in domum,

Oxoniâ quam valle colit

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55

60

Delo pofthabitâ,

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Quicquid hoc fterile fudit ingenium,

Jam ferò placidam fperare jubeo

Perfunctam invidiâ requiem, fedefque beatas
Quas bonus Hermes

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Et tutela dabit folers Roüfi,

Quo neque lingua procax vulgi penetrabit, atque longè

Turba legentum prava faceffet;

At ultimi nepotes,

Et cordatior ætas

Judicia rebus æquiora forfitan

Adhibebit integro finu.

Tum livore fepulto,

Si quid meremur fana pofteritas sciet
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 respondeant, ita tamen secuimus, commodè legendi potiùs, quàm ad antiquos concinendi modos rationem fpectantes. Alioquin hoc genus rectiùs fortaffe dici monoftrophicum debuerat. Metra partim funt xarà oxiow, partim axo2. Phaleucia quæ funt, Spondæum tertio loco. bis admittunt, quod idem in fecundo loco Catullus ad libitum fecit.

Ad CHRISTINAM Suecorum Reginam nomine
Cromwelli *.

BEllip

Ellipotens Virgo, feptem Regina Trionum,
Chriftina, Arctoï lucida ftella poli,

Cernis quas merui dura fub 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.

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*Thefe verfes 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 fecretary. Newton.

Tis Education forms the common Mind;
For, as the Twig is bent, the Free's inclind.

Male educatus scelestus evadit.

Guilt teils for Cain at Honors vast Expense, Heavn throws the rifle in to Innocence And fixes Happiness in Hell's despite The necessary consequence of Right.