PASSAGES INTERPOLATED IN GROTIUS. Citation 1. Essay, page 55. Sacri tonantis hostis, exsul patriæ "Quid dico? Tellus? Orcus et pedibus tremit." Citation 2. Essay, page 58; the whole passage. "Nam, me judice, Regnare dignum est ambitu, etsi in Tartaro : Alto præcesse Tartaro siquidem juvat, Cœlis quam in ipsis servi obire munera.” Citation 4. Essay, page 61; the whole passage. "Innominata quæque nominibus suis, Libet vocare propriis vocabulis." Citation 5. Essay, page 63. Terrestris orbis rector! et princeps freti! "Cœli solique soboles; ætherium genus!" Adame! dextram liceat amplecti tuam ! Citation 6. Essay, ibid. Quod illud animal, tramite obliquo means, Sibila retorquet ora setosum caput Trifidamque linguam vibrat: oculi ardent duo, "Carbunculorum luce certantes rubra." Citation 7. Essay, page 65; the whole passage. "Nata deo! atque homine sata! Regina mundi! eademque interitus inscia! Cunctis colenda!" Citation 8. Essay, page 66; the whole passage. "Rationis etenim omnino paritas exigit, Ego bruta quando bestia evasi loquens ; Citation 9. Essay, ibid. Per sancta thalami sacra, per jus nominis "Tibi nam relicta, quo petam? aut ævum exigam ?" Citation 10. Essay, page 67; the whole passage. "Tu namque soli numini contrarius, Minus es nocivus; ast ego nocentior, (Adeoque misera magis, quippe miseriæ comes Origoque scelus est, lurida mater male!) Deumque læsi scelere, teque, vir! simul." Citation 11. Essay, page 68; the whole “Quod comedo, poto, gigno, diris subjacet." passage. INTERPOLATION IN RAMSAY. O judex! nova me facies inopinaque terret ; Me maculæ turpes, nudæque in corpore sordes, Et cruciant duris exercita pectora pœnis : Me ferus horror agit. Mihi non vernantia prata, Nec sunt grata mihi sub utroque jacentia sole : Sic pectus mihi noxa. O si mî abrumpere vitam, Montibus aut premar injectis, cœlique ruina! INTERPOLATIONS IN STAPHORSTIUS. Fœdus in humanis fragili quod sanctius ævo! Citation 6. Essay, page 109. Cœlestes animæ ! sublimia templa tenentes, "Te primum, et medium, et summum, sed fine carentem," O`miris mirande modis! ter maxime rerum! Collustrat terras dum lumine Titan Eoo! INTERPOLATION IN FOX. Essay, page 116. Tu Psychephone Hypocrisis esto, hoc sub Francisci pallio. Tu Thanate, Martyromastix re et nomine sies. INTERPOLATION IN QUINTIANUS. Mic. Cur huc procaci veneris cursu refer? INTERPOLATION IN BEZA. Stygemque testor, et profunda Tartari, Nisi impediret livor, et queis prosequor Odia supremum numen, atque hominum genus, Possem parenti condolere et filio, Quasi exuissem omnem malitiam ex pectore." INTERPOLATION IN FLETCHER. Nec tamen æternos obliti (absiste timere) Ne dubita, numquam fractis hæc pectora, numquam For facile, the word volupe was substituted in the Essay. Atria, desertosque æternæ lucis alumnos Destituens, Erebum admigret noctemque profundam, "In promptu caussa est: superest invicta voluntas, INTERPOLATIONS IN TAUBMAN. Tune, ait, imperio regere omnia solus; et una Audit ab ætherea luteaque propagine mundi. Essay, page 152. But Throni, dominationes, principatus, virtutes, potestates," is said to be a line borrowed by Milton from the title-page of Heywood's Hierarchy of Angels. there are more words in Heywood's title; and, according to his own arrangement of his subjects, they should be read thus: Seraphim, cherubim, throni, potestates, angeli, archangeli, principatus, dominationes." These are my interpolations, minutely traced without any arts of evasion. Whether from the passages that yet remain, any reader will be convinced of my general assertion, and allow, that Milton had recourse for assistance to |