CATULLUS. THE worst of poets I myself declare, OVID. ABSTAIN, as manhood you esteem, EURIPIDES. THIS is true liberty, when freeborn men VIRGIL. No eastern nation ever did adore The majesty of sovereign princes more. VIRGIL. AND Britons interwove held the purple hangings. HORACE. LAUGHING, to teach the truth, What hinders? As some teachers give to boys Junkets and knacks, that they may learn apace. HORACE. JOKING decides great things. Stronger and better oft than earnest can. 'TIS SOPHOCLES. you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, And your ungodly deeds find me the words. SENECA. THERE can be slain No sacrifice to God more acceptable, TERENCE. IN silence now and with attention wait, HOMER. GLAUCUS, in Lycia we're ador'd as gods, What makes 'twixt us and others so great odds? EPIGRAM ON SALMASIUS'S HUNDREDA. WHо taught Salmasius, that French chattering ON THE NEW FORCERS OF CONSCIENCE UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT.* BECAUSE you have thrown off your Prelate Lord, From them whose sin ye envied, not abhorr'd, The note of Warton on this sonnet appears to me to be extremely unjust and severe. Milton denoted his indignation against the Presbyterians because they had deserted their own principles, continued many of the supposed abuses, and usurped much of the power of the church which they had overthrown in fact, the new Presbyter was more tyrannical than the old priest. 5 Taught ye by mere A. S. and Rotherford? Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul, Must now be nam'd and printed Heretics By shallow Edwards and Scotch what d'ye call : But we do hope to find out all your tricks, Your plots and packing worse than those of Trent, That so the Parliament 15 May with their wholesome and preventive shears Clip your phylacteries, though bauk your ears, And succour our just fears, When they shall read this clearly in your charge, New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large. 20 8 A. S.] A polemical writer of the times, named 'Adam Steuart.' See the notes of Warton and Todd. Rotherford was one of the Chief Commissioners of the Church of Scotland; also sat with the Assembly at Westminster. He was Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrew's; wrote many Calvinistic tracts; and was an avowed enemy of the Independents. T. Edwards had attacked Milton's Plan of Independency in his Antapologia, 1644. On Rotherford. See Heber's Life of I. Taylor, ii. 203. 17 Clip] In the MS. the lines stand thus: Crop ye as close as marginal P's ears; that is, Prynne's. Warton. SONNETS. I. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, 5 First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love; O if Jove's will Have link'd that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate Foretell my hopeless doom in some grove nigh; As thou from year to year hast sung too late For my relief, yet hadst no reason why: Whether the Muse, or Love call thee his mate, Both them I serve, and of their train am I. II. DONNA leggiadra, il cui bel nome honora 5 5 close] Crashawe's Poems, the Weeper, st. xxiii. Does day close his eyes?' Todd. |