For we by rightful doom remedilefs Were loft in death, till he that dwelt above And that great covenant which we still tranfgrefs And the full wrath befide Of vengeful juftice bore for our excess, And feals obedience firft with wounding smart Huge pangs and strong Will pierce more near his heart. VII. At a SOLEMN MUSIC. 20 25 BLEST pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'n's joy, Sphere-born harmonious fifters, Voice and Verfe, 20. Emptied his glory,] An expreffion taken from Philipp. II. 7. but not as it is in our tranflation He made himself of no reputation, but as it is in the original autov Exevσe, He emptied himself. 24. -for our excess,] He has ufed the word in the fame fenfe Paradife Loft XI. 111. Bewailing their excess – ; Wed but I think with greater propriety there than here. 3. Wed your divine founds, &c] In the Manufcript it appears that he had written these lines thus at first. Mix your choice words, and happiest founds employ Dead things with inbreath'd fense able to pierce, And Wed your divine founds, and mix'd pow'r employ With faintly shout, and folemn jubilee, Singing everlastingly ; That we on earth with undifcording voice And as your equal raptures temper'd fweet Us of ourselves and native woes beguile, 5 IO 15 May rightly answer that melodious noife; As once we did, till disproportion'd fin Jarr'd against nature's chime, and with harsh din 20 To their great Lord, whofe love their motion fway'd In perfect diapafon, whilst they stood In first obedience, and their state of good. O may we foon again renew that fong, And keep in tune with Heav'n, till God ere long 25 To live with him, and fing in endless morn of light. 7 VIII. *An EPITAPH on the MARCHIONESS of Winchester. HIS rich marble doth enter THIS The honor'd Wife of Winchester, A Vicount's daughter, an Earl's heir, Befides what her virtues fair Added to her noble birth, More than she could own from earth. After fo fhort time of breath, To house with darkness, and with death. Her high birth, and her graces fweet all the tones, dia warwy. Plin. Lib. 2. Sect. 20. Ita feptem tonos effici, quam diapafon harmoniam vocant, hoc eft, univerfitatem concentus. Richardfon. 28. To live with him, and fing &c] In the Manuscript the laft line ftands thus, པའ ΙΟ 15 He * This Lady was Jane, daughter of Thomas Lord Vicount Savage of Rock-Savage in the county of Chester, who by marriage became the heir of Lord Darcy Earl of Rivers; and and the mother of Charles firft Duke of Bolwas the wife of John Marquifs of Winchester, ton. She died in childbed of a second fon in To live and fing with him in endless morn of the 23d year of her age, and Milton made these light. verfes at Cambridge as appears by the sequel. Y y 2 19. He He at their invoking came But with a scarce well-lighted flame; And in his garland as he stood, 20 Ye might discern a cypress bud. Once had the early matrons run And now with fecond hope fhe goes, Spoil'd at once both fruit and tree: 19. He at their invoking came But with a scarce well-lighted flame; ] From Adfuit ille quidem; fed nec folemnia verba, 25 30 35 The |