Nam te Roüfius fui Strophe 3. Optat peculi, numeróque jufto Sunt data virum monumenta curæ: Voluit reponi, quibus & ipfe præfidet Quæftorque gazæ nobilioris, Quàm cui præfuit Iön Clarus Erechtheides. Opulenta dei per templa parentis. Fulvofque tripodas, donaque Delphica,, Ion Actæâ genitus Creufâ.. Ergo tu vifere lucos: Antistrophe. Mufarum ibis amoenos, Diamque Phoebi rurfus ibis in domum, Oxoniâ quam valle colit Delo posthabitâ, 50 55 60 6.5: Bifidóque Bifidóque Parnaffi jugo: Ibis honeftus, Poftquam egregiam tu quoque fortem Nactus abis, dextri prece follicitatus amici. Illic legéris inter alta nomina Authorum, Graiæ fimul & Latina Antiqua gentis lumina, & verum decus. Vos tandem haud vacui mei labores, Jam ferò placidam fperare jubeo Perfunctam invidiâ requiem, fedesque beatas Et tutela dabit folers Roüfi, 70 75 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, 80 85 Si quid meremur fana pofteritas sciet Ode tribus conftat Strophis, totidémque Antiftrophis, unâ demum Epodo claufis, quas, tametfi omnes nec verfuum numero, nec certis ubique colis exactè refpondeant, ita tamen fecuimus, commodè legendi potiùs, quàm ad antiquos concinendi modos rationem Ipectantes. Alioquin hoc genus rectiùs fortaffe dici monoftrophicum debuerat. Metra partim funt xara χέσιν, partim απολελυμβρία. Phalencia quæ funt, Spondæum tertio loco bis admittunt, quod idem in fecundo loco Catullus ad libitum fecit. * Ad CHRISTINAM Suecorum Reginam nomine Cromwelli. BEllipotens Virgo, feptem Regina Trionum, Christina, Arctoï lucida stella poli, Cernis quas merui dura fub casside rugas, Aft tibi fubmittit frontem reverentior umbra; 5 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 Secretary. An An INDEX of the lefs common words occafionally explained and P. R. ftands for Paradife Regain'd, S. A. for Samfon Agoniftes, P. for the Poems, and Befprent, P. XVI. 542. Blithe, P. R. IV. 585. P. XIII. 65. XVI. 55. Eremite, P. R. I. 8. Bolt, (Subft.) P. XVI. 445. Bolt, (Verb) P. XVI. 760. Bourn, P. XVI. 313. C. Captív'd, S. A. 33, 694. F. Sadly, P. XVL 509. S. Saws, P. XVI. 110. Sere, P. XVII. 2. Sheen, (Subft.) P. III. 145, VIII. 73. XVI. 893, 1003. Silent, S. A. 87. Swart, P. XVI. 436. XVII. 138, Towr'd, P. R. III. 261. P. II. 100. XIII. 117, THE EN D. |