have acted inconsistently in some parts of this business.— T. WARTON. * EPIG. XI.-From Milton's 'Defensio Secunda,' and his 'Responsio' to Morus's Supplement. This distich was occasioned by a report, that Morus had debauched a favourite waiting-maid of the wife of Salmasius, Milton's antagonist.-T. WARTON. * EPIG. XII.—This piece first appeared in the edition, 1673.-TODD. * EPIG. XIII. —These lines are simple and sinewy. They present Cromwell in a new and pleasing light, and throw an air of amiable dignity on his rough and obstinate character. They are too great a compliment to Christina, who was contemptible both as a queen and a woman. The uncrowned Cromwell had no reason to approach a princess with so much reverence, who had renounced her crown. The frolics of other whimsical modern queens have been often only romantic: the pranks of Christina had neither elegance nor even decency to deserve so candid an appellation. An ample and lively picture of her court, politics, religion, intrigues, rambles, and masquerades, is to be gathered from Thurloe's 'State Papers.'-T. WARTON. I have quoted the English version of Milton's epigram to Christina: it appeared as follows, in Toland's Life of the poet, fol. 1698, p. 39: Bright martial maid, queen of the frozen zone ! SILVARUM LIBER. PSALM CXIV.* Ἰσραὴλ ὅτε παιδὲς, ὅτ' ἀγλαὰ φυλ ̓ Ἰακώβου 10 15 Οἷα παραὶ σύριγγι φίλῃ ὑπὸ μητέρι ἄρνες ; 20 Philosophus ad regem quendam, qui eum ignotum et insontem inter reos forte captum inscius damnaverat, τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ πορευόμενος, hæc subito misit : Ὦ ἄνα, εἰ ὀλέσης με τὸν ἔννομον, οὐδέ τιν' ἀνδρῶν In Effigiei ejus Sculptorem. ̓Αμαθεῖ γεγράφθαι χειρὶ τήνδε μὲν εἰκόνα IN OBITUM PROCANCELLARII, MEDICI.* Anno #tatis 17. Parere fati discite legibus, Manusque Parcæ jam date supplices, Iapeti colitis nepotes. Vos si relicto mors vaga Tænaro Tentantur incassum, dolique ; Per tenebras Stygis ire certum est. Si destinatam pellere dextera Mortem valeret, non ferus Hercules, Nessi venenatus cruore, Nec fraude turpi Palladis invidæ Ense Locro, Jove lacrymante. Numenque trinum fallere si queant Læsisset et nec te, Philyreie," 6 Tuque, O, alumno major Apolline, Horribiles barathri recessus. |