From GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH2.

BRUTUS thus addreffes DIANA in the country of LEOGECIA.

Goddess of fhades, and huntress, who at will Walk'ft on the rowling* fpheres, and through the deep;

On thy third reign, the earth, look now, and tell What land, what feat of rest, thou bidst me seek, What certain feat, where I may worship thee For aye, with temples vow'd and virgin quires.

To whom, fleeping before the altar, DIANA answers in a vifion the fame night.

Brutus, far to the weft, in the ocean wide,
Beyond the realm of Gaul, a land there lies,

• Hift. Brit. i. xi. "Diva potens nemorum, &c."

I am informed by Mr. Steevens, who had it from Mr. Spence, that, in Aaron Thompson's Tranflation of Geoffry of Monmouth, published 1718, this addrefs of Brutus, Diva potens, and Diana's anfwer, which follows, were tranflated by Pope for Thompson's ufe. But fee this information confirmed by an additional paffage, first published by Curll, in the Supplement to Pope's Works, for M. Cooper, 1757. p. 39. See alfo Thomfon's Geoffry, pp. 23, 24. WARTON.

See alfo Dr. Jofeph Warton's edition of Pope, vol. 8. p. 25. Ver. 1. Goddess of shades, and huntrefs,] So, in Comus, v. 441.

"Hence had the huntress Dian her dread bow." *Tickell and Fenton read lowring Spheres. WARton.

Sea-girt it lies, where giants dwelt of old; Now void, it fits thy people: Thither bend Thy course; there shalt thou find a lasting seat ; There to thy fons another Troy shall rise,

And kings be born of thee, whose dreadful might Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold b

From Milton's Hift. Engl. Pr. W. vol. i. p. 7. edit. 1698. These Fragments of tranflation were collected by Tickell from Milton's Profe-Works. WARTON.

Not by Tickell, but by Tonfon's editor in 1713; who inferted, among these fragments of Milton, fome tranflations from Milton's Defenfio by Richard Washington. Tickell, finding them in the edition of 1713, probably supposed them to have been the productions of Milton. They have been retained in many subsequent editions; but, as they are not the translations of Milton, I have thought them no longer entitled to such rank. Of Richard Washington, fee the note In Salmafii Hundredam.

From DANTE.

Ah Conftantine, of how much ill was cause, Not thy converfion, but those rich domains That the first wealthy pope receiv'd of thee ".

From DANTE.

Founded in chafte and humble poverty, 'Gainst them that rais'd thee doft thou lift thy horn,

Impudent whore, where haft thou plac'd thy hope? In thy adulterers, or thy ill-got wealth? Another Constantine comes not in hafte *.

From ARIOSTO.

Then pafs'd he to a flowery mountain green, Which once fmelt sweet, now stinks as odiously:

с

Infern. C. xix. See Hoole's Ariofto, B. xvii. v. 552. vol. ii. P. 271. WARTON.

From Of Reformation in England. Pr. W. vol. i. p. 10.
WARTON.

d Parad. C. xx. So fay Tickell and Fenton, from Milton himself. But the fentiment only is in Dante. The translation is from Petrarch, Sonn. 108. "Fundata in cafta et humili povertate, &c." Expunged in fome editions of Petrarch for obvious reafons. WARTON.

From Of Reformation, &c. Pr. W. vol. i. p. 10. f C. xxxiv. 80.

WARTON.

Tickell and Fenton have added some lines

from Harrington's verfion. WARTON.

The additions, which may be found in Tickell and Fenton, occur in Tonfon's edition of 1713.

This was the gift, if you the truth will have, That Conftantine to good Sylvefter gave 3.

From HORACE h

Whom do we count a good man? Whom but he
Who keeps the laws and statutes of the senate,
Who judges in great fuits and controverfies,
Whose witness and opinion wins the cause?
But his own house, and the whole neighbourhood,
Sees his foul infide through his whited skin 1.

From EURIPIDES.

This is true liberty, when freeborn men,
Having to advise the publick, may speak free;
Which he who can, and will, deserves high
praise :

Who neither can, nor will, may hold his peace
What can be a juster in a state than this 1?

From HORACE".

Laughing, to teach the truth,

What hinders? As fome teachers give to boys

Junkets and knacks, that they may learn

8 From Of Reformation, &c. Pr. W. vol. i. h Epift. i. xvi. 40.

apace

i From Tetrachordon, Pr. W. vol. i. 239. WARTON.

kIKETIA. V. 440.

I Milton's Motto to his "Areopagitica, A Speech for the liberty of unlicensed Printing, &c." Profe-W. vol. i. 141. WARTON. m Sat. i. i. 24.

From Apol. Smedymn. Pr. W. vol. i. 116. WARTON.

ON THE

UNIVERSITY CARRIER,

Who fickened in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reafon of the plague *.

HERE lies old Hobson; Death hath broke his

girt,

And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt;
Or elfe the ways being foul, twenty to one,
He's here stuck in a flough, and overthrown.
'Twas fuch a fhifter, that, if truth were known, s
Death was half glad when he had got
him down;
For he had, any time this ten years full,
Dodg'd with him betwixt Cambridge and The
Bull.

And furely Death could never have prevail'd,
Had not his weekly courfe of carriage fail'd; 10
But lately finding him so long at home,
And thinking now his journey's end was come,
And that he had ta'en up his latest inn,
In the kind office of a chamberlin

* I wonder Milton fhould fuffer these two things on Hobfor to appear in his edition of 1645. He, who at the age of nineteen, had fo juft a contempt for,

"Thofe new-fangled toys, and trimming flight,

"Which take our new fantasticks with delight." HURD. Ver. 14. In the kind office of a Chamberlin &c.] I believe the Chamberlain is an officer not yet difcontinued in fome of the