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Ver. 702. In the note part of the Greek quotation has been dropped at the prefs. Read,

Κακα γὰρ ἀνδρὸς δῶρ ̓ ἔνησιν ἐκ ἔχει.

Ver. 878. I have discovered the paffage in Archippus of which Sandys makes mention, the exiftence of which, however, Mr. Warton appears to have rather doubted: "Mirum illud quod ex Archippo, lib. 5 de pifcibus, Natalis lib. 7. Mythol. cap. 13. refert, Sirenes has non virgines, fed loca marina in anguftias quafdam præruptis montibus contracta fuiffe, in quas illifi fluctus, fonum cum fuauitate et harmonia emittentes, nauigantes illicerent ad videndum; quò cùm appuliffent, vndarum impetu delati, cæcis vorticibus hauriebantur. Inde natam fabulam.' M. A. Delrii Syntagma Trag. Lat. 1593, Pars fec, Medea, p. 16. Ver. 1015. See alfo Henry More's Cupid's Conflict, Poems, edit. 1647, p. 305, firft noticed by Mr. Headley :

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Canzone, v. 5. Dinne, se la tua fpeme fia mai vana,

E de penfieri la miglior t'arrivi ;] This is ob ferved to be one of the most elegant forms, ufed in the Italian language; a mode used by the earliest and the best writers:

"Se la voftra memoria non s' imboli

"Ditemi." Dante, Inf. c. xxix.

"Hor dimmi, fe colui in pace vi guide."

Petrarc. del Tr. d'Am, c. ii.

Curfory Remarks on fome of the ancient English poets, particu. larly Milton, p. 118.

Sonnet vi. Mr. Hayley juftly confiders this Sonnet as a very fpirited and fingular sketch of the poet's own character.

Ver. 4. Remove the comma after tante. This paffage, I find, has been thus corrected by Rolli, Baretti, and Mr. Hayley:

"Io certo a prove tante

"L'hebbi fedele, intrepido, costante,

"De penfieri leggiadri accorto, e buono.”

And Cowper thus tranflates the passage :

"Let me devote my heart, which I have found
"By certain proofs, not few, intrepid, sound,
"Good, and addicted to conceptions high."

Richardfon, however, who has tranflated part of this Sonnet, in his Life of Milton, p. xvi, conforms to Milton's own reading and pointing:

"De penfieri leggiadro, accorto, e buono.'

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"'Tis honeft, fteady, and not foon afraid,

"Genteel of thought, but knows no cunning art.”

Ver. 12. For cetta read cetra.

Sonnet xxiii. After Petrarch's and Camöens's Sonnets, pp. 502, 503. I beg leave to add that, in the Sonetti di diverfi Accademici Saneft, printed at Siena in 1608, are two compofitions of the fame kind on fimilar fubjects, Sogno nel qual vidde la fua donna, che già era morta, and Apparitione della fua donna morta; both by Martio Bartolini, in pages 205, 210.

ODES.

On Chrift's Nativity, Ver. 3.-See alfo the Chriftus Patiens of Gregory Nazianzen, at the beginning, S. Greg. Naz. Opp. fol. tom. ii. Paris, 1611.

Ως ἐκ σόματος ΜΗΤΡΟΠΑΡΘΕΝΟΥ κόρης.

Ver. 37. Only with speeches fair

She wooes the gentle air &c.] Compare Sylvefter's

Du Bart. 1621, p. 222.

"it refembles Nature's mantle fair,

"When in the funne, in pomp all gliftering,

"She seems with fmiles to woo the gawdie Spring."

Ver. 43. Perhaps the following impreffive paffage in Drum. mond's Shadow of the Judgement might be known to the young poet :

"Millions of Angels in the lofty height,

"Clad in pure gold, and the electre bright,

"Ufhering the way ftill where the Judge fhould move,
"In radiant rainbows vault the skies above;

"Which quickly open, like a curtain driven,

"And beaming glory fhows the King of Heaven."

Ver. 184. From haunted spring and dale, &c.] So, when the enchanted foreft in Taffo is cut down, Fairfax, in his tranflation, thus romantically enlarges the original, B. iii. ft. 75.

"And now the axe rag'd in the forreft wilde,

"The Eccho fighed in the groues unseene,

"The weeping Nymphs fled from their bowres exilde

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Death of a fair Infant, Ver. 53. In Lifle's Du Bartas, 1625, p. 179, we have alfo "fweet-ey'd Mercy."

MISCELLANIES.

Vacation Exercife, Ver. 40. See alfo Lifle's Du Bartas, 1625, P. 131.

"The ftore-houses of ftormes, and forging-hops of thunder.”

Epitaph on Shakspeare, Ver. 5. The phrase "fon of memory” might be caught perhaps from Browne, who, defcribing the English poets, Brit. Paft. 1616, B. ii. S. i. p. 27, thus addresses them :

"Yee English Shepheards, Jonnes of memory."

And in the fame page, speaking of Spenfer's death, he fays that there would be raised "in honour of his worthy name,

"A piramis, whofe head (like winged Fame)

"Should pierce the clouds, yea, seeme the stars to kisse;
"And Maufolus' great toombe might shrowd in his.??

Pfalm cxiv. 11.

TRANSLATIONS.

There is a fimilar compound in the first line of Fuimus Troes, which however was not published till long after Milton's tranflation was written, viz. in 1633.

"As in the vaults of this big-bellied earth."

ELEGIARUM LIBER.

El. iii. 11. Read, Et memini Heroum, &c.

El. v. 6. To Mr. Warton's Note the late Mr. Headley has added Hor. Epift. II. i. 112.

"et, prius orto

"Sole, vigil calamum et chartas et fcrinia pofco."

El. iv. 86. Mr. Warton, in his Note, fays that "before and after 1630, many English minifters, puritanically affected, left their cures, and fettled in Holland, &c."-One of the minifters, thus affected, tells us, in 1643, that " Thousands of late were driven out of the kingdom into America, &c." Herbert Palmer's Sermon on the Faft-day, 28 June, 1643, p. 39. Crom. well was also once" thinking of transporting himself and his family into New England, a receptacle of the puritans, who flocked thither amain, for liberty of confcience." See the Life of Cromwell, 1663, p. 17.

In Quint Nov. Ver. 177. In the Note, for B. ii. 770 read B. i. 770.

SILVARUM LIBER.

Pf. cxiv. 2. See alfo Apolinarius's translation of this pfalm :

"

Αλκιμος Ισραῆλος ὅτ ̓ ἤλυθεν ηερίηθεν,

Δῶμα δὲ ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΦΩΝΟΝ Ιακώβε λίπε λαός.

Epitaph Damon. Ver. 137. To the Note add: " Carlo Dati me donna fa lettre imprimée pour prouver que Torricelli auoit trouvé le premier la roulette." Voyage de Monf. Monconys, fec. part. Lyon. 1666, p. 483.

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INDEX

WORDS, PHRASES, CUSTOMS, AND PERSONS,

EXPLAINED OR MENTIONED IN THE NOTES.

The first figures denote the volume, the fecond the page.

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