If likewise he some fair one wedded not, III. So mounting up in icy-pearled car, 15 Through middle empire of the freezing air But all unwares with his cold-kind embrace 20 Unhous'd thy virgin soul from her fair biding place. IV. Yet art thou not inglorious in thy fate; 25 But then transform'd him to a purple flower: Alack, that so to change thee Winter had no power! V. Yet can I not persuade me thou art dead, 12 infamous] The common accentuation of our elder poetry. Drummond's Urania, 1616, 'On this infamous stage of woe to die.' Todd. Or that thy beauties lie in wormy bed, VI. Resolve me then, oh Soul most surely blest, 40 Oh say me true, if thou wert mortal wight, [flight. And why from us so quickly thou didst take thy VII. Wert thou some star which from the ruin'd roof 45 Of sheeny Heav'n, and thou some Goddess fled Amongst us here below to hide thy nectar'd head? VIII. Or wert thou that just Maid, who once before 50 Forsook the hated earth, O tell me sooth, 81 wormy] Shakesp. Mid. N. Dr. act iii. sc. ult. 'Already to their wormy beds are gone.' Warton. 40 were] He should have said 'are,' if the rhyme had permitted. Hurd. And cam'st again to visit us once more ? [good? Let down in cloudy throne to do the world some IX. Or wert thou of the golden-winged host, X. But oh, why didst thou not stay here below 60 65 To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart? But thou canst best perform that office where thou art. XI. 70 Then thou, the Mother of so sweet a Child, 53 Or wert] In this line a dissyllable word is wanting. Mr. J. Heskin conjectured Or wert thou Mercy,' &c. 75 And wisely learn to curb thy sorrows wild; ANNO ETATIS 19. At a VACATION EXERCISE in the COLLEGE, part Latin, part English. The Latin speeches ended, the English thus began. HAIL, native Language, that by sinews weak 5 dumb silence Nonni Dionys. xv. 10. åøwvýτW σLWπŇ. Chapman's Homer's Il. p. 98, 'Dumb silence seiz'd them all.' Daniel's Poems, ii. 236. Wishart's Immanuel, p. 66. Syl vester's Du Bartas, p. 5. England's Helicon, p. 259. C. Cotton's Poems, p. 239. Buchanan. Sylv. p. 310, 'tacitæ per muta silentia silvæ.' Small loss it is that thence can come unto thee, Believe me I have thither pack'd the worst; The daintiest dishes shall be serv'd up last. I 15 20 thee then deny me not thy aid pray For this same small neglect that I have made : But haste thee straight to do me once a pleasure, And from thy wardrobe bring thy chiefest treasure, Not those new fangled toys, and trimming slight Which takes our late fantastics with delight, But cull those richest robes, and gay'st attire Which deepest spirits, and choicest wits desire: I have some naked thoughts that rove about, And loudly knock to have their passage out; And weary of their place do only stay Till thou hast deck'd them in thy best array; That so they may without suspect or fears Fly swiftly to this fair assembly's ears; Yet I had rather, if I were to choose, Thy service in some graver subject use, 23 30 Such as may make thee search thy coffers round, 35 80 graver] An anticipation of the subject of Par. Lost, if we substitute Christian for Pagan ideas. Warton. |