Camöens, Son. lxxii.

"Quando de minhas magoas a comprida "Maginação os olhos me adormece, "Em fonhos aquella alma me aparece "Que para mi foy fonho nefta vida. "Lá numa foidade, onde eftendida "A vifta por o campo desfallece, "Corro apos ella; & ella entao parece "Que maes de mi fe alonga, compelida, "Brado: Naō me fujays, fombra benina. "Ella (os olhos em mi c'hum brado pejo, "Como quem diz, que ja naō pode fer) "Torna a fugirme: torno a bradar; dina: "E antes q'acabe em mene, acordo, & vejo "Que nem hum breve engano poffo ter." TODD.

Original Various Readings of the SONNETS,

From the Cambridge MS.

Examined by the editor of thefe volumes.

Title.

SONN. viii.

"On his dore when the Citty expected an affault." Then, as at prefent; with an addition of the date 1642, afterwards expunged.

Ver. 3. If ever deed of honour did thee please.

As in the edit. 1645. The prefent reading occurs first in the edit. 1673.

This Sonnet is written in a female hand. Only the title, now prefixed to it, is written by Milton.

Title. "To a Lady."

SONN. ix.

Ver. 7. And at thy blooming vertue fret their spleen. Ver. 13. Opens the dore of bliffe that hour of night. All in Milton's own hand-writing.

SONN. X.

Title, as printed in this edition.

SONN. xi.

Title, as printed in this edition.

Ver. 1. I writt a book of late call'd Tetrachordon,
And weav'd it clofe, both matter, form, and ftyle:
It went off well about the town awhile,

Numbering good wits, but now is feldom por'd on.

Ver. 10. Thofe barbarous names.

Then rough-hewn, and laftly rugged. All in Milton's own hand.

SONN. xii.

Ver. 4. Of owls and buzzards.

Ver. 10. And hate the truth whereby they should be free. All in Milton's own hand.

Title.

SONN. xiii.

"To my friend Mr. Heu. Lawes, feb. 9. 1645. On the publishing of his aires."

Ver. 3. Words with juft notes, which till then us'd to scan, With Midas' eares, misjoining fhort and long. In the first of these lines "When moft were wont to scan" had alfo been written.

Ver. 6. And gives thee praise above the pipe of Pan.

To after age thou shalt be writ a man,

Thou didst reform thy art the chief among.

Thou honourft vers, &c.

Ver. 12. Fame, by the Tuscan's leav, shall set thee higher
Than old Cafell, whom Dante wood'd to fing.

There are three copies of this Sonnet; two in Milton's hand; the third in another, a man's hand. Milton, as Mr. Warton obferves, had an amanuenfis on account of the failure of his eyes.

SONN. xiv.

Title, as printed in this edition.

Ver. 3. Meekly thou didst refign this earthly clod

Of flesh and fin, which man from heaven doth fever. Ver. 6. Strait follow'd thee the path, that faints have trod Still as they journey'd from this dark abode

Up to the realm of peace and joy for ever.
Faith fhow'd the way, and he who saw them best
Thy hand-maids, &c.

Here alfo the line had been written,

Faith who led on the way, and knew them beft, &c.

Ver. 12. And Spoke the truth.

There are two copies of this Sonnet, (one corrected,) in Milton's hand; and a third in another, a man's hand.

Title.

SONN. XV.

"On the &c. At the fiege of Colchester."

From ver. 2. to ver. 13, as now printed. See the variations of the printed copies, before doctor Newton's edition, in the notes on the Sonnet.

Title.

SONN. xvi.

"To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652. On the Propofalls of certaine minister: at the committee for propagation of the gospell." Afterwards blotted out.

From ver. 1. to ver. 8, as now printed. See the notes on the Sonnet.

Ver. 9. And twenty battles more.

So it was at fr w.itten, afterwards corrected to the prefent reading, Worcest's laureat wreath.

Ver. 11, and 12, as now printed. This Sonnet is in a female hand, unlike that in which the 8th Sonnet is written.

Ver. 1. As now printed.

SONN. Xvii.

Ver. 2. And to advise how war may, beft upheld,

Move on her main nerves.

So at firft writtten, afterwards corrected to Then and by.
Ver. 10. What the church and what the civill means,
Thou teacheft beft, which few have ever done.

Afterwards thus,

power

Both fpiritual power and civill, what each means,
Thou haft learn'd well, a praife which few have won.

Afterwards altered to firm hand. And Warburton has faid it should have been altered further to "firm arm."

This Sonnet is alfo in a female hand, unlike either of the two laft.

SONNETS Xviii, xix, xx, do not appear in the manufcript.

SONN. xxi.

The four last lines are wanting.

Ver. S. As now printed.

In the hand of a fourth woman, as it feems.

SONN. xxii.

Ver. 3, to ver. 5, as now printed.
Ver. 7. Against God's hand

Afterwards altered to Heaven's hand.

Ver. 8.

Up hillward.

but ftill attend to steer

So at firft written, afterwards altered to the prefent reading.
Ver. 12. Of which all Europe talks from side to side.
Ver. 13, 14. As now printed.

This Sonnet is written in the fame female hand as the last.

SONN. xxiii.

No variations, except in the spelling. This is in a fifth female hand; beautifully written; imitating alfo Milton's manner of beginning moft of the lines with fmall initial letters; which is not the cafe with the other female hands.

THE END OF VOL. VI.

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