10 Damnavit celeres in sua damna manus; Atque ait, Heu quanto satius fuit illa Coloni, Parva licet, grato dona tulisse animo! Possem ego avaritiam frænare, gulamque voracem: Nunc periere mihi et fœtus, et ipse parens. XIII. AD CHRISTINAM SUECORUM REGINAM, NOMINE CROMWELLI. BELLIPOTENS virgo, septem regina trionum, 5 1 regina] There is a close resemblance between the two first lines of this address, and the opening of Nic Heinsius's Verses to Christina, p. 53. 'Belligeros virgo quæ temperas alma Triones,' &c. and Sidus inocciduum, septem Regina Trionum Faxque Lycaoniæ clarior igne facis.' p. 139. and p. 140, Regina victrix, germen acre Bellonæ, Arctoa Pallas!' 4 2 poli] Resembles a line in his tutor A. Gill's verses, p. 91. 'Inclyta Carolides, qui nunc moderatur Adolphus, Pene sub Arctoi sidere regna poli. Utque] Var. Lect. 'sicque.' 'ora fero.' ver. 7, at tibi. Todd. Toland first printed these lines in his life of Milton, p. 123, and ascribes them indecisively to Milton or Marvell; consult Warton's note, ed. Todd, vi. 267. I wish Mr. Warton had, by a few minutes' application of his fine poetical genius, secured these lines against the attempt of other versifiers; but Exequor et populi fortia jussa manu. SYLVARUM LIBER. IN OBITUM PROCANCELLARII, MEDICI. ANNO ÆTATIS 17. PARERE fati discite legibus, Manusque Parcæ jam date supplices, 5 as he has passed them unnoticed, I shall venture to give my translation. Christina! warrior-maid, who rul'st alone; VOL. III。 U Si destinatam pellere dextera Emathia jacuisset Oetâ : Ense Locro, Jove lacrymante. Si triste fatum verba Hecateia Fugare possint, Telegoni parens Vixisset infamis, potentique Ægiali soror usa virga. Numenque trinum fallere si queant Artes medentûm, ignotaque gramina, Non gnarus herbarum Machaon Eurypyli cecidisset hasta: Læsisset et nec te, Philyreie, Sagitta Echidnæ perlita sanguine; Nec tela te fulmenque avitum, Cæse puer genitricis alvo. Tuque, O alumno major Apolline, 11 Nessi] Hor. Epod. xvii. 31. 18 'Atro delibutus Hercules 10 15 20 25 Telegoni] Ov. Ep. Pont. iii. i. 123. Telegonive parens.' Absyrtus is called ' Ægialius' by Justin. H. Lib. xlii. c. 3. Verba Hecateia' is from Ov. Metam. xiv. 44. Hecateia carmina miscet. Warton, Todd. 20 Tuque, O alumno] The 'O' is wrongly left open in this verse. Apolline] Certainly read Apollinis.' Warton. Gentis togatæ cui regimen datum, At fila rupit Persephone tua, Sit mite de te judicium Æaci, 30 35 40 45 IN QUINTUM NOVEMBRIS. ANNO ÆTATIS 17. JAM pius extrema veniens läcobus ab arcto, 31 Cirrha] The third line of the Alcaic ends with two dissyllables Cirrha luget,' which can be defended but by very few examples from Horace. The accent ought also to be on the fifth or sixth syllable. 43 caltha] See Prolusiones, p. 76. 5 Sceptra Caledoniis conjunxerat Anglica Scotis : Cinctus cæruleæ fumanti turbine flammæ. 15 20 25 4 Anglica] Vowel made short before Sc. 15 olivifera] Ov. Fast. iii. 151. 'Primus oliviferis Romam deductus ab arvis.' Warton. 23 Summanus] i. e. Pluto. Ov. Fast. vi. 731. Warton. |