(Adeoque misera magis, quippe miseria comes Origoque scelus est, lurida mater male !) Deumque læsi scelere, teque, vir! simul. CITATION XI. Essay, page 68, the whole passage. Quod comedo, poto, gigno, diris subjacet. Interpolation in Ramsay. CITATION VI. Essay, page 88. O judex! nova me facies inopinaque terret ; Nec sunt grata mihi sub utroque jacentia sole: Interpolations in Staphorstius. CITATION III. Essay, page 104. Fœdus in humanis fragili quod sanctius ævo! Firmius & melius, quod magnificentius, ac quam Conjugii, sponsi sponsæque jugalia sacra ! Auspice Auspice te, fugiens alieni subcuba lecti, CITATION VI. Essay, page 109. Cœlestes anima! sublimia templa tenentes, Immensum! augustum! verum! inscrutabile numen! Interpolation in Fox. Essay, page 116. Hypocrisis esto, hoc sub Francisci pallio. Altered Altered thus, Tu Psychephone! Hypocrisis esto; hoc sub Francisci pallio, Interpolation in Quintianus. Essay, page 117. Mic. Cur huc procaci veneris cursu refer? Manere si quis in sua potest domo, Habitare numquam curet alienas domos. Luc. Quis non, relictâ Tartari nigri domo, Veniret? Illic summa tenebrarum lues, Ubi pedor ingens redolet extremum situm. Hic autem amoena regna, & dulcis quies; Ubi serenus ridet æternùm dies. * Mutare facile est pondus immensum levi, Interpolation in Beza. Essay, page 119. Stygemque testor, & profunda Tartari, Possem parenti condolere & filio, Quasi exuissem omnem malitiam ex pectore. Interpolation in Fletcher. Essay, page 124. Nec tamen æternos obliti (absiste timere) Umquam animos, fessique ingentes ponimus iras. For facile, the word volupe was substituted in the Essay. VOL. VIII. C Nec Nec fas; non sic deficimus, nec talia tecum Ne dubita, numquam fractis hæc pectora, numquam Interpolations in Taubman. Essay, page 132. Tune, ait, imperio regere omnia solus; et una Ut Ut nequeam relevare caput, colloque superbum Essay, page 152. Throni dominationes, principatus, virtutes, potestates, is faid to be a line borrowed by MILTON from the title-page of HEYWOOD's Hierarchy of Angels. But there are more words in Heywood's title; and, according to his own arrangement of his subjects, they should be read thus:-Seraphim, cherubim, throni, potestates, angeli, archangeli, principatus, dominationes. These are my interpolations, minutely traced without any arts of evasion. Whether from the passages that yet remain, any reader will be convinced of my general assertion, and allow, that Milton had recourse for assistance to any of the authors whose names I have mentioned, I shall not now be very diligent to enquire, for I had no particular pleasure in subverting the reputation of Milton, which I had myself once endeavoured to exalt*; and of which, the foundation had always remained untouched by me, * Virorum maximus-JOANNES MILTONUS-Poeta celeberrimus non Angliæ modo, soli natalis, verum generis humani ornamentum-cujus eximius liber, Anglicanis versibus conscriptus, vulgo PARADISUS AMISSUs, immortalis illud ingenii monumentum, cum ipsa ferè æternitate perennaturum est opus! -Hujus memoriam Anglorum primus, post tantum, proh dolor! ab tanti excessu poetæ intervallum, statua eleganti in loco celeberrimo, cœnobio Westmonasteriensi, posita, regum, principum, antistitum, C 2 |