184 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. Her high birth, and her graces sweet The virgin quire for her request The God that sits at marriage feast; He at their invoking came, But with a scarce well-lighted flame; Ye might discern a cyprus bud. Once had the early matrons run But whether by mischance or blame And with remorseless cruelty Spoil'd at once both fruit and tree: 19 He] See Ov. Metam. x. 4. • Adfuit ille quidem : sed nec solennia verba, Nec lætos vultus, nec felix attulit omen : Fax quoque, quam tenuit, lacrymoso stridula fumo, Usque fuit, nullosque invenit motibus ignes.' Jortin. 33 womb] Browne's Brit. Past. b. ii. s. 1. ed. 1616. 'Where never plowshare ript his mother's wombe To give an aged seede a living tombe.' Todd. 30 35 25 20 1 air blossom hangs the head e sad morn had let fall dy, may thy grave t seize thee evermore, e flowers, and some bays, from the banks of Came, co thy virtuous name; 185 ou, bright Saint, high sitt'st in glory, much like to thee in story, Syrian shepherdess, years of barrenness, Cymbeline, act iv. sc. 2. 'Quiet consummation have, And renowned be thy grave!' Warton. ITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET W. SHAKESPEARE.* needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones, bour of an age in piled stones? t his hallow'd reliques should be hid a star-y-pointing pyramid ? son of memory, great heir of fame, 5 need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? in our wonder and astonishment built thyself a live-long monument. hilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art asy numbers flow, and that each heart from the leaves of thy unvalued book Todd. 10 elcome] Chaucer's Knight's Tale, ver. 1511. O Maye! with all thy floures and thy grene, Right welcome be thou, fair freshe May.' hese lines were prefixed to the folio ed. of Shakespeare's in 1632, but without Milton's name or initials. It is, re, the first of his pieces that was published. Warton. nvalued] Invaluable. Rich. III. act i. sc. 4. 'Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,' Todd. ON THE UNIVERSITY CARR Who sickened in the time of his vacancy, bei to London, by reason of the Plagu HERE lies old Hobson; Death hath br And here, alas, hath laid him in the Or else the ways being foul, twenty to He's here stuck in a slough, and over 'Twas such a shifter, that if truth were Death was half glad when he had got For he had any time this ten years ful 15 sepulcher'd] So accented in Shakesp. Rap • May likewise be sepulcher'd in thy sh 1 Hobson] Seven Champions of Christendom Hobson there, or Dawson, or Tom Long? Ell Engl. History, 1st Ser. iii. 207. Our Hobson should have been forbidden.' Taylor's (W. P fol. part ii. p. 188. Oh! quoth hee, I could thither with my neighbour Hobson on foot, like was, and I might have rid backe upon my nei 's mare, like an asse as I am.' son's |