The ruddy waves he cleft in twain Of the Erythræan main. For his, &c. The floods stood still, like walls of glass, While the Hebrew bands did pass. 45 Let us therefore warble forth For his, &c. That his mansion hath on high 90 95 TRANSLATIONS. FROM GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH* Brutus thus addresses Diana in the country of Leogecia GODDESS of shades, and huntress, who at will To whom, sleeping before the altar, Diana answers in a visjon the same night. Brutus, far to the west, in the ocean wide, FROM DANTE‡. Ah Constantine, of how much ill was cause, *Hist. Brit. i. xi." Diva potens nemorum," &c. From Of Reformation in England. Pr. W. vol. i. p. 10. 1 FROM DANTE*. Founded in chaste and humble poverty, 'Gainst them that rais'd thee dost thou lift thy horn, FROM ARIOSTO‡. Then pass'd he to a flowery mountain green, FROM HORACES. Whom do we count a good man? Whom but Ire FROM EURIPIDES**. This is true liberty, when frechorn men, *Parad. C. xx. +From Of reformation in England. Pr. W. vol. i. p. 10. † C. xxxiv. 80. From Of Reformation, &c. Pr. W.vol. i. Epist. i. xvi. 40. From Tetrachordon, Pr. W. vol. i. 239. **IKETIA. v. 440. p. 10. ++ Milton's motto to his "Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing," &c. Pr. W.vol. i. 141. |