All flocks and herds, by thy commanding word,

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All beasts that in the field or forest meet, Fowl of the heavens, and fish that through the wet Sea-paths in shoals do slide, and know no dearth. O Jehovah our Lord, how wondrous great

And glorious is thy name through all the earth!

[DANTE, Inferno, xix. 115.]

stantine, of how much ill was cause, conversion, but those rich domains e first wealthy Pope received of thee!

[PETRARCH, Sonnet 107.]

CD in chaste and humble poverty,

them that raised thee dost thou lift thy horn,
nt whore? Where hast thou placed thy hope?
dulterers, or thy ill-got wealth?
Constantine comes not in haste.

[ARIOSTO, Orl. Fur. xxxiv. Stanz. 80.] assed he to a flowery mountain green, once smelt sweet, now stinks as odiously: s that gift (if you the truth will have) nstantine to good Sylvestro gave.

THE APOLOGY FOR SMECTYMNUUS,

1642.

[HORACE, Sat. i. 1, 24.]

LAUGHING to teach the truth

hat hinders? as some teachers give to boys kets and knacks, that they may learn apace.

[HORACE, Sat. i. 10, 14.]

JOKING decides great things

onglier and better oft than earnest can.

THIS is true liberty, when freeborn men,
Having to advise the public, may speak free ;
Which he who can and will deserves high praise :
Who neither can nor will may hold his peace.
What can be juster in a state than this?

FROM TETRACHORDON, 1645.

[HORACE, Epist. i. 16, 40.]

WHOM do we count a good man? Whom but he
Who keeps the laws and statutes of the senate,
Who judges in great suits and controversies,
Whose witness and opinion wins the cause?
But his own house, and the whole neighbourhood,
Sees his foul inside through his whited skin.

FROM "THE TENURE OF KINGS AND
MAGISTRATES,” 1649.

[SENECA, Her. Fur. 922.]

THERE can be slain
No sacrifice to God more acceptable

Than an unjust and wicked king.

FROM THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN, 1670.

In Geoffrey of Monmouth the story is that Brutus the Trojan, wandering through the Mediterranean, and uncertain whither to go, arrived at a dispeopled island called Leogecia, where he found, in a ruined city, a temple and oracle of Diana. He consulted the oracle in certain Greek verses, of which Geoffrey gives a version in Latin elegiacs; and Milton translates these.]

GODDESS of Shades, and Huntress, who at will
Walk'st on the rolling sphere, and through the deep,
On thy third reign, the Earth, look now, and tell
What land, what seat of rest thou bidd'st me seek,
What certain seat, where I may worship thee
For aye, with temples vowed, and virgin quires.

[Sleeping before the altar of the Goddess, Brutus received from her, in vision, an answer to the above in Greek. Geoffrey quotes the traditional version of the same in Latin elegiacs, which Milton thus translates.]

BRUTUS, far to the west, in the ocean wide,
Beyond the realm of Gaul, a land there lies,
Sea-girt it lies, where giants dwelt of old;
Now void, it fits thy people. Thither bend
Thy course; there shalt thou find a lasting seat;
There to thy sons another Troy shall rise,
And kings be born of thee, whose dreaded might
Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold.

PART II.

THE LATIN POEMS.

Separate Title-page in Edition of 1645:—"Joannis Miltoni Londinensis Poemata. Quorum pleraque intra annum ætatis vigesimum conscripsit. Nunc primum edita. Londini, Typis R. R. Prostant ad Insignia Principis, in Cœmeterio D. Pauli, apud Humphredum Moseley. 1645."

Separate Title-page in Edition of 1673-Same as above, word for word, as far as to "Londini," inclusively; after which the rest runs thus: "Excudebat W. R. anno 1673."