But vow, though the cross doctors all stood hearers, But, had his doings lasted as they were, Yet (strange to think) his wain was his increase: Only remains this superscription. ON THE NEW FORCERS OF CONSCIENCE, UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT. BECAUSE you have thrown off your prelate lord, To force our consciences that Christ set free, Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent, Must now be named and printed heretics, May, with their wholesome and preventive shears, When they shall read this clearly in your charge, New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ large. TRANSLATIONS. THE FIFTH ODE OF HORACE, LIB. I. WHAT slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odours Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha? For whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden hair, Plain in thy neatness? Oh, how oft shall he Unwonted, shall admire, Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold, Hopes thee, of flattering gales Unmindful! Hapless they, [vow'd To whom thou, untried, seem'st fair! Me, in my FROM GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. Brutus thus addresses Diana in the County of Leogecia. GODDESS of shades, and huntress, who at will Walk'st on the rolling spheres, 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 To whom, sleeping before the altar, Diana answers in a vision the same night. Brutus, far to the west, in the ocean wide, And kings be born of thee, whose dreadful might FROM DANTE. Aн, Constantine, of how much ill was cause, FROM DANTE. FOUNDED in chaste and humble poverty, FROM ARIOSTO. THEN pass'd he to a flowery mountain, green, FROM HORACE. WHOм do we count a good man? Whom but he FROM EURIPIDES. THIS is true liberty, when freeborn men, FROM HORACE. -Laughing, to teach the truth, What hinders? As some teachers give to boys Junkets and knacks, that they may learn apace. FROM HORACE. -Joking decides great things, Stronger and better, oft, than earnest can. FROM SOPHOCLES. "TIs you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, And your ungodly deeds find me the words. FROM SENECA. -There can be slain No sacrifice to God more acceptable, Than an unjust and wicked king. |