And the full wrath befide Of vengeful juftice bore for our excess, And feals obedience firft with wounding smart Huge pangs and strong Will pierce more near his heart. BLE Wed 25 LEST pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'n's joy,11 Sphere-born harmonious fifters, Voice and Verse, divine founds, and mix'd pow'r employ Dead things with inbreath'd sense able to pierce, 14 And to our high-rais'd phantafy prefent your of pure concent,] So we Mix your choice words, and happieft read in the Manufcript, and in the found's employ edition of 1673, and we prefer the That undisturbed fong of pure concent, With faintly fhout, and folemn jubilee, Singing everlastingly; That we on earth with undifcording voice Jarr'd against nature's chime, and with harsh din 20 In first obedience, and their state of good. 0 may we foon again renew that fong, And keep in tune with Heav'n, till God ere long To live with him, and fing in endless morn of light. VIII. * An Epitaph on the MARCHIONESS of Winchester, HIS rich marble doth enter ΤΗ The honor'd wife of Winchester, A Vicount's daughter, an Earl's heir, Befides what her virtues fair Added to her noble birth, 5 More than fhe could own from earth. Summers three times eight fave one She had told; alas too foon, After fo fhort time of breath, To house with darkness, and with death. Yet had the number of her days Been as complete as was her praise, Nature and fate had had no ftrife In giving limit to her life. Her high birth, and her graces fweet 15 Quickly found a lover meet; The virgin quire for her request The God that fits at marriage feast But with a scarce well-lighted flame; ter of Thomas Lord Vicount Savage of Rock-Savage in the countty of Chefter, who by marriage became the heir of Lord Darcy Earl of Rivers; and was the wife of John Marquifs of Winchester, and the mother of Charles firft Duke of Bolton. She died in childbed of a fecond fon in the 23d year of her age, and Milton made these verses at Cambridge as appears by the fequel. 20 And 19. He at their invoking came But with a fearce well-lighted flame;] From Ovid. Met. X. 4. Adfuit ille quidem; fed nec folemnia verba, Nec lætos vultus, nec felix attu- Fax quoque, quam tenuit, la- And in his garland as he stood, Ye might difcern a cypress bud. Once had the early matrons run 25 The pride of her carnation train, 22.a cypress bud] An emblem of a funeral and it is called in Virgil feralis, En. VI. 216. and in 40 But Horace funebris Epod. V. 18. and |