Forfitan et noftros ducat de marmore vultus, "fumption, Chancel. 12 Nov. 1674." I learn from Aubrey's manufcript," He was buried at the upper end in S. Gyles Crip"ple-gate chancell, Mem. His Stone is now, 1681, removed; for "about two years fince, the two fteppes to the communion-table "were rayfed. I gheffe Jo. Speed and he lie together." Hearne has very fignificantly remarked, that Milton was buried in the fame church in which Oliver Cromwell was married. COLL. MSS. vol. 143. p. 155. He was interred near his father's grave, who died very old in 1647. Fenton, about the year 1725, fearching in this church for Milton's monument, found a small stone, traditionally supposed to have denoted the place of his interment: but the fexton faid, that no infcription had been legible for more than forty years. “This fure, says Fenton, could never have happened in fo "fhort a fpace of time, unlefs the epitaph had been industriously "erafed: and that fuppofition carries with it fo much inhumanity, "that I think we ought to believe it was not erected to his me"mory." Whether it was or not, no man's epitaph was more likely to be defaced, although no man's ought to have been more inviolably and refpectfully preferved. Toland, in Milton's Life, written in 1698, fays, that he was buried in the Chancel of this church," where the piety of his admirers will shortly erect a mo"nument becoming his worth, and the encouragement of letters "in King William's reign." p. 46. But this defign was never executed. In the Surveys of London, published about the beginning of the prefent century, and later, Milton is faid to be buried in the Chancel of this church, but without any monument. The spot of his interment has within these few years been exactly ascertained. In 1777, Mr. Baskerville, an attorney of Crosby-fquare in Bishopgate street, an enthusiastic admirer of Milton, wifhed on his deathbed to be buried by Milton's fide. Accordingly, on his death, the proper search was made in Cripplegate church; and it was found, that Milton was buried near the Pulpit, on the right hand fide at the upper end of the middle aile. Milton's coffin was of lead, and appeared to be in good preservation. 92. Nectens aut Paphia myrti aut Parnaffide lauri Ovid, METAM. xi. 165. Ille caput flavum lauro PARNASSIDE vinctus. Virgil's epithet is PARNASSIUS. In the text, he joins the Myrtle and the Laurel, as in LYCIDAS, V. i. Yet Fronde comas, at ego fecura pace quiefcam. Et fimul æthereo plaudam mihi lætus Olympo. 100 EPITAPHIUM DAMONI S. ARGUMENTU M. Thyrfis et Damon ejufdem viciniæ paftores, eadem ftudia fequuti, a pueritia amici erant, ut qui plurimum. Thyrfis animi caufa profectus peregre de obitu Damonis nuncium accepit. Demum poftea reverfus, et rem ita effe comperto, fe, fuamque folitudinem hoc carmine deplorat. Damonis autem fub perfona bic inintelligitur Carolus Deodatus ex urbe Hetruria Luca paterno genere oriundus, cætera Anglus; ingenio, doctrina, clariffimifque cæteris virtutibus, dum viveret, juvenis egregius.* Yet once more, O ye LAURELS, once more, Ye MYRTLES brown, &c. * See Notes on EL. i. Charles Deodate's father, Theodore, was born at Geneva, of an Italian family, in 1574. He came young into England, where he married an English Lady of good birth and fortune. He was a doctor in Phyfic; and, in 1609, appears to have been phyfician to Prince Henry, and the princess Elizabeth, afterwards queen of Bohemia. Fuller's WORTHIES, MIDDLESEX, p. 186. He lived then at Brentford, where he performed a wonderful HI Imerides nymphæ (nam vos et Daphnin et Et plorata diu meminiftis fata Bionis) Dicite Sicelicum Thamefina per oppida carmen: Quas mifer effudit voces, quæ murmura Thyrfis, a wonderful cure by phlebotomy; as appears by his own narrative of the cafe, in a Letter dated 1629, printed by Hakewill at the end of his APOLOGIE, Lond. 1630. Signat. Yy 4. Hakewill calls him, “ Dr. Deodate, a French physician living in London, "&c. See APOL. L. iii. §. v. p. 218. One of his descendants, Monf. Anton. Jofuè Diodati, who has honoured me with some of these notices, is now the learned Librarian of the Republic of Geneva. Theodore's Brother, Giovanni Deodati, was an eminent theologift of Geneva; with whom Milton, in confequence of his connec tion with Charles, contracted a friendship during his abode at Geneva, and whose annotations on the Bible were translated into English by the puritans. The original is in French, and was printed at Geneva, 1638. He also published, " Thefes Lx de Peccato in "Genere et specie, Genev. 1620.”—“I SACRI SALMI, messi in "rime Italiane da Giovani Diodati, 1631. 12mo.”—“ An Italian "Translation of the Bible, 1607.”—And "An Answer fent to "the Ecclefiaftical Affembly at London, with marginal obferva❝tions by king Charles the firft. Newcastle, 1647." But this laft is a translation into English, by one of the puritans. Perhaps the only genuine copy of it, for there were many fpurious editions, is now to be seen in the Bodleian library. See a curious story concerning this G. Deodati, of his preaching at Venice in a trooper's habit, and converting a Venetian courtezan, in Lord Orrery's MEMOIRS by T. Morrice, prefixed to STATE PAPERS, ch. i. In which it is faid by Lord Orrery, who lived a year in his house, that he was not unfavourably difpofed towards the English hierarchy, but wifhed it might be received under fome restrictions at Geneva; that he was a learned man, a celebrated preacher, and an excellent companion. The family left Italy on account of religion. Compare Archbishop Ufher's LETTERS, Lond. 1686. ad calc. LETT. xii. p. 14. 1. Himerides Nympha.-] Himera is the famous bucolic river of Theocritus, who fung the death of Daphnis, and the lofs of Hylas. Bion, in the next line, was lamented by Moschus. In the Argument of this Paftoral," Rem ita effe comperto," Tickell has ignorantly and arbitrarily altered comperto to comperiens. He is followed, as ufual, by Fenton, Et 5 Et quibus affiduis exercuit antra querelis, Et jam bis viridi furgebat culmus arista, 10 15 20 Ite domum impafti, domino jam non vacat, agni, Hei mihi! quæ terris, quæ dicam numina cœlo, Poftquam te immiti rapuerunt funere, Damon! Siccine nos linquis, tua fic fine nomine virtus Ibit, et obfcuris numero fociabitur umbris? At non ille, animas virga qui dividit aurea, Ifta velit, dignumque tui te ducat in agmen, Ignavumque procul pecus arceat omne filentum. Ite domum impafti, domino jam non vacat, agni, Quicquid erit, certe nifi me lupus ante videbit, Indeplorato non comminuere fepulchro, Conftabitque tuus tibi honos, longumque vigebit 24 13. Thyrfis, or Milton, was now at Florence. It is obfervable, that he gives this name to the Spirit, affuming the habit of a fhep herd, in CoмUS. 15. Alueta feditque fub ulmo.] IL PENS. V. Gently o'er th' ACCUSTOM'D OAK. 28. Indeplorato non comminuere fepulchro.] Ovid, TRIST. iii. iii. 45. Sed fine funeribus caput hoc, fine honore fepulchri, INDEPLORATUм barbara terra teget? METAM. 30 Inter paftores: Illi tibi vota fecundo Ite domum impafti, domino jam non vacat, agni. Hæc tibi certa manent, tibi erunt hæc præmia, Damon, At mihi quid tandem fiet modo, quis mihi fidus Mifcet cuncta foris, et defuper intonat ulmo? 36 40 Ite domum impasti, domino jam non vacat, agni. Aut æftate, dies medio dum vertitur axe, 45 51 METAM. xi. 670. -Nec me INDEPLORATUM fub inania Tartara mitte. And in the IBIS, V. 166. Nec tibi continget funus, lacrymæque tuorum ; See Note on LYCID. V. 14. 46. See Note on SONNET, XX. 3. And EL. vi. 12. 52. In Theocritus, the fhepherds are afraid to wake Pan who conftantly fleeps in the middle of the day, IDYLL. i. 16. See alfo Fletcher, |