115 Ecquid erat tanti Romam vidisse sepultam, 66 gebit, Pastores Thusci, Musis operata juventus, 125 Hic Charis, atque Lepos; et Thuscus tu quoque Antiqua genus unde petis Lucumonis ab urbe. 135 Ite domum impasti, domino jam non vacat, agni. 138 Lydorum] Of the most ancient Tuscan families. The Lydians brought a colony into Italy, whence the Tuscans. Hor. Sat. i. vi. 1. and Propert. iii. ix. 1. Warton. 140 145 Hæc mihi tum læto dictabat roscida luna, hyacinthi, [tum. Quasque habet ista palus herbas, artesque medenAh pereant herbæ, pereant artesque medentum, Gramina, postquam ipsi nil profecere magistro ! Ipse etiam, nam nescio quid mihi grande sonabat Fistula, ab undecima jam lux est altera nocte, Et tum forte novis admôram labra cicutis, Dissiluere tamen rupta compage, nec ultra Ferre graves potuere sonos: dubito quoque ne sim Turgidulus, tamen et referam; vos cedite, sylvæ. Ite domum impasti, domino jam non vacat, agni. Ipse ego Dardanias Rutupina per æquora puppes Dicam, et Pandrasidos regnum vetus Inogeniæ, Brennumque Arviragumque duces, priscumque Belinum, 141 cratibus] Hor. Epod. ii. 45. 'Claudensque textis cratibus lætum pecus.' Todd. Et tandem Armoricos Britonum sub lege colonos; Treantæ, Et Thamesis meus ante omnes, et fusca metallis Tamara, et extremis me discant Orcades undis. 180 Ite domum impasti, domino jam non vacat, agni. Hæc tibi servabam lenta sub cortice lauri, Hæc, et plura simul; tum quæ mihi pocula Mansus, Mansus, Chalcidicæ non ultima gloria ripe, Bina dedit, mirum artis opus, mirandus et ipse, Et circum gemino cælaverat argumento: In medio rubri maris unda, et odoriferum ver, 18: Littora longa Arabum, et sudantes balsama sylvæ, Has inter Phoenix, divina avis, unica terris, 171 Brittonicum] First syllable long; see Lucret. vi. 1104; ver. 165 of this poem, Milton has made it short, 'Britonum.' 182 Chalcidica] A people called the 'Chalcidici' are said to have founded Naples. Virg. Ecl. x. 50. Chalcidico versu.' Æn. vi. 17. Warton. Cæruleum fulgens diversicoloribus alis, pharetræ, 191 Arma corusca faces, et spicula tincta pyropo; Tu quoque in his certe es, nam quo tua dulcis abiret Sanctaque simplicitas, nam quo tua candida virtus? Nec te Lethæo fas quæsivisse sub orco, Nec tibi conveniunt lacrymæ, nec flebimus ultra, Ore sacro. Quin tu, cœli post jura recepta, 210 188 diversicoloribus alis] Eurip. Hippol. 1270, Cupid is termed Tokióтεроç. See too Aristoph. Av. 249. En etiam tibi virginei servantur honores; 215 JAN. 23, 1646. AD JOANNEM ROUSIUM OXONIENSIS ACADEMIE BIBLIOTHECARIUM.* De libro Poematum amisso, quem ille sibi denuo mitti postulabat, ut cum aliis nostris in Bibliotheca publica reponet, Ode. STROPHE I. GEMELLE cultu simplici gaudens liber, Fronde licet gemina, Munditieque nitens non operosa; Quam manus attulit Juvenilis olim, Sedula tamen haud nimii poetæ ; 5 *This ode, in Milton's own hand writing, on one sheet of paper, is inserted between the Latin and English poems, in a copy which he sent to Rouse, and which is now in the Bodleian M. 168, Art. 8vo. Another small volume, containing some of his prose tracts, with an inscription to J. Rouse, in Milton's hand writing, is in the same library. F. 56, Th. See some observations on the structure of this Ode in Symmons's Life, p. 281, ed. second. 2 Fronde] Fronte' is perhaps a better reading. Warton. |