Namque hac aut alia nisi quemque adjuveris arte, Crede mihi, cœli vix bene scandet iter. 10 III. IN EANDEM. PURGATOREM animæ derisit Iäcobus ignem, Movit et horrificum cornua dena minax. Et si stelligeras unquam penetraveris arces, 6 10 IV. IN EANDEM. QUEM modo Roma suis devoverat impia diris, Hunc, vice mutata, jam tollere gestit ad astra, V. IN INVENTOREM BOMBARDE. IAPETIONIDEM laudavit cæca vetustas, VI. AD LEONORAM ROMÆ CANENTEM. ANGELUS unicuique suus, sic credite gentes, Quid mirum, Leonora, tibi si gloria major? Sensim immortali assuescere posse sono. Quod si cuncta quidem Deus est, per cunctaque fusus, In te una loquitur, cætera mutus habet. 10 VII. AD EANDEM. ALTERA Torquatum cepit Leonora poetam, 6 fila] Buchanan Eleg. vii. p. 44, 'Aureaque Orpheæ fila fuisse lyra.' Todd 10 Et poteras, ægro spirans sub corde, quietem, VIII. AD EANDEM. CREDULA quid liquidam Sirena, Neapoli, jactas, Illic Romulidum studiis ornata secundis, IX. IN SALMASII HUNDREDAM.* QUIS expedivit Salmasio suam Hundredam, Centum, exulantis viscera marsupii regis. Cantabit ultro Cardinalitium melos. 12 sibi Sibi' is certainly wrong. 'Ille' had preceded, ver. 3. 8 Naida] In all the editions wrongly' Naiada.' 5 vivitque] The position of 'que' is wrong. See Burman's Virgil, Æn. vi. 395. *This epigram against Salmasius is in imitation of part of the Prologue to the Satires of Persius. Warton. 5 X. IN SALMASIUM. GAUDETE Scombri, et quicquid est piscium salo, Equitis clientes, scriniis mungentium 10 XI. GALLI ex concubitu gravidam te, Pontiá, Mori, Quis bene moratam, morigeramque neget? XII. APOLOGUS DE RUSTICO ET HERO. RUSTICUS ex malo sapidissima poma quotannis Mota solo assueto, protinus aret iners. Quod tandem ut patuit domino, spe lusus inani, 10 Cubito 'Quoties ego vidi patrem tuum cubito emungentem.' Sueton. vit. Horat. p. 525. Warton. 5 10 Damnavit celeres in sua damna manus; Atque ait, "Heu, quanto satius fuit illa coloni, Parva licet, grato dona tulisse animo! Possem ego avaritiam frænare, gulamque voracem: Nunc periere mihi et foetus, et ipse parens." XIII. AD CHRISTINAM SUECORUM REGINAM BELLIPOTENS virgo, Septem regina Trionum, 1 regina] There is a close resemblance between the two first lines of this address, and the opening of Nic. Heinsius's Verses to Christina, p. 53. 'Belligeros virgo quæ temperas alma Triones,' &c. and 'Sidus inocciduum, Septem regina Trionum Faxque Lycaoniæ clarior igne facis.' p. 139. and p. 140, Regina victrix, germen acre Bellonæ, Arctoa Pallas!' 2 poli] Resembles a line in his tutor A. Gill's verses, p. 91. 'Inclyta Carolides, qui nunc moderatur Adolphus, Pene sub Arctoi sidere regna poli.' 4 Utque] Var. Lect. 'sicque.' 'ora fero.' ver. 7, at tibi. Todd. Toland first printed these lines in his life of Milton, p. 123, and ascribes them indecisively to Milton or Marvell ; consult Warton's note, ed. Todd, vi. 267. I wish Mr. Warton had, by a few minutes' application of his fine poetical genius, secured these lines against the attempt of other versifiers: but |