Each Difh untouch'd, we haste away,
Refolv'd to travel Night and Day.

To Helmftadt fwift our Car proceeds,
Where, tir'd, we bait our dufty Steeds.
Hence, order'd to his native Land,
(For fuch the Queen's fevere Command,)
Voffius with many a Tear departs *,
But leaves his Image in our Hearts.

Through Fir-Tree Forefts, large and brown,
We pass, to Gothlanders well known:
Our Thirst with proffer'd Mead we slak'd ;
They then brought Biscuits, which, well-bak'd,
With Salt and Cumin they prepare,

And harden in the Smoke and Air:
Your Knife can no Impreffion make;
Then, in its ftead, a Hammer take.
Smaland's fteep Rocks we clamber o'er,
And trace Lake Vetter's winding Shore.
Here, at our Servant, as we past,
Unnumber'd Jokes and Gibes were caft,
While, on the Coach's Summit plac'd,
His empty Head with Night-Cap grac'd,
He in * Marot's melodious Lay,

King David's Pfalms would fing or fay;

* Salmafius having complained to Chriftina that Voffius had, on slight Grounds, commenced a Law-Suit against him at Leyden, Voffius was ordered by the Queen not to return to Sweden till he had made him Satisfaction.

The Pfalms tranflated by Clement Marot were set to Mufic of four and five Parts by Claude Goudimel, an excellent Musician, in the fixteenth Century.

For,

For, though compos'd by Claude, each Note
Was Jargon in his Raven-Throat.

Now wild Eaft-Gothland's Bounds we gain,
Where Beaft-fkins cloath each livid Swain;
Froft-bit their Faces, coarfe their Fare;
Caps of warm Frieze the Women wear.
Well jolted with the rugged Way,
Each Night in Cottages we lay

Which upright Trunks of Trees compofe;
Grafs on the Turf-form'd Covering grows,
Where Sheep, as on a level Mead,
Undaunted, unmolefted feed:

The Roof has Peep-Holes; fo, 'tis faid,
Thy Temple, † Terminus, was made.
Within are fifty Beds, where reft

On Straw, Wife, Husband, Slave, and Gueft.
One Night, by Nature's Call constrain'd,
I rofe, and, as I thought, regain'd
The Bed, where, every Senfe compos'd
In balmy Sleep, my Comrade doz'd;
But, ah! behold, at Break of Day,
A fnoring Beldam near me lay!
How did our Sides at this Mistake,
Next rifing Morn, with Laughter shake!
Wide branching Pines, as hence we past,

A welcome Shade around us caft.

The Temple erected to this God by Numa was open to the Sky, to how that the Boundaries ought always to be in the Proprietor's Sight.

The

The Night o'ertook us at a Town
Nam'd Lidkoping, to Fame well known,
Where firft their Breath the Magni drew,
Johannes, and his Brother + too.

At Norkoping, where Copper Plates
Are forg❜d, his Steeds our Driver baits;
Large Coins are here imprefs'd, and Threads
Form'd of vast Length from Copper Shreds.
To distant Lands thefe precious Wares,
In loaded Ships, the Merchant bears.

At Nykoping, our next Day's Stage,
Queen Leonora‡, worn with Age,
In vain Complaints her Sorrow vents,
And ftill Gustavus' Death laments.
Once fam'd, by fubterraneous Fires.
Now wafted, Telga next aspires.
Peculiar to a Northern Plain,
The Stables here Rein-Deer contain;
Two curling Horns their lofty Brow
Defend; like Stags their Bodies fhow:
O'er Ice and Snow, the Lake and Mead,
They whirl the Sledge with Eurus' Speed.

*

Johannes Magnus, Archbishop of Upfal, and Author of the Hiftory of Sweden, which he brought down to the Year 1544, when he died.

+Olaus Magnus, who fucceeded his Brother in his Archbishoprick. He wrote a Treatife on the Manners, Customs, and Wars of the Northern Nations.

1 The Dowager of Guftavus Adolphus, and Mother of Chriftina.

A German

A German here, against our Will,
Made us repeated Bumpers fwill;
A little more, and Bacchus' Snares
Had quite entrapp'd me unawares.

To Stockholm thence o'erjoy'd we bend,
And there my Verfe and Journey end.

NOTE.

If the Reader should be curious to know the Event of this remarkable Journey and Voyage, M. Huet himself will inform him. He tells us, in his Commentarius de rebus ad eum pertinentibus, p. 103. that Bochart and he came to Stockholm at an unlucky Juncture. Bochart was not fo gracioufly received as he had Reafon to expect. The Queen was in a declining Way. Too close an Application to Study had heated her Blood, and impaired her Health. Bourdelot, her Phyfician, (a Frenchman, and an artful Courtier,) who had studied her Temper as well as her Conftitution, had prevailed on her to break off all Commerce with Men of Letters, under Pretence of preferving her Health, but, in Fact, that he might gain an entire Afcendant over her. This was the true Reafon of Voffius's Difiniffion, as mentioned above. Nor did Bochart fare much better. As to our Author, he did not appear fo formidable to Bourdelot, on account of his Youth, being then but twenty-two. Chriftina often converfed with him, and would have retained him with her; but, being juftly apprehenfive of her capricious Temper, he chose rather, at the End of three Months, to return to France. The chief Benefit he reaped from this Journey was his copying, while at Stockholm, an old MS. of Origen's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. This, which he took home with him, he published at Rouen, in two Volumes, Folio,

1668.

By Mr. J. DUNCOMBE.

The Qualities of true Nobility.

HAT though no Lydian, on Etruria's Coafts, A nobler Birth than you, Macenas, boasts; What though to Chiefs, whoLegions us'd to guide, Each of your generous Parents was ally'd, Yet you ne'er fcoff, like moft of high Degree, Thofe meanly born, or Freed-men's Sons, like me; Since you're convinc'd, no matter how obscure Our Parents, if our Morals are but pure; Perfuaded, that ere 1 Tullius reign'd, there liv'd Many, who though from vulgar Stem deriv'd, Were yet as high in Honours as in Worth; While to Lavinus (though he trac'd his Birth From fam'd Valerius' Race, who from the Throne Expell'd proud Tarquin) no Regard is shown By the rude Multitude, who yet, you know, Oft, on the Worthlefs, Honours will bestow, Led by falfe Notions; and with wondering Eyes High-founding Titles and old Statues prize. How fhould thofe act, who from the vulgar Train Notions fo widely different entertain? Yet grant, they rather would Levinus chufe, And 2 Decius, of ignoble Birth, refuse,

And