Each Difh untouch'd, we haste away, To Helmftadt fwift our Car proceeds, Through Fir-Tree Forefts, large and brown, And harden in the Smoke and Air: 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 Now wild Eaft-Gothland's Bounds we gain, Which upright Trunks of Trees compofe; The Roof has Peep-Holes; fo, 'tis faid, On Straw, Wife, Husband, Slave, and Gueft. 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 At Norkoping, where Copper Plates At Nykoping, our next Day's Stage, * 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, To Stockholm thence o'erjoy'd we bend, 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 |