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From Salmacis' pernicious stream If but one moment there you stay Too dear you'll for your bathing Depart nor man, nor woman, but a Disgracing both, a loath'd Hermaph

EURIPIDES.

THIS is true liberty, when freeborn Having t'advise the public may spea Which he who can, and will, deserves Who neither can nor will, may hold What can be a juster in a state than

VIRGIL.

No eastern nation ever did adore The majesty of sovereign princes mo

VIRGIL.

AND Britons interwove held the purp

KING decides great things.

d better oft than earnest can.

SOPHOCLES.

at say it, not I. You do the deeds, ngodly deeds find me the words.

SENECA.

HERE can be slain

e to God more acceptable, njust and wicked king.

TERENCE.

now and with attention wait,

ay know what th' Eunuch has to prate.

HOMER.

, in Lycia we're ador'd as gods, kes 'twixt us and others so great odds?

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

EPIGRAM ON SALMASIUS'S HUNDREDA.

WHO taught Salmasius, that French chattering
To aim at English, and HUNDREDA cry? [Py
The starving rascal, flush'd with just a hundred
English Jacobusses, HUNDREDA blunder'd:
An outlaw'd king's last stock. A hundred mor
Would make him pimp for th' antichristian whore
And in Rome's praise employ his poison'd breath
Who threaten'd once to stink the pope to death.

ON THE NEW FORCERS OF CONSCIENCE
UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT.*

BECAUSE you have thrown off your Prelate Lord,
And with stiff vows renounced his Liturgy,
To seize the widow'd whore Plurality

From them whose sin ye envied, not abhorr❜d, Dare ye for this adjure the civil sword

To force our consciences that Christ set free,
And ride us with a classic hierarchy

*The note of Warton on this sonnet appears to me to be extremely unjust and severe. Milton denoted his indigna tion against the Presbyterians because they had deserted their own principles, continued many of the supposed abuses, and usurped much of the power of the church which they had overthrown in fact, the new Presbyter was more tyrannical than the old priest.

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