Whom do we count a good man? Whom but he
Who keeps the laws and ftatutes of the fenate,
Who judges in great fuits and controverfies,
Whose witness and opinion wins the cause ?
But his own houfe, and the whole neighbourhood,
Sees his foul infide through his whited skin.1

HORACE.K

The power that did create, can change the scene
Of things, make mean of great, and great of mean:
The brightest glory can eclipse with might,
And place the most obfcure in dazling light.'

HORACE.m

All barbarous people and their princes too,
All purple tyrants honour you,

The very wandering Scythians do.

Support the pillar of the Roman state,
Left all men be involv'd in one man's fate,
Continue us in wealth and state,

Let wars and tumults ever cease."

CATULLUS."

The worst of poets I myself declare,
By how much you the beft of poets are."

EPIST. i. xvi. 40.

1 From TETRACHORDON, PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 239. * Op. i. xxxiv. 12.

From A DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 451. Washington's Tranflation.

m OD. i. xxv. 9.

"From A DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 467.

• CARM. xlvii.

P From A DEFENCE, &c. vol. i. 469.

OVID.

esteem,

Abstain, as manhood you
From Salmacis' pernicious ftream;
If but one moment there you ftay,
Too dear you'll for your bathing pay.
Depart nor man, nor woman, but a fight
Difgracing both, a loath'd Hermaphrodite."

EURIPIDES.'

This is true liberty, when freeborn men
Having t' advice the public may speak free;
Which he who can, and will, deserves high praise:
Who neither can nor will, may hold his peace,
What can be a juster in a state than this? *

VIRGIL."

No eastern nation ever did adore

The majefty of fovereign princes more."

t

And Britains interwove held the purple hangings."

66

METAM. iv. 285.

From A DEFENCE, &c. vol. i. 448.

SIKETIA. V. 440.

Milton's Motto to his "AREOPAGETICA, A Speech for the liberty of unlicenfed Printing, &c." PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 141. u GEORG. iv. 210.

From A DEFENCE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 461.

* GEORG. iii. 25.

From A DEFENCE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 533. I fhould not have exhibited this fingle line, but to fhew a good interpretation of an obfcure paffage. See Note on PAR. REG. ii. 263.

HORACE.

HORACE.z

Laughing, to teach the truth,

What hinders? As fome teachers give to boys
Junkets and knacks, that they may learn apace.

HORACE.

Joking decides great things. Stronger and better oft than earnest can."

SOPHOCLES.d

'Tis you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, And your ungodly deeds find me the words.

SENECA.

-There can be slain

No facrifice to God more acceptable,
Than an unjust and wicked king.

TERENCE.h

In filence now and with attention wait,

That ye may know what th' Eunuch has to prate."

Z SAT. i. i. 24.

a From APOL. SMECTYMN. PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 116.

b SAT. i. x. 14.

APOL. SMECTYMN. vol. i.

d ELECTRA, V. 627.

• From APOL. SMECTYMN. Ibid.

f HERCUL. FUR.

From TENURE OF KINGS, &C. PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 315.
EUNUCH. PROL.

i From A DEFENCE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, Vol. i. 447.

HOMER.

HOMER.K

Glaucus, in Lycia we're ador'd as gods,
What makes 'twixt us and others fo great odds? 1

EPIGRAM on Salmafius's* HUNDREDA."

1

Who taught Salmafius, that French chattering pye To aim at English, and HUNDREDA cry? The starving rascal, flufh'd with just a hundred English Jacobuffes, HUNDREDA blunder'd: An outlaw'd king's laft ftock. A hundred more Would make him pimp for th' antichriftian whore; And in Rome's praise imploy his poifon'd breath, Who threaten'd once to ftink the pope to death.

K ILIAD. xiii. 310.

1 From A DEFENCE, &C. PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 467.

* There are several paffages in N. Heinfius's Letters, inserted in Burman's SYLLOGE EPISTOLARUM relating to Milton's Controverfy with Salmafius. Some are remarkable. Tom. iii. p. 270. He says, in a Letter to Gronovius; "Mifer ifte Senecio (Salmafius) prorfus delirat et infanit: Mifit duas in hanc urbem (Amftelod.) epiftolas, rabiei fycophanticæ non inanes, quibus omne "fe virus in me converfurum minatur, quod Miltoni fcriptum pro"bari a me intelligat. Ego vero dixi et dicam prorfus, malam a "Miltono caufam tam bene actam, quam Regis infeliciffimi cau"fam peffime egit Scribonius.Inter Regicidas fi locum mihi "dat, at omni procul dubio daturus, videbis brevi pro meritis or"natum depexum." In a letter from If. Voffius to Heinfius, are the following words, iii. 620. " Ex animo gaudet Salmafius, Li"brum Miltoni Lutetiæ publice a Carnifice effe combuftum "interim hoc fcio fatum effe bonorum librorum, ut hoc modo vel pereant vel periclitentur." Dr. J. WARTON.

m A tranflation of his Latin epigram on this fubject, which will be inferted in its proper place. This English epigram is Washington's, in his English verfion of the DEFENSIO, PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 523.

VOL. I.

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PSALM

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PSALM It

Done into verfe, 1653.

Lefs'd is the man who hath not walk'd aftray

B in counfel of the wicked, and i' th' way

In

of finners hath not ftood,

and in the feat

Of fcorners hath not fat. But in the great
Jehovah's law is ever his delight,
And in his law he ftudies day and night.
He shall be as a tree which planted grows
By watry streams, and in his feafon knows
To yield his fruit, and his leaf shall not fall,
And what he takes in hand fhall profper all.
Not fo the wicked, but as chaff which fann'd
The wind drives, fo the wicked shall not stand
In judgment, or abide their trial then,
Nor finners in th' affembly of just men.
For the Lord knows th' upright way of the juft,
And the way of bad men to ruin muft.

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HY do the Gentiles tumult, and the nations

Mufe a vain thing, the king's of th' earth upstand With pow'r, and princes in their congregations Lay deep their plots together through each land Against the Lord and his Meffiah dear? Let us break off, fay they, by strength of hand Their bonds, and caft from us, no more to wear,

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+ Metrical pfalmody was much cultivated in this age of fanaticifm. Milton's father is a compofer of fome of the tunes in Ravenscroft's Pfalms.