And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new fpangled ore 170 Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas funk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walk'd the waves, Where other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, 175 180 That fing, and finging in their glory move, 185 Thus fang the uncouth fwain to th' oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with fandals gray, He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the fun had stretch'd out all the hills, And now was dropt into the western bay; At last he rofe, and twitch'd his mantle blue: To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. 190 XVIII. The Fifth ODE * of HORACE, Lib. I. "Quis multa gracilis te puer in rofa,” Rendered almoft word for word without rhyme, according to the Latin measure, as near as the language will permit. 'HAT flender youth bedew'd with liquid odors WH Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, In wreaths thy golden hair, Plain in thy neatnefs? O how oft shall he On faith and changed Gods complain, and feas Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold, Who always vacant always amiable Hopes thee, of flattering gales Unmindful? Hapless they To whom thou untry'd seem'st fair. Me in my My dank and dropping weeds To the ftern God of fea. * Firft added in the edition of 1673. 5 ΤΟ vow'd 15 Ad Ad PYRRHAM. O DE V. Horatius ex Pyrrhæ illecebris tanquam è naufragio enataverat, cujus amore irretitos, affirmat effe miferos. Q UIS multa gracilis te puer in rosa Cui flavam religas comam Simplex munditiis? heu quoties fidem Emirabitur infolens! Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea, Qui femper vacuam femper amabilem Fallacis Miferi quibus Me tabula facer Intentata nites. Votiva paries indicat uvida Sufpendiffe potenti Veftimenta maris Deo. M 4 XIX. On the new Forcers of Confcience under the Long PARLIAMENT *. BECAU ECAUSE you have thrown off your Prelate And with ftiff vows renounc'd his Liturgy, From them whofe fin ye envied, not abhorr'd, Dare ye for this adjure the civil fword To force our confciences, that Christ set free, Taught ye by mere A. S. and Rotherford? May with their wholesome and preventive shears This alfo was first added in the edition of 1673. 20 SONNETS. SONNET S. I. To the NIGHTINGALE. Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray First heard before the fhallow cuckoo's bill, II. Donna leggiadra il cui bel nome honora E i don', che fon d'amor faette ed arco, La onde l'alta tua virtu s'infiora. Quando |