This was the gift, if you the truth will have, HORACE. Wном do we count a good man? Whom but he HORACE. THE power that did create can change the scene HORACE. ALL barbarous people and their princes too, The very wandering Scythians do. Let wars and tumults ever cease. VOL. III. CATULLUS. THE worst of poets I myself declare, OVID. ABSTAIN, as manhood you esteem, EURIPIDES. THIS is true liberty, when freeborn men VIRGIL. No eastern nation ever did adore The majesty of sovereign princes more. VIRGIL. AND Britons interwove held the purple hangings. HORACE. LAUGHING, to teach the truth, What hinders? As some 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. '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 sacrifice to God more acceptable, TERENCE. IN silence now and with attention wait, That ye may know what th' Eunuch has to prate. HOMER. GLAUCUS, in Lycia we're ador'd as gods, EPIGRAM ON SALMASIUS'S HUNDREDA. WHO taught Salmasius, that French chattering ON THE NEW FORCERS OF CONSCIENCE UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT.* BECAUSE you have thrown off your Prelate Lord, 5 * 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. Taught ye by mere A. S. and Rotherford? Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul, Must now be nam'd and printed Heretics By shallow Edwards and Scotch what d'ye call : But we do hope to find out all your tricks, Your plots and packing worse than those of Trent, That so the Parliament May with their wholesome and preventive shears Clip your phylacteries, though bauk your ears, 15 And succour our just fears, When they shall read this clearly in your charge, New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ large. 20 8 A. S.] A polemical writer of the times, named 'Adam Steuart.' See the notes of Warton and Todd. Rotherford was one of the Chief Commissioners of the Church of Scotland; also sat with the Assembly at Westminster. He was Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrew's; wrote many Calvinistic tracts; and was an avowed enemy of the Independents. T. Edwards had attacked Milton's Plan of Independency in his Antapologia, 1644. On Rotherford. See Heber's Life of I. Taylor, ii. 203. 17 Clip] In the MS. the lines stand thus: Crop ye as close as marginal P -'s ears;-that is, Prynne's. Warton. 17 bauk] i. e. spare. Warton. |