CAN Tо VIII. 9. As when Almighty Jove, in wrathful mood, To wreak the guilt of mortal fins is bent, Hurls forth his thundring dart with deadly food, Enrold in flames, and fmouldring dreriment; Through riven clouds, and molten firmament, The fierce threeforked engine making way, Both lofty towers, and highest trees hath rent, And all that might its angry paffion ftay, And fhooting in the earth cafts up a mount of clay. Here again is an inaccuracy of expreffion: As when Jove is bent- burls forth-the engine.-" To wreak the guilt of mortal fins ybent. But I don't fuppofe he writ fo. The fame remark might be made on that fimile, I. 1. 23. As gentle fhepherd in sweet even-tide, &c. And on this, IV. IV. 47. Like as in fummer's day, &c. And on forty other places, where the fame want of connexion is to be found. Food, perhaps, is for feud. B. II. 1. 3. and VI. 1. 26. we have deadly feud. The præterperfect tenfe hath rent is very proper here, to fhew how quick the lightning acts; though I will not affirm that Spenser used it with that design. STANZ. XI. As great a noise, as when in Cymbrian plain Bulls for calves is a catachrefis, as the rhetoricians call it. Kindly rage is Quoin, according to nature. Spenfer often uses the word fo. STANZ. XXII. That down he tumbled; as an aged tree, Whose heart-strings with keen fteel nigh hewen be; The mighty trunk half rent, with ragged rift Doth roll adown the rocks, and fall with fearful drift. Or as a castle, reared high and round, At laft down falls, and with her heaped hight Her hafty ruin does more heavy make, And yields itself unto the victor's might; Such was this giant's fall, that feem'd to shake The ftedfast globe of earth, as it for fear did quake, Yields it felf is a small inaccuracy, instead of her felf. To the fall of the giant may be joined the defcription of the dragon's fall. I. XI. 54 So down he fell, that th' earth him underneath Did groan, as feeble fo great load to lift; So down he fell, as an huge rocky clift, Whofe falfe foundation waves have wafh'd away, With dreadful poife is from the main land rift, And rolling down, great Neptune doth dismay; So down he fell, and like a heaped mountain lay. Homer, II. n. 482. Ηριπε δ' ὡς ὅτε τις δρυς ήριπεν, ἢ ἀχερως, Ἐὲ πίτυς βλωθρή, τ' τ' ὄρεσι τέκτονες ἄνδρες Ἐξέταμον πελέκεσσι νεήκεσι, νήϊον είναι. Cecidit autem, ficut quando aliqua quercus cadit, vel populus, Vel pinus alta, quam in montibus fabri Exciderunt fecuribus recens-exacutis, navale lignum ut fit. The author of the Ασπίς 421. Ηριπε δ' ὡς ὅτε τις δρᾶς ἤριπεν, ἢ ὅτε πέτρη Cecidit Cecidit autem, veluti cum quercus aliqua, aut cum rupes. Excelfa, ila Jovis fumanti fulmine: Sic cedidit. Virgil, Æn. II. 612. Ac veluti fummis, &c. Vulneribus donec paullatim evicta fupremum Ac veluti montis faxum, de vertice præceps Tunc ruit, ut montis latus, aut ut machina muri, Statius, Theb. VII. 744. Sic ubi nubiferum montis latus, aut nova ventis IX. 532. Procumbit, Getico qualis procumbit in Hamo Seu Borea furiis, putri feu robore quercus Calo mixta comas, ingentemque aëra laxat. Illam nutantem nemus, et mons ipfe tremifcit, Qua tellure cadat, quas obruat ordine filvas. 554. Ruit baud alio quam celfa fragore Turris, ubi innumeros penitus quaffata per ictus Labitur, effractamque aperit victoribus urbem. Seneca, Herc. Fur. 1046. Flexo genu jam totus ad terram,ruit: Ut cafa filvis ornus, aut portus mari Datura moles. STANZ. XXVII. What hath poor virgin, for fuch peril past, Wherewith you to reward? Accept therefore My fimple felf, and fervice evermore : And He that high does fit, and all things fee With equal eyes, their merits to restore, Behold what ye this day have done for me, And what I cannot 'quite, requite with ufury, So Virgil, Æn. I. 604. Grates perfolvere dignas |