him. But this is fo forced and intricate, that I believe the reader will prefer this conjecture of a friend of mine: "Him firft to love, that us fo dearly bought." DAPHNAID A. White as the native rofe, before the change Which Venus' blood did in her leaves imprefs: Bion, Idyll. I. 66. Αἷμα ῥόδον τίκτεο, τα δὲ δάκρυα τὴν ἀνεμώναν. See alfo Pervigilium Veneris. 23. IBID. As to afflict fo fore The innocent, as thofe which do tranfgrefs. So fore, for as forely. I B-I D. In pureness, and in all celeftial grace, New divin'd is an odd expreffion. We meet with it again in The Ruins of Time: Whilft thus I looked, loe, adown the lee At length, out of the river it was rear'd, I think it fhould be, And borne above the clouds to be divin'd. "To be divin'd;" that is, I fuppofe, to be deified, by being made a constellation: πodesDas. Ovid, whom Spenfer has in view, fays of the harp of Orpheus, Met. XI. 51. Medio dum labitur amne, Flebile nefcio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua IBID. Is it fo uneath To leave this life, or dolorous to die? Virgil, Virgil, Æn. XII. 646. Ufque adeóne mori miferum eft? IBID. But, as the mother of the Gods, that fought What a jumble is this? I fuppofe he would have spoken of Ceres and Proferpina. MUIO POTMO S. Minerva did the challenge not refuse, &c. Much of what follows is taken from the fable of Arachne in Ovid, Met. XI. 5, &c. IBID. Emongft thofe leaves fhe made a Butterfly I think it fhould be, his hairy thighs. THE THE TEARS OF THE MUSES. This Poem puts me in mind of these lines in Shakespeare. Thefeus reads "The thrice three Mufes, mourning for the death Of Learning, late deceas'd in beggary." That is fome fatyr, keen and critical; See Midfummer Night's Dream, Act. V. Scene I. INTRODUCTION. STANZ. I. II. Rehearse to me, ye facred fifters nine, but fuch as is common in good writers: For instance, Virgil, En. IV. 24. Sed mihi vel tellus optem priùs ima dehifcat, I fhall I shall here transcribe fome examples of Redundancies, which I find the Editor of the Mifcellaneous Obfervations has collected; Vol. II. p. 37. Catullus, De Aty. LXI. 47. Animo æftuante rurfus reditum ad vada retulit, Nexus denique, qui manus retrorfus In Symm. I. 331. Nec torquere facem potis eft ad figna Trionum, Nec folitum converfus iter revocare retrorfum. Seneca, Hippol. 676. Ac verfa retro fidera obliquos agant Lucretius, II. 128. Multa videbis enim plagis ibi percita cæcis Que demerfa liquore obeunt, refracta videntur To |