Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, In the kind office of a chamberlain Show'd him his room where he must lodge that night, ANOTHER ON THE SAME. HERE lieth one, who did most truly prove While he might still jog on and keep his trot, Time numbers motion, yet (without a crime * In Bishopsgate-street, London. Nor were it contradiction to affirm, Merely to drive the time away he sicken❜d, Fainted, and died, nor would with ale be quicken'd; 'Nay,' quoth he, ' on his swooning bed outstretch'd, If I mayn't carry, sure I'll ne'er be fetch'd, But vow, though the cross doctors all stood hearers, Obedient to the moon he spent his date In course reciprocal, and had his fate ON THE NEW FORCERS OF CONSCIENCE UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT. BECAUSE you have thrown off your Prelate-Lord, And with stiff vows renounc'd his Liturgy, To seize the widow'd whore Plurality From them whose sin ye envied, not abhorr'd; Dare ye for this abjure the civil sword To force our consciences that Christ set free, 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 balk your ears, And succour our just fears, When they shall read this clearly in your charge, 'New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large.' * Adam Steuart, a divine of the church of Scotland, and the author of several polemical tracts: some portions of which com mence with A. S. only prefixed. Todd. + Samuel Rotherford, or Rutherford, one of the chief commissioners of the church of Scotland, and professor of divinity in the university of St. Andrew. He published a great variety of Cal. vinistic tracts. Thomas Edwards, minister, a pamphleteering opponent of Milton; whose plan of independency he assailed with shallow invectives. Perhaps Henderson, or Galaspie. Scotch divines: the former of whom appears as a loving friend,' in Rutherford's Joshua Redivivus; and the latter was one of the ecclesiastical commissioners at Westminster. Warton. TRANSLATIONS. THE FIFTH ODE OF HORACE, LIB. I. WHAT slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odours, Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha? For whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden hair, Plain in thy neatness? O, how oft shall he Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold, Hopes thee, of flattering gales [vow'd To whom thou' untried seem'st fair! Me, in my Picture, the sacred wall declares to' have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea. FROM GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.* BRUTUS thus addresses DIANA in the country of LEOGECIA, GODDESS of shades, and huntress, who at will Walk'st on the rolling spheres, and through the deep; * Hist. Brit. i. xi. "Diva potens nemorum." &c. On thy third reign, the earth, look now, and tell To whom, sleeping before the altar, DIANA answers in a vision, the same night. BRUTUS, far to the west, in the ocean wide, And kings be born of thee, whose dreadful might FROM DANTE. Aн, Constantine, of how much ill was cause, FROM DANTE. FOUNDED in chaste and humble poverty, FROM ARIOSTO. THEN pass'd he to a flowery mountain green, |