And after short abode fly back with speed, 60 To fcorn the fordid world, and unto Heav'n afpire? X. But oh why didft thou not stay here below To blefs us with thy heav'n-lov'd innocence,65 Then thou the Mother of fo fweet a Child I Her falfe imagin'd lofs ceafe to lament, And wifely learn to curb thy forrows wild, Anno 68. Or drive away the flaughter- great plague in London, which ing peftilence, It should be gives a peculiar propriety to this noted that at this time there was a whole ftanza. These II. Domas vandens tod Anno Etatis 19. At a Vacation Exercife in the college, part Latin, part English. The Latin fpeeches ended, the English thus began. AIL native Language, that by finews weak HA Didst move my firft endevoring tongue to speak, And mad ft imperfect words with childish trips, Half unpronounc'd, flide through my infant-lips, Driving dumb filence from the portal door, Where he had mutely fat two years before: Here I falute thee, and thy pardon afk, befor That now I use thee in my latter task Small loss it is that thence can come unto thee, I know my tongue but little grace can do thee:T Thou need'ft not be ambitious to be first, Believe me I have thither packt the worst:* A And, if it happen as I did forecast, 5 The daintieft dishes shall be serv'd up last. I pray thee then deny me not thy aid 15 For this fame small neglect that I have made: But These verses were made in 1627, in the edition of 1645, but were that being the 19th year of the first added in the edition of 1673. author's age; and they were nor 29. Yet 20 But hafte thee ftrait to do me once a pleafure, And weary of their place do only stay T wo brat Till thou haft deck'd them in thy best array 3D. A That so they may without suspect or fears Fly swiftly to this fair affembly's ears; Yet I had rather, if I were to chufe, T Thy service in some graver fubject use, 30 Such as may make thee fearch thy coffers round, A Before thou clothe my fancy in fit found: Such where the deep tranfported mind may foard Above the wheeling poles, and at Heav'n's door a E Look in, and fee each blissful Deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie, 35 41 Then paffing through the fpheres of watchful fire, And last of kings and queens and heroes old, d In folemn fongs at king Alcinous feast, 1. > 50 But fie, my wand'ring Muse, how thou doft ftray! Expectance calls thee now another way, Thou know'st it must be now thy only bent f 55 To keep in compafs of thy predicament: Then quick about thy purpos'd bufinefs come, OY That to the next I may refign my roomi Pad2 ind 4 aut ile 79'0 Then Ens is reprefented as father of the Predicaments his ten fons, whereof the eldest stood for Subftance with his canons, which Ens, thus fpeaking, explains. OOD luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The faery ladies danc'd upon the hearth 66 Thy droufy nurse hath fworn fhe did them fpie Come tripping to the room where thou didst lie, And sweetly finging round about thy bed Strow all their bleflings on thy fleeping head. and Ulyffes and the reft are affected in the manner here defcrib'd. 56.-of thy predicament:] What She the Greeks called a category, Boëthius first named a predicament: and if the reader is acquainted with Ari ftotle's |