140 145 Hæc mihi tum læto dictabat roscida luna, hyacinthi, [tardat, [tum. Quasque habet ista palus herbas, artesque medenAh pereant herbæ, pereant artesque medentum, Gramina, postquam ipsi nil profecere magistro! Ipse etiam, nam nescio quid mihi grande sonabat Fistula, ab undecima jam lux est altera nocte, Et tum forte novis admôram labra cicutis, Dissiluere tamen rupta compage, nec ultra Ferre graves potuere sonos: dubito quoque ne sim Turgidulus, tamen et referam; vos cedite, sylvæ. 157 Ite domum impasti, domino jam nonvacat, agni. Ipse ego Dardanias Rutupina per æquora puppes Dicam, et Pandrasidos regnum vetus Inogeniæ, Brennumque Arviragumque duces, priscumque Belinum, 141 cratibus] Hor. Epod. ii. 45. 'Claudensque textis cratibus lætum pecus.' Todd. Et tandem Armoricos Britonum sub lege colonos ; Treantæ, Et Thamesis meus ante omnes, et fusca metallis Tamara, et extremis me discant Orcades undis. 180 Ite domum impasti, domino jam non vacat, agni. Hæc tibi servabam lenta sub cortice lauri, Hæc, et plura simul; tum quæ mihi pocula Mansus, Mansus, Chalcidicæ non ultima gloria ripæ, Bina dedit, mirum artis opus, mirandus et ipse, Et circum gemino cælaverat argumento: In medio rubri maris unda, et odoriferum ver, Littora longa Arabum, et sudantes balsama sylvæ, Has inter Phoenix, divina avis, unica terris, 185 171 Brittonicum] First syllable long; see Lucret. vi. 1104; ver. 165 of this poem, Milton has made is short, ' Britonum. 182 Chalcidica] A people called the 'Chalcidici' are said to have founded Naples. Virg. Ecl. x. 50. • Chalcidico versu. Æn. vi. 17. Warton. Cæruleum fulgens diversicoloribus alis, Auroram vitreis surgentem respicit undis; 191 195 Arma corusca faces, et spicula tincta pyropo; Tu quoque in his certe es, nam quo tua dulcis abiret Nec tibi conveniunt lacrymæ, nec flebimus ultra, Ite procul lacrymæ: purum colit æthera Damon, Æthera purus habet, pluvium pede reppulit arcum; Meroumque animas inter, divosque perennes, Æthereos haurit latices, et gaudia potat Ore sacro. 205 210 Quin tu, cœli post jura recepta, Dexter ades, placidusque fave quicunque vocaris, Seu tu noster eris Damon, sive æquior audis Diodatus, quo te divino nomine cuncti Cœlicolæ norint, sylvisque vocabere Damon. Quod tibi purpureus pudor, et sine labe juventus Grata fuit, quod nulla tori libata voluptas, 188 diversicoloribus alis] Eurip. Hippol. 1270, Cupid is termed Tokikóπтεрог. See too Aristoph. Av. 249. En etiam tibi virginei servantur honores; 215 JAN. 23, 1646. AD JOANNEM ROUSIUM OXONIENSIS ACADEMIÆ BIBLIOTHECARIUM.* De libro Poematum amisso, quem ille sibe denuo mitti postulabat, ut cum aliis nostris in Bibliotheca publica reponet, Ode. STROPHE I. GEMELLE cultu simplici gaudens liber, Munditieque nitens non operosa; Quam manus attulit Juvenilis olim, Sedula tamen haud nimii poetæ ; * This ode, in Milton's own hand writing, on one sheet of paper, is inserted between the Latin and English poems, in a copy which he sent to Rouse, and which is now in the Bodleian M. 168, Art. 8vo. Another small volume, containing some of his prose tracts, with an inscription to J. Rouse, in Milton's hand writing, is in the same library. F. 56, Th. See some observations on the structure of this Ode in Symmons's Life, p. 281, ed. second. 2 Fronde] 'Fronte' is perhaps a better reading. Warton. Dum vagus Ausonias nunc per umbras, Indulsit patrio, mox itidem pectine Daunio Vicinis, et humum vix tetigit pede: ANTISTROPHE. Quis te, parve liber, quis te fratribus Subduxit reliquis dolo? Cum tu missus ab urbe, Docto jugiter obsecrante amico, Illustre tendebas iter Thamesis ad incunabula Cærulei patris, Fontes ubi limpidi Aonidum, thyasusque sacer, Orbi notus per immensos Temporum lapsus redeunte cœlo, STROPHE II. Modo quis deus, aut editus deo, Jam pene totis finibus Angligenum; 10 15 20 25 30 |