o in cari fior converfo ma ifole, e spiagge. olline amico fchermo ocivi; effe fedeli liquefatte nubi Serve: e quel che avanza ferbato umore cortefi, e pe'l declive -iante: e in tutto pago profperar le vede, pioggia efulta, e ride. THE EN D. P. 1. V. 3. A THE late Mr. Poetry, has given lation of Virgil, w "in blank verfe, e gi attempt to break O mother! ADDITIONS то THE NOTE S. P. 1. V. 3. Add to the Note.] THE late Mr. Warton, in the third volume of his Hiftory of English Poetry, has given feveral fpecimens of the Earl of Surrey's Tranflation of Virgil, which he notices not only as "the earliest compofition "in blank verse, extant in the English language," but also as " a noble attempt to break the bondage of rhyme.' -The tranflation of that part of the fecond Book, which describes the introduction of the woodenhorfe into Troy, is fubjoined. We cleft the walles and clofures of the towne, Whereto all helpe; and underfet the feete With fliding rolles, and bound his neck with ropes. The fatal gin thus over-clambe our walles, Stuft with arm'd men; about the which there ran Children and maids that holy carolles fung. And well were they whofe hands might touch the cordes ! With threatning cheere thus flided through our town The fubtill tree to Pallas' temple-ward. O native land, Ilion, and of the Goddes The manfion place! O warlike walls of Troy! Four times it ftopt in th' entrie of our gate, Four times the harneffe clatter'd in the wombe. The following short specimen of Lord Buckhurst's Gorboduc may also not be unacceptable; as it gives a favorable impreffion of this firft dramatic attempt in blank verfe. It should be observed that a part of the argument (which is rather complex) is the murder of the young prince Porrex by his mother Vindena. O mother! thou to murder thus thy child! A a Ah, 66 Ah, noble prince, how oft have I beheld And, with thy miftrefs' fleeve tied on thy helme, P. 10. V. 68. Add to the Note on Capel.] In the Magna Britannia Antiqua et Nova, published in 1737, it is mentioned, that" at How-Capel lived a family of the Capels, of which was Chriftopher Capel, whom Mr. Wood in his Athen. Oxon. calls the ftout Alderman of Glocefter;' as alfo Richard Capel his fon, who "was a famous Prefbyterian Divine, in the time of Óliver Cromwell's "Protectorship." P. 11. V. 70. Sutton acres, drench'd with regal blood Poffibly from the following line, in Milton's SON NET, to Cromwell; the sturdy pear-tree bere Will rife luxuriant-] "I have obferved," fays Mr. Marfhall, in his Obfervations on the Orchards and Fruit Liquor of Herefordshire," a Pear-tree flourish on "the fide of a cold blue-clay fwell, where the foil is fo unfertile that fcarcely any herbage, except the wood fefcue, will grow upon it; " and where the native crab evidently ftarves for want of nourishment," P. 16. V. 146. Blast Septentrional-] Thus Milton, PARAD. REG. IV. 29. back'd with a ridge of hills, That fcreen'd the fruits of the earth and feats of men P. 19. V. 176. with numerous turrets crown'd Aereal fpires and citadels-] there the capitol thou feest Above the reft lifting his stately head Impregnable, and there Mount Palatine, Th' imperial palace, compafs huge, and high The ftructure, fkill of nobleft architects, WITH GILDED BATTLEMENTS, CONSPICUOUS FAR, TURRETS AND TERRACES, AND GLITTERING SPIRES. PARAD. REG. IV. 47. P. 20. and, in his Itinerary, fpeaking of the old Castle at Hereford, menfome bones that were found there "non giganteæ, fed infolita gnitudinis." P. 29. V. 260. Her fatty fibres-] His fattie waves do fertile flime outwell. Spenfer, FAERY QUEEN, B. I. C. 1. St. 21. P. 38. V. 333. Volatile Hermes] PARAD. L. B. 111. V. 603. nor to the bards .39. V. 341. Unfriendly-] de Pato feu Tabacco, (which con Ralph Thorius opens his poem the first volume of the Mufa Anglicana, published in 1691) with lowing lines: Innocuos calices, et AMICAM VATIBUS HERBAM, Aggredior. 7. 343. Warble melodious their well-labor'd Songs-] To the night-warbling bird, that now awake PARAD. L. B. V. V. 39. J. 346. Add to the Note.] Leaft animal of nature's band," was poffibly fuggefted by Milton's MS OF NATURE, P. L. VII. 482, which his Commentator fupto have been taken from the Vulgate Latin of Prov. xxx. 24. atuor ista sunt MINIMA terræ.' der fome concourse of shades, NCHING ARMS thick-intertwin'd might shield d damps of night his shelter'd head. PARAD. REG. B. IV. V. 405. Laughter and Sport and care-beguiling wit-] WRINKLED CARE DERIDES, HTER holding both his fides. Milton's ALLEGRO, V. 31. Apples of price and plenteous fheaves of corn with lilies INTERLACE. Spenfer, FAERY QUEEN, B. v. C. v. St. 22. re the hil's unamiable whofe tops aven afpire, affording profpect fweet man ken--] It was a HILL higheft, FROM WHOSE TOP ERE OF EARTH, IN CLEAREST KEN, UT TO TH' AMPLEST REACH OF PROSPECT LAY, PARAD. L. B. xi. V. 377. Ianon his fteps he rear'd, high top to KEN THE PROSPECT ROUND. interchang'd-] PARAD. REG. B. 11. V. 285. 173, contrad Chandos. imagined t have been a was fo P. 67. V |