Ad CHRISTINAM Suecorum Reginam nomine

Cromwelli *.

B Ellipotens Virgo, feptem Regina Trionum,

Christina, Arctoï lucida stella poli,

Cernis quas merui dura fub casside rugas,
Utque fenex armis impiger ora tero;
Invia fatorum dum per vestigia nitor,
Exequor et populi fortia jussa manu.
Aft tibi fubmittit frontem reverentior umbra:
Nec funt hi vultus Regibus usque truces.

TRANSLATION, from TOLAND'S Life of MILTON.

B

RIGHT martial maid, queen of the frozen zone,.
The northern pole supports thy shining throne;

Behold what furrows age and steel can plow,
The helmet's weight oppress'd this wrinkled brow.
Through fate's untrodden paths I move, my hands
Still act my free-born people's bold commands:
Yet this stern shade to you submits his frowns,
Nor are these looks always fevere to crowns.

A

* These verses were sent to Christina Queen of Sweden with Cromwell's picture, and are by some ascribed to Andrew Marvel, as by others to Milton: but I should rather think they were Milton's, being more within his province as Latin Secretary.

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A FRAG.

A FRAGMENT, from the Italian;

Addressed to a young Lady, at Florence, who did not
understand English.

WHEN, in your language, I, unskill'd, address

The short-pac'd efforts of a trammel'd Muse;

Soft Italy's fair critics round Me press,

And my mistaking passion thus accuse.

Why, to our tongue's disgrace, does thy dumb love
Strive, in rough found, soft meaning to impart?
He must select his words who speaks to move,
And point his purpose at the hearer's heart.

Then laughing they repeat my languid lays

Nymphs of thy native clime, perhaps-they cry,
For whom thou hast a tongue, may feel thy praife;
But we must understand ere we comply!

Do thou, my foul's soft hope, these triflers awe!
Tell them, 'tis nothing, how, or what, I write;
Since love from filent looks can language draw,
And scorns the lame impertinence of wit.

CONTENTS

On the death of a fair Infant dying of a cough

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The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. 1. English'd 166

On the new forcers of confcience under the Long Par-

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