Quæ patriæ prodesse meæ Regina ferebar, 30 20 25 Ne videar flammæ nimis indulsisse secundæ, 30 V. 18. See Sil. Italicus. ii. 239; vi. 346; xiv. 257. V. 21. "Non annis revocare tuis," Ov. Met. vii. 177. Ov. Trist. iii. vii. 26. V. 27. Here the last syllable of ego is again made long. See the note to the Sapphic Ode to West, ver. 45, p. 230. I have only to add to that note, that ego is said to be found with this quantity in the Diræ Catonis,' ver. 156; but which line is thus given by Wernsdorf, vol. iii. p. 19: "Ausus egon' primus custos violare pudores?" and by all the other editors prior to him. See Pithæi Catul. p. 219. Scaligeri Collect. p. 61. Boxhornii Poet. Sat. p. 117. Burmanni Anthol. ii. 674; but erroneously: see Bentley's Canon, Heavt. Terentii, act v. sc. 1. and Clas. Journ. No. lxii. p. 352. V. 30. "Turba salutantum," Claudian. iii. 213, p. 30. ed. Gesn. Virgil. Georg. ii. 462. Prop. V. 31. "Omnia foemineis quare dilecta catervis," Martial. xi. 48. " Venit in exsequias tota caterva meas," iv. xi. 68. And" aspectu hæsit," Virg. Æn. iii. 597. Sin premat invitæ lumina victa sopor, 50 Somnus habet pompas, eademque recursat imago; Atque iterum hesterno munere victor ades.† DIDACTIC POEM UNFINISHED: ENTITLED, DE PRINCIPIIS COGITANDI. LIBER PRIMUS. AD FAVONIUM. [See Mason's Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 55.] UNDE Animus scire incipiat; quibus inchoet orsa Principiis seriem rerum, tenuemque catenam Mnemosyne Ratio unde rudi sub pectore tardum Augeat imperium; et primum mortalibus ægris V. 49. "Infelix, totâ quicumque quiescere nocte," Ovid. Amor. ii. 9. 39. V. 50. “Lumina cum placido victa sopore jacent," Ov. Ep. xvi. 100. Ellis, in his Historical Sketch of English Poetry, (p. 224,) thinks that the description of the entry of Troilus into Troy, in Chaucer's romance of Troilus and Creseida, suggested to Gray some very beautiful lines in this Epistle : "Jam flexi, regale decus," &c. (See Chaucer, b. xi. st. 83. fol. 151. ed. 1602.) "This Troilus sat on his baye steed, All armed, save his head, full richely," &c. V. 4. Virg. Georg. i. 237, "Mortalibus ægris," and Lucret. vi. 1. Luke. Ira, Dolor, Metus, Hinc canere aggred O decus! Angliaca Si quà primus iter Tuque aures a Quanquam parv etus, et Curæ nascantur inanes, ggredior. Nec dedignare canentem, gliacæ certe O lux altera gentis ! iter monstras, vestigia conor â, tremulâque insistere plantâ. c ipse (potes namque omnia) sanctum itè adeo, si pectore puro,) ans Naturæ ingentia claustra. im causas, fontemque severum tibi enim, tibi, veri magne Sacerdos, hominum, atque altæ penetralia adhibe vacuas, facilesque, Favonî, cit opus) simplex nec despice carmen, on illa leves primordia motus, rva, dabunt. Lætum vel amabile [auras, -, trahit hinc ortum; nec surgit ad irent simul, eventusque secundent. eorg. iv. 345, "Curam Clymene narrabat æ spes altera Romæ," Virg. Æn. xii. 168. is addressed to Locke.' alis possunt insistere plantis," Juv. Sat. e primus portarum claustra cupiret," Cæcas causas," Ibid. iii. 317. Virg. Æn. am ingentia claustra." Luke. emque severum," Virg. Æn. vi. 374. And mnemque severum Cocyti metuet." atis penetralia nudat," Claud. Rap. Pros. les habuit aures," Quintil. Inst. Orat. vi. v. as aures adhibe," Lucret. i. 45. ntusque secundet," Virg. Georg. iv. 397. 26 Hinc variæ vitaï artes, ac mollior usus, 31 35 Principio, ut magnum fœdus Natura creatrix V. 24. "Rubens accendit lumina Vesper," Virg. Georg. i. 251. V. 26. Hor. Epod. xiii. 18, "Deformis ægrimoniæ." Luke. V. 27. "Scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma,” Georg. ii. 534. V. 31. "At non Venus aurea contra," Virg. Æn. x. 16. 'Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea," Hor. Öd. i. v. 9. V. 32. "Rerum natura creatrix," Lucret. i. 623. V. 33. See note at p. 176, on the position of " que,” and Burman on Antholog Lat. vol. i. p. 607. V. 35. "Nec torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno,” Virg. Georg. i. 124. V. 45. " Sequenti concita plaga," Lucret. iv. 189. "Exernis plagis," Ibid. ii. 1140. Stetit unus in arcem |