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Dare the Muse's walk to stain,

While bright-eyed Science watches round:
Hence, away, 'tis holy ground!"

II. RECITATIVE.

From yonder realms of empyrean day

Bursts on my ear th' indignant lay:
There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine,
The few, whom genius gave to shine

Thro' every unborn age, and undiscover'd clime.
Rapt in celestial transport they :

Yet hither oft a glance from high

They send of tender sympathy

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V. 13. "From your empyreal bowers, and from the realms
of everlasting day.'
G. West's Poems.

V. 15. There sit] Surely a better word than this," sit,"
in pronunciation and imagery could have been found.
V. 17. "Nations unborn your mighty name shall sound,
And worlds applaud that must not yet be found."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, 193. W.
V. 26. "E'en mitred Rochester would nod the head."
Pope. Prol. to the Sat. 143. W. See Warton. Milt. p.
V. 27. To arched walks of twilight groves,
And shadows brown that Sylvan loves."
Il Penser. 133. W.

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And so Pope, in his Transl. of the Odyssey: "Brown with o'er-arching shades."

This stanza, supposed to be sung by Milton, is very judiciously written in the metre which he fixed upon for the stanza of his Christmas Hymn : ""Twas in the winter wild," &c. Mason.

V. 30. Wakefield has justly remarked that this stanza is indebted to the following passage in the Il Pens. of Milton, ver. 61:

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Douglas, in his Transl. of Virgil, Prolog. to 450, describes the notes of the nightingale as

- The mery nyghtyngele Philomene, on the thorne sat syngand fro the splene, Es myrthfull nottis langing for to here," &c. Ear unlike the nightingale !-she sings

ng thro' the balmy nights of May;

s from love and joy." Thomson, Agamem. p. 63. a will I cheare with chanting all this night, with that word she 'gan to clear her throate: uch a lively song, now by this light,

ever hearde I such another note."

Gascoigne. Complaynt of Phylomene. as, I think, given no authority but that of Chaue merry notes of the nightingale; see his Letter -ey, p. 12: But see Todd. Illust. of Gower.

In cloisters dim, far from the haunts of Folly,

With Freedom by my side, and soft-eyed Melancholy."

IV. RECITATIVE.

But hark! the portals sound, and pacing forth 35
With solemn steps and slow,

High potentates, and dames of royal birth,
And mitred fathers in long order go:

Great Edward, with the lilies on his brow
From haughty Gallia torn,

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Drummond, son. xii. Luke. "Their arrow that marched hence so silver-bright." K. John. Rogers.

V. 33. Scared in cloisters dim the superstitious herd." Thomson. Liberty. pt. iii. Luke. V. 34. "And sensible soft Melancholy," Pope. On a certain Lady at Court, ver. 8. W. V. Pope. Prol. to Satires, v. 286. Luke.

V. 36. "With wand'ring steps and slow," Par. Lost, b. xii. ver. 648. W.-And Pope. Odys. b. x. ver. 286. Dunc. b. iv. ver. 465, as quoted by Mr. Todd. "At every step solemn and slow," Thomson. Summer. Luke.

V. 38.

In long order stand," Dryd. Æn. iii. 533.“ In

long order come,' v. 133. Rogers.

"Unde omnes longo ordine possit

Adversos legere, et venientum discere vultus."

Virg. Æn. vi. 754.

W.

V. 39. Edward the Third, who added the fleur de lys of France to the arms of England. He founded Trinity College. See Philips, in " Cyder," ii. 592 :

"Great Edward thus array'd,

With golden Iris his broad shield emboss'd."
"Great Edward, and thy greater son,

He that the lilies wore, and he that won.' Denham.
V. 41 Mary de Valentia, countess of Pembroke, daugh-
ter of Guy de Chatillon, comte de St. Paul in France; of
whom tradition says, that her husband Audemar de Valen-

f Pembroke, was slain at a tournament on the day tials. She was the foundress of Pembroke Col[all, under the name of Aula Mariæ de Valentia. ut consult a letter to Tyson from Gough in Ni. Anecd. viii. 604. Luke. Fotheringay Castle was rty.

Elizabeth de Burg, countess of Clare, was wife de Burg, son and heir of the earl of Ulster, and of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester, by Joan daughter of Edward the First. Hence the poet the epithet of princely. She founded Claré Hall.

Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry the Sixth, founQueen's College. The poet has celebrated her Fidelity in The Bard," epode 2d, line 13th.

th Widville, wife of Edward the Fourth, hence paler rose, as being of the house of York. She he foundation of Margaret of Anjou. Gray. Henry the Sixth and Eighth. The former the King's, the latter the greatest benefactor to Trige. Gray.

"One human tear shall drop, and be forgiven." Pope. Eloisa, 358. W. Charity never faileth," St. Paul, 1 Corinth.

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V. 61. Milton. Ep. on M. of Winchest. "Shot up from vernal shower." Thomson. Spring," With vernal showers distent." Luke.

V. 62. This comparison we find also in Theocr. Id. viii. 83: Κρέσσον μελπομένω τεῦ ἀκουέμεν, ἢ μέλι λείχον. And in Calphurn. Eclog. iv. ver. 150. These four verses, as Wakefield remarks, were suggested by Milton's Par. Lost, b. iv. ver. 641: "Sweet is the breath of morn," &c.: but see also Theocr. Idyll. 9. ver. 33:

οὔτε γὰρ ὕπνος,

Οὔτ ̓ ἔαρ ἐξαπίνας γλυκερώτερον, οὔτε μελίσσαις
*Ανθεα, ὅσσον ἐμὶν Μῶσαι φίλαι.

Opes congestas apium," A. Marcellini. Hist. xviii. 3.

V. 63. " And melt away, in a dying, dying fall," Pope. Ode on St. Cecilia. Luke.

V. 64. "After the fire, a still small voice," 1 Kings, xix.

12. And in a rejected stanza of the Elegy:

"Hark how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease;