AN EPITAPH1 ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATICK POET W. SHAKSPEARE. WHAT needs my Shakspeare, for his honour'd bones, Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art Dost make us marble with too much conceiving; ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, WHO SICKENED IN THE TIME OF HIS VACANCY; BEING FORBID TO GO TO HERE lies old Hobson ;3 Death hath broke his girt, 'An Epitaph:' the first of Milton's pieces published.-2 Unvalued:' invaluable.- 'Hobson:' he put up at the Bull in Bishopsgate Street. He died in 1630. "Twas such a shifter, that, if truth were known, In the kind office of a chamberlin1 Show'd him his room where he must lodge that night, If any ask for him, it shall be said, ANOTHER ON THE SAME. HERE lieth one, who did most truly prove So hung his destiny, never to rot While he might still jog on and keep his trot, Time numbers motion, yet (without a crime Too long vacation hasten'd on his term. Chamberlin: the ancient Boots. Merely to drive the time away he sicken'd, Fainted, and died, nor would with ale be quicken'd; Nay," quoth he, on his swooning bed out-stretch'd, "If I mayn't carry, sure I'll ne'er be fetch'd, But vow, though the cross doctors all stood hearers, That even to his last breath (there be that say't), He had been an immortal carrier. Yet (strange to think) his wain was his encrease: Only remains this superscription. Р ON THE NEW FORCERS OF CONSCIENCE UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT. BECAUSE you have thrown off your Prelate Lord, From them whose sin ye envied, not abhorr❜d; To force our consciences that Christ set free, When they shall read this clearly in your charge, Classick:' referring to the classes, including the parochial presbyteries into which England was divided.-A. S.:' Adam Steuart, a divine of the Church of Scotland, and the author of several polemical tracts, some portions of which commence with A. S. only prefixed. 3 Samuel Rotherford,' or Rutherford, one of the chief commissioners of the Church of Scotland, and professor of divinity in the University of St Andrews. He was a great genius, but disliked by Milton for his aversion to Independency. Who has not heard of his 'Letters'?Thomas Edwards,' minister: a pamphleteering opponent of Milton, whose plan of Independency he assailed.—5 'What d'ye call:' perhaps Henderson, or Gillespie, Scotch divines.- Bauk:' spare. TRANSLATIONS. THE FIFTH ODE OF HORACE, LIB. I. WHAT slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odours, In wreaths thy golden hair, Plain in thy neatness? O, how oft shall he Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold, To whom thou untried seem'st fair! Me, in my vow'd My dank and dropping weeds To the stern God of sea. FROM GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. BRUTUS thus addresses DIANA in the country of LEOGECIA. GODDESS of shades, and huntress, who at will Walk'st on the rowling spheres, and through the deep; |