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Crown 8vo. 4s [In Preparation] FOLIA silvula E, Latine et Graecl reddita; accedunt Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta * Edited for the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press dFoIforum ^tlinila PART THE THIRD BEING SELECT PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION INTO GREEK VERSE EDITED WITH NOTES BY THE REVEREND HUBERT ASHTON HOLDEN LL.D. HEAD MASTER OF IPSWICH SCHOOL LATE FELLOW AND ASSISTANT TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE EDITOR OF ARISTOPHANES ETC. O^itD CFtittton CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL AND CO LONDON BELL AND DALDY 1864 PA Z333 EU tov XtifHuva Ko.9i' eripia alpo/xtvos aypevpJ avQiiav — Euripidis Hypsipyle Fr. 5 CAMBRIDGE PRINTED BV C. J. CLAV M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITV PRESS INDEX OF EXAMINATIONS CAMBRIDGE University Scholarships, 399, 408, 469, 473. S82, 663, 701, 717, 719, 789, 813, 872, 878, 905, 907, 934, 938, 956, 984, 991, *io33, *io79, 1116, 1117, 1126, 1148, 1154, *n8o, 1196, 1289, 1389 Chancellor's Medals, 463, *586, 605, 615, 628, 641, 659, 712, 765, 793, 848, 862, 906, 931, 954, 1012, *io35, 1148, 1159, *I204, 1246, 1287, 1288, 1292 Classical Tripos, 602, 636, 659, 684, 723, 760, 786, 814, 843, 848, 858, 880, 883, 896, 919, 920, 930, 947, 957, 964, 982, 987, *99o, 994, 995, 996, 1004, 106S, *io49, 1140, 1142, 1175, 1192, 1212, *i23i, 1265 Trinity College Fellowships, 386, 421, 443. 47i. 5°2> 5°3. 5i8, 541, 622, 700, 749, 761, *8i8, 839, 850, 946, *97i *ioio, 1213, 1278 Christ's College, 350, 390, 445, 462, *io45, 1226, 1432, 1433 St Peter's College, 459, 487, 536, 648, 707, *732, *io27 Pembroke College, 384, 400, 454, 484, 486 Caius College, 555, 601, 639, 649, '737 *775. 787. *945 Jesus College, 380, 389, 429, 488, 1264 Clare College, 718, *g22 King's College, *66, 374, 535, *s86, ♦630, 631, 663, 716, 780, 783, 794. 804, 821, 833, 842, 883, 923, 1118, 1149, 1244 St John's College, 377, 391, 406, 420, 437. 519. 527. S28, 558, 589, 666, 676, 679. 745. 782, 785. 792, 805, 810, 812, 820, 839, 857, 887, 894, 935, 962, 980, 1014, 1125, 1129, 1141, 1224, 1225, 1230, 1248 Magdalene College, 357, 380, 438, 490, 533, 554. 596. *996. * IOI 6 Corpus Christi College, 411, 562, 626, 903, *965 St Catharine's College, 345 Trinity College, 442, 444, 447, 449. 450, 464, 467, 468, 517, 518, 521, 526, 588, 603, 643, *697, 722, 724, 762. 811, 827, *86i, 867, 881, 893, 898, 1221, 1229, 1247, 1431 Emmanuel College, 490 OXFORD Moderations, 421, 477, 699 Ireland University Scholarships, 687, 797, 847, 886, 915, 1160, u6i, 1186 Lusby Scholarships, 844 Baliol College ,, 545, 739, 767 Merton ,, ,, 692, 758 Corpus Christi „ „ 460, 660 Exeter College „ 365, 434, 686 Magdalene College ,, 547. 598. 1047 Brazennose College ,, 565 Oriel College ,, 693. 799 Lincoln College ,, *732 University College „ 5°9. 634 Pembroke College ,, 635 Trinity College, Dublin, 441, 463, 476, 547, 563, 660, 666, 750, 760, 781, 786, 831, 935, 939, 1059, io 6o. 1061, 1062, 1068, 1421 India Civil Service, 529, 644, 671, 901, 950, 1250 * In part only 3012113 INDEX OF AUTHORS WITH REFERENCES TO THE SECTIONS Accius Lucius, 219, 2 5°. 4*5. 4'6> 1027 Addison, Joseph, 298, 337, 35 2 . 45'. 651, 849. 850, 878, 1072 Akenside, Mark, 719, 749. I2 7 8 Ansticc, Joseph, 402 Ariosto, Lodovico 1378 Arnault, Vincent Antoine, 1402 Arnold, Matthew, 345. 445. 601, 650, 733, 734. 859. 937. i°55> i°79> i° 8o > 1094, no2, 1103, 1 1 36— H39. iz6 5 Ashe, Thomas, 730, 1241, 1242 Attcrbury, Francis, 1341 Aytoun, William Edmonston, 555, 1255. "73 B Bacon, Francis Lord, 1056 Beattie, James, 224 Heaumont, Francis, 279, 8oo, 805 Beaumont and Fletcher, 348, 361, 377, 388, 397, 567. Go 2 - 6 39. 784. 794. 808, 8l8, 94O, 973, IOOG, IOO7, IOl6, II23 > »45 2 Beaumont, Sir J. 300, 887, 1388 Uland, Robert, 992, 1342 ISoethius, 1127, 1197, 1198 Bowles, William Lisle, 1365, 1406 Brooke, Lord, vide Fulke Grcville Browne, William, 1277, 1281 Bryant, William Cullen, 845, 894, 1046, 1407 Burns, Robert, 1210, 1398 Bushe, Amyas, 1201, 1202 Byron, Lord, 595, 600, 634, 716, 792, 826, 956, 1054, 1091, 1097, 1222, 1368, 1400 Campbell, Thomas, 877 Carew, Thomas, 780 Chapman, George, 226, 363, 480, 5 I2 » 638, 645, 691, 702, 717, 743, 795, 824, 828, 968, 1079 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 287, 288, 465, 811, 1022 Chronicle of the Cid, 1279 Coleridge, Hartley, 502 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 400, 411, 420, 617, 626, 660, 661, 678, 683, 709, 753, 785, 830, 831, 860, 861, 865, 874, 875, 876, 962, 1070, 1071 Collins, William, 1159 Congreve, William, 231, 366, 421, 669, 759. 1017 Conybeare, John Josias, 1259— 1261 Cowley, Abraham, 1157 Cowper, William, 422, 1244, 1330 Crabbe, George, 309, 506 Crowne, John, 546, 606, 607, 608, 1082 Cumberland, Richard, 170, 218, 280, 296, 3°5. 358, 360, 383, 9 12 - I 4 2 8, 1430, 1432, 1440, 1444, 1463, 1469 D Daniel, Samuel, 278, 326, 630, 631, 632, 891, 1120, 1143, 1194, 1409 Dante, Alighieri, 1275 Davison, Francis, 1403 Decker, Thomas, 588 Dcnham, Sir J. 577 Dowe, A. 367 Index of A uthors vn Drydcn, John, 441, 505, 580, 625, 658, 667i 74°. 758, 781, 793, 806, 810, 829, 899, 900, 938, 1116, 1117, 1142, 1200, 1215 Dycc, Alexander, 1252 Edwards, Richard, 589 Ennius, Quintus, 237, 246, 251, 263, 265, 269 Hemans, Felicia, 301, 355, 379, 382, 399 Herbert, George, 225 Herrick, Robert, 178 — 204, 1316 — 1324, 1340, 1343, 1355, 1356, 1358, 1362—4, 1371. 1385. '386 Heywood, Thomas, 958 Higgon, William, 228 Hill, Aaron, 285 Home, John, 4:3 Fanshawe, Sir Richard, 989, 1376 Ferrers, R. 389 Fletcher, John, 259, 267, 331, 353, 478, 5°7. 5 '3, 579. 599. 602. 603, 623, 639, 649. 652, 665, 690, 705, 754, 787, 788, 819, 822, 834, 835, 869, 902, 941, 95s, 963, 1069, 1131, 1153, 1160, 1161, 1 1 87, 1237, 1240, 1253, 1439 Fletcher, Phincas, 842, 1235 Ford, James, 523, 524, 1096, 1152 Fraigne, 1426 Frowde, J. 261 Ingelow, Jean, 1417 Isaiah, 455, 1029 Jeffery, 343 Job, Book of, 706 Joddrell, Richard Paul, 594 Johnson, Christopher, 351 Jonson, Ben, 284, 321, 329, 428, 453, 615, 636, 644, 648, 670, 681, 687, 689, 757. 9 2 7. 948, 994. 995, i<*>7> 10 7 6 - 1135, 1171, 1390, 1442, 1443, 1446, 1447, 1455, 1456, 1459, 1468 Jonston, Arthur, 1377 Gammer Gut-ion, 554 Garrick, David, 1263 Garth, Samuel, 481 Gascoigne, George, 456 — 458, 609 — 613, 671, 773, 774, 836, 961, 1 155, 1156 Glapthorne, Henry, 647 Glover, Richard, 373, 880 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 301, 328, 355, 379, 382, 387, 399, 452, 657, 695, 744, 79°, 79 1 . 888, 903, 904, 1008, 1013, 1061, 1062, 1063, 1073, 1303, 1325, 1348, 1349, 1361 Goldsmith, Oliver, 1357 Gray, Thomas, 396, 1068, 1141, 1336, ' J 4'3 Greene, Robert, 858, 1418 Greville, Fulke, 654, 855 H Habington, W. 838 Hare, Julius Charles, 1325, 1344 Hastings, Warren, 1113 Haywood, E. 338, 362 Heine, Hcinrich, 1381, 1399 K Kcble, John, 1421 Kingsley, Charles, 1226 Kinwelmarsh, Francis, 727 Kyd, Thomas, 260, 276, 315, 424, 427, 655, IO Si. 1 "9 Landon, Laetitia Elizabeth, 1140 Landor, Walter Savage, 905, 1282 Lee, Nathaniel, 321, 441, 618, 619, 635, 667 Lodge, Thomas, 395, 540, 846, 1382 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1024, 1 124, 1214, 1238, 1264, 1410 Lovelace, Richard, 1414 Lyly, J. 426, 1184 Lyra Apostolica, 1209 Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer, 1392 M Macaulay, Lord, 1254, 1271 Macpherson, James, 1266, 1304 — 1313 via Index of Authors Malherbe, F. de, 1334 Mallet, David, 497 Marlowe, Christopher, 381, 528, 682, 782, 848, 999, 1224, 1289 Marsden, J. 562 Marston, J. 642, 807, 820, 909, 980, 1441, 1453 Martin.Theodore, 718, 1065, 1666, 1078, 1090 Marvell, Andrew, 1206 Mason, William, 541, 928, 984, 987, 1092, 1177 — 1179, 1185, 1193, 1387 Massinger, Philip, 205, 221, 234, 290, 295. 324. 325- 335. 344. 37 2 - 432, 433. 447. 459. 56i, 574. 57 6 . 5 88 > 7°7> 7° 8 . 7 2 S. 737. 739. 7 6 4> 821, 833, 847, 854, 895, 997, 998, 1012, 1042, 1050, 1064, i43 6 > J 43 8 May, Thomas, 901 Meredith, Owen, 1389 Milman, Henry Hart, 340, 437, 498, 662, 985, 1089, 1182, 1183, 1297 Milton, John, 258, 268, 323, 347, 356, 368—371, 409, 410, 419, 425, 436, 443. 467—470, 474. 47°, 526, 529— 532, 552, 597, 605, 633, 637, 641, 666, 676, 677, 724, 736, 801—803, 839, 840, 841, 974, 993, 1018, 1019, 1020, 1023, 1031— 1038, 1043, 1044, 1134, 1147, 1148, 1154, 1175, "76, n8o, 1191, 1196, 1199, 1204, 1205, 1223, 1228, 1229, 1231 — 1236, 1247, 1276, T283, 1286 — 1288, 1293, 1294, 1299, 1405 Moore, Thomas, 1314, 1315, 1369, 1373 N Naevius, Cn. 217 Navagero, Andreas, 1397 Norris, John, 1270 Nugent, Earl, 1331 Otway, Thomas, 342, 489, 629, 1465 Pacuvius, Marcus, 266, 283, 339 Pannonius, Janus, 1345 Peele, George, 385, 430, 461, 663, 664, 710, 752, 864, 929, 1285, 1396 Pembroke, Mary Countess of, 1195 Plautus, Titus Maccius, 252, 255, 1434 Poliziano, Angelo, 1352 Pope, Alexander, 653, 1375 Quarles, Francis, 1150 Rabbi, Don Santob, 316 Randolph, Thomas, 1445, 1451 Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 417 Rogers, Samuel, 799 Rowe, Nicholas, 223, 319, 322, 473. 57i Ruckert, F. 1327— 1329, 1350, 1351 Ruiz, Juan de Hita, 30X Sackville, Thomas, 318, 454, 491, 492. 616, 910, 911, 983, 1144 — 1146 Sannazaro, Jacopo, 1401 Schiller, Johann. Christoph. Frederick, 400, 411, 420, 617, 660, 661, 678, 682, 709, 718, 722, 753, 785, 830, 831, 860, 861, 865, 874, 875, 876, 1065, 1066, 1070, 1071, 1081, 1087, 1088, 1090, 1093, 1098, 1099, 1207, 1325, 1344, 1360 Scott, SirWalter, 1112, 1272, 1337, 1338, 1367, 1416 Scrope, William, 1384 Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, 450 Shakespeare, William, 1 — 169,206 — 216, 238—245, 247—249, 256, 257, 262, 272, 277, 281, 282, 286, 291, 292, 293, 294, 3°7, 332, 34i, 346, 357, 359, 365, 376, 378, 380, 392, 394, 398, 401, 405— 408, 412, 414, 418, 429, 431, 434, 435, 439, 444, 462, 463, 471, 475, 479, 48s, 488, 490, 499, 500, 503, 508, 515— 521, 533—537, 542—545, 548—551, 568—570, 572, 573, 578, 581, 582, 583, 585, 586, 587, 590, 596, 604, 620, 621, 622, 628, 640, 646, 656, 672, 673, 675, 680, 684, 688, 692, 696—698, 701, 703, 704, 712, 715, 720, 721, 726, 729, 731, 732, 735, 73S, 74i, 742, 745—74 8 . 75o, 75i, 755, 756, 761, 762, 767—77 2 , Index of Authors IX 775—779. 789. 796. 797. 798, 8o 4> 8og, 813, 815, 817, 823, 825, 832, 837, 843, 844, 853, 863, 866, 867, 868, 870— 872, 883—886, 889, 890, 892, 893, 897, 898, 907, 908, 913—916, 921, 922, 923. 9 2 5> 93i» 932. 933. 934, 935. 942. 943. 944. 945, 946, 949, 950, 951, 953, 957, 959, 960, 966, 969, 970, 971, 975— 979, 981, 986, 990, 996, 1000 — 1005, 1009, 1010, ion, 1014, 1015, 1021, 1025, 1030, 1039 — 1041, 1045, 1053, 1059, 1074, 1075, 1077, 1078, 1081, 1086, 1095, 1 100, noi, 1 104, III 1, 1122, 1125, 1130, 1173, 1174, 1239, 1415, 1429, 1431—4, 1448—50, 1454, 1457, 1460, 1462, 1464, 1466 — 7, 1470 Shelley, Mary, 1301 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 384, 438, 446, 448, 449, 466, 510, 511, 553, 591, 592, 593, 627, 763, 766, 814, 862, 918, 964, 965, 1126, 1128, 1129, 1132, 1149, 1186, 1298 Shenstone, William, 1409 Shirley, James, 227, 403, 423, 493, 783 881, 919, 920 Smart, Christopher, 1366, 1370 Smith, Alexander, 350, 522 Somervile, William, 440 Southern, T. 1, 483 Southey, Robert, 393, 509, 857, 982, 1057, 1192, 1274 Southwell, Robert, 1395 Spenser, Edmund, 173, 175 — 177, 229, 232, 235, 236, 289, 297, 312, 334, 700, 711, 713, 1026, 1216 — 1221, 1248 — 1251, 1262, 1290 — 1292, 1302 Stanley, Thomas, 1372, 1421 Swanwick, Anna, 328, 387, 452, 657, 695, 722, 744. 79°. 79 1 . 8 88, 903, 904, 1013, 1061 — 1063, 1081, 1093, 1098, 1099 Tailor, R. 317, 539 Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 685, 760, 924, 936 Taylor, Henry, 306, 375, 390, 484, 494, 538, 547, 565, 614, 668, 679, 723, 786, 812, 926, 930, 972, 1058 Tennyson, Alfred, 386, 460, 482, 501, 5M, 556, 563, 856, 939, 1028, 1047, 1048, 1049, 1052, 1084, 1115, 1 133, 1151, 1208, 1211, 1212, 1243, 1245, 1257, 1258, 1267 — 1269, 1283, 1295, 1296, 1300 Terentius, 1227, 1435 Thomson, James, 303, 497, 728, 906 Tickell, Thomas, 1213 Tomkiss, J. 1458, 1461 Tourneur, Cyril, 472, 879 Trap, Joseph, 330, 349, 495 Trench, Richard Chenevix, 464, 496, 882, 988, 1 12 1 Varro, Marcus Terentius, 220 W Wandesford, T. 222 Warton, Thomas, 1346 Webster, John, 174, 233, 566, 584, 952, 1172, 1437 Wesley, Samuel, 1333 Whewell, William, 1303 White, Blanco, 504 White, Henry Kirke, 896, 106, 1060 Whitney, Geffrey, 1393 Wilmot, Robert, 336, 714, 816,851, 896 Wither, George, 873 Wordsworth, William, 314, 674, 947, 967, 1085, 1 1 18, 1383 Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 270, 827, 1374 Yriarte, Don Juan de, 1347 Anonymous and uncertain, 230, 271, 273—275, 299, 302, 304, 310, 311, 313, 3?°> 327, 333, 364. 374. 404. 442. 477, 483, 486, 487, 509, 519, 525, 527, 542, 547. 557—56o, 564, 575, 598, 624, 643, 659, 668, 686, 693, 694, 699, 765, 917, 954. 991. 1047. 1083. 1 "4. "58, 1162, 1181, 1225, 1236, 1246, 1280, 1332, 1339. 1353, '354. 1359. 1379. 1380, 1394, 1408, 1411, 1412, 1423— 1425, 1427 COMPARATIVE TABLE OF SECTIONS IN SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS [* In part only. \ Part I. Ed. 3. \ Part II. Ed. 3.] 2d Ed. 348 349 350 35i 358 360 361 362 3<53 364 365 366 367 368 37i 372 373 374 375 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 386 387 388 3d Ed. 2d Ed. 3d Ed. 2d Ed. 222 389 ■ . 1035* 423 . 223 39° 279 424 • 224 39 1 ■ 300 425 • 225 392 . 666* 426 226 393 ■ 306 428 227 228 261 262 256 2 57 258 259 260 271 1037* 990* 277 278 280 ■ 333 284 . 285 286 287 289 . 288 . 296 ■ 297 . 298 394 • 397 ■ 398 . 399 401 402 4<>3 404 4°5 406 407 409 410 411 412 4'3 414 4i5 416 4*7 418 419 420 421 422 332 334 3°7 308 3" 312 3'3 735* 314 • 315 316 317 3i8 • 319 321 322 323 • 347 • 348 349 335 33° ■ 337 • 338 1095 429 . 43° ■ 43' < 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 45i 452 453 454 3d Ed. 34i 342 343 346 585* 33 6 35° 35i 356 357 358 766 766 697* 361 362 363 366 367 372 1000* 368 369 320 373 374 375 376 377 1016* Comparative Table of Seclions XI 2d Ed. 45 5 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 47i 472 473 474 4^5 476 477 478 479 4 8o 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 — 9 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 5°4 5°5 506 d Ed. 2d Ed. 3d Ed. 2d Ed. 3d Ed. 775* 5°7 . 440 558 499 380 508 . 706* 559 5°i 381 5°9 • • 442 560 502 383 510 • 443 561 5°3 1042* S« • 444 562 1295* 384 512 . 446 563 640* 849 513 • 447 564 1003* 849 514 • 449 565 5°5 352 515 • 45° 566 506 395 S i6 • 45i 567 86!* 1396 5*7 • • 756* 568 508 397 518 • 453 569 509 398 5'9 ■ 454 57° 712 892* 520 •' 455 57' 512 399 522 • 463 572 513 400 523 • • 825* 573 5H 401 524 . 464 574 517 402 525 . . 202t 575 518 4°3 526 IO7* 576 519 405 527 728 577 520 620* 528 . 468 578 521 406 529 • 465 579 522 407 53° . 466 580 660 408 53i • 4&7 581 526 409 532 • • 893* 582 524 411 533 . 469 584 913* 412 534 • 47° 585 529 420 535 • 586* 586 533 421 536 • 47i 587 534 732* 537 • 472 588 536 1027* 538 • 545 S89 737* 422 539 • • 787* 59° 537 945 540 . 488 59i 538 423 54i . . 489 592 588 424 542 • 493 593 589 425 543 • 492 594 • 525 426 544 •' 49° 595 370 427 545 • . . 591 596 37 1 441 546 •' • 478 597 539 428 547 . . ' 0111. 598 659 429 549 • ■ 965* 599 646* 430 55° • 494 600 540 431 551 • 495 601 54i 433 552 . 496 602 590 548* 553 •' 497 603 • 923* 437 554 474 606 . 645 593 555 . 1043* 607 ' 648 438 556 204t 608 .' 661 439 557 .■ 498 609 66a Xll Comparative Table of Seclio/is 2d Ed. 3d Ed. 2d Ed. 3d Ed. 2d Ed. 610 . . . 371* 663 . . . 683 714 • 611 > 601 664 . 684 71S 612 . 860* 665 . 685 716 6.3 . 1044* 666 , 686 717 614 . 558 667 687 718 615 , 602 668 . 696 720 616 ; 603 669 . 778* 721 617 . 622 670 757 722 618 1002* 672 . 700 723 619 863* 673 701 724 620 , iooq* 675 702 725 621 7Si* 676 ■ 7°3 726 622 617 677 7°5 727 623 5" 678 • 998' 728 624 . ioicr 679 7H 729 625 • 1015* 680 1034* 73° 626 616 681 707 73i 627 • 655 682 752 732 629 . 615 683 26 3 s { 733 630 . . 510 684 742 734 631 614 685 715 735 632 663 686 716 736 633 < 664 687 7i7 737 634 ■ . 628 688 . 718 738 635 • 629 689 719 739 636 . 630 690 721 740 637 . 633 691 950* 74i 638 . 634 692 891 1 742 639 ■ 63S ^93 7*4 743 640 . 865- 694 722 744 644 . 5'5 695 . 828 745 64s • 516 696 829* 746 646 . 528 697 830 747 647 582 698 . 738 748 648 . 527 699 769 749 649 . 636 700 . 990* 750 650 637 701 9 2 5 75i < 6 S i . io79t 702 868 752 • 652 . 74 1 703 . 713 753 < 653 • 638 704 . 753 754 • 654 . 743 7°5 . 754 755 . 65s • 1033" 706 711 75 6 • ;6 5 6 . 678 707 . 523 757 • 657 . 641 708 . 712 758 . 6 S 8 . 680 709 . 709 759 ■ 659 . 681 710 , 898 760 660 . 750* 7" . 749 761 661 . 647 712 876 762 662 . 855t 713 • 723 763 . 3d Ed. 826 95i* 889 996* 833 760 761 970* 971* 630 — 2* 1275 780 781 782 783 848 784 785 891 786 787 788 789 792 793 873 1001* 1003* 796 797 798 881 799 800 g68t 739 815 816 817 812 813 814 804 838 839 1046* 857 842 843 in Second and Third Editions Xlll 3d Ed. 2d Ed. 3d Ed. 2d Ed. . 8n 815 . . 10491 868 . 844 817 . 948 869 . 1038 818 1006* 870 . 805 819 . i°35* 871 • 1033* 820 ■ 9°4 872 . 872 821 . 987 873 . 1041* 822* . 1029 874 807* 823 • 972 875 , 808 824 . 966 876 . 809 825 967 877 , 880 826 . 968 878 • 879 827 982 879 . 878 828 ■ 983 880 . 882 829 ■ 994 881 . 883 830 . 953 882 , 1016* 831 974 883 . 884 832 . 969 884 885 833 999 885 . 887 834 8 19, 920* 886 . 888 83S • 1084! 887 862 836 1033 888 886 837 . 984 889 846 838 1004 890 847 839 985 891 874 840 , 1008 892 908 841 995 894 909 842 . 896 895 764* 843 . 1024 896 9°S 845 1204* 897 906 846 , 11 14 898 850 847 1113 899 923 849 ■ 1116 900 910 850 . 1117 901 897 8 5 z 1119 902 928 853 1 1 20 9=>3 . 1182 929 854 < 1121 904 . 896 855 . 1122 905 . 934 856 . 1124 906 935 857 - 1125 907 . 956 858 . 1126 909 . 930 859 . 1127 910 926 860 . 1 1 29 911 . 927 861 . 1132 912 . 921 862 . "33 914 • 85. 863 . 1134 9'5 . 946 864 . 1180* 916 938 865 • 1204* 917 . 947 866 . 1 140 918 963 867 . 1141 919 • 3d Ed. "54 1 142 "44 "45 1 1 46 ii8o» "47 "49 1 148 "55 1 156 2l6f "59 1160 1161 1 163 1 165 1 166 1 164 1 167 773't 1169 "73 "75 "77 1 186 1187 1 198 3°3t 1 188 1189 1191 839 369! 1 183* "83* 1 192 "93 "94 1204* "95 43*t 1 196 44 2 t "97 "99 1205 1200 1201 XIV Comparative Table of Seclions 2d Ed. 3d Ed. 2d Ed. 920 . . 1202 945 921 1430 946 . 92a . 1429 947 • 9 2 3 ■ 1428 948 • 9 2 5 • M34 949 • 926 . M37 950 . 927 . 1436 95i • 928 1435 953 • 929 . 1438 955 • 93° • 1439 956 . 93 1 ■ J 445 957 • 932 . 1446 958 . 933 • 1447 959 • 934 I45P 960 935 ■ 1451 961 936 1453 962 . 937—8 462} 963 •. 939* 689 964 . 940 . 1455 965 . 94i • 1456 966 . 942 . 1458 967 . 943 *459 968 . 944 . 1461 970 . 3d Ed. 2d Ed 3d Ed 1462 971 . . 1266 1468 977 . 601 1212 979 • • 1251' 1213 980 . : 1259 I2IO 981 . 1260 1221 982 . . 1261 1222 983 . . 1252 1223 984 . • 1253 1224 985 . • 9i8t 1229 987 . • 1275 I23O 988 • . 1284 1228 989 • • 1235 I244 99° . .' 1258 I296* 991 • • 1283 I238* 993 • . 1286 I246 994 • .' 1286 I247 995 • • 1293 I23I 996 ". • I2 94 1232 997 . • I2 79 2 33— 4 998 . .' 1280 1236 999 • . 1276 1237 1000 . • 1277 1265 1001 • .' 1281 CONTENTS PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION SECTION I- into Tragic Iambic Verse i — 1085 into Tragic Trochaic „ 1086 — 11 12 into Tragic A napcestic into Hexameter into Elegiac and Lyric into Comic NOTES INDEX OF SUBJECTS INDEX OF FIRST LINES I 1 13 — I2CX) I2IO— 1315 I3l6— 1427 1428 — 1470 I—429 43O—446 447—484 485—539 540—573 574—599 600 — 607 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS PART I PAGE NO. 58 182, add authors name, B. jonson PART II 89 222, add author's name, w. wordsworth, and alter the heading into THE SOLITAR Y REAPER I. 5, 6, lege A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard in spring-time from the cuckoo-bird. PART III 89 483, add ajithor's name, T. southern IOO 509, ,, ,, ,, H. SOUTHEY "6 S47> „ >> .. H. TAYLOR 170 668, ,, ,, „ H. TAYLOR 215 758, !. 10, for be lege lie; 1. 17, for my waves lege the waves 368 1004, 1. 18, dele comma after men 489 1226, add heading, ANDROMEDA TO PERSEUS 495 1239, add author's name, w. Shakespeare PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION INTO GREEK TRAGIC IAMBIC VERSE V APHORISMS FROM SHAKESPEARE, 1—123. JIRTUE itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. He who not needs shall never lack a friend. No heart so fierce but knows some touch of pity. The worm of conscience still gnaws the soul. 5 Why should calamity be full of words? What is the city but the people? Extremity is the trier of the spirits. Common chances common men can bear. A man is loved when he is lacked. 10 An old man's tears are salter than a youth's. Our content is our best having. Woman is naturally born to fears. We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. 15 None can cure their harms by wailing them. Striving to better oft we mar what 's well. Who most wants advice will hear none. Extreme joy hides itself in tears. Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. 20 A friend should bear a friend's infirmities. We rarely like the virtues we have not. Cowards father cowards and base things sire base. Seek not for danger where there is no profit. Great griefs medicine the less. 25 Some falls arc means the happier to rise. Safer to fear too far than trust too far. Stony limits cannot hold love out. Dreams are the children of an idle brain. Silence is the most perfect herald of joy. F. s. HI 1 2 Passages for Translation 30 Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion sway. Young blood will not obey an old decree. Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief. Friendship begets new courage in our breast. Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts. 35 Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud. Cares and joys go round as seasons fleet. A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. Small things make base men proud. Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible. 40 To weep is to make less the depth of sorrow. Things ill-got had ever bad success. The heavens are just and time suppresseth wrong. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. Women are wooed and were not made to woo. 45 Things out of hope are compassed oft with venturing. They thrive well that take counsel of their friends. Long still are lovers' hours, though seeming short. Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief. Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee. 50 Mar not what marred can never be amended. A mournful host ill brooks with merry guests. Cowardice boldly wounds a body dead. Deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow fords. Honesty has its looks, not words, for gage. 5$ Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining. Slander's choice mark was ever yet the fair. The sweetest praise turns sour by evil deeds. Less is the danger mostly than the fear. The law and not the judge condemns the criminal. 60 What cannot be eschewed must be embraced. A head-strong liberty is lasht with woe. Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. Time is a thief and steals by night and day. Fancy is comfort oft, oft injury. 6$ Continued wrongs may make the wisest mad. The poorest service is repaid with thanks. Custom makes sin seem in account no sin. Few love to hear the sins they love to act. Want teaches man remembrance what man is. 70 The good are fittest that the heaven should have them. Companionship in woe doth woe assuage. into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 3 Every one can master a grief, but he that has it. A wise man is not loquacious. Known virtue bears the privilege of trust. 75 HI can he stay whom love doth press to stay. Fairest of all things fair on earth is virtue. It is no mean happiness to be stated in the mean. Time is the old justice that examines all offenders. Some are good at anything and yet fools. 80 Mirth bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. The less will prattle of what great ones do. Ourselves we do not owe. Love can give no man place ; brook no denial. What's to come is still unsure. 85 Fools think that all is fortune. The wise and virtuous pity enemies. Do what you please, so that it be becoming. The labour we delight in physics pain. The great in villainy are little valiant. 90 Stern looks sometimes dwell with a gentle heart. Fear still attends upon the steps of wrong. Their fears are most who know not what they fear. Deaf as the, sea, hasty as fire, is anger. Hateful to God and to good men are lies. 95 To the sorrowful sorrow seems to dwell everywhere. To the poor exile all the world's his way. In vain comes counsel to a self-closed car. He tires by times that spurs too fast by times. A while to work and after holiday. IOO What must perforce be done, as willing do. A weighty business will not brook delay. Poise every cause in the equal scale of justice. No punishment should exceed the law's commission. A wound being green, there is great hope of help. 10j Hide not a poisonous act with sugared words. Judgment in truth belongs to God alone. Suspicion thinks the least signs probable. What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? Bad habits taught are bid in vain to cease. 1 10 True nobility is exempt from fear. Much rain wears the marble. Trust not to him that once hath broken faith. Give not more strength to that which has too much. Count of thyself as bad till thou be best. 1—2 4 Passages for Translation 115 None can e'er cure their harms by wailing them. Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay. Saying and doing well should yoke together. Pity is choakt by custom of fell deeds. A friendly eye is slow to see small faults. I20 His country's friend must be a foe to tyrants. In time we hate that which we often fear. Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile. 125 Man, know thyself: all wisdom centres there. Good offices their likeness get. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. Dare to be true ; nothing can need a lie. Yet in thy thriving still misdoubt some evil. 1 3° Scorn no man's love though of a mean degree. Sum up at night what thou hast done by day. I32 AMBITION '00 often those who entertain ambition expel remorse and nature. T I33 PASSION DEAF T is but wasting time to counsel those whom we find votaries of fond desire. r I34 ADVANTAGE OF TRAVELLING "~TMS useful oft to perfecting a man JL that he be tried and tutored in the world. 135 CHILDREN 'HILDREN are bound by virtue to maintain the credit of good parents. 136 COURAGE AND HOPE 'OURAGE and hope are provident in peril, and vanquish greatest dangers. c c I37 ENEMY— A NOBLE CONSOLES F one should be a prey, how much the better to fall before the lion than the wolf. I I38 FALSE FRIENDS H APPIER is he that has no friends to feed, than such as do e'en enemies exceed. into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse I39 DISPOSITIOX MAY BE CORRUPTED BY POWER GOOD and virtuous nature may recoil A C A in an imperial charge. [4O FOLLY MOST NOTED IN THE WISE FOLLY in fools bears not so strong a note, as foolery in the wise. 141 CIVIL DISSENSION l IVIL dissension is a viperous worm that gnaws the bowels of a commonwealth. 1 4 2 SUSPICION FROM EXPERIENCE THE bird, that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush. 2 43 PREVENTION LITTLE fire is quickly trodden out ; which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. 144 PASSION THE mind by passion driven from its firm hold becomes a feather to each wind that blows. 145 EXERTION OUR DUTY, NOT LAMENTATION CEASE to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. 146 REGRET TOO LATE WHAT our contempts do often hurl from us, we wish it our's again. J 47 FILIAL INGRATITUDE OW sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. *4° ANXIETY USELESS CARE is no cure but rather corrosive for things that are not to be remedied. 149 MARRIAGE MARRIAGE is a matter of more worth than to be dealt in by attorneyship. I 5° SOUND WITHOUT STRENGTH SMALL curs are not regarded when they grin, but great men tremble when the lion roars. H 6 Passages for Translation 151 WILL ACCEPTED AS THE DEED HAT poor willing duty cannot do, noble respect accepts as done. w 1 5 2 INNOCENCE— I r NS US PIC 10 US UNSTAINED thoughts do seldom dream of evil ; birds never limed no secret bushes fear. P 153 ICINGS SHOULD BE AN EXAMPLE iRINCES should be the glass, the school, the book where subjects' eyes may learn and read and look. 1 54 DEATH WELCOME TO THE UNHAPPY WHEN that is gone for which we sought to live, wretched no longer we have fear to die. 155 SUFFERING AGGRAVATED BY CONTRAST ' r I MS double death to die in sight of shore: -L he ten times pines that pines beholding food. 156 BE A UTY BEAUTY in holy antique hours was seen without all ornament, itself and true. Ij7 LIFE— A LOAN NATURE'S bequest gives nothing; but does lend, and being frank she lends to those are free. '£) I58 LOVE GIVES IDEAL VALUE 'HINGS base and vile, holding no quality, Love can transpose to form and dignity. T "nri 159 THE WORLDS A STAGE l IS fit we hold the world but as the world, a stage where every man must play his part. 160 IMMODERATE WEALTH, HOW POOR THEY are sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. 161 VICE IMITATES VIRTUE THERE scarce is vice so simple but assumes some shew of virtue in its outward parts. 162 DANGER— PREVENTION IS wiser to prevent an urgent danger, than to lose time in questioning how it grew. •HP] T E B 1 into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 7 163 ENCOURAGEMENT UNDER CALAMITY THINGS at the worst will cease; or e'en climb upward to what they were before. 164 CIVIL WAR— UNNATURAL HE earth of any state should not be soiled with that dear blood which it hath fostered. 165 PRODIGALITY " ARN what you spend: and spend not basely that which worthy hands have honourably won. 166 DEATH THE FRIEND OF THE UNHAPPY JUST death, the umpire of men's miseries, dismisses sufferers with sweet enlargement. 167 VIGILANCE E careful the ship split not on a rock, which industry and courage might have saved. 168 EXTERNAL ELEVATION THEY that stand high have many blasts to shake them, and if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. 169 MEMORY OF THE DEAD MEN'S evil manners live in brass: their virtues we write in water. \V. SHAKESPEARE iyO THE TEST OF WISDOM EXTREMES of fortune are true wisdom's test, and he's of men most wise, who bears them best. K. CUMBERLAND I - I FORGIVENESS FORGIVENESS to the injured does belong, but they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. THE FUTURE ONE can the turns of Providence foresee, or what their own catastrophe may be. SYMPATHY LESSENS GRIEF E oft finds medicine who his gricfe imparts, but double griefs afflicl concealing harts. E. SPENSER 172 J 73 N H 8 Passages for Translation 174 SYMPATHY IN SORROW O F all miseries I hold that chief wretched to be, when none coparts our grief. J. WEBSTER 175 TRUE NOBILITY THE nobleman is he whose noble mind is filled with inborn worth, unborrowed from his kind. I76 EMINENCE SUBJECT TO ENVY 'OR whoso reaps renown above the rest, by heaps of hate shall surely be oppressed. F' F' H 177 EASY THINGS— LITTLE VALUED 'OR easie things that may be got at will most sorts of men do set but little store. E. SPENSER 178 SHIPWRECK E who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail upon the seas, though with a gentle gale. 179 POVERTY AND RICHES ~\\ 7"HO with a little cannot be content, V V endures an everlasting punishment, 1 80 LA WS WHEN lawes full power have to sway, we see little or no part there of tyranny. Il ^I NO DESPITE TO THE DEAD REPROACH we may the living, not the dead ; 'tis cowardice to bite the buried. l82 THE COVETOUS STILL CAPTIVES ET'S live with that small pittance that we have; who covets more is evermore a slave. L E 183 TRUE SAFETY T s IS not the walls or purple that defends prince from foes, but 'tis his fort of friends. 184 SORROWS SUCCEED WHEN one is past, another care we have ; thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 9 185 THE HAND AND TONGUE 'WO parts of us successively command, the tongue in peace, but then in war the hand. 186 NOTHING FREE-COST OTHING comes free-cost here; Jove will not let his gifts go from him, if not bought with sweat. 187 ADVERSITY ^DVERSITY hurts none but only such whom whitest fortune dandled has too much. 188 LOSS FROM THE LEAST GREAT men by small means oft are overthrown ; he's lord of thy life, who contemns his own. 189 ILL GOVERNMENT PREPOSTEROUS is that government and rude, when kings obey the wilder multitude. 190 MAN'S DYING-PLACE UNCERTAIN 'AN knows where first he ships himself: but he r N' A D M never can tell where shall his landing be 6 I 191 BAD IV AGES FOR GOOD SERVICE N this misfortune kings do most excel, to hear the worst from men when they do well. 192 LAWS WHO violates the customs, hurts the health not of one man, but all the commonwealth. 193 MORE POTENT, LESS PECCANT E that may sin, sins least: leave to transgress enfeebles much the seeds of wickedness. H I 194 GOOD LUCK NOT LASTING F well 'the dice run, let's applaud the cast; the happy fortune will not always last. 1 95 LENITY "THIS the chirurgeon's praise and height of art, JL not to cut off but cure the vicious part. 196 OUR OWN SINS UNSEEN OTHER men's sins we ever bear in mind; none sees the fardel of his faults behind. io Passages for Translation 1C/7 EXAMPLES LEAD US EXAMPLES lead us, and we likely see, such as the prince is, will his people be. 198 DEVOTION MAKES THE DEITY WHO forms a godhead out of gold or stone makes not a god, but he that prays to one. 199 THE MORE MIGHTY, THE MORE MERCIFUL WHO may do most, does least: the bravest will shew mercy there, where they have power to kill. 200 GOLD BEFORE GOODNESS OW rich a man is, all desire to know, but none enquires if he be good or no. H 20I OBEDIENCE O man so well a kingdom rules, as he who hath himself obeyed the sovereignty. N' 202 LIFE WHEN life with care is overcast, that man's not said to live but last. 003 NO PAINS, NO GAINS F little labour, little are our gains ; man's foitunes are according to his pains. I 204 COMFORTS IN CROSSES E not dismayed, though crosses cast thee down; thy fall is but the rising to a crown. R. HERRICK B' 205 OLD AGE WHAT is old age but the holy place of life, chapel of ease for all men's wearied miseries ? P. MASSINGER 2C6 INDISCREET EXPENSE ANY have much disabled their estate by rashly shewing a more swelling port M than their faint means would grant continuance. I into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse i ' 207 INVITAT CVLPAM QVI PECCATIM PRAETERIT N suffering another to be slaughtered men shew a naked pathway to their lives, teaching stern murther how to butcher them. 108 AFFECTED POPULARITY THE artful dive into the popular heart by humble and familiar courtesy, while purer spirits rather are than seem. 2O9 DEATH AND DISTANCE— THEIR F.FFFCT T hath been taught us from the primal state that he, which is, was wisht until he were : and the ebbed man comes deared by being lackt. I 210 ADVERSITY ADVERSITY may mark a brave man's face, . but in his bosom shall she never come to make his heart her vassal. 211 TRIALS 'EXATIONS duly borne V 1 are but as trials, which Heaven's love to man sends for his good. 212 CONSCIENCE THRICE is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 213 THE THREE FEMALE GRACES 'IS beauty that doth oft make women proud: 'tis virtue that doth make them most admired : 'tis government that makes them seem divine. ,ry ] 2T4 GUILT HAS NO TRUE GAINS WHAT win the guilty gaining what they seek .' a dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy ! for one sweet grape who will the vine destroy '. 2 I "J RESPECT DUE FROM PARENTS TO CHILDRF.N PARENTS, bequeath not to your children's lot the shame that from them no device can take, the blemish that will never be forgot. I 12 Passages for Translation 216 GRIEF HEIGHTENED BY CONTRADICTION DEEP woes roll forward like a mighty flood, which being stopt, the bounding banks o'erflows : grief dallied with nor law nor limit knows. W. SHAKESPEARE 217 THE SEA NAM QUE nilum pejus macerat hemonem quamde mare saevom : vires quoi sunt magnae, topper confringent importunae undae. NiEVIVS 218 QVOD ADEST BON I CONSVLE F what we have we use not, and still covet what we have not, we are cajoled by fortune of present bliss, of future by ourselves. R. CUMBERLAND 219 WORDS AND ACTIONS SIC multi, animus quorum atroci junclus malitia est, composita dicta ex peclore evolvunt suo, quae, quum componas dicta fadlis, discrepant. L. ACCIVS 220 THE STRONG OPPRESS THE WEAK NATURA humanis omnia sunt paria : qui potens plus urget : pisces ut saepe minutos magnus comest: ut aves enecat accipiter. M. TERENTIVS VARRO 221 SOCIETY WITHOUT good company indeed all dainties lose their true relish and, like painted grapes, are only seen, not tasted. P. MASSINGER 222 FRIENDSHIP THE joys of life are heightened by a friend ; the woes of life are lessened by a friend ; in all the cares of life we by a friend assistance find. — Who'd be without a friend? WANDESFORD 223 COURAGE MOUNTETH WITH OCCASION THE wise and active conquer difficulties by daring to attempt them: sloth and folly T . I into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 13 shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard, and make the impossibility they fear. N. ROWE 224 TRUE DIGNITY 'RUE dignity is his whose tranquil mind virtue has raised above the things below ; who, every hope and fear to heaven resigned, shrinks not, though Fortune aim her deadliest blow. J. BEATTIE 225 PROUD HUMILITY PITCH thy behaviour low, thy projects high : so shalt thou humble and magnanimous be : sink not in spirit ; who aimeth at the sky shoots higher much than he that means a tree. G. HERBERT 226 THE FAVOURITES OF PRINCES N the wild storm the seaman hews his mast down, and the merchant heaves to the billows wares he once deemed precious : so prince and peer, 'mid popular contentions, cast off their favourites. G. CHAPMAN 227 A GOOD NAME THE honours of a name 'tis just to guard; they are a trust but lent us, which we take, and should, in reverence to the donor's fame, with care transmit them down to others' hands. J. SHIRLEY PITY— WHEN FORFEITED 7" HEN fortune or the gods afflict mankind, compassion to the miserable is due ; but when we suffer what we may prevent, at once we forfeit pity and esteem. W. HIGGON 229 GENTLENESS THE gentle mind by gentle deeds is knowne; for a man by nothing is so well bewrayed as by his manners ; in which plain is showne of what degree, and what race, he is growne. E. SPENSER 228 w 14 Passages for Translation 23O AGE HOW shall summer's honey breath hold out against the wreckful siege of battering days, when rocks impregnable are not so stout nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays ? o 231 POWER OF MUSIC MUSIC has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read, that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been informed by magic numbers and persuasive sound. R. CONGREVE 232 SUICIDE THE term of life is limited, ne may a man prolong nor shorten it : the soldier may not move from watchful sted, nor leave his stand, until his captain bid. E. SPENSER 233 PRIDE THE bending willow, yielding to each wind, shall keep his rooting firm : when the proud oak braving the storm, presuming on his root, shall have his body rent from head to foot. J. WEBSTER 234 VIRTUE AND VICE XTRAORDINARY virtues, when they soar too high a pitch for common sights to judge of, losing their proper splendour, are condemned for most remarkable vices. P. MASSINGER 235 SYMPATHY IN SORROJV AY but sorrow close shrouded in heart, I know, to keepe is a burdenous smart: ech thing imparted is more eath to beare : when the rayne is fallen, the clouds waxen cleare. E. SPENSER '36 CONTENTMENT 'ONTENT who lives with tryed state neede feare no chaunge of frowning fate ; E : N C into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse \^ but who will secke for unknowne gayne, oft lives by losse, and leaves with paync. E. : i ' 23/ TRUE LIBERTY SED virom vera virtute vivere animatom addecct, fortiterque innoxium vacare adversus adversaries ; ca libertas est, qui pectus firmum et purum gestitat: alias res obnoxias nocte in obscura latent. Q. ENNIVS 2 ?(S LOSS OF POWER IS LOSS OF HOMAGE THE great man down, you mark his favourite flies ; the poor advanced, makes friends of enemies ; when sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions. 239 THE SAME 'IS certain greatness once fallen out with fortune must fall out with men too: what the declined is he shall as soon read in the eyes of others as feel in his own fall. "yi 240 THE SAME WHEN Fortune in her shift and change of mood spurns down her late beloved, all his dependents, which laboured after him to the mountain's top even on their knees and hands, let him slip down, not one accompanying his declining foot. 241 FORTITUDE THE dignity of fortitude opposes firm patience to wild fury ; and is armed to suffer with a quietness of spirit the worst extreme of tyranny and rage. 242 CRIEF-HOir I.IGH TEX ED OME from the feeling of their grief are wrought by deep surmise of others' detriment. It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolors others have endured. S' 243 APPEARANCES NOT TO BE TRUSTED WE see the ships that in the main arc tost and many times by tempests wreckt and lost, 1 6 Passages for Translation had, at their launching from the haven's mouth, a smooth sea and a calm gale from the south. 244 PROVIDENCE ,UR indiscretion sometimes serves us well when our deep plots do fail : and that should teach us, there's a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. O' l b I o 245 LABOUR SWEETENS LEISURE F all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work ; but when they seldom come, they wished-for come, and nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. W. SHAKESPEARE 246 THE SAME |TIO qui nescit uti plus negotii habet, quam quum est negotium in negotio ; nam quoi quod agat institum est, in illo negotio id agit : studet ibei, mentem atque animum deleclat suum. Otioso in animo animus nescit quid sibi velit. Q. ENNIVS 247 INGRATITUDE MOST CONTEMPTIBLE INGRATITUDE is more hateful in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness ; or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. 248 PATIENCE EASILY PREACHT TO OTHERS AWRETCHED soul bruised with adversity we bid be quiet when we hear it cry ; but were we burdened with like weight of pain, as much or more we should ourselves complain. "TTl 249 THE SAME l IS all men's office to speak patience to those who wring under the load of sorrow ; but no man's virtue nor sufficiency to be so moral, when he shall endure the like himself. W. SHAKESPEARE into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse ij 250 THE SAME NEC vero tanta prasditus sapicntia quisquam est, qui aliorum acrumnam diclis alloxans ; non idem, quum Fortuna mutata impctum convertat, cladc subita frangatur sua, ut ilia ad alios dicta et praecepta excidant. L. ACCIVS 251 ANDROMACHE QUID petam prassidii ? quid exscquar ? quo nunc aut exilio aut fuga freta sim ? arce et urbe sum orba, quo accedam ? quo applicem ? quoi nee patriae araedomi stant;frac~tae et disjecta? jacent ; fana flamma deflagrata, tosti alti stant parietes. Q. ENNIVS N' 252 LOVE OF LUCRE ON ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini existumo, scioego: multosiam lucrum luculentos homines reddidit: est etiam ubi profeclo damnum praestet facere quam lucrum : odi ego aurum : multa multis saepe suasit perperam. T. M. PLAVTVS • 253 VIRTUE VIRTUS praemium est optimum : virtus omnibus rebus anteit profeclo : Libertas, salus, vita res, parentes, patria et prognati, tutantur, servantur: virtus omnia in se habet : omnia adsunt bona, quern [penes est virtus. T. M. PLAVTVS 254 SOLICITVM ALIQVID LMTIS INTERVENIT SATIN parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda, praequam quod molestum est ? ita quoique comparatum est in aetate hominum, ita diis placitum, voluptatem ut mceror F. S. Ill 2 1 8 Passages for Translation comes consequatur : quin incommodi plus malique illico adsit, boni si obtigit quid. T. M. PLAVTVS 255 THE BEST DOWRY ON ego illam mihi dotem duco esse quae dos N' dicitur sed pudicitiam et pudorem et sedatum cupidinem, deum metum, parentum araorem, et cognatum concor- diam, tibi morigera atque ut munifica sim bonis, prosim [probis. T. M. PLAVTVS 256 GRIEF TOO DEEP FOR TEARS I AM not prone to weeping, as our sex commonly are ; the want of which vain dew, perchance, shall dry your pities : but I have that honourable grief lodged here, which burns worse than tears drown. W. SHAKESPEARE 257 DESPAIR FOR now I stand as one upon a rock, environed with a wilderness of sea ; who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him. W. SHAKESPEARE 258 PHILOSOPHY OW charming is divine Philosophy; not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns. J. MILTON TRUTH OH ! my best Sir, take heed, take heed of lies ! Truth, though it trouble some minds, some wicked minds, that are both dark and dangerous, preserves itself: comes off pure, innocent ! H 2 59 D 1 into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 19 and like the Sun, tho' never so eclipsed, must break in glory ! Oh ! Sir, lie no more. J. FLETCH] R 260 PUNISHMENT— WHY NOT REGULAR |UE punishment succeeds not always after an offence ; for oftentimes 'tis for our chastisement that heaven doth with wicked men dispense, that, when they list, they may with usury for all misdeeds pay home the penalty. T. KYD 26 1 POWER MAKES ENEMIES THE power to give creates us oft our foes: where many seek for favour, few can find it : each thinks he merits all that he can ask, and disappointed, wonders at repulse, wonders awhile, and then sits down in hate. FROWDE 2 62 PEACE G ! KIM-VISAGED war hath smoothed his wrinkled front ; and now, instead of mounting barbe'd steeds, to fright the souls of fearful adversaries, he capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, to the lascivious pleasing of a lute. W. SHAKESPEARK 263 DE FORTUNM INCONSTANTIA Mortaee.m Eortuna repente reddidit, ut summo e regno famul infumus esset: sajpeque multa dies in bello conficit unus: et rursus multae fortunae forte recumbunt : haudquaquam quenquam semper Eortuna sequuta est. Q. ENNIVS 264 DISBELIEF IN PROVIDENCE |EUM qui non summum putet, aut stultum aut rerum esse imperitum existimo : cui in manu sit quern esse dementem velit, quern sapere: quem sanari. quern in morbum injici; quem contra amari, quern accersiri, quem expeti. 2 — 2 D 1 20 Passages for Translation 265 JUPITER QVID SIT ISTEIC is est Jupiter quern dico, Graecei vocant aera : quique ventus est et nubes, imber postea, atque ex imbre frigus ; ventus post fit, aer denuo : istsec propter Jupiter sunt ista, quae dico tibei, qui mortaleis, urbeis, atque belluas omneis juvat. Q. ENNIVS 266 THE ATMOSPHERE HOC vide circum supraque, quod complexu continet terram ; id quod nostri ccelum memorant, Graii perhibent aethera. Quidquid est hoc, omnia is animat, format, auget, alit, ferat, sepelit, recipitque in sese omnia ; omniumque idem est pater : indidemque eadem qua? oriuntur, de integro seque codem occidunt. M. PACUVIVS 267 THE WORLD THE world's a labyrinth, where unguided men walk up and down to find their weariness : no sooner have we measured with much toil the crooked path, with hope to gain our freedom, but it betrays us to a new affhc~lion. J. FLETCHER 268 STRENGTH WITHOUT WISDOM WHAT is strength without a double share of wisdom ? vast, unwieldly, burdensome, proudly secure, yet liable to fall by weakest subtleties, not made to rule, but to subserve where wisdom bears command. J. MILTON 269 BIRTH AND DEATH NAM nos decebat, ccetus celebranteis domum lugcre, ubi esset aliquis in lucem editus, humanae vita? varia reputantes mala ; at, qui labores morte finisset graves, omneis amicos laude et laetitia exequi. Q. ENNIVS into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 2 1 270 DISSEMBLING WORDS THROUGHOUT the world, if it was sought, fair words enough a man shall find ; they be good cheap, they cost right nought, their substance is but only wind ; but well to say, and so to mean, that sweet accord is seldom seen. SIR T. WYATT H 27I HONOUR TO THE BRAVE ALONE ON OUR rewards the brave and bold alone ; she scorns the timorous, indolent and base : danger and toil stand stern before her throne, and guard,— so Jove commands, — the fatal place. Who seeks her must the mighty cost sustain, and pay the price of fame, — labour and care and pain. H 272 CHANGE OW like a younker or a prodigal the scarfed bark puts from her native bay, hugged and embraced by the strumpet wind ! How like the prodigal doth she return with overweathered ribs and ragged sails, lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind ! W. SHAKESPEARE N' 273 PRODIGIES— THE COINAGE OF SUPERSTITION O natural exhalation in the sky, no common wind, no customed event, but superstition from its natural cause construes awry, and calls them prodigies, signs, fatal presages and tongues of heaven, plainly denouncing vengeance. 274 PROSPERITY DISSIPATES: ADVERSITY REGULATES THOSE who run riot in prosperity will often, when adversity blows strong, shrink from their bankless and irregular course ; stoop low within those bounds they have o'erlookt, and calmly run on in obedience e'en to their ocean. F' Passages for Translation 2,5 FORTUNE 'ORTUNE, you say, flies from us: she but circles, like the fleet sea-bird round the fowler's skiff, lost in the midst one moment and the next brushing the white sail with her whiter wing, as if to court the aim. — Experience watches and has her on the wheel. 276 DEATH BUSY EVERYWHERE DEATH distant ? — No, alas ! he's ever with us, and shakes the dart at us in all our actings ; he lurks within our cup, while we're in health ; sits by our sick-bed, mocks our medicines: we cannot walk or sit or ride or travel, but Death is by to seize us when he lists. T. KYD 277 TO SLEEP WHY rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, and hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; than in the perfumed chambers of the great, under the canopies of costly state, and lulled with sounds of sweetest melody ? W. SHAKESPEARE 278 CRIME IS BOLD MY Lord, the greater confidence he shewes who is suspected, should be feared the more: for danger from weake natures never growes ; who most disturbe the worlde, are built therefore. He more is to be feared, that nothing feares, and malice most effects, that least appeares. S. DANIEL 279 AUTUMN LOOK how, when Autumn comes, a little space paleth the red blush of the Summer's face, tearing the leaves, the Summer's covering, three months in weaving by the curious Spring, making the grass his green locks go to wrack, tearing each ornament from off his back. F. BEAUMONT T into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 23 280 ENVY 'HE cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel; the moth frets out your garment, and the worm eats its slow way into the solid oak : but envy, of all evil things the worst, the same to-day, to-morrow and for ever, saps and consumes the heart in which it lurks. R. CUMBERLAND 281 FREQUENCY— ITS EFFECT ON PLEASURE THE nightingale in summer's front doth sing, and stops his pipe in growth of riper days ; not that the summer is more pleasant now than when her mournful hymns did hush the night ; but that wild music burdens every bough and sweets grown common lose their dear delight. W. SHAKESPEARE 282 POSSESSION MORE LANGUID THAN EXPECTATION WHO riseth from a feast with that keen appetite that he sits down? Where is the horse that doth untread again his tedious measures with the unbated fire that he did pace them first ? — All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. W. SHAKESPEARE 283 DESCRIPTION OF A STORM INTEREA prope jam occidente sole inhorrescit marc, tenebrae conduplicantur, noclisque et nimbum occsecat nigror : flamma inter nubes coruscat, ccelum tonitru contrc- mit : grando mixta imbri largifluo subita turbine prsecipitans cadit : undique omncs venti erumpunt, saevi existunt turbines : fervit acstu pelagus. M. PACUVIVS 284 AMBITION AMBITION, like a torrent, ne'er looks back ; l and is a swelling and the last affection 24 Passages for Translation a high mind can put off, being both a rebel unto the soul and reason, and enforccth all laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offcreth violence to nature's self. B. JONSON 285 THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE T ' H' unbusied shepherd stretched beneath the haw- thorn, his careless limbs thrown out in wanton ease, with thoughtless gaze perusing the arched heavens, and idly whistling while his sheep feed round him, enjoys a sweeter shade than that of canopies, hemmed in with cares and shook by storms of treason. A. HILL ■286 HOPE THE ample proposition, that hope makes in all designs begun on earth below, fails in the promised largeness : checks and disasters grow in the veins of actions highest reared ; as knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, infect the sound pine, and divert his grain tortive and errant from his course of growth. W. SHAKESPEARE 087 NO JOY UNMIXED THILKE ground that berith the wedis wicke, bereth eke these wholesome herbes as full oft, and nexte to the foule nettle rough and thicke, the rose ywexith sote and smothe and soft, and next the valey is the hill aloft, and next the derke night is the glad morowe, and also joie is next the fyn of sorowe. G. CHAUCER 288 THE SAME OSODEN wo, that ever art successour to worldly blis ! spreint is with bitternesse th' ende of the joye of our worldly labour: wo occupieth the fyn of our gladnesse. Herken this conseil for thy sikernesse : into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 25 upon thy glade day have in thy mindc the unware wo of harm that cometh behinde. G. CHAUCER 289 SOLITARY GRIEF WHAT equal torment to the grief of mind and pining anguish hid in gentle heart, that inly feeds itself with thoughts unkind, and nourisheth her own consuming smart ? What medicine can any leech's art yield such a sore, that doth her grievance hide, and will to none her malady impart? E. SPENSER 290 USES OF SEVERITY IN all growing empires even cruelty is useful ; some must suffer, and be set up examples to strike terror in others, though far off: but, when a state is raised to her perfection, and her bases too firm to shrink or yield, we may use mercy, and do't with safety. P. MASSINGER 291 MORAL DISCERNMENT SHOULD BE JUST AS QUICK AS VISUAL HATH Nature given us eyes to see this vaulted arch and the rich crop of sea and land, which can distinguish twixt the fiery orbs above and the twinned stones upon th' unnumbered beach ? and can we not partition make with spectacles so precious twixt fair and foul ? W. SHAKESPEARE T 292 NECESSITY OF LAWS 'RUST me, each state must have its policies, kingdoms have chiefs, cities have their charters: even the wild outlaw, in his forest-walk, keeps yet some touch of civil discipline. For not, since Adam wore his verdant apron, hath man with man in social union dwelt, but laws were made to draw that union closer. 26 Passages for Translation 293 ALLOY IN THIS WORLD— UNIVERSAL UNRULY blasts wait on the tender spring; unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers ; the adder hisseth where the sweet birds sing : what virtue breeds iniquity devours. We have no good that we can say is ours, but ill-annexed opportunity or kills his life or else his quality. W. SHAKESPEARK 294 TIME— HIS POWER AND OFFICE TIME'S glory is to calm contending kings; to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light : to stamp his awful seal on aged things : to wake the morn and centinel the night : to scourge the wronger till he render right : to ruinate proud buildings by his Hours, and smear with dust their stately golden towers. W. SHAKESPEARE E 295 SEL F-PRA ISE MPTY men are trumpets of their own deserts ; but you that are not in opinion, but in proof, really good, and full of glorious parts, leave the report of what you are to fame ; which from the ready tongues of all good men aloud proclaims you. P. MASSINGER 296 DEATH THE LEVELLER IF you would know of what frail stuff you're made, go to the tombs of the illustrious dead : there rest the bones of kings, there tyrants rot ; there sleep the rich, the noble, and the wise ; there Pride, Ambition, Beauty's fairest form, all dust alike, compound one common mass : reflect on these, and in them see yourself. R. CUMBERLAND into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 27 297 DECEIT WHAT man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, as to descry the crafty cunning train, by which Deceit doth mask in visor fair, and cast her colours, dyed deep in grain, to seem like Truth, whose shape she well can fain, and fitting gesture to her purpose frame, the guiltless man with guile to entertain ? E. SPENSER 2y8 THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE REMEMBER what our father oft has told us, the ways of Heaven are dark and intricate : puzzled in mazes and perplexed with errors, our understanding traces them in vain, lost and bewildered' in the fruitless search ; nor sees with how much art the windings run, nor where the regular confusion ends. J. ADDISON 299 POVERTY AND do not wonder, sire, . I cling to gain ; for mortals, even if life be far prolonged, still clutch with closest gripe this profit ; and, compared with wealth, all else they hold as second. Some indeed there be that laud the healthful : but in mine esteem healthful is none that's poor, but aye unheal thful. T 3OO SORROW IN OLD AGE 'ELL me not of it, friend — when the young weep their tears are lukewarm brine ; — from our old eyes sorrow falls down like hail-drops of the north, chilling the furrows of our withered cheeks, cold as our hopes, and hardened as our feeling; — theirs, as they fall, sink sightless ; — ours recoil, heap the fair plain, and bleaken all before us. SIR J. BEAUMON 1 28 Passages for Translation 301 JOY OF PY LADES ON HEARING HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE OH, sweetest voice! Oh blessed familiar sound of mother-words heard in the stranger's land ! I see the blue hills of my native shore, the far blue hills again ! those cordial tones before the captive bid them freshly rise for ever welcome ! Oh, by this deep joy know the true son of Greece. F. HEMANS, translated from GOETHE CONTENT THERE is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, no chemic art can counterfeit ; it makes men rich in greatest poverty, makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold ; the homely whistle to sweet music's strain ; seldom it comes, to few from heaven sent, that much in little — all in nought — content. 303 FOLLY OF HEAPING UP RICHES O GRIEVOUS folly to heap up estates, losing the days you see beneath the sun: when, sudden, comes blind unrelenting fate, and gives the untasted portion you have won with ruthless toil and many a wretch undone, to those who mock you gone to Pluto's reign, there with sad ghosts to pine and shadows dun. J. THOMSON 304 THE DREGS OF LIFE LIFE, with you, w glows in the brain and dances in the arteries ; 'tis like the wine some joyous guest hath quaffed, that glacis the heart and elevates the fancy ; — mine is the poor residuum of the cup vapid and dull and tasteless, only soiling with its base dregs the vessel that contains it. into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 2c 3O ^ TTPedfia Oeov XPV^ 1 ^ LET the earth cover and protect its dead ! ^ and let man's breath thither return in peace from whence it came ; his spirit to the skies, his body to the clay of which 'twas formed, imparted to him as a loan for life, which he and all must render back again, to earth, the common mother of mankind. R. CUMBERLAND 306 THE RESOLUTE MAN All my life long I have beheld with most respect the man who knew himself, and knew the ways before him, and from amongst them chose considerately, with a clear foresight, not a blindfold courage, and, having chosen, with a steadfast mind pursued his purposes. H. TAYLOR L° 307 LOVE— ITS POWER TO TRANSFORM CHARACTER OVE shall suspect, where is no cause of fear; it shall not fear, where it should most mistrust ; it shall be merciful and too severe, and most deceiving, when it seems most just ; it shall be cause of war and dire events, and set dissension 'twixt the son and sire ; subject and servile to all discontents, as dry combustious matter is to fire. W. SHAKESPEARE L? 308 LOVE— ITS ANIMATING ENERGIES OVE to the slowest subtilty can teach, and to the dumb give fair and flowing speech it makes the coward daring, and the dull and idle diligent, and promptness full. It makes youth ever youthful, takes from age the heavy burthen of time's pilgrimage ; gives beauty to deformity — is seen to value what is valueless and mean. JUAN RUIZ 3°9 Passages for Translation HAPPY INSENSIBILITY NO : 'tis the infant mind, to care unknown, that makes the imagined paradise its own ; soon as reflections in the bosom rise, light slumbers vanish from the clouded eyes : the tear and smile, that once together rose, are then divorced : the head and heart are foes : enchantment bows to wisdom's serious plan, and pain and prudence make and mar the man. G. CRABBE "T^l 3IO WEAL Til l IS money that obtaineth men their friends; likewise their honours : and that doth conduct to the sweet seat of highest sovereignty. Then too, there's no one, that's to wealth a foe ; or if foes be, they do deny their hate. For wealth is skilled to mount untrodden heights no less than trodden ; while the needy man, e'en when he prospers, scarce can gain his ends. 3 11 312 IRRESOL UTION I STRIVE like to the vessel in the tide-way, which, lacking favouring breeze, hath not the power to stem the powerful current. — Even so, resolving daily to forsake my vices, habit, strong circumstance, renewed temptation, sweep me to sea again. — O heavenly breath, fill thou my sails, and aid the feeble vessel, which ne'er can reach the blessed port without thee ! MIGHT WITHOUT RIGHT WHAT tygre or what other salvage wight is soe exceeding furious and fell as wrong, when it hath armed itselfc with might ? not fit 'mongst men that doe with reason mell, but 'mongst wyld beasts and salvage woods to dwell ; where still the stronger doth the weake devoure, and they that most in boldnesse doe excell are dreaded most and feared for their powrc. E. SPENSER into Creek Tragic Iambic Verse 31 : ^10 A SI MILK LIFE ebbs from such old age, unmarked and silent, as the slow neap-tide leaves yon stranded galley. — Late she rocked merrily at the least impulse that wind or wave could give ; but now her keel is settling on the sand, her mast has ta'en an angle with the sky, from which it shifts not. Each wave receding shakes her less and less, till, bedded on the strand, she shall remain useless as motionless. ^14 SEVERANCE OF FRIENDSHIP WHO swerves from innocence, who makes divorce of that serene companion, a good name, recovers not his loss ; but walks with shame, with doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse : and ofttimes he who, yielding to the force of chance temptation, ere his journey end, from chosen comrade turns or faithful friend — in vain shall rue the broken intercourse. W. WORDSWORTH 5115 JUSTICE I. "\irHAT would'st thou have, good fellow? VV P. Justice, Madam. H. O ambitious beggar, would'st thou have that that lives not in the world? Why, all the undelved mines cannot buy an ounce of justice, 'tis a jewel so inestimable I tell thee, God hath engrossed all justice in his hands, and there is none but what comes from him. T. KVD 316 DEATH'S SUMMONS LO, I am Death ; with aim as sure as steady, all beings that are and shall be I draw near me- I call thee — I require thee, man ! be reach ! why build upon this fragile life ? Now hear me .' 32 Passages for Translation where is the power that does not own me — fear me? Who can escape me when I bend my bow ? I pull the string — thou liest in dust below, smitten by the barb my minist'ring angels bear me. DE CARRION 17 AFFECTION SHOULD NOT BE CROSST BY PARENTS 3 J 7 I DO ill in this, and must not think but that a parent's plaint will move the heavens to pour forth misery upon the head of disobediency. Yet reason tells us, parents are o'erseen, when with too strict a rein they do hold in their child's affections, and controul that love, which the high powers divine inspire them with. R. TAILOR F' ^iS POPULAR LAWLESSNESS 'OR give once swey unto the people's lustes to rush forth on, and stay them not in time, and as the streame that rowleth downe the hyll, so will they headlong runne with raging thoughtes from bloud to bloud, from mischiefe unto moe, to mine of the realme, themselves and all ; so giddy are the common people's mindes, so glad of chaunge, more wavering than the sea. T. SACKVILLE 10, VIRTUE— ITS OWN REWARD GREAT minds, like Heaven, are pleased with doing good, though the ungrateful subjects of their favours are barren in return. Virtue does still with scorn the mercenary world regard, where abject souls do good, and hope reward: above the worthless trophies man can raise, she seeks not honour, wealth, nor airy praise, but with herself herself the goddess pays. N. ROWE 320 RULE BY KINDNESS, NOT BY FEAR E who performs his duty driven to 't by fear of punishment, while he believes H into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 33 his actions are observed, so long he's wary; but if he hopes for secrecy, returns to his old ways again. But he whom kindness, him also inclination makes your own : he burns to make a due return, and acts, present or absent, evermore the same. 'Tis this then is the duty of a father ; to make a son embrace a life of virtue, better from choice than terror or constraint. 321 THE SAME THERE is a way of winning more by love and urging of the modesty, than fear: force works on servile natures, not the free. He that's compelled to goodness, may be good; but 'tis but for that fit: where others, drawn by softness and example, get a habit. Then, if they stray, but warn 'em ; and the same they should for virtue have done, they'll do for shame. B. JONSON 322 GUILT— THE SOURCE OF SORROW TO be good is to be happy; angels are happier than men, because they're better. Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind with whips and stings: the best know none of this, but rest in everlasting peace of mind, and find the height of all their heaven is goodness. N. ROWE 323 T TRUE LIBER TV R I ' E liberty always with right reason dwells, twinned, and from her hath no dividual being; reason in man obscured or not obeyed, immediately inordinate desires and upstart passions catch the government from reason, and to servitude reduce man, till then free. J. MILTON F. S. Ill 3 34 Passages for Translation o 324 ADVERSITY TRIES FRIENDSHIP SUMMER-friendship whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in our prosperity, with the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity! How like a prison is to a grave ! when dead, we are with solemn pomp brought thither and our heirs masking their joy in false, dissembled tears, weep o'er the hearse; but earth no sooner covers the earth brought thither, but they turn away with inward smiles, the dead no more remembered. P. MASSINGER N' 325 RETRIBUTION OR custom nor example nor vast numbers of such as do offend make less the sin. For each particular crime a strict account will be exacted; and that comfort which the damned pretend, fellows in misery, takes nothing from their torments: every one must suffer in himself the measure of his wickedness. P. MASSINGER 326 POWER MORE EFFECTUAL WITHOUT VIOLENCE THUS mighty rivers quietly do glide, and do not by their rage their powers profess, but by their mighty workings; when in pride small torrents roar more loud, and work much less. Peace greatness best becomes. Calm power doth guide with a far more imperious stateliness, than all the swords of violence can do, and easier gains those ends she tends unto. S. DANIEL 317 REMORSE REMORSE— she ne'er forsakes us! — a blood-hound staunch— she tracks our rapid steps through the wild labyrinth of youthful frenzy, into Creek Tragic Icu)ibic Verse 35 unheard, perchance, until old age hath tamed us; then in our lair, when time hath chilled our joints, and maimed our hope of combat, or of flight, we hear her deep-mouthed bay, announcing all of wrath and woe and punishment that bides us. 3 2o> PRIDE IN ANCESTRY HOW blest is he who his progenitors with pride remembers, to the listener tells the story of their greatness, of their deeds, and, silently rejoicing, sees himself linked to this goodly chain! For the same stock bears not the monster and the demigod: a line, or good, or evil, ushers in the glory or the terror of the world. A. SWAN\vick/;w// Goethe 329 OF LIFE AND DEATH THE ports of death are sins: of life, good deeds; through which our merit leads us to our meeds. How wilful blind is he, then, that would stray, and hath it, in his powers, to make his way! This world's death's region is, the other life's; and here, it should be one of our first strifes, so to front death, as men might judge us past it: for good men but see death, the wicked taste it. B. JONSON 33O VIRTUE TRIUMPHANT IN THE END \<\/^ on ly, who with innocence unshaken V V have stood the assaults of fortune, now are happy: for tho' the worst of men by high permission a while may flourish, and the best endure the sharpest trials of exploring misery, yet let mankind from these examples learn, that powerful villany at last shall mourn, and injured virtue triumph in its turn. J. TRAP 3-2 36 Passages for Translation 331 CAR A TA CITS L A ME NT O I 'ER HENGO FAREWELL the hopes of Britain ! thou royal graft, farewell for ever! Time and Death, ye have done your worst. Fortune, now see, now proudly pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph ; look, look what thou hast brought this land to ! — Oh, fair flower, how lovely yet thy ruins shew, how sweetly even death embraces thee! The peace of Heaven, the fellowship of all great souls, be with thee ! J. FLETCHER 332 THE PROPER USE OF TALENTS HEAVEN doth with us, as we with torches do ; not light them for themselves: for if our virtues did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike as if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched, but to fine issues: nor nature never lends the smallest scruple of her excellence but, like a thrifty goddess, she determines herself the glory of a creditor, both thanks and use. W. SHAKESPEARE S' ^Z HYPOCRISY— GENERAL AY not, my art is fraud : all live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming; the clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier will eke with it his service. — All admit it, all practise it; and he who is content with shewing what he is, shall have small credit in church or camp or state. — So wags the world. 334 TRUE RICHES T is the mynd that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happie, rich or poor; for some that hath abundance at his will, hath not enough, but wants in greatest store; I A L into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse t>7 and other, that hath litle, asks no more, but in that litle is both rich and wise; for wisedome is most riches ; fooles therefore they are which fortune doe by vowes devise, sith each unto himselfe his life may fortunize. E. SPENSER 335 TI 'E TRIUMPH OF INNOCENCE ^LL your attempts shall fall on me, like brittle shafts on armour that break themselves ; or like waves 'gainst a rock that leave no sign of their o'erboiling fury but foam and splinters ; my innocence, like these, shall stand triumphant, and your malice serve but for a trumpet, to proclaim my conquest ; nor shall you, though you do the worst fate can, triumph o'er him whom innocence protects. P. MASSINGER 33^ THE PAST IRREPARABLE TIME once past may never have recourse, no more than may the running streams revert to climb the hills, when they been rolled down the hollow vales. There is no curious art, nor worldly power, no, not the gods can hold the sway of flying time, nor him return when he is past: all things unto his might must bend, and yield unto the iron teeth of eating time. R. WILMOT 337 MISFORTUNE OUR PROBATION BUT know, young prince, that valour soars above what the world calls misfortune and affliction. These are not ills ; else they would never fall on Heaven's first favourites and the best of men: the gods, in bounty, work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw out into practice virtues, which shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life. J. ADDISON 38 Passages for Translation 338 ADVICE TO CHILDREN BE careful of our children : let them know that to be truly great they must be good: let glory, like a sea-mark, guide their course in the rough voyages of tempestuous life ; season their early youth with wholesome precepts ; teach them to merit, not desire dominion ; but above all, let fortitude and courage prepare their minds for fortune's fickle turns, that they in all events may be the same. E. HAYWOOD 339 OF FORTUNE FORTUNAM insanam esse et caecam et brutam perhibent philosophi saxoque instare earn globoso prasdicant volubilem ; ideo quo saxum fors impulerit, cadere fortunam autumant. Caecam ob earn rem esse memorant, quia nihil cernat quo sese applicet: insanam autem illam aiunt, quia atrox incerta insta- bilisque sit : brutam autem, quia dignum atque indignum nequeat internoscere. Sunt autem et alii philosophi, qui contra fortunam negent esse ullam sed temeritate omnia autument regi. Id magis verisimile aiunt ; quod usus reapse experiundo edocet. M. PACVVIVS 34O THE MURDERER'S CHILDREN OH, what a life must theirs be, those poor inno- cents, when they have grown up to a sense of sorrow, oh, what a feast will they be for rude misery: honest men's boys and girls, where'er they mingle, will spurn them with the black and branded title, the murderer's children ; infamy will pin that pestilent label on their backs; into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 39 and if they beg, for beggars they must be, they '11 drive them from their doors with cruel jeers. H. M. MILMAN 34 T VICISSITUDE FOR what is it on earth, nay under heaven, continues at a stay? Ebbs not the sea, when it hath overflown ? Follows not darkness, when the day is gone ? And see we not sometimes the eye of heaven dimmed with o'erflying clouds? there's not that work of careful nature or of cunning art how strong, how beauteous, or how rich it be, but falls in time to ruin. W. SHAKESPEARE 342 SHE came weeping forth, shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to o'ercome the cloud that loads them: while two young virgins, on whose arms she leaned, kindly looked up and at her grief grew sad, as if they catched the sorrows that fell from her ; even the lewd rabble, that were gathered round to see that fight, stood mute when they beheld her, governed their roaring throats and grumbled pity. T. OTWAV 343 NIHIL AGERE SEMPER INFELICI EST OPTIMVM GIVE me pursuit and business : keep my mind awake with expectation or enjoyment of real pleasure and of active good, if you would make me blest. I'll ne'er be buried alive in your imagined indolence, your gloomy sloth mistaken for repose ; the working soul, unexercised abroad, like martial nations, turns its numerous powers upon itself, and sunk by native weight, begins intestine broils and war at home. JEFFERV 4o Passages for Translation N 344 ATTACHED SERVANT O, my dear lady, I could weary stars and force the wakeful moon to lose her eyes, by my late watching, but to wait on you. When at your prayers you kneel before the altar, methinks I'm singing with some quire in heaven, so blest I hold me in your company. Therefore, my most loved mistress, do not bid your boy, so serviceable, to get hence ; for then you break his heart. P. MASSINGER I 345 FOLYPHONTES TO ME ROPE ASK thee not to approve thy husband's death, no, nor expect thee to admit the grounds, in reason good, which justified my deed: with women the heart argues, not the mind. But, for thy children's death, I stand assoiled ; I saved them, meant them honour ; but thy friends rose, and with fire and sword assailed my house by night ; in that blind tumult they were slain. To chance impute their deaths, then, not to me. M. ARNOLD 346 JUDGMENTS ARE OF DIFFERENT RANGE EARL OF SOMERSET — EARL OF WARWICK Som. I" UDGE you, my Lord of Warwick, then between us. J War. Between two hawks which flies the higher pitch, between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth, between two blades, which bears the better temper, between two horses, which doth bear him best, between two girls, which hath the merriest eye, I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment : but in these nice sharp quillets of the law, good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. W. SHAKESPEARE 347 PAIN WHAT avails strength, though matchless, quelled with pain, which all subdues, and makes remiss the hands into Creek Tragic Iambic Verse 4 1 of mightiest ? Sense of pleasure we may well spare out of life, perhaps, and not repine ; but live content, which is the calmest life ; but pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and excessive overturns all patience. J. MILTON T 348 REMORSE 'URN all your eyes on me : here stands a man the falsest and the basest of the world. Set swords against this breast, some honest man, for I have lived till I am pitied ! my former deeds were hateful : but this last is pitiful, for I unwillingly have given the dear preserver of my life unto his torture. Is it in the power of flesh and blood to carry this and live ? BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER M : 349 PROSPECT OF DEATH WELCOMED ETHINKS I'm more at ease now death ap- proaches, secure of any future separation from her I love. We soon shall meet never to part again ; in that my hopes are centered, and by that imagination wound so high, that now my soul intent on Paradise in her, even on the rack its firmness shall maintain, all wrapt in thought and negligent of pain. J. TRAP 350 OUR MOTHER EARTH NOT on a path of reprobation runs the trembling Earth ; God's eye doth follow her. Speak no harsh words of Earth, she is our mother, and few of us, her sons, who have not added a wrinkle to her brow. She gave us birth, we drew our nurture from her ample breast, and there is coming for us all an hour 4- Passages for Translation when we shall pray that she will ope her arms A. SMITH and take us back again 3$I TRIAL THE TEST OF VIRTUE THE hero works thro' storms his way to glory, virtue like purest gold is proved in fire. The sinewy Cyclops his rough metal steeled, and arms on adamantine anvils nealed, with heat and strength hardened the massy bar, and clothed th' immortal leader of the war ; armed with impenetrable mail the god triumphant o'er gigantic squadrons rode. Our passions are the legions we should quell, and solid virtue is the tempered steel. CH. JOHNSON 352 MAR CIA TO L UCIA —R E SIGN A TION LET us not, Lucia, aggravate our sorrows, -j but to the Gods submit the event of things. Our lives, discolored with our present woes, may still grow bright and smile with happier hours. So the pure limpid stream, when foul with stains of rushing torrents and descending rains, works itself clear and, as it runs, refines ; till by degrees the floating mirror shines, reflects each flower that on the border grows, and a new heaven in its fair bosom shows. J. ADDISON 353 INVOCATION TO SLEEP CARE-CHARMING Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly" thyself dispose on this afflicted prince; fall, like a cloud, in gentle showers ; give nothing that is loud or painful to his slumbers ; easy, light, and as a purling stream, thou son of Night, pass by his troubled senses ; sing his pain, like hollow murmuring wind or silver rain ; into this prince gently, oh, gently slide, and kiss him into slumbers like a bride. J. FLETCHER L° into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 43 354 THE PRISON CHAMBER 00 K round thee, young Astolpho : there's the place, which men (for being poor) are sent to starve in,— rude remedy, I trow, for sore disease. Within these walls, stifled by damp and stench, doth hope's fair torch expire ; and at the snuff, ere yet 'tis quite extincl, rude, wild and wayward, the desperate revelries of wild despair, kindling their hell-born cressets, light to deeds that the poor captive would have died ere practiscdj till bondage sunk his soul to his condition. o v M 355 L0T OF MAN AND w OMAN COMPARED AN by the battle's hour immortalized may fall, yet leave his name to living song ; but of forsaken woman's countless tears what recks the after-world? the poet's voice tells nought of all the slow, sad, weary days, and long, long nights, through which the lonely soul poured itself forth, consumed itself away, in passionate adjurings, vain desires, and ceaselsss weepings for the early lost, the loved and vanished. F. HEMANS from Goethe H 3^6 INVOCATION TO COTVTTO AIL, goddess of noclurnal sport, dark-veiled Cotytto, to whom the secret flame of midnight torches burns ! mysterious dame, that ne'er art called but when the dragon-womb of Stygian darkness spets her thickest gloom, and makes one blot of all the air, stay thy cloudy ebon chair, wherein thou ridest with Hecate, and befriend us thy vowed priests, till utmost end of all thy dues be done, and none left out. J. MILTON 357 EXl'RERANCE OF LENITY Y gracious liege, this too much lenity and harmful pity must be laid aside. M 44 Passages for Translation To whom do lions cast their gentle looks? not to the beast that would usurp their den : Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick ? not his that spoils her young before her face : Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting? not he that sets his foot upon her back: the smallest worm will turn being trodden on ; and doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. W. SHAKESPEARE 3j8 TRUE JUSTICE ALL are not just, because they do no wrong, - but he, who will not wrong me when he may, he is the truly just. I praise not them, who in their petty dealings pilfer not ; but him, whose conscience spurns a secret fraud, when he might plunder and defy surprise : his be the praise, who looking down with scorn on the false judgment of the partial herd, consults his own clear heart, and boldly dares to be, not to be thought, an honest man. R. CUMBERLAND 359 THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN MORTIMER AND GLENDOWER WHEN on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank, in single opposition, hand to hand, he did confound the best part of an hour in changing hardiment with great Glendower. Three times they breath 'd and three times did they drink, upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood ; who then, affrighted with their bloody looks, ran fearfully among the trembling reeds, and hid his crisp head in the hollow bank blood-staindd with these valiant combatants. W. SHAKESPEARE j6o ON SLANDER TO THE DEAD 'OUND not the soul of a departed man! 'tis impious cruelty ; let justice strike the living, but in mercy spare the dead. And why pursue a shadow that is past? w into Creek T?-agic Iambic Verse 45 Why slander the deaf earth, that cannot hear, the dumb, that cannot utter? When the soul no longer takes account of human wrongs, nor joys nor sorrows touch the mouldering heart. As well you may give feeling to the tomb, as what it covers — both alike defy you. R. CUMBERLAND 361 THE QUARRELS OF BROTHERS HATRED hatched at home is a tame tiger, may fawn and sport, but never leaves his nature. The jars of brothers, two such mighty ones, is like a small stone thrown into a river, the breach scarce heard ; but view the beaten current, and you shall see a thousand angry rings rise in his face, still swelling and still growing; so jars circling in distrusts, distrusts breed dangers, and dangers death, the greatest, extreme shadow, till nothing bound 'em but the shore, their graves. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER 362 THE BELATED TRAVELLER AS you have seen an unskilled traveller, l\ charmed with some shady wood's delightful prospect, stretch out his limbs luxuriously supine, and sink in slumbers thoughtless of his journey, till on a sudden swift-winged night comes on, he starts, and rouses from his golden dream, with aching heart beholds declining day, aghast and frighted roams the trackless wild, and vainly searches the forgotten path, which intercepting darkness bars from view. E. HAYWOOD 363 ADVICE ON CONDUCT 'OR your behaviour, let it be free and negligent ; not clogged with ceremony or observance: give no man honour, but upon equal terms; for look how much thou F' 46 Passages for Translation giv'st any man above that, so much thou tak'st from thyself; he that will once give the wall shall be quickly thrust into the kennel: measure not thy carriage by any man's eye. thy speech by no man's ear; but be resolute and confident in doing and in saying: and this is the grace of a right gentleman. G. CHAPMAN 364 • PETE CELSA NATURE that formed us of four elements, warring within our breast for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: our souls, whose faculties can comprehend the wondrous architecture of the world, and measure every wandering planet's course, still climbing after knowledge infinite, and always moving as the restless spheres, will us to wear ourselves and never rest, until we reach the ripest fruit of all. 365 BRUTUS' REPROOF OF CASSIUS DID not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touched his body, that did stab, and not for justice? What, shall one of us, that struck the foremost man of all this world, but for supporting robbers ; shall we now contaminate our fingers with base bribes? and sell the mighty space of our large honours, for so much trash as may be grasped thus? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, than such a Roman. W. SHAKESPEARE 366 GRATITUDE OF OSMYN ON RECOVERING HIS WIFE ALMERIA GRANT me but life, good Heaven, but length of days, to pay some part, some little of the debt, this countless sum of tenderness and love, for which I stand engaged to this all-excellence : then bear me in a whirlwind to my fate ! snatch me from life and cut me short unwarned ; into Creek Tragic Iambic Verse 47 then, then 'twill be enough!— I shall be old, I shall have lived beyond all eras then of yet unmeasured time, when 1 have made this exquisite, this most amazing goodness, some recompense of love and matchless truth ! W. CONGREVE 367 THE CARES OF ROYALTY O ROYALTY! what joys hast thou to boast, to recompense thy cares? Ambition seems the passion of a God. Yet, from thy throne have I with envy seen the naked slave rejoicing in the music of his chains, and singing toil away; and then, at eve, returning peaceful to his couch of rest: while I sat anxious and perplexed with cares; projecting, plotting, fearful of events : or like a wounded snake, lay down to writhe the sleepless night upon a bed of state. A. DOWE 368 SAMSON TO HIS GUIDE A LITTLE onward lend thy guiding hand to these dark steps, a little further on; for yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade: there bam wont to sit, when any chance relieves me from my task of servile toil, daily in the common prison else enjoined me ; where I, a prisoner chain'd, scarce freely draw the air imprisoned also, close and damp, unwholesome draught. But here I feel amends, the breath of heaven fresh blowing, pure and sweet, with day-spring born; here leave me to respire. 369 This day a solemn feast the people hold to Dagon their sea-idol, and forbid laborious works — unwillingly this rest their superstition yields me — hence, with leave retiring from the popular noise, I seek this unfrequented place to find some ease,— ease to the body some, none to the mind from restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm of hornets armed, no sooner found alone, but rush upon me thronging, and present times past, what once I was and what am now. 48 Passages for Translation 37° O wherefore was my birth from Heaven foretold twice by an Angel ? who at last in sight of both my parents all in flames ascended from off the altar, where an offering burned, as in a fiery column charioting his god-like presence, and from some great a<5l or benefit reveal'd to Abraham's race. Why was my breeding ordered and prescribed as of a person separate to God, design'd for great exploits? if I must die betrayed, captived, and both my eyes put out, made of my enemies the scorn and gaze, to grind in brazen fetters under task oj i with this heaven-gifted strength? O glorious strength put to the labour of a beast, debased lower than bond-slave! Promise was that I should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver. — Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves, himself in bonds under Philistian yoke. — Yet stay, let me not rashly call in doubt divine prediction. What if all foretold had been fulfilled but through mine own default! Whom have I to complain of but myself? who, this high gift of strength committed to me, in what part lodged, how easily bereft me, under the seal of silence could not keep, but weakly to a woman must reveal it, o'ercome with importunity and tears. J. MILTON 372 LIBERTY EQUAL Nature fashioned us all in one mould. The bear serves not the bear, nor the wolf the wolf: 'Twas odds of strength in tyrants, that plucked the first link from the golden chain with which that THING OF things bound in the world. Why then, since we are taught by their examples to love our liberty, if not command, should the strong serve the weak, the fair deformed ones? or such as know the cause of things pay tribute into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 49 to ignorant fools? All's but the outward gloss and politic form that doth distinguish us. P. MASSINGER 3/3 THEMISTOCLES PREDICTS THE RESTORATION OF ATHENS SUPERB, her structures shall proclaim no less a marvel, than the matchless bird the glory Of Arabia, when, consumed in burning frankincense and myrrh, he shows his presence new, and opening to the sun regenerated gloss of plumage, towers, himself a species. So shall Athens rise, bright from her ashes, mistress sole of Greece. From long Pirasan walls her wingdd power shall awe the Orient and Hesperian worlds. R. GLOVER 374 "C*VEN to the utmost I have been to thee J—-' a kind and a good Father: and herein I but repay a gift which I myself received at other hands; for, though now old beyond the common life of man, I still remember them who loved me in my youth. Both of them sleep together; here they lived, as all their forefathers had done; and when at length their time was come, they were not loth to give their bodies to the family mould. I wished that thou should'st live the life they lived. 3Jj GRIEF— MEDICI N A L HE that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. Tis an ill cure for life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow's held intrusive and turn'd out, there wisdom will not enter nor true powers nor ought that dignifies humanity. Yet such the barrenness of busy life! From shelf to shelf Ambition clambers up, to reach the naked'st pinnacle of all, F. S. ill 4 50 Passages for Translation whilst Magnanimity, absolved from toil, reposes self-included at the base. H. TAYLOR D 3/6 DAY AND NIGHT JSCOMFORTABLE cousin ! know'st thou not that when the searching eye of heaven is hid behind the globe, that lights the lower world, then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen, in murders and in outrage, boldly here ; but when, from under this terrestrial ball, he fires the proud tops of the eastern pines, and darts his light through every guilty hole, then murders, treasons, and detested sins, the cloak of night being plucked from off their backs, stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves ? \V. SHAKESPEARE c 377 LOVE— HOW TO BE WON *AN Love be pleased? Love is a gentle spirit; the wind that blows the April flowers not softer; she's drawn with doves to shew her peacefulness : lions and bloody pards are Mars's servants. Would you serve Love? do it with humbleness, without a noise, with still prayers and soft murmurs ; upon her altars offer your obedience, and not your brawls ; she's won with tears, not terrors ; that fire you kindle to her deity is only grateful when it's blown with sighs, and holy incense flung with white-hand innocence. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER 378 QUEEN MARGARET TO HENRY IV ON HUMPHREY DURE OF GLOSTER CAN you not see ? or will ye not observe the strangeness of his altered countenance? With what a majesty he bears himself; how insolent of late he is become, how proud, how peremptory, and unlike himself? We knew the time since he was mild and affable ; and, if we did but glance a far-off look, immediately he was upon his knee. H into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 51 But meet him now, and, be it in the morn, when every one will give the time of day, he knits his brow, and shows an angry eye. W. SHAKESPEARE .379 ORESTES' SOLILOQUY ARK! in the trembling leaves mysterious whispers: hark! a rushing sound sweeps through yon twilight depth— e'en now they come, they throng to greet their guest! and who are they rejoicing each with each in stately joy, as a king's children gathered for the hour of some high festival ! Exultingly and kindred-like, and godlike, on they pass, the glorious wandering shapes! aged and young, proud men and royal women ! Lo my race, my sire's ancestral race! F. hemans/«« Goethe 3 ^° HAMLET TO HIS MOTHER LOOK here, upon this pidure, and on this, — -> the counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls: the front of Jove himself; an eye like Mars, to threaten and command; a station like the herald Mercury, new-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; a combination and a form, indeed, where every god did seem to set his seal, to give the world assurance of a man : this was your husband. W. SHAKESPEARE 381 ENEAS' REQUEST TO DIDO SO much have I received at Dido's hands, as, without blushing, I can ask no more: yet, queen of Afric, are my ships unrigged, my sails all rent in sunder with the wind, my oars broken, and my tackling lost, yea, all my navy split with rocks and shelves ; nor stern nor anchor have our maime'd fleet: our masts the furious wind strook overboard : 5 2 Passages for Translation which piteous wants if Dido will supply, we will account her author of our lives. C. MARLOWE 382 LONGING OF ORESTES FOR REPOSE ONE draught from Lethe's flood ! reach me one draught, one last cool goblet filled with dewy peace! soon will the spasm of life departing leave my bosom free ! Soon shall my spirit flow along the deep waves of forgetfulness, calmly and silently ! away to you, ye dead ! Ye dwellers of the eternal cloud, take home the son of earth, and let him steep his o'er-worn senses in your dim repose for evermore. F. hemans /nw; Goethe 383 RICHES STILL to be rich is still to be unhappy; still to be envied, hated and abus'd: still to commence new law-suits, new vexations, still to be carking, still to be collecting, only to make your funeral a feast, and hoard up riches for a thriftless heir: let me be light in purse, and light in heart ; give me small means, but give content withal, only preserve me from the law, kind Gods ! and I will thank you for my poverty. R. CUMBERLAND 3 84 PRO ME THE US— FURIES Fur. \ \ TE are the ministers of pain and fear, V V and disappointment, and mistrust, and hate, and clinging crime ; and as lean dogs pursue through wood and lake some struck and sobbing fawn, we track all things that weep and bleed and live, when the great King betrays them to our will. Pro. Oh! many fearful natures in one name, I know ye ; and these lakes and echoes know the darkness and the clangour of your wings. into Greek Tragic I am die Verse 53 But why more hideous than your loathdd selves gather ye up in legions from the deep? P. B. SHELLEY 385 ATE PROLOGUS CONDEMNED soul, Ate, from lowest hell and deadly rivers of th' infernal Jove, where bloodless ghosts in pains of endless date fill ruthless ears with never-ceasing cries, behold, I come in place, and bring beside the bane of Troy: behold, the fatal fruit raught from the golden tree of Proserpine. Proud Troy must fall, so bid the gods above, and stately Ilium's lofty towers be razed by conquering hands of the victorious foe. G. PEELE 386 QUEEN GUINEVERE'S REMORSE GONE,— my lord! gone thro' my sin to slay and to be slain ! and he forgave me, and I could not speak. Farewell ? I should have answered his farewell. His mercy choked me. Gone, my lord the King, my own true lord ! how dare I call him mine ? The shadow of another cleaves to me, and makes me one pollution : he, the King called me polluted: shall I kill myself? what help in that? I cannot kill my sin, if soul be soul ; nor can I kill my shame ; no, nor by living can I live it down. A. TENNYSON 387 IPHIGENIA TO AREAS FREELY to breathe alone is not to live. Say, is it life, within this holy fane, like a poor ghost around its sepulcre to linger out my days ? Or call you that a life of conscious happiness and joy, when every hour, dream'd listlessly away, leads to those dark and melancholy days, which the sad troop of the departed spend in self-forgetfulness on Lethe's shore ? a useless life is but an early death ; this, woman's lot, is eminently mine. A. SWANWICK from Goethe 54 Passages for Translation 388 PAL A AWN TO ARCITE IN PRISON AT ATHENS OH, cousin Arcite, where is Thebes now ? where is our noble country ? where are our friends and kindreds ? Never more must we behold those comforts : never more shall we two exercise, like twins of Honour, our arms again, and feel our fiery horses like proud seas under us ! our good swords now, (better the red-eyed god of war ne'er ware) ravish'd our sides, like age, must run to rust, and deck the temples of those gods that hate us ; these hands shall never draw 'em out like lightning, to blast whole armies, more ! BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER 389 POLAND ' r I MS done ! and Power, brute Power, hath now J- usurped the throne of justice. Poland is no more, her proud existence, perhaps her very name, rased from the list of nations. Europe saw and interposed not. May she never rue the strong example of successful guilt. Farewell, sir. Should' st thou see my son, salute him with a dying mother's blessing : say that next to leaving him and Poland happy, the dearest consolation was to know that he had done his duty. R. FERRARS 390 ANCIENT GOVERNMENTS 'HERE was a time, so ancient records tell, T there were communities, scarce known by name in these degenerate days, but once far-famed, when liberty and justice, hand-in-hand, ordered the common weal ; where great men grew up to their natural eminence, and none, saving the wise, just, eloquent, were great : where power was of God's gift, to whom he gave supremacy of merit, the sole means into Creek Tragic Iambic Verse 55 and broad highway to power, that ever then was meritoriously administered. H. TAYLOR 391 TRIUMPHAL RETURN OF ZIP HARES HE comes, and with a port as proud, as if he had subdued the spacious world: and all Sinope's streets are filled with such a glut of people, you would think some God had conquered in their cause, and they thus ranked, that he might make his entrance on their heads ! while from the scaffolds, windows, tops of houses, are cast such gaudy showers of garlands down, that even the crowd appear like conquerors, and the whole city seems like one vast meadow, set all with flowers, as a clear heaven with stars. N. LEE 392 THE VISION OF O BE RON THAT very time I saw (but thou couldst not) flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed: a certain aim he took at a fair vestal throned by the west, and loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, as it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: but I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; and the imperial votaress passed on, in maiden meditation, fancy-free. W. SHAKESPEARE 393 WRITTEN IN HIS LIBRARY MY days among the dead are passed ; around me I behold, where'er these casual eyes are cast, the mighty minds of old : my never-failing friends are they, with whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal, and seek relief in woe ; and then I understand and feel, how much to them I owe. R- SOUTHEY 56 Passages for Translation 394 DUKE OF YORK'S DEATH RICHARD — MESSENGER — EDWARD R. T) UT what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell J~) some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue ? M. Ah, one that was a woeful looker on. E. O, speak no more ! for I have heard too much. R. Say how he died, for I will hear it all. M. Environed he was with many foes, and stood against them as the hope of Troy ; but Hercules himself must yield to odds ; and many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. W. SHAKESPEARE 395 SUPREME FORTUNE FALLS SOONEST YET kings are gods, and make the proudest stoop : yea, but themselves are still pursued with hate: and men were made to mount and then to droop. Such chances wait upon uncertain fate, that where she kisseth once, she quelleth twice ; then whoso lives content is happy, wise. What motion moveth this philosophy ? oh, Sylla, see the ocean ebbs and floats, the spring-time wanes when winter draweth nigh : I, these are true and most assured notes. Inconstant chance such tickle turns has lent, as whoso fears no fall, must seek content. T. LODGE 39 6 ACE RON/ A TO AGRIPPINA I WELL remember too (for I was present) when in a secret and dead hour of night, due sacrifice performed with barbarous rites of muttered charms and solemn invocation, you made the Magi call the dreadful powers, that read futurity, to know the fate impending o'er your son : their answer was, ' If the son reign, the mother perishes.' 'Perish,' you cried, 'the mother! reign the son!' He reigns, the rest is heaven's ; who oft has bade, even when its will seemed wrote in lines of blood, th' unthought event disclose a whiter meaning. T. GRAY into Creek Tragic Iambic Verse 57 397 A HERO HIS worth is great; valiant he is and temperate; and one that never thinks his life his own if his friend need it. When he was a boy, as oft as I return'd, (as, without boast, 1 brought home conquest), he would gaze upon me and view me round, to find in what one limb the virtue lay to do those things he heard ; then would he wish to see my sword, and feel the quickness of the edge, and in his hand weigh it : he oft would make me smile at this. His youth did promise much, and his ripe years will see it all performed. BEAUMONT AXD FLETCHER 398 HEXRY BEAUFORTS REPLY TO THE CHARGES OF THE DUKE OF GLOSTER IF I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse, as he will have me, how am I so poor? or how haps it I seek not to advance or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling ? And for dissension, who preferreth peace more than I do, — except I be provoked? No, my good lords, it is not that offends ; it is not that that hath incensed the duke : it is, because no one should sway but he ; no one but he should be about the king ; and that engenders thunder in his breast, and makes him roar these accusations forth. W. SHAKESPEARE 399 EXCLAMATIONS OF IPHIGENIA ON SEEING HER BROTHER OH hear me, look upon me ! how my heart, after long desolation, now unfolds unto this new delight, to kiss thy head, thou dearest, dearest one of all on earth, to clasp thee with my arms, which were but thrown on the void winds before ! Oh give me way, give my soul's rapture way ! the eternal fount leaps not more brightly forth from cliff to cliff 58 Passages for Translation of high Parnassus, down the golden vale, than the strong joy bursts gushing from my heart, and swells around me to a flood of bliss- Orestes ! — oh, my brother! f. hemans from Goethe 400 IVALLENSTEIN'S LAMENT ON THE DEATH OF MAX PICCOLOMINI I SHALL grieve down this blow, of that I'm con- scious : what does not man grieve down ? From the highest, as from the vilest thing of every day, he learns to wean himself: for the strong hours conquer him. Yet I feel what I have lost in him. The bloom is vanished from my life. For oh, he stood beside me like my youth, transform'd for me the real to a dream, clothing the palpable and familiar with golden exhalations of the dawn. Whatever fortunes wait my future toils, the beautiful is vanished — and returns not. S. T. COLERIDGE from Schiller 401 REFORMATION OF KING HENRY V MY father is gone wild into his grave, for in his tomb lie my affections ; and with his spirit sadly I survive, to mock the expectation of the world, to frustrate prophecies, and to raze out rotten opinion, who hath writ me down after my seeming. The tide of blood in me hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now : now doth it turn, and ebb back to the sea, where it shall mingle with the state of floods, and flow henceforth in formal majesty. W. SHAKESPEARE 402 OF A MIRACULOUS VINE IN EUBOEA UPON Eubcea's coast is seen a wondrous vine to shoot, at sunrise 'tis with tendrils green, at sunset dark with fruit ; 4°4 into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 59 at dawn it spreads its leaves around, at noontide blooms its flower, and soon with grapes its boughs are crowned, that ripen every hour : and now more soft, now purple grown, the clusters lade the vine, and when the evening shades draw on, the peasant quaffs the wine. J. ANSTICE L E 403 A PLEA FOR IXCONSTANCY ET us examine all the creatures, read the book of nature through, and we shall find nothing doth still the same ; the stars do wander, and have their divers influence ; the elements shuffle into innumerable changes ; our constitutions vary; herbs and trees admit their frosts and summer: and why then should our desires, that are so nimble and more subtile than the spirits in our blood, be' such staid things within us, and not share their natural liberty? Shall we admit a change in smaller things, and not allow it in what most of all concerns us ? J. SHIRLEY HEAR now the woes which followed upon these : fallen on the ground her boys were quitting life, when lo ! the hapless mother haps on them, sees that their wounds are mortal and sobs out — ' Children, with all my haste I come too late, too late to aid' — Then, prone on each in turn, she wept, she mourned the pangs her heart had known with noisy grief, while helping at her side the sister cries — 'O ye to whom she looked to tend her in old age, brothers, who leave a sister unprotected and yet still are dear, most dear.' 405 A LOVER IN SOLITUDE OW use doth breed a habit in a man ! these shadowy, desert, unfrequented woods H do Passages for Translation I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : here can I sit alone, unseen of any, and to the nightingale's complaining notes tune my distresses and record my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless, lest, growing ruinous, the building fall, and leave no memory of what it was ! Repair me with thy presence, Silvia ; thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain ! W. SHAKESPEARE 406 COURAGE IN DIFFICULTIES GREAT lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerly seek how to redress their harms. What though the mast be now blown overboard, the cable broke, the holding-anchor lost, and half our sailors swallowed in the flood ? Yet lives our pilot still : is't meet that he should leave the helm, and, like a fearful lad, with tearful eyes add water to the sea, and give more strength to that which hath too much ; whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock, which industry and courage might have saved? Ah, what a shame ! ah, what a fault were this ! W. SHAKESPEARE I 407 HAMLETS MELANCHOLY HAVE of late — but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this ma- jestical roof fretted with golden fire, — why, it appears no other thing t'o me than a foul and pestilent con- gregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! in form and moving how express and admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god ! W. . SHAKESPEARE into Creek Tragic Iambic Verse 6l 408 BELISARIUS EXPRESSING HIS ADMIRATION OF II IS ADOPTED SONS' INBORN ROYALTY OTHOU goddess, thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon 'st in these two princely boys! They are as gentle as zephyrs, blowing below the violet, not wagging his sweet head : and yet as rough, their royal blood enchafed, as the rud'st wind, that by the top doth take the mountain pine, and make him stoop to the vale. Tis wonder, that an invisible instinct should frame them to royalty unlearn 'd ; honour untaught; civility not seen from other ; valour, that wildly grows in them, but yields a crop as if it had been sow'd ! W. SHAKESPEARE 409 DALILA TO SAMPSON I SEE thou art implacable, more deaf to prayers than winds and seas ; yet winds to seas are reconciled at length, and sea to shore: thy anger, unappeasable, still rages, eternal tempest, never to be calmed. Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing for peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate ? bid go with evil omen, and the brand of infamy upon my name denounced. To mix with thy concernments I desist henceforth, nor too much disapprove my own. J. MILTON 410 SAMSON'S EXPOSTULATION WITH DALILA I, BEFORE all the daughters of my tribe and of my nation, chose thee from among my enemies, loved thee, as too well thou knewest, too well ; unbosomed all my secrets to thee, not out of levity, but overpowered by thy request, who could deny thee nothing ; yet now am judged an enemy. Why then didst thou at first receive me for thy husband, then, as since then, thy country's foe professed ? Being once a wife, for me thou wast to leave 62 Passages for Translation parents and country ; nor was I their subject, nor under their protection but my own. J. MILTON 411 MAX PICCOLOMINI TO HIS FATHER LIFE, life, my father, v my venerable father, life has charms which we have ne'er experienced. We have been but voyaging along its barren coasts, like some poor ever-roaming horde of pirates, that, crowded in the rank and narrow ship, house on the wild sea with wild usages, nor know ought of the main land but the bays where safeliest they may venture a thieves' landing. Whate'er in the inland dales the land conceals of fair and exquisite, O ! nothing, nothing, do we behold of that in our rude voyage. S. T. COLERIDGE from Schiller 412 JULIET TO FRIAR LAURENCE O, BID me leap, rather than marry Paris, from off the battlements of yonder tower ; or walk in thievish ways ; or bid me lurk where serpents are ; chain me with roaring bears ; or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, o'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, with reeky shanks, and yellow chapless skulls ; or bid me go into a new-made grave, and hide me with a dead man in his shroud ; things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble ; and I will do it without fear or doubt, to live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love. W. SHAKESPEARE 413 DOUGLAS' SOLILOQUY IN THE WOOD THIS is the place, the centre of the grove. Here stands the oak, the monarch of the wood : how sweet and solemn is this midnight scene ! the silver moon, unclouded, holds her way thro' skies, where I could count each little star. The fanning west-wind scarcely stirs the leaves ; the river, rushing o'er its pebbled bed, imposes silence with a stilly sound. into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 63 In such a place as this, at such an hour, if ancestry can be in aught believed, descending spirits have conversed with man, and told the secrets of the world unknown. J. HOME 414 THOMAS MOWBRAY, DUKE OF NORFOLK HOWEVER God or fortune cast my lot, there lives or dies, true to King Richard's throne, a loyal, just, and upright gentleman : never did captive with a freer heart cast off his chains of bondage, and embrace his golden uncontroll'd enfranchisement, more than my dancing soul doth celebrate this feast of battle with mine adversary. — Most mighty liege,— and my companion peers,— take from my mouth the wish of happy years : as gentle and as jocund as to jest go I to fight : truth hath a quiet breast. W. SHAKESPEARE 415 TARQVINIVS SVPERBVS DE SOMNIO SVO CUM jam quieti corpus nocturno impetu dedi, sopore placans artus languidos ; visum est in somnis pastorem ad me appellere pecus lanigerum eximia polchritudine : duos consanguineos arietes inde eligi, prceclarioremque alterum involare me : deinde ejus germanum cornibus connitier in me arictare, eoque iclu me ad casum dari : exin prostratum terra graviter saucium, resupinum ; in ccelo contueri maximum ac mirificum facinus ; dextrorsum orbem flammeum, radiatum solis, liquier cursu novo. 416 CONJECTORVM INTERPRETATIO SVPER EODEM SOMNIO TARQV1NII REX, qua? in vita usurpant homines, cogitant, curant, vident, quseque agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt minus mirum est: scd in re tanta haud temcre visa se offerunt : 64 Passages for Translation proin vide, ne, quern tu esse hebetem deputes aeque ac pecus, is sapientia. munitum pectus egregium gerat, teque regno expellat. Nam id quod de sole ostentum est tibi, populo commutationem rerum portendit fore perpropinquam : haec bene verruncent populo. Nam quod ad dexteram cepit cursum ab laeva signum prsepotens, polcherrime auguratum est, rem Romanam publicam summam fore. L. ACCIVS 417 LOVE IN BROOKS SEE, gentle brooks, how quietly they glide, kissing the rugged banks on either side, while in their crystal streams at once they shew and with them feed the flowers which they bestow: tho' rudely thronged by a too near embrace, in gentle murmurs they keep on their pace to the loved sea: for streams have their desires, cool as they are, they feel love's powerful fires, and with such passion, that if any force stop or molest them in their amorous course, they swell, break down with rage and ravage o'er the banks they kissed and flowers they fed before. EARL OF ROCHESTER 418 COURAGE TRIUMPHING OVER PERIL THE BASTARD TO KING JOHN E great in acl, as you have been in thought ; let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye : be stirring as the time : be fire with fire ; threaten the threatener, and outface the brow of bragging horror : so shall inferior eyes, that borrow their behaviours from the great, grow great by your example, and put on the dauntless spirit of resolution. Away, and glister like the god of war, when he intendeth to become the field : show boldness and aspiring confidence. W. SHAKESPEARE B 1 into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 65 419 SAMSON AGONISTES MANOAH— CHORUS Man. (~\£ ruin indeed methought I heard the noise. v^ Oh ! it continues, they have slain my son. Cho. Thy son is rather slaying them; that outcry from slaughter of one foe could not ascend. Man. Some dismal accident it needs must be; what shall we do, stay here or run and see? Cho. Best keep together here, lest running thither, we unawares run into danger's mouth. This evil on the Philistines is fallen ; from whom could else a general cry be heard? the sufferers then will scarce molest us here ; from other hands we need not much to fear. J. MILTON 420 WALLENSTEIN TO MAX PICCOLOMINI THINK'ST thou, that fool-like, I shall let thee go, and acfl the mock-magnanimous with thee? Thy father is become a villain to me; I hold thee for his son, and nothing more: nor to no purpose shalt thou have been given into my power. Think not, that I will honour that ancient love, which so remorselessly he mangled. They are now past by, those hours of friendship and forgiveness. Hate and vengeance succeed — 'tis now their turn — I too can throw all feelings of the man aside — can prove myself as much a monster as thy father. S. T. COLERIDGE from Schiller N' 421 DESCRIPTION OF AN ANCIENT CATHEDRAL O, all is hush'd and still as death — 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, to bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, by its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe and terror to my aching sight ! the tombs and monumental caves of death look cold, and shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice : S. ill 5 66 Passages for Translation nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear thy voice; — my own affrights me with its echoes. W. CONGREVE 422 A COMPARISON THE lapse of time and rivers is the same, both speed their journey with a restless stream ; the silent pace, with which they steal away, no wealth can bribe, no prayers persuade to stay, alike irrevocable both when past, and a wide ocean swallows both at last. Though each resemble each in every part, a difference strikes at length the musing heart ; streams never flow in vain : where streams abound, how laughs the land with various plenty crovvn'd! but time, that should enrich the nobler mind, neglected, leaves a weary waste behind. w. COWPER I 423 SOLILOQUY ON DEATH HAVE not lived after the rate to fear another world. We come from nothing into life, a time we measure with a short breath, and that often made tedious too with our own cares that fill it, which like so many atoms in a sunbeam but crowd and jostle one another. All, from the adored purple to the hair-cloth, must centre in a shade ; and they that have their virtues to wait on them bravely mock the rugged storms, which so much fright them here, when their soul's launched by death into a sea that's ever calm. J. SHIRLEY 424 THE BLESSING OF SELF-CONTROL ' ' I MS not enough, alas! our power to extend, -I- or over-run the world from east to west, or that our hands the earth can comprehend, or that we proudly do what like us best. He lives more quietly whose rest is made, and can with reason chasten his desire, than he that blindly toileth for a shade, and is with other's empire set on fire. into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 67 Our bliss consists not in possessions, but in commanding our affections; in virtue's choice, and vice's needful chace far from our hearts, for staining of our face. T. KVD B 1 425 SATAN TO THE COUNCIL OF INFERNAL PEERS UT I should ill become this throne, O Peers, and this imperial sovranty, adorned with splendour, armed with power, if aught proposed and judged of public moment, in the shape of difficulty or danger, could deter me from attempting. Wherefore do I assume these royalties, and not refuse to reign, refusing to accept as great a share of hazard as of honour, due alike to him who reigns, and so much to him due of hazard more, as he above the rest high honoured sits? J. MILTON" 426 THE LOVE OF KINGS THE love of kings is like the blowing of winds, which whistle sometimes gently among the leaves, and straightway turn the trees up by the roots ; or fire, which warmeth afar off, and burncth near hand ; or the sea, which makes men hoise their sails in a flattering calm, and to cut their masts in a rough storm. They place affection by times, by policy, by appointment ; if they frown, who dares call them unconstant ? if bewray secrets, who will term them untrue? if fall to other loves, who trembles not, if he call them un- faithful? J. LVLY 427 ROME OME, Rome, thou now resemblest a ship at random wandering in a boisterous sea, when foaming billows feel the northern blasts ; thou toil'st in peril, and the windy storm doth topside-turvey toss thee as thou float 'st. Thy mast is shivered and thy mainsail torn, thy sides sore beaten, and thy hatches broke : thou want'st thy tackling, and a ship unrigged 5-2 R< 68 Passages for Translation can make no shift to combat with the sea. See how the rocks do heave their heads at thee, which if thou should but touch, thou straight be- com'st a spoil to Neptune and a sportful prey- to the Glaucs and Tritons, pleased with thy decay. T. KYD 428 CATILINE TO THE CONSPIRATORS ALL places, honours, offices are theirs, A or where they will confer 'em: they leave us the dangers, the repulses, judgments, wants ; which how long will you bear, most valiant spirits? Were we not better to fall once with virtue, than draw a wretched and dishonour'd breath, to lose with shame, when these men's pride will laugh ? I call the faith of gods and men to question, the power is in our hands, our bodies able, our minds as strong; o' the contrary, in them all things grown aged, with their wealth and years : there wants but only to begin the business, the issue is certain. B. JONSON 42Q CONTEMPT OF LOVE PUNISHED I HAVE done penance for contemning Love, whose high imperious thoughts have punished me with bitter fasts, with penitential groans, with nightly tears, and daily heart-sore sighs; for, in revenge of my contempt of love, love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes, and made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow. O, gentle Proteus, Love's a mighty lord, and hath so humbled me, as, I confess, there is no woe to his correction, nor to his service no such joy on earth ! now, no discourse, except it be of love ; nor can J break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep, upon the very naked name of love. W. SHAKESPEARE into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 69 430 O3N0NE—H0BBIN0L—DIG0N CEn. T^ALSE Paris, this was not thy vow, when thou J- and I were one, to range and change old love for new ; but now those days be gone. But J will find the goddess out, that she thy vow may read, And fill these woods with thy laments for thy unhappy- deed. Hob. So fair a face, so foul a thought to harbour in his breast ! thy hope consumed, poor nymph, thy hap is worse than all the rest. CEn. Ah, shepherds, you bin full of wiles and whet your wits on books, and wrape poor maids with pipes and songs, and sweet alluring looks ! Dig. Misspeak not all for his amiss ; there bin that keepen flocks, that never chose but once, nor yet beguiled love with mocks. CEn. False Paris, he is none of those, his trothless double deed will hurt a many shepherds else that might go nigh to speed. G. PEELE 431 SUSPENSION OF LAWS WE have strict statutes and most biting laws, — the needful bits and curbs for head-strong steeds, — which for this fourteen years we have let sleep; even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave, that goes not out to prey. Now, as fond fathers, having bound up the threatening twigs of birch only to stick it in their children's sight, for terror, not to use, in time the rod becomes more mocked than feared: So our decrees, dead to infliction, to themselves are dead; and liberty plucks justice by the nose; the baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart goes all decorum. W. SHAKESPEARE yo Passages for Translation 432 LIBERTY SAPRITIUS— BRITISH SLAVE Sap. \\ 7HAT would 'st thou do to gain thy liberty? V V Slave. Do ! liberty ! fight naked with a lion, venture to pluck a standard from the heart of an arm'd legion. Liberty ! I'd thus bestride a vampire, and defiance spit i' the face of death, then, when the battering-ram was fetching his career backward, to pash me with his horns in pieces. To shake my chains off, and that 1 could not do't but by thy death, stood 'st thou on this dry shore, I on a rock ten pyramids high, down would I leap to kill thee or die myself: what is for man to do I'll venture on, to be no more a slave. P. MASSINGER 433 THE HEIGHT OF HONOUR Car. QPEAK, the height of honour? v3 Paul. No man to offend, ne'er to reveal the secrets of a friend; rather to suffer than to do a wrong : to make the heart no stranger to the tongue : provoked, not to betray an enemy ; nor eat his meat I choke with flattery ; blushless to tell wherefore I wear my scars, or for my conscience, or my country's wars : to aim at just things ; if we have wildly run into offences, wish them all undone : 'tis poor, in grief for a wrong done, to die, honour, to dare to live, and satisfy. P. MASSINGER 434 KING HENRY VI ON THE BATTLE-FIELD AT TOIVTON THIS battle fares like to the morning's war, when dying clouds contend with growing light, what time the shepherd, blowing of his nails, can neither call it perfect day nor night. Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea forced by the tide to combat with the wind; now sways it that way, like the self-same sea, forced to retire by fury of the wind : sometime the flood prevails, and then the wind : into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse y i now one the better, then another best: both tugging to be viclors, breast to breast, yet neither conqueror nor conquered : so is the equal poise of this fell war. W. SHAKESPEARE 435 KTNG EDWARD IV— DUKE OE CLARENCE ON THE BATTLE FIELD NEAR BAR NET A". r "T , HUS far our fortune keeps an upward course, X and we are graced with wreaths of victory. But, in the midst of this bright shining day, I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud, that will encounter with our glorious sun, ere he attain his easeful western bed ; I mean, my lords, those powers that the queen hath raised in Gallia have arrived our coast, and, as we hear, march on to fight with us. CI. A little gale will soon disperse that cloud, and blow it to the source from whence it came : thy very beams will dry those vapours up ; for every cloud engenders not a storm. W. SHAKESPEARE 436 ADAM TL LADING IV I Til EVE NOT then mistrust, but tender love, enjoins, that I should mind thee oft, and mind thou me. Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve, since reason not impossibly may meet some specious object by the foe suborned, and fall into deception unaware, not keeping strictest watch, as she was warned. Seek not temptation then, which to avoid were better, and most likely if from me thou sever not : trial will come unsought. Wouldst thou approve thy constancy, approve first thy obedience ; the other who can know, not seeing thee attempted? who attest? J. MILTON 437 THE CHRISTIANS HOPE UT ours, Olybius, is no earthly kingdom, no crown, that with the lofty head that wears it B' 72 Passages for Translation must make its mouldering pillow in the grave. This earth disowns our glories: but when Rome hath sepulcred the last of all her sons, when Desolation walks her voiceless streets, ay, when this world, and all its lords and slaves, are swept into the ghastly gulf of ruin ; high in immortal grandeur, like the stars, but brighter and more lasting, shall our souls, sit in their empyrean thrones, endiadem'd with amaranthine light. Such gifts our God hath promised to his faithful. H. H. MILMAN 438 THE HOURS THE rocks are cloven, and through the purple night I see cars drawn by rainbow-winged steeds which trample the dim winds ; in each there stands a wild-eyed charioteer urging their flight. Some look behind, as fiends pursued them there, and yet I see no shapes but the keen stars : others, with burning eyes, lean forth and drink with eager lips the wind of their own speed, as if the thing they loved fled on before, and now, even now, they clasped it. Their bright locks stream like a comet's flashing hair : they all sweep onward. P. B. SHELLEY I 439 QUEEN CATHARINE'S DYING WORDS THANK you, honest lord. Remember me in all humility unto his highness ; say his long trouble now is passing out of this world; tell him, in death I blessed him, for so I will. — Mine eyes grow dim. — Farewell, my lord. — Griffith, farewell. — Nay, Patience, you must not leave me yet : I must to bed ; call in more women. — When I am dead, good wench, let me be used with honour: strew me over with maiden flowers, that all the world may know I was a chaste wife to my grave : embalm me, then lay me forth : although unqueened, yet like a queen, and daughter to a king, inter me. I can no more. W. SHAKESrEARE into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 7} 440 THE RIGHTEOUS KING THE power of kings, if rightly understood, is but a grant from heaven of doing good ; proud tyrants, who maliciously destroy, and ride o'er ruins with malignant joy, humbled in dust, soon to their cost shall know heaven our avenger, and mankind their foe; while gracious monarchs reap the good they sow : blessing, arc bless'd ; far spreads their just renown, consenting nations their dominion own, and joyful happy crowds support their throne. In vain the powers of earth and hell combine, each guardian angel shall protect that line, who by their virtues prove their right divine. W. SOMERVILE 441 GIDIPUS ON HEARING HIS NAME CALLED OUT BY THE GHOST WHEN the sun sets, shadows that shew'd at noon but small, appear most long and terrible ; so when we think fate hovers o'er our heads, our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds, owls, ravens, crickets seem the watch of death! nature's worst vermin scare her godlike sons: echoes, the very leavings of a voice, grow babbling ghosts and call us to our graves: each mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus, while we fantastic dreamers heave and puff, and sweat with an imagination's weight ; as if like Atlas with these mortal shoulders we could sustain the burden of the world. DRVDEN AND LEE V 442 VIRTUE AND AMBITION IRTUE hath not half so much trouble in it: it sleeps quietly, without startings and affrighting fancies ; it looks cheerfully; smiles with much serenity ; and though it laughs not often, yet it is ever delightful in the apprehensions of some faculty ; it fears no man, nor no thing, nor is it decomposed ; and hath no concernments in the great alterations of the world, and entertains death like a friend, and reckons the issues 74 Passages for Translation of it as the greatest of its hopes. But ambition is full of distractions; it teems with stratagems, and is swelled with expectations ; and sleeps sometimes, as the wind in a storm still and quiet for a minute, that it may burst out into an impetuous blast, till the cordage of his heart-strings crack. 443 SAMSON TO MA NOAH SPARE that proposal, Father ; spare the trouble of that solicitation. Let me here, as I deserve, pay on my punishment ; and expiate, if possible, my crime, shameful garrulity. To have revealed secrets of men, the secrets of a friend, how heinous had the fact been, how deserving contempt and scorn of all, to be excluded all friendship, and avoided as a blab, the mark of fool set on his front ! But I God's counsel have not kept, his holy secret presumptuously have published, impiously, weakly at least, and shamefully. J. MILTON 444 DUTIES RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC THE single and peculiar life is bound, with all the strength and armour of the mind, to keep itself from noyance ; but much more that spirit upon whose weal depend and rest the lives of many. The cease of majesty dies not alone ; but, like a gulf, doth draw what's near it with it : it is a massy wheel, fixed on the summit of the highest mount, to whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things are mortis'd and adjoin'd ; which, when it falls, each small annexment, petty consequence, attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone did the king sigh, but with a general groan. W. SHAKESPEARE 445 MEROPE—POLYPIIONTES Me. OUCH chance as killed the father, killed the sons. w} Po. One son at least 1 spared, for still he lives. into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 75 We. Tyrants think him they murder not they spare. Po. Not much a tyrant thy free speech displays me. Me. Thy shame secures my freedom, not thy will. Po. Shame rarely checks the genuine tyrant's will. Me. One merit, then, thou hast: exult in that. Po. Thou standest out, I see, repellest peace. Me. Thy sword repelled it long ago, not I. Po. Doubtless thou reckonest on the hope of friends. Me. Not help of men, although, perhaps, of Gods. Po. What Gods? the Gods of concord, civil weal? Me. No : the avenging Gods, who punish crime. M. ARNOLD B' 446 THE DYING GREEK UT he cried, " Phantoms of the free, we come ! armies of the Eternal, ye who strike to dust the citadels of sanguine kings, and shake the souls throned on their stony hearts, and thaw their frost-work diadems like dew ;— O ye who float around this clime, and weave the garment of the glory which it wears : whose fame, though earth betray the dust it clasped, lies sepulcred in monumental thought ; — progenitors of all that yet is great, ascribe to your bright senate, O accept in your high ministrations, us, your sons — us first, and the more glorious yet to come!" P. B. SHELLEY D' 44/ MALEFORT'S DESPAIR |0, do rage on ! rend open, yEolus, thy brazen prison, and let loose at once thy stormy issue ! Blustering Boreas, aided with all the gales, can't raise a tempest through the vast region of the air, like that I feel within me: for I am possess'd with whirlwinds, and each guilty thought to me is a dreadful hurricane Though this centre labour to bring forth earthquakes, and hell open her wide-stretched jaws, and let out all her furies, they cannot add an atom to the mountain of fears and terrors that each minute threaten to fall on my accursed head. P. MASSINGER 76 Passages for Translation 44' 'AMI II, IE IN FAVOUR OF CHARLEMONT O FATHER! Mercy is an attribute as high as justice ; an essential part of His unbounded goodness, whose divine impression, form, and image, man should bear. And (methinks) man should love to imitate His mercy; since the only countenance of justice, were destruction : if the sweet and loving favour of His mercy did not mediate between it and our weakness. Dear Sir! since by your greatness you are nearer heaven in place, be nearer it in goodness. Rich men should transcend the poor, as clouds the earth, rais'd by the comfort of the sun to water dry and barren grounds. C. TOURXEIR 86 Passages for Translation 473 JANE SHORE YET, yet endure, nor murmur, oh, my soul ! for are not thy transgressions great and num- berless ? Do they not cover thee like rising floods, and press thee like a weight of waters down ? Does not the Hand of Righteousness afflicl: thee ? and who shall plead against it ? Who shall say to Power Almighty, Thou hast done enough ; or bid his dreadful rod of vengeance stay? Wait then with patience, till the circling hours shall bring the time of thy appointed rest, and lay thee down in death. The hireling thus with labour drudges out the painful day, and often looks with long-expecling eyes to see the shadows rise, and be dismissed. N. ROWE 474 ADAM'S COMFORT OF EVE AFTER HEARING HER RELATE HER DREAM BE not disheartened then, nor cloud those looks, that wont to be more cheerful and serene, than when fair Morning first smiles on the world ; and let us to our fresh employments rise, among the groves, the fountains, and the flowers that open now their choicest bosomed smells, reserved from night, and kept for thee in store. So cheered he his fair spouse, and she was cheered, but silently a gentle tear let fall from either eye, and wiped them with her hair. Two other precious drops that ready stood, each in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell kissed, as the gracious signs of sweet remorse and pious awe, that feared to have offended. J. MILTON 475 SONNET WHEN, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, and trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, and look upon myself, and curse my fate, wishing me like to one more rich in hope, into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 87 featured like him, like him with friends possessed, desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, with what I most enjoy contented least : yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, haply I think on thee,— and then my state (like to the lark at break of day arising from sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate; for thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings, that then I scorn to change my state with kings. \V. SHAKESPEARE 4y6 SAMSON'S RESOLUTION TO OBEY THE SUMMONS OF THE PHILISTINES BRETHREN, farewell. Your company along 1 will not wish, lest it perhaps offend them to see me girt with friends ; and how the sight of me, as of a common enemy, so dreaded once, may now exasperate them, I know not. Lords are lordliest in their wine ; and the well-feasted priest then soonest fired with zeal, if aught religion seem concerned : no less the people, on their holy-days, impetuous, insolent, unquenchable. Happen what may, of me expect to hear nothing dishonourable, impure, unworthy our God, our Law, my nation, or myself; the last of me or no I cannot warrant. J. MILTON 477 IVIS DOM AND STRENGTH ALAS, my soul's ill-married to my body! - I would be young, be handsome, be beloved — could I but breathe myself into Adrastus, were but my soul in CEdipus, I were a king ; then had 1 killed a monster, gained a battle, and had my rival prisoner : brave, brave actions ! why have I not done these? My fortune hindered : there is it — 1 have a soul to do them all ; but fortune will have nothing done that's great, but by young, handsome, fools — body and brawn do all her work. Hercules was a fool and straight grew famous — a mad boisterous fool : 88 Passages for Translation nay worse, a woman's fool — 'Fool' is the stuff of which heaven makes a hero. 478 SUE TON I US— BOND UCA S. "V/'OU cannot 'scape our strength, you must yield, I lady ; you must adore and fear the power of Rome. B. If Rome be earthly, why should any knee with bending adoration worship her ? She's vicious ; and, your partial selves confess, aspires the height of all impiety ; therefore 'tis fitter I should reverence the thatched houses where the Britons dwell in careless mirth ; where the best household gods see nought but chaste and simple purity. 'Tis not high power that makes a place divine, nor that the men from gods derive their line ; but sacred thoughts, in holy bosoms stored, make people noble, and the place adored. J. FLETCHER 479 TIME AND LOVE INCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless S 1 but sad mortality o'er-sways their power, how with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out against the wreckful siege of battering days, when rocks impregnable are not so stout, nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays ? O, fearful meditation ! where, alack ! shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid ? or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back, or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? O ! none, unless this miracle have might, that in black ink my love may still shine bright. W. SHAKESPEARE 480 PRIDE OF ANCESTRY l IS poor and not becoming perfecl; gentry, to build their glories at their fathers' cost ; ,r "p] into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 89 but, at their own expense of blood or virtue, to raise them living monuments ; our birth is not our own act ; honour upon trust our ill deeds forfeit ; and the wealthy sum, purchased by others' fame or sweat, will be our stain, for we inherit nothing truly but what our actions make us worthy of. G. CHAPMAN 481 THE END TO die is landing on some silent shore, where billows never break nor tempests roar: ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. The wise through thought the insults of death defy, the fools through blessed insensibility. 'Tis what the guilty fear, the pious crave, sought by the wretch, and vanquished by the brave ; it eases lovers, sets the captive free, and though a tyrant, offers liberty. S. GARTH T 482 CIRCUMSTANCE 'WO children in two neighbour villages playing mad pranks along the heathy leas ; two strangers meeting at a festival ; two lovers whispering by an orchard wall ; two lives bound fast in one with golden ease; two graves grass-green beside a gray church-towvr, washed with still rains and daisy-blossomed ; two children in one hamlet born and bred ; so runs the round of life from hour to hour. A. TENNYSON 48.3 BUT when we joined battle fierce as a winter-storm upon the main, I ranged the field, whilst my affrighted foes, like billows at the angry Neptune's frown, successively did vanish from my sight. Did I not pour upon their foremost ranks, sudden and fierce, as lightning; rush among their thickest squadrons, and in glorious heat, like thunder breaking from a teeming cloud, 9° Passages for Translation make desolation wait upon my arms? With my drawn sword I pointed out the path of dazzling fame, which none but I could tread, whilst all my army lagg'd, and you below trembled, like girls, but to behold my daring. 484 D EAD men and living, vows after vows sent 1 in hot succession to the throne of Heaven, deep ravage done amongst thy native fields, strange tortures suffered by thy countrymen, call thee with common voice to turn thy wrath to just account ; — and is it come to this, that for the matter of but one day's feud with one tried friend that never did thee hurt, thou canst forget all else, and put thy cause to imminent hazard at the utmost verge of all its fortunes and its ultimate hope ! if so, I cry thee mercy; I mistook thee; for I had counted on thy aid to-day to do the things that thou so oft hast threatened. H. TAYLOR 485 SONNET OME glory in their birth, some in their skill, some in their wealth, some in their body's force; some in their garments, though new-fangled ill ; some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse ; and every humour hath his adjunct pleasure, wherein it finds a joy above the rest : but these particulars are not my measure ; all these I better in one general best. Thy love is better than high birth to me, richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost, of more delight than hawks or horses be : and, having thee, of all men's pride I boast : wretched in this alone, that thou mayest take all this away and me most wretched make. W. SHAKESPEARE S' 486 MY all is thine ; one common hazard shall attend us both, and both be fortunate, or both be wretched. into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 9 l