APPENDIX.

BARON'S IMITATIONS OF MILTON'S EARLY POEMS.

ROBERT BARON's "imitations, or rather open plagiarifms, from Milton," were firft noticed in Mr. Warton's pofthumous edition of the Smaller Poems. To the paffages which he had felected from Baron's book, entitled the Cyprian Academy, dated 1647, and now become scarce, I have added others; and it would be no difficult task to point out, in the fame volume, thefts from Shakspeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Randolph, and Sir John Suckling. Langbaine only obferves, that Baron borrowed much from Waller.

"Baron was a young man," fays Mr. Warton, "much encouraged and esteemed by James Howell, the juftly celebrated Letter-writer; to whom he dedicates his Cyprian Academy."Oldys, in his MS. Notes on Langbaine, fays he was born in 1630. He was educated at Cambridge. A variety of the most flattering commendatory verses are prefixed to the Cyprian Academy by the wits of the time. One of them, Henry Bold, fellow of New College, thus punningly addresses him :

"Baron of Witt! 'twere fin to blazon forth,
"Under a meaner ftile, thy mighty worth:
""Twere but a trick of state if we should bring
"The Mufes' Lower House to vote thee King, &c."

The Cyprian Academy, as Mr. Warton obferves, is a fort of poetical romance, partly formed on the plan of Sidney's Arcadia. The author, Mr. Warton adds, "has introduced the fine old French ftory of Conci's heart, B. ii. p. 15; which he probably took from Howell's Letters :"-Or perhaps from the old drama of Tancred and Gifmund.

Baron alfo wrote a tragedy, called Mirza, which, Mr. Warton fays, is a copy of Jonfon's Catiline. He is the author likewise of An Apologie for Paris, 12mo. 1649, and of Pocula Caftalia &c. 8vo. 1650. See the Note on Sonnet vii. ver. 1.

BARON, B. i. p. 5. [At a Solemn Musick, v. 2.]

"Sphear-born harmonious fifters —”

B. i. p. 6. [Tranf. Pfalm cxxxvi. v. 69.]

"large-limb'd body," and again in p. 31,
"large-limb'd Hercules."

Ibid. [Trans. Psalm cxiv. v. 11.]

"measure huge-bellied mountains."

B. i. p. 21.] Epit. March. Winch. v. 28.]

Why may not Atropos for Lucina come.”

B. i. p. 23. [Com. v. 18.]

"But to our taske;" repeated in B. ii. p. 88.

B. i. p. 30. [Com. v. 95.]

"When as thy gilded car of day

"His glowing axle doth allay."

B. i. p. 36. [Od. Nativ. v. 64.]

"Whilft thus the fung, the winds grew whift." B. i. p. 37. [Com. v. 862.] of a beautiful shepherdefs. "In twisted braids of filver lillies knitting "The loofe traine of her amber-dropping haire."

B. i. p. 54. [L'Allegr. v. 1.]

"Hence, loathed Melancholly!

"Avaunt from hence thou fnake-hair'd devil,
"Hence to th' abyffe below, &c."

Ibid. [Epit. March. Winch. v. 20.] Hymen fpeaks.
"This my well-lighted flame."

B. i. p. 55. [Ode Nativ. v. 125. L'Allegr. v. 33. Com, 117.] A Chorus of Fairies.

"Ring out, yee cristall spheares,
"Once bleffe our liftning eares!
"Let your fweet filver chime,
"Keeping harmonious time,
"Carroll forth your loud layes
"In the winged Wanton's praife.
"Mab, thou majestick queene
"Of fairies, be thou feene

"To keepe this holiday,

"Whilft we dance and play;
"And frisk it as we goe
"On the light fantastick toe.
"The Satyres and the Fawnes

"Shall nimbly croffe the lawnes :
"Ore tawny fands and shelves
"Trip it, ye dapper elves!

"Dance by the fountaine brim,
"Nymphes, deckt with daifies trim."

B. i. p. 59. [Com, v. 97, 141, 122, 128.]
"Sol has quencht his glowing beame
"In the coole Atlanticke streame:
"Now there fhines no tell-tale fun
Hymen's rites are to be done :
"Now Love's revells 'gin to keepe,
"What have you to doe with sleepe?
"You have fweeter fweets to prove,

Lovely Venus wakes, and Love; "Goddeffe of nocturnall sport,

"Alwaies keep thy jocond court, &c."

B. i. p. 61. [Tranfl. Pfalm cxiv. v. 8.]

"Of froth-becurled Neptune

B. i. p. 61. [Com. v. 143.]

"Dance nimbly, ladies, beat the measur'd ground,
"With your light feet, in a fantastick round."

B. ii. p. 2: [Ode Nativ. 64, 65, 66.]

"The winde fweetly kift the waters whispering new joyes

B. ii. p. 3. [L'Allegr. v. 12, 35. Com, 103.]

"Euphrofyne,

"Right goddeffe of free mirth, come lead with thee

"The frolick mountaine Nymph, faire Liberty,

"Attended on by youthfull Iollity."

B. ii. p. 28. [Il Pens. v. 1.]

"Hence, hence, fond mirth; hence vaine deluding joyes,

Glee and Alacritie, you be but toyes:

"Goe, gilded elves, love's idle traine poffeffe "With fickle fancies, thick and numberleffe: "Sorrow the fubject of my fong shall be "My harpe shall chant my heart's anxietie." Ibid. [Lycid. v. 170.] of the fun.

Bright car of day, which doft diurnallie "Flame in the forehead of the azure skie.”

B. ii. p. 29. [Arcad. v. 65.]

"Fates, that hold the vitall fheares,

"And fit upon the nine-infolded spheares,

Whirling the adamantine fpindle round,

"On which the brittle lives of men are wound."

B. ii. p. 34. [L'Allegr. v. 12.]

"The goddeffes, fo debonnaire and free,

Aglaia, Thalia, Euphrofyne,

"Efteem'd by men for their heart-eafing mirth;
"Whom thou, faire Cytherea, at one birth
"Bore to the ivie-crowned god of wine."

B. iii. p. 43. [Il Pens. v. 133.]

"Thefe archt walkes of midnight groves→

"And Silvan's fhadowes,

"And fhades that Clarida loves,

"Where filver-bufkin'd tripping Nymphs

"Were never affrighted,

"By harsh blowes of the rude axe,

"From their hallowed haunt."

B. iii. p. 43. [Il Penf. v. 122.]

"Not trickt and frounc't up
"As in fresh flowry May,
"But, civil-fuited, kerchift
"In winter-attire."

B. iii. p. 45. [Lycid. v. 140. 135.] To Flora.

"To purple the fresh ground with vernal flowers,
"That fuck in the nectarian honied fhowers;
"Thou that wear'ft flowrets of a thoufand hues:
"Thou that the fmooth-fhorn fields enameleft,

"Come bring with thee the well-attir'd woodbine, "The lovers panfie, freakt with shining jet ; "The tufted crowtoe, glowing violet, "Ruddy narciffus, and pale jeffamine : "Bring the faire primrofe, that forfaken dies, "The daffadillies, with cups fill'd with teares; "All amaranth's brood that embroidery weares, "To ftrew her lawreat hearse where my love lies." B. iii. p. 51. [Com. v. 225.]

"Walking in a tufted grove."

B. iii. p. 53. [Com. v. 278, 520, 536, 442, 445.] "Placing herself within a leavy labyrinth, in the navel of this obfcure inmoft bowre, the utter'd thefe words-Faire filver-shafted lad, go, burn thy frivolous bow, &c."

B. iii. p. 68. [Lycid. v. 30. feq. 89.]

"Thofe rurall powers

"That live infhrin'd in oaken-curled bowers,
"Among the fapplins tall, whofe fhady roofe
"Are ringlets knitt of branching elm ftar-proofe.
"Call Naiades from their obfcure flufe
"By which Alphéus met his Arethuse;
"Call mountaine Oreads, for to comply
"To further with us this folemnity."

B. iii. p. 69. [Com. v. 890.

Along the foftyly-whistling rivulet's fides,
"And by Meander's rufhie-fringed bank,
"Where grows the willow greene, and ofier dank."

B. iii. p. 72. [Com. v. 715.]

"In foftneffe they the filke wormes web furpaffe
"Woven in leavy shop

B. iii. p. 88. [Com. v. 20.]

"

Sea-girt lands

"So various jemmes inlay a diadem :

"Neptune, his tributary gods that graces,

"Gives them the government of these small places,

"And lets them weare their faphire crownes, and wield

"Their little tridents in their watry field;