Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Brutus thus addresses Diana in the country of
Leogecia.

ODDESS of Shades, and Huntress, who at will [through the deep, Walk'ft on the rowling Sphear, and On thy third Reign the Earth look now, and tell What Land, what Seat of reft thou bidft me feek, What certain Seat, where I may worship thee For aye, with Temples vow'd, and Virgin quires.

To whom fleeping before the Altar, Diana in a Vifion that night thus anfwer'd,

Brutus far to the Weft, in th' Ocean wide Beyond the Realm of Gaul, a Land there lies, Sea-girt it lies, where Giants dwelt of old, Now void, it fits thy People; thether bend Thy course, there fhalt thou find a lasting seat, There to thy Sons another Troy fhall rife, And Kings be born of thee, whose dredded might Shall aw the World, and conquer Nations bold.

Dante.

AH Conftantine, of how much ill was caufe

Not thy Converfion, but those rich demains That the first wealthy Pope receiv'd of thee.

Dante.

Fo

OUNDED in chaft and humble Poverty,
'Gainst them that rais'd thee doft thou lift thy
horn,

Impudent whoore, where haft thou plac'd thy hope?
In thy Adulterers, or thy ill got wealth?
Another Conftantine comes not in hast.

Ariofto.

TH

HEN past he to a flowry Mountain green, Which once smelt fweet, now ftinks as odiously; This was that gift (if you the truth will have) That Conftantine to good Sylveftro gave.

Horace.

HOM do we count a good man, whom but he

W

Who keeps the laws and ftatutes of the Senate,
Who judges in great fuits and controverfies,
Whose witness and opinion wins the cause?
But his own house, and the whole neighbourhood
Sees his foul infide through his whited skin.

Horace.

Tof things; make mean of

TH

HE Power that did create, can change the Scene great, and great of

Of

mean:

The brightest Glory can eclipfe with Night;
And place the most obscure in dazling Light.

Horace.

A

LL barb'rous People, and their Princes too,
All Purple Tyrants honour you;
The very wandring Scythians do.
Support the Pillar of the Roman State,

Left all Men be involv'd in one Mans fate.
Continue us in Wealth and Peace;

Let Wars and Tumults ever cease.

Catullus.

HE worst of Poets, I my self declare,
By how much you the best of Patrons are.

THE

Ovid.

ABSTAIN, as Manhood you esteem,

From Salmacis pernicious Stream:
If but one moment there you stay,
Too dear you'l for your Bathing pay.-
Depart nor Man nor Woman, but a Sight
Disgracing both, a loath'd Hermaphrodite.

Euripides.

HIS is true Liberty, when free-born Men,
Having to advise the Public, may speak free,

T

Which he who can, and will, deserv's high praise; Who neither can nor will, may hold his peace; What can be juster in a State then this?

Virgil.

O Eaftern Nation ever did adore

The Majefty of Soveraign Princes more.

Virgil.

AND Britains interwove held the Purple Hang

ings.

Horace.

AUGHING to teach the truth

L

What hinders? as fome teachers give to Boys Junkets and knacks, that they may learne apace.

Horace.

JE

ESTING decides great things

Stronglier, and better oft then earnest can.

Sophocles.

that say it, not I; you do the deeds, And your ungodly deeds find me the words.

IS

T's you

Seneca.

HERE can be flaine

TH

No facrifice to God more acceptable Then an unjust and wicked King.

Terence.

IN

N filence now, and with attention wait,
That ye may learn what th' Eunuch has to prate.

G

Homer.

LAUCUS, in Lycia we're ador'd like Gods:
What makes 'twixt us and others fo great odds?

Epigram on Salmafius's Hundreda.
WHO

HO taught Salmafius, that French chatt'ring
Pye,

To aim at English, and HUNDREDA cry?
The starving Rascal, flusht with just a Hundred
English Jacobuffes, HUNDREDA blunder'd.
An out-law'd King's last stock. A hundred more,
Would make him pimp for th'Antichristian Whore ;
And in Rome's praise Employ his poyfon'd Breath,
Who threatn'd once to stink the Pope to death.