might perhaps have read them in some sort usefully. Good and Evill we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably"; and the knowledge of Good is so involv'd and interwoven with the knowledge of Evill, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discern'd, that those "return upon the summons of the House, but sent to the King "to know his pleasure; who, not thinking matters yet ripe enough to make any such declaration, appointed him to come "away." Hist: of the Rebellion; I. 605. 8vo. 1807. And in the Memoirs of Col. Hutchinson: “He had appoynted "his wife, when she went away, to send him the Dutch Anno"tations on the Bible."-p. 435. 4to. 1806. "Good and Evill we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably.] He had, it is not improbable, Plutarch in his thoughts: Αρμονίη Κόσμου ὥσπερ λύρης καὶ τόξου, καθ' Ηράκλειτον· καὶ καὶ Εὐριπίδην, Οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο χωρὶς ἐσθλα καὶ κακὰ, Αλλ' ἔστι τις σύγκρασις, ὡς ἔχειν καλῶς. De Iside & Osiride Liber; p. 114. Cuntab. 1744. "The harmony of the World, like that of a harp (to use "the expression of Heraclitus), is made up of discords, and "consists in a mixture of good and evil, or, as Euripides has it, "good and evil cannot be separated from each other, though they are so tempered as that Beauty and Order be the result." Squire's Trans. " MILTON might also bear Homer in mind: Δοιοὶ γάρ τε πίθοι κατακείαται ἐν Διὸς ουδει Iliad; XXIV. 527. It is evident by the phrase presently afterward in Plutarch-ov ΔΥΕΙΝ ΠΙΘΩΝ εις Τάμιας, &c. that this writer adverted to him. confused seeds which were impos'd on Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixt. It was from out the rinde of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of Good and Evill as two twins cleaving together leapt forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Those confused seeds which were impos'd on Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixt. It was from out the rinde of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of Good and Evill as two twins cleaving together leapt forth into the world.] The story of Psyche's task is to be found in Apuleius: I add the curious description. "His editis, involat "eam, vestemque plurifariam diloricat: capilloque discisso, et "capite conquassato, graviter affligit, et, accepto frumento et "hordeo et milio et papavere & cicere et lente et fabâ, commix tisque acervatim confusisque in unum grumulum, sic ad illam : "Videris enim mihi tam deformis ancilla nullo alio, sed tantùm "sedulo ministerio amatores tuos promereri: jam ergo et ipsa "frugem tuam periclitabor. Discerne seminum istorum pas"sivam congeriem: singulisque granis rite dispositis, atque "sejugatis, ante istam vesperam opus expeditum approbato mihi. "Sic assignato tantorum seminum cumulo, ipsa cænæ nuptiali "concessit." Apuleii Metamorph: p. 398. Ed. Oudendorp. Lug. Batav. 1786. The allusion, which closes the latter sentence in the text, is to some monstrous birth recorded by the Father of Physic. Our Authour has in Eixovoxλásns pointed out its origin. "Were "they all born twins of Hippocrates, with him and his fortune, "one birth, one burial? Sect. 21. There is the same concealed allusion in the Archangel's address to Adam : "Since thy original lapse, true Liberty "Is lost, which always with right Reason dwells Par. Lost. XII. 83. In the last line some Editors have printed twin'd, but this Adam fell into of knowing Good and Evill, that is to say of knowing Good by Evill'. As therefore the passage in his AREOPAGITICA authenticates the original Reading. And Shakspeare might have been brought in its confirmation :— "Twinn'd brothers of one womb, "Whose procreation, residence, and birth, Timon of Ath.; A. 4. S. 3. Two Twins-Dryden and Pope with other admired Writers have fallen into this palpable redundancy: and Spenser yet more solecistically. Of the Graces: "And ye three twins to light by Venus brought." Works; p. 149. fol. 1679. It is to be wished, that the Editors of English Books of acknowleged reputation for style would mark the inadvertencies and hallucinations in their Authour's diction, after the manner of the philological notices which Hurd has subjoined to the pages of Addison. This would assist to rectify and refine our Language: nothing would, I think, more effectually advance the cultivation of propriety. By these means, Phraseology and Idioms which ought to be avoided must strike many an eye which would never look for them in grammatical disquisitions; or which might pass for unobjectionable because franked by an accredited name. • Perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing Good and Evill, that is to say of knowing Good by Evill.] Thus, in Par. Lost. IV. 221. "Our death, the tree of Knowlege, grew fast by, Knowlege of good bought dear by knowing ill." Lord Bacon declares that "a Knowlege of the impostures " and evills of every profession is incident to a Knowlege re"specting the duties and professions." Essay; of Public Good. state of man now is; what wisdome can there be to choose, what continence to forbeare without the knowledge of Evill? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat'. Assuredly 1 He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.] The quintuple iteration of and might be to maintain the style of Isocrates, who is remarkable for a profusion of Copulatives; of which an example occurs in the flattery he addresses, in his Areopagitic Oration, to the national vanity of the Athenians. Επίσταμαι γαρ εν μεν τοις άλλοις τόποις, φύσεις εγγινόμενας καρπων ΚΑΙ δενδρων ΚΑΙ ζωων ιδέας εν εκαςοις, ΚΑΙ πολυ των άλλων διαφέρεσας· Την δ' ημετεραν χωραν ανδρας ΚΑΙ τρεφείν ΚΑΙ φερειν δυναμένην, ου μόνον προς τας τέχνας ΚΑΙ τας πράξεις ευφυέςατος, αλλά ΚΑΙ προς ανδριαν ΚΑΙ προς apety diapεpovтas Op. omn. II. 146. Edit. Auger. Baron, who saw the quarto Edition of the prose Works through the Press, unwarrantably changed "wayfaring," in the text into "warfaring." There was no need of emendation. "Wayfaring" is in opposition to "cloister'd." It is beside more consonant to Scripture, and therefore more likely to have come from AREOPAGITICA. we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary. That Vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evill, and knows not the utmost that Vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank Vertue, not a pure; her whitenesse is but an excrementall whitenesse'; which was the reason why our sage and serious Poet Spencer, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher then MILTON:-" :-"the wayfaring men, though fools shall not err "therein." Isaiah, ch. 35. v. 8. Horace was also in his recollection: "Paulum sepultæ distat inertiæ "Celata Virtus." Od. IV. 9. 30. And Epist. I. 1. 50. " Magna coronari contemnat Ölympia, cui spes, "Cui sit conditio dulcis sine pulvere palmæ." He had at the same time regard to one of St. Paul's allusions to these gymnastic exercises. "Know ye not that they which “run in a race, run all, &c. now, they do it to obtain a cor1 Cor. ch. 9. v. 24 "ruptible crown; but we an incorruptible." and 25. 2 But an excrementall whitenesse.] i. e. an adventitious or extrinsic whiteness; not consubstantial. The Physiology of former times denominated those adjuncts of the human Body excrementitious which were extraneous and superinduced; as the Hair, and the Nails. To imply that it was an adscititious appendage, when Shakspeare's Autolycus takes off the false Beard he had worn to disguise him, he says, " let me pocket up my pedler's excre"ment." F |