Ad CHRISTINAM Suecorum Reginam nomine Cromwelli *. B Ellipotens Virgo, feptem Regina Trionum, Christina, Arctoï lucida ftella poli, Cernis quas merui dura fub caffide rugas, TRANSLATION, from TOLAND's Life of MILTON. B RIGHT martial maid, queen of the frozen zóne, The northern pole fupports thy fhining throne; Behold what furrows age and steel can plow, The helmet's weight opprefs'd this wrinkled brow. Through fate's untrodden paths I move, my hands Still act my free-born people's bold commands: Yet this ftern fhade to you fubmits his frowns, Nor are thefe looks always fevere to crowns. * These verses were sent to Christina Queen of Sweden with Cromwell's picture, and are by some ascribed to Andrew Marvel, as by others to Milton: but I should rather think they were Milton's, being more within his province as Latin Secretary. A FRAG A FRAGMENT, from the Italian; Addressed to a young Lady, at Florence, who did not 7 HEN, in your language, I, unskill'd, addrefs Soft Italy's fair critics round Me préss, And my mistaking paffion thus accuse. Why, to our tongue's disgrace, does thy dumb love Then laughing they repeat my languid lays Nymphs of thy native clime, perhaps they cry, Do thou, my foul's foft hope, these triflers awe! CONTENTS CONTENTS THE THIRD VOLUME. AMSON Agonistes SAM Poems on feveral Occafions On the death of a fair Infant dying of a cough |