Laftly the fqualid lakes of Tartarie,
And griefly feends of hell him terrifie.

545

"There alfo goodly Agamemnon bosts,
The glorie of the stock of Tantalus,
And famous light of all the Greekish hosts;
Under whofe conduct moft victorious,
The Dorick flames confum'd the Iliack pofts.
Ah! but the Greekes themselves, more dolorous,
To thee, O Troy, paid penaunce for thy fall; 551
In th' Hellefpont being nigh drowned all.

"Well may appeare by proofe of their mifchaunce,

The chaungfull turning of mens flipperie ftate, That none, whom fortune freely doth advaunce,

Ver. 543.

Tartarie,] He should not have called it Tartary, which makes a ridiculous ambiguity; for Tartarý may be Tartaria as well as Tartarus, and indeed better. JORTIN.

Dr. Jortin would have been lefs inclined to pronounce the expreffion ridiculous, if he had taken the trouble to look into our old writers. See my note on Tartary, F. Q. i. vii. 44. I am more surprised at Mr. Warton's objection. I will add, to the inftances cited in my note, an illuftration by Mr. Malone, from The troublesome Raigne of King John, 1591.

"And let the black tormentors of black Tartary "Upbraide them with this damned enterprize." See alfo Tartar, ver, 444. which is ufed in the fame fenfe by our ancient poets, as is fhewn in the note to which I refer. TODD.

Ver. 552. In th' Hellefpont &c.] This tranflation is wide of the text, and the text is corrupted. See Scaliger. The Greeks fuffered nothing in the Hellefpont, JORTIN.

Himfelfe therefore to heaven should elevate: 556
For loftie type of honour, through the glaunce
Of envies dart, is downe in duft proftrate;
And all, that vaunts in worldly vanitie,
Shall fall through fortunes mutabilitie.

560

"Th' Argolicke Power returning home againe,
Enricht with fpoyles of th' Ericthonian towre,
Did happie winde and weather entertaine,
And with good speed the fomie billowes fcowre;
No figne of ftorme, no feare of future paine, 565
Which foone enfued them with heavie ftowre.
Nereis to the feas a token gave,

The whiles their crooked keeles the furges clave.

66

Suddenly, whether through the gods decree, Or håpleffe rising of fome froward starre,

The heavens on everie fide enclowded bee:

570

Black ftormes and fogs are blowen up from farre,

That now the pylote can no loadftarre fee,
But fkies and feas doo make moft dreadfull

warre;

The billowes ftriving to the heavens to reach, 575 And th' heavens ftriving them for to impeach.

Ver. 576. impeach.] Hinder, So the first edition reads. The word fhould be fpelt, agreeably to Spenter's custom, empeach, from the Fr. empecher. However, fee the note, F. Q. i. viii. 34. TODD.

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"And, in avengement of their bold attempt, Both fun and ftarres and all the heavenly powres Confpire in one to wreake their rash contempt, And downe on them to fall from higheft towres: The fkie, in pieces feeming to be rent, Throwes lightning forth, and haile, and harmful fhowres,

581

That death on everie fide to them appeares,
In thousand formes, to worke more ghastly feares.

"Some in the greedie flouds are funke and drent; Some on the rocks of Caphareus are throwne; Some on th' Euboick cliffs in pieces rent; Some fcattred on the Hercæan fhores unknowne; And manie loft, of whom no moniment

Remaines, nor memorie is to be showne: Whilft all the purchase of the Phrigian pray, Toft on falt billowes, round about doth stray.

"Here manie other like heroës bee,
Equall in honour to the former crue,
Whom ye in goodly feates may placed fee,
Defcended all from Rome by linage due ;

Ver. 585.

587

590

595

drent,] Drowned.

See F. Q. ii. vi. 49. and The Teares of the Mufes, ver. 210.

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TODD.

Ver. 588. on the Hercæan fhores unknowne ;] Heraaque late litora." See Scaliger, who reads Gyræa or Egea. "Hercæan fhores unknown" is pleafant enough, there being no fuch fhores in rerum natura. JORTIN,

From Rome, that holds the world in fove

reigntie,

And doth all nations unto her fubdue:

Here Fabii and Decii doo dwell,

Horatii that in vertue did excell.

600

"And here the antique fame of ftout Camill
Doth ever live; and conftant Curtius,
Who, ftifly bent his vowed life to spill
For countreyes health, a gulph most hideous!
Amidft the towne with his owne corps did fill, 605
T'appease the Powers; and prudent Mutius,
Who in his flesh endur'd the fcorching flame,
To daunt his foe by' enfample of the fame.

"And here wife Curius, companion
Of noble vertues, lives in endles reft;
And ftout Flaminius, whofe devotion
Taught him the fires fcorn'd furie to deteft;"
And here the praife of either Scipion
Abides in highest place above the best,

610

To whom the ruin'd walls of Carthage vow'd, 615 Trembling their forces, found their praises lowd.

Ver. 600.

that in vertue did excell.]

"Horatia

virtus." Virtus is not virtue here, but calour. JORTIN.

Ver. 612. the fires fcorn'd furie to deteft ;] "Devota dedit qui corpora flammæ." Flamma there is metaphorical; and the fenfe is, that he boldly run into danger and loft his life.

JORTIN,

"Live they for ever through their lasting praife!
But I, poore wretch, am forced to retourne
To the fad lakes that Phoebus funnie rayes
Doo never fee, where foules doo alwaies

mourne;

620

And by the wayling fhores to waste my dayes, Where Phlegeton with quenchles, flames doth burne;

By which iuft Minos righteous foules doth fever From wicked ones, to live in bliffe for ever.

"Me therefore thus the cruell fiends of hell 625 Girt with long fnakes, and thousand yron chaynes,

Through doome of that their cruell Iudge, compell

With bitter torture, and impatient paines, Cause of my death and iuft complaint to tell. For thou art he, whom my poore ghoft complaines

To be the author of her ill unwares,

That careles hear'ft my' intollerable cares.

630

ἐσ Them therefore as bequeathing to the winde, I now depart, returning to thee never,

And leave this lamentable plaint behinde. 635 But doo thou haunt the foft downe-rolling river, And wilde greene woods and fruitful paftures minde;