So fweetly fung your joy the clouds along Through the foft filence of the lift'ning night; Seas wept from our deep forrow: He who with all Heav'n's heraldry whilere Enter'd the world, now bleeds to give us ease; Sore doth begin His infancy to feise! O more exceeding love or law more just? Were loft in death, till he that dwelt above 5 IO 15 20 And Improbus ille puer: crudelis tu quoque mater. Richardson. 20. Emptied his glory, ] An expreffion taken from Philipp. II. 7. but not as it is in our tranflation He made himself of no reputation, but as it is in the original auTOV exevwoɛ, He emptied himself. D 3 24.- for And the full wrath befide Of vengeful justice bore for our excefs, And feals obedience firft with wounding fmart 25 This day, but a ere long Huge pangs and strong Will pierce more near his heart. BLE Wed VII. At a SOLEMN MUSIC. LEST pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'n's joy, Sphere-born harmonious fifters, Voice and Verse, your divine founds, and mix'd pow'r employ Dead things with inbreath'd sense able to pierce, And to our high-rais'd phantafy present 5 That Dead things with inbreath'd fenfe And as your equal raptures temper'd In high myfterious happy Spoufal meet, Snatch us from earth a while, And to our high-rais'd phantafy 6. of pure concent,] So we Mix your choice words, and happiest read in the Manufcript, and in the founds employ edition of 1673, and we prefer the authority That undisturbed fong of pure concent, With faintly shout, and folemn jubilee, Singing everlastingly; That we on earth with undifcording voice As once we did, till difproportion'd fin 10 15 Jarr'd With thofe juft Spirits that wear While all the ftarry rounds and Refound and echo Hallelu; The victorions palms is in allufion 18. May rightly answer that melodious noife;] The following D 4 lines Jarr'd against nature's chime, and with harsh din 20 Broke the fair mufic that all creatures made i To their great Lord, whofe love their motion sway'd In perfect diapafon, whilft they stood In first obedience, and their state of good. O may we foon again renew that song, And keep in tune with Heav'n, till God ere long To his celestial confort us unite, 25 To live with him, and fing in endless morn of light. VIII. * An Epitaph on the MARCHION ESS of Winchefter. HIS rich marble doth enter TH The honor'd wife of Winchester, A Vicount's daughter, an Earl's heir, Befides what her virtues fair lines were thus at firft in the Ma- Plin. Lib. 2. Sect. 20. nufcript. By leaving out those harsh ill founding jars Of clamorous fin that all our mufic mars, And in our lives, and in our fong May keep in tune with Heav'n, till God ere long &c. 23. In perfect diapafon,] Concord through all the tones, δια πασων. Added Ita septem tonos effici, quam diapafon harmoniam vocant, hoc eft, univerfitaRichardfon. tem concentus. 28. To live with him, and fing &c] In the Manufcript the last line ftands thus, To live and fing with him in end- ter Yet had the number of her days Been as complete as was her praise, Nature and fate had had no ftrife In giving limit to her life. Her high birth, and her graces fweet 15 Quickly found a lover meet; The virgin quire for her request The God that fits at marriage feaft; But with a scarce well-lighted flame; ter of Thomas Lord Vicount Savage of Rock-Savage in the countty of Chefter, who by marriage became the heir of Lord Darcy Earl of Rivers; and was the wife of John Marquifs of Winchefter, and the mother of Charles first Duke of Bolton. She died in childbed of a fecond fon in the 23d year of her age, and Milton made thefe verfes at Cambridge as appears by the fequel. 20 And |