Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies; 80 "But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, "And perfect witnefs of all-judging Jove; "As he pronounces laftly on each deed, "Of fo much fame in heav'n expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, 85 Smooth-fliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds! That ftrain I heard was of a higher mood: But now my oat proceeds, And liftens to the herald of the fea That came in Neptune's plea ; 90 He afk'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle fwain? And question'd every guft of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory: And like bright metal on a fullen ground, 80. -Thofe pure eyes.] Perhaps from Scripture," God is of PURER EYES than to behold iniquity." And hence an epithet, fufficiently hackneyed in modern poetry, Coм. v. 213. "WelCome PURE-EYED Faith.” 85. In giving Arethusa the distinctive appellation of Fountain, Milton clofely and learnedly attends to the antient Greek writers. See more particularly the fcholiaft on Theocritus, IDYLL. i. 117. And Servius on Virgil, Æn. iii. 694. ECL. x. 4. Homer fays, ODYSS. xiii. 408.-'E TE KPHNH 'Agéon. Compare Heτε ̓Αρεθέση. fychius, and his annotators, V. ΚΟΡΑΚΟΣ, ΑΛΦΕΙΟΣ ΑΡΕΘΟΥΣΑ. And Stephanus Byzant. Berkel. p. 162. 90. Triton came, in defence of Neptune. 93. And question'd every guft of rugged winds.] We find WINDS for WINGS, in Tonfon's very incorrect but elegant octavo edition of Milton's POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, 1705. They make the greater part of his second volume of all Milton's poetry. 94. -Each beaked promontory.] That is, prominent or projecting like the beak of a bird. Harrison in Hollinshed has wefelbeaked. DESCRIPT. ENGL. p. 172. Our author has the " BEAK "ED 95 They knew not of his story; And fage Hippotades their answer brings, "ED prow," of Noah's ark, PARAD. L. B. xi. 746. Drayton has, ftill more appofitely, "The utmost end of Cornwall's furrowing BEAK." POLYOLB. S. i. vol. ii. p. 657 95. Of his ftory.] So B. and Fletcher, PHILASTER, A. i. S.i. vol. I. p. 109. edit. 1750. "I afk'd him all his STORY." 96. And fage Hippotades their answer brings.] Hippotades is no very common or familiar name for Aolus the fon of Hippotas. It is not in Virgil the GREAT Storm-painter, and who appears to be fo perfectly acquainted with the poetical family of the winds. Perhaps I may be mistaken, but it occurs only in four claffic poets either abfolutely or conjunctively. In one of thefe, however, it occurs repeatedly. In Homer, ODYSS. X. 2. Αἰολίην δ ̓ ἐς νῆσον ἀφικόμεθ', ἔνθα δ' ἔναιεν Again, ibid. v. 36. 3-31 Δῶρα παρ' "Αιολύ μεγαλήτορος ΙΠΠΟΤΙΔΑΟ. In Apollonius Rhodius, a Greek poet whom I have frequently traced in Milton, ARGON. iv. 819. ΙΠΠΟΤΑΔΗΝ δὲ Αἴολον ωκείας ανέμων ἄικας ἔρυξεν. In Ovid, EPISTOL. HEROID. Ep. LEAND. HERON. v. 46. Again, EPIST. ex Pont. L. iv. x. 15. Excipit HIPPOTADES, qui dat pro munere ventos, Again, METAM. L. iv. 661. Clauferat HIPPOTADES æterno carcere ventos. Again, ibid. L. iv. 707. HIPPOTADÆQUE domos regis. Ibid. "HIPPOTADÆ regnum." xiv. 86. And, xiv. In Valerius Flaccus, AGRON. L. i. 610. Tum valido contortam turbine portam Impulit HIPPOTADES. 224* The name is seldom mentioned even by the mythologists. I muft not forget, that it is found in the geographical poem of Dionyfius, with an allufion to the Odyssey, v. 462. VOL. I. C That That not a blast was from his dungeon stray'd; Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark, 100 Next Camus, reverend fire, went footing flow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet fedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge 100. That fatal and perfidious bark, 105 Built in th' eclipfe, and rigg'd with curfes dark.] Although doctor Newton mentions the Ille et nefafto, and Mala foluta navis exit alite, of Horace, as two paffages fimilar to this, yet he has not observed how much more poetical and striking is the imagery of Milton, that the ship was built in the eclipfe, and rigged with curfes. Dr. J. WARTON. Evidently with a view to the enchantments in MACBETH, A. iv. S. i. -Slips of yew Sliver'd in the moon's ECLIPSE. Again, in the fame incantation. Root of hemlock digg'd i' th' DARK. The fhipwreck was occafioned not by a ftorm, but the bad comdition of the fhip, unfit for fo dangerous a navigation. See the end of the last Note on this poem. 103. Next Camus, reverend fire, went footing flow.] Compare SAMS. AGON. v. 326. But fee, here comes thy REVEREND SIRE, With careful step, locks white as down, Old Manoah. Again, ibid. v. 1456. -Say, REVEREND SIRE, we thirst to hear. 105. Figures dim.] Alluding to the fabulous tradi-. tions of the high antiquity of Cambridge. But how Cam was diftinguished by a hairy mantle from other rivers which have herds and flocks on their banks, I know not; unless "the Budge doctors "of the Stoic fur," as Milton calls them in Coмus, had lent him their academic robes. W. It is very probable, that the hairy mantle, being joined with the fedge-bonnet, may mean his rushy or reedy banks. See Notes on EL. i. 89. It would be difficult to afcertain the meaning of figures Like to that fanguin flow'r inscrib'd with woe. "Ah! Who hath reft (quoth he) my deareft pledge?" Laft came, and last did go, The pilot of the Galilean lake; TIO Two maffy keys he bore of metals twain, (The golden opes, the iron fhuts amain) He fhook his miter'd locks, and stern befpake: "How well could I have fpar'd for thee, young fwain, figures dim. Perhaps the poet himself had no very clear or determinate idea: but, in obfcure and myfterious expreffions, leaves fomething to be supplied or explained by the reader's imagination. 107. Ab, who hath reft, quoth be, my deareft pledge?] Mr. Bowle compares this line with one in the RIME SPIRITUALI Of Angelo Grillo, fol. 7. a. It is a part of the Virgin's lamentation on the Paffion of Chrift. Deh, diffe, ove ne vai mio caro pegno ? "Alas, quoth fhe, where goeft thou, my dear pledge?" And he adds, that RAFT was here perhaps immediately taken from a paffage in Spenfer's DAPHNAIDA, where the subject is the fame. And REFT from me my fweet companion, And REFT from me my love, my life, my hart. 110. The golden opes.-] Mr. Bowle thinks this an allufion to the Italian proverb, " Con le chiavi d' oro s'apre ogna "porta," to which one in Spanish corresponds. Saint Peter's two keys in the Gospel, feem to have fupplied modern poetry with the allegoric machinery of two keys, which are variously used. In Dante's INFERNO, the ghoft of a courtier of the emperor Frederick tells Virgil, that he had poffeffed two keys with which he locked and unlocked his master's heart. CANT. xiii. And hence perhaps the two keys, although with a different application, which Nature, in Gray's Ode on the POWER OF POETRY, prefents to the infant Shakespeare. See alfo Dante, ibid. C. xxvii. In Coмus, an admired poetical image was perhaps fuggefted by faint Peter's golden key, v. 13. Where he mentions That GOLDEN KEY That opes the palace of eternity. See QUINT. NOVEMBR. V. 101. Et quid APOSTOLICA poffit cuftodia CLAVIS. "Enow, "Enow of fuch, as for their bellies fake, "Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold? 115 "Of other care they little reckoning make, "Than how to scramble at the fhearers feast, "And fhove away the worthy bidden gueft; "Blind mouths! that fcarce themselves know how 66 to hold "A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the leaft "That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! 114. Such, as for their bellies fake, 121 Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold.] He here animadverts on the endowments of the church, at the fame time infinuating that they were shared by those only who fought the emoluments of the facred office, to the exclufion of a learned and confcientious clergy. Thus in PARAD. L. B. iv. 193. So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold: So fince into his church LEWD HIRELINGS CLIMB. Where LEWD fignifies ignorant. Even after the diffolution of the hierarchy, he held this opinion. In his fixteenth SONNET, written 1652, he fupplicates Cromwell, -To fave free confcience from the paw Of HIRELING wolves, whofe GOSPEL is their MAW. During the ufurpation, he published a pamphlet entitled "The "likelieft means to remove HIRELINGS out of the church," against the revenues transferred from the old ecclefiaftic establishment to the presbyterian ministers. See also his book of REFORMATION IN ENGLAND, PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 28. Where, among others which might be noticed, is this paffage. "A teach"ing and laborious miniftry, the paftor-like and apoftolick imi"tation of meek and unlordly discipline, the gentle and benevolent "mediocrity of church-maintenance, without the ignoble HUCKSTERAGE OF PAYING TYTHES." More will be faid of this matter hereafter. 120. The sheep-book.] In the tract on REFORMATION he fays, "Let him advise how he can reject the paftorly rod and "SHEEP-HOOK of Chrift." PROSE-WORKS, vol. i. 25. Wickliff's pamphlets are full of this paftoral allufion. 121. That to the faithful herdman's art belongs.] Peck propofes to read Shepherd, because a herdman does not keep sheep. PREF. to BAPTISTES. MEM. Milt. p. 273. edit. 1740. But berdman |