"but a man that creeps into all companies, to jeer, trepan, and "betray them." The First Part of this REHEARSALL was pub"lished, 1672. This was in answer to a PREFACE written by Parker to Bishop Bramhall's VINDICATION OF HIMSELF, &C. Lond. 1672. 8vo. Reprinted by itfelf the next year. Parker replied in A REPROOF, &c. Lond. 1673. Marvell anfwered in a Second Part of the REHEARSALL TRANSPROSED, cited above. And here it must be remarked, that Marvell was miftaken in suppofing the TRASPROSER REHEARSED, in which most of this abuse of Milton appears, to be written by Parker: it was written by R. Leigh, farmerly of Queen's College Oxford, but now a player, Oxon. 1673. 12mo. In which the writer ftyles Milton the blind author of Paradife Loft, and talks of his groping for a beam of light, in the Apostrophe Hail, holy light, &c. p. 41. In another place, Milton is called a fchifmatick in poetry, because he writes in blankverfe, p. 43. See alfo p. 126. feq. He is traduced as a Latin Secretary and an English Schoolmaster, p. 128. Other fcurrilities follow for several pages, too grofs and obfcene to be recited. I must not forget, that in the REPROOF, really written by Parker, Milton is called " a friend of ours.", p. 125. In his REHEARSALL, Marvell calls Parker BAYES: and this title, fays Wood, was "from a comedy then lately published by "the duke of Buckingham, wherein one Mr. Bayes acteth a part." ATH. OXON. ii. 817. Mr. Mafon fays, of the fuperiour keenness of Marvell's farcastic raillery against his adversary Parker in the courfe of this controversy. Ev'n MITRED DULNESS learns to feel. As conveying a general idea, the combination MITRED DULNESS may have its propriety: But in the prefent particular instance, he might have faid as juftly, and more characteristically, MITRED MEANNESS, Marvell was appointed affiftant secretary to Milton in 1657. See Sec. P. REHEARS. TRANSPROS. ut fupr. p. 127, 128. And I have before obferved, that Christina ceafed to be queen of Sweden in 1654. At least therefore, when these lines were written, Marvell was not affociated with Milton in the secretaryship. I must add, that neither Marvell nor Milton lived to read the abuse which Parker bestowed on both of them, in his pofthumous COMMENTARII SUI TEMPORIS, Lond. 1727. 8vo. I will tranflate a small part only. He is fpeaking of the pamphleteers against the royal party at Cromwell's acceffion." Among these calum"niators was a rafcal, one Marvell. As he had spent his youth in debauchery, fo from natural petulance, he became the tool of "faction in the quality of fatyrift. Yet with more fcurrility than "wit, and with a mediocrity of talents, but not of ill-nature. "Turned out of doors by his father, expelled the university, a va gabond, gabond, a ragged and hungry poetafter, kicked and cudgelled " in every tavern, he was daily chaftifed for his impudence. At "length he was made under-fecretary to Cromwell, by the pro"curation of Milton, to whom he was a very acceptable character, on account of a SIMILAR MALEVOLENCE of difpofition, &c." B. iv. p. 275. This paffage was perhaps written about the year 1680. PARADISE LOST had now been published thirteen years, and its excellencies must have been fully estimated and sufficiently known; yet in fuch terms of contempt, or rather neglect, was its author now described, by a popular writer, certainly a man of learning, and very foon afterwards a bishop. See LIFE of BATHURST. To recur to the text, which perhaps has been long ago forgot. Milton has a prolix and most splendid panegyric on queen Chriftina, dictated by the fuppofition that she dismissed Salmafius from her court on account of his DEFENCE OF THE KING. See Milton's PROSE-WORKS, i. p. 329. SYLVARUM SYLVAR UM LIBE R. In obitum Procancellarii, medici. Anno Ætatis 17. ARERE fati difcite legibus, Manufque Parcæ jam date fupplices, Qui pendulum telluris orbem Täpeti colitis nepotes. This Ode is on the death of doctor John Goflyn, Master of Caius College, and king's profeffor of medicine at Cambridge; who died while a fecond time Vice-chancellor of that univerfity, in October, 1626. See Fuller's HIST. CAMBR. p. 164. Milton was now feventeen. But he is here called fixteen in the editions of 1645, and 1673. A fault which has been fucceffively continued by Tonfon, Tickell, and Fenton. I am favoured in a letter from doctor Farmer with these informations. I find in Baker's MSS. vol. xxviii. Chargis of bu ryall and funeral of my brother doctor Goftlin who departed this "life the 2x of Oct. 1626, and his funerall folemnized the 16th of "Nov. following. And fo it ftands in the College GESTA-BOOK. "He was a Norwich-man, and matriculated Dec. 3, 1582. A benefactor to Caius' and Catherine-Hall; at which last you once Vos fi relicto mors vaga Tænaro Per tenebras Stygis ire certum eft, Nec fraude turpe Palladis invidæ Enfe Locro, Jove lacrymante, Si trifte fatum verba Hecatëia "dined at his expence, and saw his old wooden picture in the "Combination room." For his confiderable benefactions to Caius college, fee Blomefield's ANNALS of that college, in Ives's SELECT PAPERS, Lond. 1773. p. 76. And Blomefield's COLLECTAN. CANTABRIG. p. 102. For those to Catherine-Hall, fee Fuller. ubi fupr, p. 83. And fee Kennet, REG. CHRON. p. 870. 11. Horace, EPOD. xvii. 31. -Atro delibutus HERCULES NESSI CRUORE, On this fable of Hercules, our author grounds a comparison, PA, RAD. I. ii. 543. "Felt th' envenom'd robe, &c.” 15. Quem larva Pelidis peremit, &c.] Sarpedon, who was flain by Patroclus, difguifed in the armour of Achilles. At his death his father wept a shower of blood. See the fixteenth Iliad. 17. Si trifte fatum, &c.] "If inchantments could have ftopped "death, Circe, the mother of Telegonus by Ulyffes, would have * ftill lived; and Medea, the fifter of Ægialus or Abfyrtus, with "her magical rod." Telegonus killed his father Ulyffes, and is the fame who is called parricida by Horace. Milton denominates Circe Telegoni parens, from Ovid, Episт. PONT. iii. i. 123. TELEGONIQUE PARENS vertendis nota figuris. Ibid..Verba Hecateia.] Ovid, METAM. xiv. 44. HECATEIA Carmina mifcet. Vixiffet Vixiffet infamis, potentique Ægiali foror ufa virga. Numenque trinum fallere fi queant Læfiffet et nec te, Philyreie, Cæfe puer genitricis alvo. Tuque O alumno major Apolline, 20 25 22. Artes medentum, ignotaque gramina.] Not fo much the pow er, as the skill, of medicine. This appears from the names which follow.. 23. -Machaon, &c.] Machaon, the fon of Efculapius, one of the Grecian leaders at the fiege of Troy, and a phyfician, was killed by Eurypilus. See the Iliad. But the the death of Machaby the fpear of Eurypylus, is not in the Iliad, but in Quintus Calaber, where it is circumftantially related, as Mr. Steevens r3marks. PARALIP. vi. 406. on, .... · —Ὁ δ ̓ ἐπεῖτα κραταιῷ χώσατο φωτι Εὐρύπυλος δὲ οἱ αἴφα πολύτονον ειρυσατ' αἰχμὴν, &c. I must add, that Quintus Calaber is not an author at present very familiar to boys of feventeen. According to Philips, he was one of the claffics whom Milton taught in his fchool. "Quintus Calaberhis Poem of the Trojan War continued from Homer." LIFE, p. xvii. 25. Philyreie, &c.] Chiron, the fon of Philyra, a preceptor in medicine, was incurably wounded by Hercules, with a dart dipped in the poisonous blood of the ferpent of Lerna. See above, EL. iv. 27. 27. Nec tela te, &c.] Æfculapius, who was cut out of his mother's womb by his father Apollo. Jupiter ftruck him dead with lightening, for reftoring Hippolytus to life. 29. Tuque O alumno major Apolline.] Certainly we should read Apollinis. But who was this pupil of Apollo in medicine? Had it been |