FROM DANTE*.

Founded in chaste and humble poverty,

'Gainst them that rais'd thee dost thou lift thy horn,
Impudent whore? where hast thou plae'd thy hope?
In thy adulterers, or thy ill-got wealth?
Another Constantine comes not in hastet.

FROM ARIOSTO‡.

Then pass'd he to a flowery mountain green,
Which once smelt sweet, now stinks as odiously:
This was the gift, if you the truth will have,
That Constantine to good Sylvester gave ].

FROM HORACE§.

Whom do we count a good man? Whom but he
Who keeps the laws and statutes of the senate,
Who judges in great suits and controversies,
Whose witness and opinion wins the cause?
But his own house, and the whole neighbourhood,
Sees his foul inside through his whited skin.

FROM EURIPIDES**.

This is true liberty, when freeborn men,
Having to advise the public, may speak free;
Which he who can, and will, deserves high praise:
Who neither can, nor will, may hold his peace;
What can be juster in a state than thist†?

Parad. C. xx.

+ From Of Reformation, &c. Pr. W. vol. i. p. 10. C. xxxiv. 80.

From Of Reformation, &c. Pr. W. vol. i. p. 10. $Epist. i. xvi. 40.

From Tetrachordon, Pr. W. vol. i. 239.

**IKETIA. v. 440.

+ Milton's motto to his "Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing," &c. Pr. W. vol. i. 141.

FROM HORACE*.

Laughing, to teach the truth,

What hinders? As some teachers give to boys Junkets and knacks, that they may learn apacet.

FROM HORACE.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

FROM SOPHOCLES§.

"Tis you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, And your ungodly deeds find me the words.

FROM SENECA**.

There can be slain

No sacrifice to God more acceptable,
Than an unjust and wicked kingtt.

Sat. i. i. 24.

+From Apol. Smectymn. Pr. W. vol. i. 116.

+From Tenure of Kings, &c. Pr. W. vol. i. 315.

FINIS.