If the unjust will not forbear, His sword he whets; his bow hath bended The tools of death that waits him near. O JEHOVAH Our Lord, how wondrous great When I behold thy heavens, thy fingers' art, That him thou visit'st, and of him art found? With honour and with state thou hast him crowned. ΤΟ 30 50 O'er the works of thy hand thou mad'st him lord; And glorious is thy name through all the earth! SCRAPS FROM THE PROSE WRITINGS. FROM "OF REFORMATION TOUCHING CHURCH DISCIPLINE IN ENGLAND," 1641. [DANTE, Inferno, xix. 115.] AH, Constantine, of how much ill was cause, [PETRARCH, Sonnet 107.] FOUNDED in chaste and humble poverty, 'Gainst them that raised thee dost thou lift thy horn, [ARIOSTO, Orl. Fur. xxxiv. Stanz. 80.] THEN passed he to a flowery mountain green, FROM THE APOLOGY FOR SMECTYMNUUS, 1642. [HORACE, Sat. i. 1, 24.] LAUGHING to teach the truth What hinders? as some teachers give to boys [HORACE, Sat. i. 10, 14.] JOKING decides great things [SOPHOCLES, Electra, 624.] 'TIS you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, FROM AREOPAGITICA, 1644. [EURIPIDES, Supplices, 438.] THIS is true Liberty, when freeborn men, FROM TETRACHORDON, 1645. [HORACE, Epist. i. 16, 40.] WHOM do we count a good man? Whom but he FROM "THE TENURE OF KINGS AND MAGISTRATES,” 1649. [SENECA, Her. Fur. 922.] THERE can be slain No sacrifice to God more acceptable FROM THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN, 1670. [In Geoffrey of Monmouth the story is that Brutus the Trojan, wandering through_the Mediterranean, and uncertain whither to go, arrived at a dispeopled island called Leogecia, where he found, in a ruined city, a temple and oracle of Diana. He consulted the oracle in certain Greek verses, of which Geoffrey gives a version in Latin elegiacs; and Milton translates these.] GODDESS of Shades, and Huntress, who at will Walk'st on the rolling sphere, and through the deep, For aye, with temples vowed, and virgin quires. [Sleeping before the altar of the Goddess, Brutus received from her, in vision, an answer to the above in Greek. Geoffrey quotes the traditional version of the same in Latin elegiacs, which Milton thus translates.] BRUTUS, far to the west, in the ocean wide, |