Curefve (acutâ ne pereat febre) Oris colorem five refufcites, Aft o! rapacis mox fuga temporis Non fic obibunt, hiftoricus labor Effugient tenebras fepulchri. Nam nocte dignos furripis eloquens Perpetuas breve tempus ævi. Dum voce pingis pleniùs aureâ, Pacis erant mediique belli; Ut cuncta fermo vividus exhibet ! Vim mentibus gratam, atque tecum Quifquis Quifquis fideli fentit imagine Romam vetuftam, nunc medio fedet Sic blandiorem dum tetigit lyram Languet procaci vir Macedo fono, Crine nigram niveamque collo. Vates fonabat mox Phrygios modos Prorumpit heros; mens trepidat nove Lymphata motu; jam galeam rapit Criftis minacem, jam vibrato Exitium minitatur enfe. Nullus furori terminus obftitit, Dum domitum fibi fubdit orbem. ARBORI PULLENIANÆ. A RBOR ô, montis viridans aprici Ruris ô noftri decus, atque laffo Dulce levamen ! Floreas, nec te feriat fecuris Arbor alumnos. Ut tuis tandem recubem fub umbris, Sole revifo. Hinc genis ardens rofeis venuftas, Cogor in artes. B. T. END of the fecond Number. [81] THE STUDENT, OR THE OXFORD MONTHLY MISCELLANY. NUMBER III. March 31, 1750. ** To the STUDENT. SIR, A S the following anecdote contains a remarkable circumftance belonging to the English History, if you think it worthy a place in your Mifcellany, it is at your service. It may be neceffary to inform your readers, that it is a transcript from the hand-writing of the famous Mr. LOCKHART, author of the Memoirs of Scotland; and that the original manuscript was inferted in a blank leaf of a volume of Lord CLARENDON's Hiftory of the Rebellion, to which author the introduction to the ftory particularly refers. Yours, &c. Numb. III, L ANEC ANECDOTE relating to King CHARLES the Second. Tis very ftrange, that amongst fo many dangers, to which King CHARLES II. was expofed, and from which he was surprizingly and miraculously delivered, neither this, nor any other author I have met with, takes the leaft notice of one of a very extraordinary nature, which happened to him in Holland, and which was as follows. * The King, when at Brussels, being defirous and refolved to fee his fifter the Princefs of Orange, but withal under a neceffity to make the journey with the utmost fecrecy, did Communicate his defign to no perfon whatsoever. He ordered FLEMING (a fervant of the Earl of Wigton) who was in his fervice, and of whose fidelity he neither then nor ever after did doubt, fecretly to provide a couple of good horfes, and have them ready at a certain place and time of the next enfuing night by his Majefty appointed: that FLEMING with these horfes fhould remain alone till he heard from the King. At the time appointed, the King (having gone to bed, and afterwards dreffed himself, and privately gone out of a back-door, and leaving only a letter to fome one of his fervants in whom he confided, with an account of his having gone from them for a few days, and with directions to keep his abfence as fecret as poffible under pretence of being indifpofed) came to the place: there he found FLEMING with the horses as he had directed. He then acquainted FLEMING of his defign of going to the Hague; and not regarding the hazards he might be expofed to, away he went with this slender equipage and attendance, travelling through the most secret by-ways, and contriving it so that he came to *Meaning Lord CLARENDON. the |
