"Tis he shall perfect all thy cares,
And with as fine a thread weave out thy loom :
So one did bring thy chosen people from

Their slavery and fears ;
Led them through their pathlefs, road,

Guided himself by God;
He brought them to the borders; but a second hand
Did settle, and secure them in the promis'd land.

VI. Upon the late storm, and the death of the pro

tector 0. Cromwell, ensuing the same. By Mr. Waller,

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E must refign: heav'n his great foul does claim,

In storms as loud as his immortal fame! His dying groans, his last breath shakes our isle, And trees uncut fall for his fun'ral pile! About this palace their broad roots are toft Into the air: so Romulus was loft. New Rome in such a tempest miss'd their king, And from obeying fell to worshipping. On Deta's top thus Hercules lay dead, With ruin'd oaks and pines about him spread : The poplar too, whose bough he wont to wear On his victorious head, lay prostrate there. Those his last fury from the mountain rent: Our dying hero, from the continents: Ravish'd whole towns; and forts, from Spaniards reft, As his last legacy to Britain left. The ocean, which so long our hopes confin'd, Could give no limits to his vafter mind; Our bounds enlargement was his latest toil, Nor hath he left us pris'ners to our isle : Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke, From civil broils he did us disengage ; Found nobler objects for our martial rage ;

And

And, with wise conduct, to his country shewd
Their antient way of conquering abroad.
Ungrateful then, if we no more allow
To him, that gave us peace and empire too.
Princes that fear'd him, griev'd, concern'd to see
No pitch of glory from the grave is free.
Nature herself took notice of his death,
And, fighing, swellid the sea with such a breath,
That to remotest shores her billows rollid,
Th' approaching fate of her greater ruler told.

From the Cambridge verses, written upon the lord pro

tector's death.

VII. In obitum fereniflimi domini, Olivarii Crom

welli, hujus reipublicæ protectoris.

LORES non Paphios, rosas

Huc ferte, aut violas; munera non rogant Hæc manes Olivarii :

Sed tela & clypeos, Martia præmia, Ferte, & laurigeras date

Laudes exequiis egregii ducis; Quo fama Angliacæ nitet

Gentis, præteritæ reddita gloriæ. Hic eft qui patriæ diu

Amissas penitus reftituit fuæ Leges ; qui furias pius

Bellona indigenæ composuit truces ; Et cujus Scotus horruit

Tot funefta tepens fanguine prælia. Noftri non femel impetum

Vi&tricemque manum fenfit Hibernia
Herois. Gladiis feri

Hujus subsidium consocialibus
Ambirunt proceres prece
Gallorum : potuit non fine prælio

Quem

Quem dirus Batavus fibi

Immanis valido jungere fædere ; Claffis cum laceras rates

Fudisset proprio Marte Britannica. Sic hoftes animo suos,

Dum vivus, domuit; fed, Libitina, te Laflam nomine deprimens,

Invictus pariter vixit & interit.

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No. VII.

The substance of a panegyric of the lord general

Oliver Cromwell, as presented to him by the Portuguese embassador don Juan Roderiguez de Saa Meneses, Conde de Penaguaia. Written in Latin, as pretended, by a learned Jesuit, his excellency's chaplain; but, as more probably supposed, by the celebrated Mr. John Milton, Latin secretary to Cromwell.

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HEN I had often and long revolved in mind

those illustrious examples, which, from an as. siduous reading of the antients of heroic time, I had treasure up in my memory, there occurred to me a certain fpecies of humanity superlatively excellent, formed out of the virtues of them all, which I proposed to myself as an idea, to which I might compare the protraits of whatever eminent men I could meet with in the present age And indeed it has so happened, by the will of fortune, that I have travelled over the greatest and moft noble part of Europe ; in which peregrination I both accidentally lit of, and industriously found, many who shone forth in every kind of praise, whom, as they respectively excelled, 1 compared with the species that resided in my mind, and observed how

nearly

nearly each came up to, or fell short of it; and from ; that fimilitude assigned to every one his own proper rank. Some there were, who, upon a comparison of their virtues, made up that resemblance in part; others, who almost represented it; but not one, I must ingenuously own, who expreffed it fully. That, indeed, seemed a thing rather to be wished than hoped for. For who was there who could, in every respect, bring together all the ornaments of the gown and the sword, so as to equal the idea I had formed from them?

But my voyage into Britain forbad me to despair. Britain, which, by being divided from the rest of the globe, made, in the opinion of the antients, a world of itself, has presented me with that which the other could not afford. There was an expectation already saised from the extraordinary fame of the person, but such an expectation as rather inflamed a defire, than produced a hope of finding in him what I had feigaed in my wilh. I was even afraid, left, as fame is wont to magnify things beyond their due, that the prefent virtue of the man, eminent as it was, would not suf tain the expectation it had raised. You, general Cromwell, the honour of your country, the safeguard of the commonwealth, the ornament of England, you are the man I mean. No sooner did I light on you,; and thoroughly inspect your accomplishments, and critically compare them with those I had collected in my own idea, but I persuaded myself, that you either equalled, or at least came nearer to than any other, this image of a perfect hero. I was overjoyed, that now I had found you : I remained poffefied of so vast a desire : for I had feen, in you I had seen, the picture of all policy, and of all publick virtue, moft completely delineated.

But, not to dwell in generals, let us consider those : virtues and endowments which made up that form that I had feigned in my mind, and compare them, as we proceed with your actions and accomplishments; that we may, by the comparison, determine if the latter come up to the former,

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First then, I had conceived, as a very desirable thing, a nobility that was pure, splendid, honourable; and at the same time, free from delicacy, free from vanity. I divided from it all meanness, luxury, haughtinefs, vaunting of itself. That which is folid, fubject to no shame, promotive of no pride; far above everything mean, near approaching to magnificence'; from which nobody might detract, and which might

detract from nobody; clear indeed and conspicuous, but not so as to obscure the lustre of others; which "Would not be satisfied with itself alone, or abftajn from action from an opinion that it had honour enough in its own blood ; but would fpur on to fame, and with still to increase in virtue ; not tending to make the

poffeffor careless, but brave, not indolent, but induf'trious ; this was the nobility that pleased me.

Such a nobility as this, moft illustrious Cromwell, have found yours to be ; pure, folid, true : full, not of paint, but of juice: made up, not so much of flowers, as of seeds : not wrapt up in smoke, and vanilhing in air ; but open and clear; aspiring, by firm gra. dations, to the highest things. You may boat yourfelf in this, but not grow proud. This nobility may neglect no man, and will be neglected of none: it need not defire light from you, but fplendor only; it is not void of praise, but breathing out a plenitude of glory.

To nobility (which, because it is derived from others, is more frequently called theirs, than our own) I added a study of letters, by which nature should be cul. tivated, the mind polished and subdued, and reason sharpened. Yet this, in a person instructed for the commonwealth, and trained up for political affairs, I wished might be moderate. For, as the art of governing a commonwealth, for the most part, is active and practical ; it should rather consist of counsel and prudence, than of speculative and theoretical knowledge and wisdom. It is neceslary therefore for him, who is brought up to the art of ruling and commanding, to be tinged indeed with a study of letters, which may reasonably inform him, and banish ignorance and un.

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