HEC que fequuntur de Authore teftimonia, tam etfi ipfe intelligebat non tam de fe quàm fupra fe effe dicta, eò quòd præclaro ingenio viri, nec non amici ita fere folent laudare, ut omnia fuis potius virtutibus, quàm veritati congruentia nimis cupidè affingant ; noluit tamen horum egregiam in fe voluntatem non effe notam; Cum alii præfertim ut id faceret magnopere fuaderent. Dum enim nimiz laudis invidiam totis ab fe viribus amolitur, fibique quod plus æquo eft non attributum effe mavult, judicium interim hominum cordatorum atque illuftrium quin fummo sibi honori ducat, negare non poteft. Joannes Baptifta Manfus, Marchio Villenfis Neapolitanus, ad Joannem Miltonium Anglum. U T mens, forma, decor, facies, mos, fi pietas fic, 26 turn to me thy face at length, Unto thy fervant give thy ftrength, And be afham'd, because thou Lord PSAL. LXXXVII. A Mong the holy Mountains high Is his foundation fast, There Seated in his Sanctuary, His Temple there is plac'd. 2 Sion's fair Gates the Lord loves more Than all the dwellings fair Of Jacob's Land, though there be store, 3 City of God, moft glorious things I mention Ægypt, where proud Kings I mention Babel to my friends, And Tyre with Ethiops utmost ends, s But twice that praise fhall in out ear This and this man was born in her, The Lord fhall write it in a Scrowle When he the Nations doth enrowle, 7 Both they who fing, and they who dance, With facred Songs are there, In thee fresh brooks, and soft streams glance, I PSAL, LXXXVIII. Lord God thou doft me fave and keep, All day to thee I cry ; And all night long, before thee weep, Before thee proftrate lie. 2 Into thy prefence let my pray'r With fighs devout afcend, And to my cries, that ceaseless are, 3 For cloy'd with woes and trouble fore My life at death's unchearful door Unto the grave draws nigh. |