POEMATA. HYMENEAL ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. IGNARE nostrum mentes, et inertia corda, Viscera per, mollesque animis lene implicat æstus; NOTES. * Printed in the Cambridge Collection, 1736, fol. In this Collection is also a Latin Copy of Hendecasyllables, by Horace Walpole; a short Copy by Thomas Ashton, the friend of Walpole, &c.; and there are some Greek Verses by Richard Dawes, the author of Miscellanea Critica.' Ver. 1. Ignara] "Heu, vatum ignaræ mentes!" Virg. Æn. iv. 65. mirantur inertia corda," Æn. ix. 55. Ver. 2. Sortem] "Sortemque animo miseratus iniquam,” Æn. vi. 332. Ver. 4. Gratissima] "Dono divûm gratissima serpit,” Æn. ii. 269. "Teucrum Ver. 6. Veneris] "Nec dulces natos, Veneris nec præmia noris?" Æn. iv. 33. Ver. 7. Eloquium] Vide Hor. Od. IV. i. 35. And Pope's Homer, book xiv. ver. 252: "Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." And Fairfax's Tasso, iv. 85: "Dumb eloquence, persuading more than speech." Scilicet ignorant lacrymas, sævosque dolores, Tela Venus, cæcique armamentaria Divi, Irasque, insidiasque, et tacitum sub pectore vulnus ; 10 Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curæ ; 15 Ostia, jamque expers duris custodibus istis Tuque Oh! Angliacis, Princeps, spes optima regnis, 20 Ne tantum, ne finge metum: quid imagine captus Ibit in amplexus, thalamosque ornabit ovantes. 25 NOTES. Ver. 10. Flumine] "Bis flumine corpora tinguat," Ovid. Met. xii. 413. Ver. 11. Armamentaria] Quidquid habent telorum armamentaria cœli," Juv. Sat. xiii. 83. Ver. 12. Iras] This line, which is unmetrical, is so printed in the Cambridge Collection; and in Park's edition, without remark. The fault is probably in the author, and not in the printer; as the line is composed of two hemistichs of Virgil; Æn. xii. 336, “Iræque, Insidiæque, Dei comitatus, aguntur ;" and Æn. iv. 67, "Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus." Or perhaps a line is omitted, which should intervene. Ver. 14. Luctus] This line is from Virgil, Æn. vi. 274 : "Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curæ." Ver. 18. Duris]" Quos dura premit custodia matrum," Hor. Ep. I. i. 22. Ver. 23. Longum] "Nec longum tempus et ingens," &c. Virg. Georg. ii. SO. Affatu fruitur tacito, auscultatque tacentem Nascere, magna Dies, qua sese AUGUSTA Britanno 30 35 Latior effundi pontus, fluctusque morantes. 40 Nascere, Lux major, qua sese AUGUSTA Britanno NOTES. Ver. 30. Nascere]" Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo," Virg. Ecl. iv. 5, Ver. 33. Furore] "Subitoque accensa furore," Æn. iv. 697. Ver. 35. Comitatur] "Virum qui sic comitatur euntem ?" Æn. vi. 869. 'Explorat ventos, atque auribus aëra captat.' رو Ver. 37. Vocat] From Virg. Georg. iv. 495: “Crudelia retro Fata vocant.” Æn. v. 138: "Laudumque arrecta cupido." Ver. 41. Nascere] "Nascere, præque diem veniens age, Lucifer, almum," Virg. Ecl. viii. 118. Ver. 42. Propriamque dicabit] "Connubio jungam stabili, propriamque dicabo,” Virg. En. i. 73. VOL. I. 2 C Nox finem pompæ, finemque imponere curis Sculptile sicut ebur, faciemque arsisse venustam 45 50 55 NOTES. Ver. 44. Nor] So in Gray's Epistle from Sophonisba : "Pompa finis erat. Totâ vix nocte quievi." Ver. 47. Cupido] " Prô Venus, et tenerâ volucer cum matre Cupido," Ov. Met. ix. 481. Ver. 50. Verumque agnoscit] " Veros exponit amores," Ovid. Met. x. 439. parce profitemur amores," Ovid. Art. Am. ii. 639. Ver. 51. Sculptile] This is from Ovid's Metamorphoses, x. 247 : "Interea niveum mira feliciter arte Sculpitebur; formamque dedit, qua fœmina nasci Ars adeo latet arte suâ. Miratur, et haurit Pectore Pygmalion simulati corporis ignes." Ver. 56. Murmura] "Sed parvæ murmura linguæ," Ov. Met. xii. 49. "Veros Ver. 59. Amplexu] "Excipis amplexu, feliciaque oscula jungis," Ov. Ep. xviii. 101. And Met. x. 256: Oscula dat, reddique putat; loquiturque tenetque.” |