The Cry of the Kopal Blood to Heaven against the English Parricides.'

Nunc sub fæderibus coëant felicibus unà

Libertas, et jus sacri inviolabile sceptri.

Rege sub Augusto fas sit laudare Catonem. (GEORGE.)

Here, Diadems, with Freedom blend your rays;

AUGUSTUS throned endures a CATO's praise.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

IT would not have been difficult to prefix to the present Translation a Memoir of M. Saumaise, which should have contained several particulars bearing upon this controversy, extracted from volumes apparently never consulted by his biographers, and some which those biographers with the authorities in their hands seem studiously to have suppressed. A professed panegyrist like Vorstius, in his funeral Eloge, might perhaps be permitted (to borrow the language of his French Translator) passer ces choses-la peu agréables sous silence, et faire voiles à coté de ces écueils; but it can hardly be supposed, that a regular historian should have been guilty of the same omission. Yet Antoine Clement, in the Life prefixed to his Claudii Salmasii, Viri Maximi, Epistolarum Liber Primus* (4to. Lugd. Bat. 1656), although he adverts at some length to the part which his hero was invited

* The admirable portrait accompanying this Volume is followed by a not very admirable copy of verses from the pen

to take in the questions relative to Episcopacy, Presbytery, and Independency in the English Church, cautiously avoids even naming his impar congressus with the author of Paradise Lost: and Bayle is still more disingenuous. His only knowledge of Milton's marriage he appears to

of C. Barlæus. For the subjoined version of it I am, in a great degree, indebted to the Rev. Dr. Symmons.

In Effigiem Claudii Salmasii, Principis Eruditorum.

Gallia quo nuper, jam sidere Leyda superbit;
Prælucet magnis ortibus ista Pharos.
Hæc sunt perspecti, Lector, compendia mundi:
Fronte sub hac Pallas prodigiosa latet.
Partimur doctrinam alii; hìc se tota recondit;
Immensosque habitat mens spatiosa lares.
Scribite, scriptores: cui pagina scripta Solini est,
Judice me, scripti circulus orbis erit.

Of Gallia once, of Leyden now the star,
Art's glorious torch, this Pharos beams afar.
Crowded within this brow, a world is seen;
A giant Pallas sits enthroned within.
Learning is ours by scraps, his vast and whole;
Nor cramps the spacious dome his mighty soul.
Solinus now-toil on, ye writing hosts!
The universe of learning singly boasts.

--Meliùs tamen, says his Biographer, illud regimen (sc. Episcopale) et haud dubiè cum summá utilitate processurum in Anglicanis Ecclesiis existimabat; cùm videret contrà, sublatis Episcopis omne genus Hæresium et Schismatum pedetentim gliscere, et repentinam illam mutationem ac nimis violentam, nec institutam eo ordine ut fas erat, aliquando causam fore miserandee per universam Britanniam calamitatis.