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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50938	Poems, &c. upon several occasions both English and Latin, &c. / composed at several times by Mr. John Milton ; with a small tractate of education to Mr. Hartlib.	Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1673 (1673)	Wing M2161A; ESTC R42174	88,645	298

at his Wings in Airy stream Of lively portrature display'd Softly on my eye-lids laid And as I wake sweet musick breath Above about or underneath Sent by som spirit to mortals good Or th'unseen Genius of the Wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious Cloysters pale And love the high embowed Roof With antick Pillars massy proof And storied Windows richly dight Casting a dimm religious light There let the pealing Organ blow To the full voic'd Quire below In Service high and Anthems cleer As may with sweetness through mine car Dissolve me into extasies And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes And may at last my weary age Find out the peacefull hermitage The Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew And every Herb that sips the dew Till old experience do attain To something like Prophetic strain These pleasures Melancholy give And I with thee will choose to live SONNETS I. ONightingale that on you bloomy Spray Warbl'st at eeve when all the Woods are still Thou with fresh hope the Lovers heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May Thy liquid notes that close the eye of Day First heard before the shallow Cuccoo's bill Portend success in love O if Jove's will Have linkt that amorous power to thy soft lay Now timely sing ere the rude Bird of Hate Foretell my hopeles doom in som Grove ny As thou from year to year hast sung too late For my relief yet hadst no reason why Whether the Muse or Love call thee his mate Both them I serve and of their train am I. II. Donna leggiadra il cui bel nome honora L'herbosa val di Rheno e il nobil varco Bene è colui d'ogni valore scarco Qual tuo spirto gentil non innamora Che dolcemente mostra si di fuora De sui atti soavi giamai parco E i don ' che son d'amor saette ed arco La onde l' alta tua 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Quando tu v●ga parli o lieta canti Che mover possa duro alpestre legno Guardi ciascun a gli occhi ed a gli orecchi L'entrata chi di te si truova indegno Gratia sola di su glivaglia inanti Che'l disio amoroso al cuor s'invecchi III. Qual in colle aspro al imbrunir di sera L'avezza givvinetta pastorella Va bagnando l'herbetta strana e bella Che mal si spande a disusata spera Fuor di sua natia alma primavera Cosi amor meco insu la lingua suella Desta il fior novo di strania favella Mentre io di te vezzosamente altera Canto dal mio buon popol non inteso E'l bel Tamigi cangio col bel Arno. Amor lo volse ed io a l'altrui peso Seppich ' Amor cosa mai volse indarno Deh foss ' il mio cuor lento e'l duro seno A chi pianta dal ciel si buon terreno Canzone RIdonsi donne e giovani amorosi M' accostandosi attorno e perche scrivi Perche tu scrivi in lingua ignota e strana Verseggiando d'amor e come t'osi Dinne se la tua speme sia mai vana E de pensieri lo miglior t' arrivi Cosi mivan burlando altri rivi Altri lidi t'aspettan altre onde Nelle cui verdi sponde Spuntati ad hor ad hor a la tua chioma L'immortal guiderdon d'eterne frondi Perche alle spalle tue soverchia soma Canzon dirotti e tu per me rispondi Dice mia Donna e'l suo dir e il mio euore Questa e lingua di cui si vanta Amore. IV. Digdati e te'l diro con maraviglia Quel ritroso io ch'amor spreggiar solea E de suoi lacci spesso mi ridea Giacaddi ov'huom dabben talhor s'impiglia Ne treecie d'oro ne guancia vermiglia M' abbaglian si ma sotto nova idea Pellegrina bellezza che'l euor bea Portamenti alti honesti e nelle ciglia Quel sereno fulgor d' amabil nero Parole adorne di lingua piu d'una E'l cantar che di mezzo l'hemispero Traviar ben puo la faticosa Luna E degli occhi suoi auventa si gran fuoco Che l'incerar gli orecchi mi fia poco V. Per certo i bei vostr'occhi Donna mia Esser non puo che non fian lo mio sole Si mi percuoton forte come ei suole Per l'arene di Libia chi s'invia Mentre un caldo vapor ne senti pria Da quel lato si spinge ove mi duole Che forse amanti nelle lor parole Chiaman sospir io non so che si sia Parte rinchiusa e turbida si cela Scosso mi il petto e poi n'uscendo poco Quivi d'attorno o s'agghiaccia o s'ingiela Ma quanto a gli occhi giunge e trovar loco Tutte le notti a me suol far piovose Finche mia Alba rivien colma di rose VI. Giovane piano e semplicetto amante Pei che fuggir me stesso indubbio sono Madonna a voi del mio cuor l'humil dono Faro divoto io certo a prove tante L'hebbi fedele intrepido costante De pensieri leggiadro accorto e buono Quando rugge il gran mondo e scocca il tuono S'arma dise d'intero diamante Tanto del forse e d'invidia sicuro Ditimori e speranze al pepol use Quanto d'ingegno e d' alto valor vago E di cetra sonora e delle muse Sol troverete in tal parte men duro Ove amor mise l'insanabil ago VII How soon hath time the suttle thees of youth Soln on his wing my three and twentieth yeer My hasting dayes flie on with full career But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I to manhood am arriv'd so near And inward ripenes doth much less appear That som more timely-happy spirits indu'th Yet be it less or more or soon or slow It shall be still in strictest measure eev'n To that same lot however mean or high Toward which Time leads me and the will of Heav'n 〈…〉 if I have grace to use it so As ever in my great task Masters eye VIII Captain or Colonel or Knight in Arms Whose chance on these defenceless dores may fease If deed of honour did thee ever please Guard them and him within protect from harms He can requite thee for he knows the charms That call Fame on such gentle acts as these And he can spred thy Name o're Lands and Seas What ever clime the Suns bright circle warms Lift not thy spear against the Muses Bowre The great Emathian Conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus when Temple and Towre Went to the ground And the repeated air Of sad Electra's Poet had the power To save th' Athenian Walls from ruine bare IX Lady that in the prime of earliest

leads me not But if you can accept of these few observations which have flowr'd off and are as it were the burnishing of many studious and contemplative years altogether spent in the search of religious and civil knowledge and such as pleas'd you so well in the relating I here give you them to dispose of The end then of Learning is to repair the ruines of our first Parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him to imitate him to be like him as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection But because our understanding cannot in this body found it self but on sensible things nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature the same method is necessarily to be follow'd in all discreet teaching And seeing every Nation affords not experience and tradition enough for all kind of Learning therefore we are chiefly taught the Languages of those people who have at any time been most industrious after Wisdom so that Language is but the Instrument conveying to us things usefull to be known And though a Linguist should pride himself to have all the Tongues that Babel cleft the world into yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the Words Lexicons he were nothing so much to be esteem'd a learned man as any Yeoman or Tradesman competently wise in his Mother Dialect only Hence appear the many mistakes which have made Learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful first we do amiss to spend seven or eight years meerly in scraping together so much miserable Latine and Greek as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to Schools and Universities partly in a preposterous exaction forcing the empty wits of Children to compose Theams Verses and Orations which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head fill'd by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings like blood out of the Nose or the plucking of untimely fruit besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom with their untutor'd Anglicisms odious to be read yet not to be avoided without a well continu'd and judicious conversing among pure Authors digested which they scarce taste whereas if after some preparatory grounds of speech by their certain forms got into memory they were led to the praxis thereof in some chosen short book lesson'd throughly to them they might then forthwith proceed to learn the substance of good things and Arts in due order which would bring the whole language quickly into their power This I take to be the most rational and most profitable way of learning Languages and whereby we may best hope to give account to God of our youth spent herein And for the usual method of teaching Arts I deem it to be an old errour of Universities not yet well recover'd from the Scholastick grossness of barbarous ages that in stead of beginning with Arts most easie and those be such as are most obvious to the sence they present their young unmatriculated Novices at first comming with the most intellective abstractions of Logick and Metapysicks So that they having but newly left those Grammatick flats and shallows where they stuck unreasonably to learn a few words with lamentable construction and now on the sudden transported under another climate to be tost and turmoil'd with their unballasted wits in fadomless and unquiet deeps of controversie do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of Learning mockt and deluded all this while with ragged Notions and Babblements while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge till poverty or youthful years call them importunately their several wayes and hasten them with the sway of friends either to an ambitious and mercenary or ignorantly zealous Divinity Some allur'd to the trade of Law grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity which was never taught them but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms fat contentions and flowing fees others betake them to State affairs with souls so unprincipl'd in vertue and true generous breeding that flattery and Court shifts and tyrannous Aphorisms appear to them the highest points of wisdom instilling their barren hearts with a conscientious slavery if as I rather think it be not fain'd Others lastly of a more delicious and airie spirit retire themselves knowing no better to the enjoyments of ease and luxury living out their daies in feast and jollity which indeed is the wisest and the safest course of all these unless they were with more integrity undertaken And these are the fruits of mispending our prime youth at the Schools and Universities as we do either in learning meer words or such things chiefly as were better unlearnt I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do but strait conduct ye to a hill side where I will point ye out the right path of a vertuous and noble Education laborious indeed at the first ascent but else so smooth so green so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming I doubt not but ye shall have more adoe to drive our dullest and laziest youth our stocks and stubbs from the infinite desire of such a happy nurture then we have now to hale and drag our choisest and hopefullest Wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age I call therefore a compleat and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and publick of Peace and War And how all this may be done between twelve and one and twenty less time then is now bestow'd in pure trifling at Grammar and Sophistry is to be thus order'd First to find out a spatious house and ground about it fit for an Academy and big enough to lodge a hundred and fifty persons whereof twenty or thereabout may be attendants all under the government of one who shall be thought of desert sufficient and ability either to do all or wisely to direct and oversee it done This place should be at once both School and University not needing a remove to any other house of Schollership except it be some peculiar Colledge of Law or Physick where they mean to be practitioners but as for those general studies which take up all our time from Lilly to the commencing as they term it Master of Art