which we now mentioned, the excellent Grotius hath framed this Epigram following: In organum motus perpetui quod est penes Maximum Britannia-eum regem Jacobum. Perpetui motus indelassata potestas Absq. quiete quies, absq. labore labor, Sed quod nunc Natura suis e legibus exit Mens tua quæ semper tranquilla et torpida nun quam, Tramite constanti per sua regna meat. Ut tua mens ergo motus cœlestis imago : Machina sic hæc est mentis imago tuæ. Translated thus. The untired strength of never-ceasing motion, A restless rest, a toyl-less operation, Heaven then had given it, when wise Nature did To frail and solid things one place forbid; And parting both, made the moon's orb their bound, Damning to various change this lower ground. new: This work was seen and found before, in you. In you, whose minde-though still calm-never sleeps, But through your realms one constant motion keeps: As your minde-then-was Heaven's type first, so this But the taught anti-type of your mind is. (p 20-21.) From Juvenal: Satire III d.1 Quoties nos descendentis arenæ 'Ibid: Sic, but? G. Translated by H. V. How oft have we beheld wilde beasts appear But I have seen sea-calves whom bears withstood; A horse, but in most foule proportion framed. (pp 40-1.) 4. Epigram from Martial. Many of these examples that I have produced to make good the title of this chapter [The art of cicuration and taming wilde beasts] and the apostle's saying above-mentioned, [St. James iii. 7] are briefly sum'd up by MARTIAL in his Book of Shows, the 105th Epigram, which I have here annexed, with the translation of Mr. Hen. Vaughan, Silurist, whose excellent poems are publique. Picto quod juga delicata collo Paret purpureis aper capistris. That the fierce pard doth at a beck Unto the ring; that a wild boar In purple muzzles to be lead; 2 Wild oxen in the Hercynian Forest, called buffles. P. [= buffaloes. G.] The negro or black-moor, that rides him. P. The elephant. P. |