n the Poet Bacchus' praise indite, -'d his grape -] ter has enlarged on the fame fentiment in his Epistle to Deodati. As we do not often find Milton celebrating , the paffage is the more curious and worth citing. eris refugam vino dapibufque poefin? Nafo drim Dulce Ah! why No feafts v Nor lefs, i He too, w 397. Ah! why complain't thou that from generous wine Phoebus, his wreath of laurel caft away, Ev'n in those haunts have join'd the Bacchant train. Th' infpiring power of Bacchus' aid we trace, Bedew'd with wine fang Chloe's auburn hair, 97. Humid regalement-] id regalement might have been fuggefted by the oppofite phrase food, in a fimilar paffage of Athenæus (L. ii. C. 3.) Ex TPOOHE - ούτ' αν σκώμματα γενοιτ', ου] αυτοσχεδια ποιηματα. Thus to the generous bottle all incline, 400 By parching thirst allur'd. With vehement funs Spenfer has alfo fome fine lines on the fame subject. Thou ken'ft not, Percy, how the rhyme fhould rage. How I could rear the Mufe on ftately stage, 405 Spenfer's OCTOBER. Ad mare quum veni, GENEROSUм et lene requiro. And Ovid, L. i. EPIST. xv. V. 18. Eft tibi rure bono GENEROSA fertilis UVÆ REMED. AMOR. 567. 402. When dufly fummer bakes the crumbling clods] GLEBASQUE jacentes PULVERULENTA coquat maturis folibus ESTAS. 403. Virg, GEORGIC. i. V. 65. beneath the twisted arch Of a retreating bower, in mid-day's reign-] Thus Milton, in the 5th Book of his PARADISE LOST, V. 229. Go therefore, half this day as friend with friend The retreating bower, might be fuggefted by Horace's Vitabis æftus. L. i. Ode. 17. Inclines, BOOK II. CIDER. Inclines, and Boreas' spirit blusters frore, 139 4II Beware th' inclement heavens; now let thy hearth And 407. and Boreas' Spirit blufters frore] 415 Dr. Warton has paid a compliment to this line, by borrowing it to tranflate the " Borea Spirante" of Virgil; GEORGIC. ii. 316. Frore is an old word for frosty; and used by Milton, P. L. ii. 595. 408. -now let thy hearth Crackle with juiceless boughs, thy lingering blood Diffolve frigus, LIGNA SUPER FOCO Hor. L. I. ODE ix. 412. December warns To annual jollities] age, LIBERTATE DECEMBRIS, Quando ita majores voluerunt, utere. Hor. L. II. Sat. vii. 4. The ancient annual jollities of this feafon of the year, are particularly noticed by Seneca, in the beginning of his 18th EPISTLE. "DECEM BRIS menfis eft, cum maxime civitas defudat. JUS LUXURIE PUB- multo gravidus mero DECEMBER. KAL. DEC. SAT. V. V. incondite rhythms.-] 414. Livy defcribes the Roman foldiers finging incondite rhythms, in honor of their victorious General. T 2 In In clean array for ruftic dance prepare, 420 Mixt with the buxom damfels; hand in hand 426 In eum milites CARMINA INCONDITA æquantes eum Romulo CANERE. L. iv. C. 20. 418. They frisk, and bound, and various mazes weave, This whole defcription of the Ruftic Ball is admirable. We may poffibly fuppofe, in these lines, that our Author had in his mind the fol lowing paffage of Lucretius, Tum caput, atque humeros plexis redimire coronis ATQUE EXTRA NUMERUM PROCEDERE MEMBRA MOVENTES an hafty kifs Steal from unwary laffes Thomfon defcribing a fcene of ruftic mirth (in his WINTER. V. 625.) mentions THE KISS, SNATCH'D HASTY from the fide-long maid, 424 with volant touch Traverfe loquacious ftrings] From the following paffage in the Eleventh Book of the PARADISE LOST, V. 558. others, whence the found Of inftruments that made melodious chime, Was heard, of HARP and organ; and who mov'd Their ftops and CHORDS was feen; his VOLANT TOUCH Instinct |