At A Vacation Exercise In The Colledge, Part Latin, Part English. The Latin Speeches Ended, The Engl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ IIKKLIBBBBMMIIMNBBII IIBBBBMMMMEMIIMMOP QBB RSENMMTUIIVWBBMMXXII YYXXZZIIEEMM A2B2 A2A2BBC2D2EEB2B2| Hail native Language that by sinews weak | A |
| Didst move my first endeavouring tongue to speak | A |
| And mad'st imperfect words with childish tripps | B |
| Half unpronounc't slide through my infant lipps | B |
| Driving dum silence from the portal dore | C |
| Where he had mutely sate two years before | C |
| Here I salute thee and thy pardon ask | D |
| That now I use thee in my latter task | D |
| Small loss it is that thence can come unto thee | E |
| I know my tongue but little Grace can do thee | E |
| Thou needst not be ambitious to be first | F |
| Believe me I have thither packt the worst | F |
| And if it happen as I did forecast | G |
| The daintest dishes shall be serv'd up last | G |
| I pray thee then deny me not thy aide | H |
| For this same small neglect that I have made | H |
| But haste thee strait to do me once a Pleasure | I |
| And from thy wardrope bring thy chiefest treasure | I |
| Not those new fangled toys and triming slight | J |
| Which takes our late fantasticks with delight | J |
| But cull those richest Robes and gay'st attire | I |
| Which deepest Spirits and choicest Wits desire | I |
| I have some naked thoughts that rove about | K |
| And loudly knock to have their passage out | K |
| And wearie of their place do only stay | L |
| Till thou hast deck't them in thy best aray | I |
| That so they may without suspect or fears | B |
| Fly swiftly to this fair Assembly's ears | B |
| Yet I had rather if I were to chuse | B |
| Thy service in some graver subject use | B |
| Such as may make thee search thy coffers round | M |
| Before thou cloath my fancy in fit sound | M |
| Such where the deep transported mind may scare | I |
| Above the wheeling poles and at Heav'ns dore | I |
| Look in and see each blissful Deitie | M |
| How he before the thunderous throne doth lie | N |
| Listening to what unshorn Apollo sings | B |
| To th'touch of golden wires while Hebe brings | B |
| Immortal Nectar to her Kingly Sire | I |
| Then passing through the Spherse of watchful fire | I |
| And mistie Regions of wide air next under | I |
| And hills of Snow and lofts of piled Thunder | I |
| May tell at length how green ey'd Neptune raves | B |
| In Heav'ns defiance mustering all his waves | B |
| Then sing of secret things that came to pass | B |
| When Beldam Nature in her cradle was | B |
| And last of Kings and Queens and Hero's old | M |
| Such as the wise Demodocus once told | M |
| In solemn Songs at King Alcinous feast | M |
| While sad Ulisses soul and all the rest | M |
| Are held with his melodious harmonie | E |
| In willing chains and sweet captivitie | M |
| But fie my wandring Muse how thou dost stray | I |
| Expectance calls thee now another way | I |
| Thou know'st it must he now thy only bent | M |
| To keep in compass of thy Predicament | M |
| Then quick about thy purpos'd business come | O |
| That to the next I may resign my Roome | P |
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| Then Ens is represented as Father of the Predicaments his ten | Q |
| Sons whereof the Eldest stood for Substance with his Canons | B |
| which Ens thus speaking explains | B |
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| Good luck befriend thee Son for at thy birth | R |
| The Faiery Ladies daunc't upon the hearth | S |
| Thy drowsie Nurse hath sworn she did them spie | E |
| Come tripping to the Room where thou didst lie | N |
| And sweetly singing round about thy Bed | M |
| Strew all their blessings on thy sleeping Head | M |
| She heard them give thee this that thou should'st still | T |
| From eyes of mortals walk invisible | U |
| Yet there is something that doth force my fear | I |
| For once it was my dismal hap to hear | I |
| A Sybil old bow bent with crooked age | V |
| That far events full wisely could presage | W |
| And in Times long and dark Prospective Glass | B |
| Fore saw what future dayes should bring to pass | B |
| Your Son said she nor can you it prevent | M |
| Shall subject be to many an Accident | M |
| O're all his Brethren he shall Reign as King | X |
| Yet every one shall make him underling | X |
| And those that cannot live from him asunder | I |
| Ungratefully shall strive to keep him under | I |
| In worth and excellence he shall out go them | Y |
| Yet being above them he shall be below them | Y |
| From others he shall stand in need of nothing | X |
| Yet on his Brothers shall depend for Cloathing | X |
| To find a Foe it shall not be his hap | Z |
| And peace shall lull him in her flowry lap | Z |
| Yet shall he live in strife and at his dore | I |
| Devouring war shall never cease to roare | I |
| Yea it shall be his natural property | E |
| To harbour those that are at enmity | E |
| What power what force what mighty spell if not | M |
| Your learned hands can loose this Gordian knot | M |
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| The next Quantity and Quality spake in Prose then Relation | A2 |
| was call'd by his Name | B2 |
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| Rivers arise whether thou be the Son | A2 |
| Of utmost Tweed or Oose or gulphie Dun | A2 |
| Or Trent who like some earth born Giant spreads | B |
| His thirty Armes along the indented Meads | B |
| Or sullen Mole that runneth underneath | C2 |
| Or Severn swift guilty of Maidens death | D2 |
| Or Rockie Avon or of Sedgie Lee | E |
| Or Coaly Tine or antient hallowed Dee | E |
| Or Humber loud that keeps the Scythians Name | B2 |
| Or Medway smooth or Royal Towred Thame | B2 |
John Milton
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