Or on th' Emilian,' some from farthest south
Syene, and where the shadow both way falls,
Meroe, Nilotic isle, and more to west,

The realm of Bocchus to the Black-moor sea;
From the Asian kings and Parthian, among these,
From India and the golden Chersonese,
And utmost Indian isle Taprobane,

Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd:
From Gallia, Gades, and the British west, vod A
Germans, and Scythians, and Sarmatians north
Beyond Danubius to the Tauric pool. mois 10
All nations now to Rome obedience pay, eslot 10
To Rome's great emperor, whose wide domain A
In ample territory, wealth, and power, dis sT
Civility of manners, arts, and arms, Jornad
And long renown, thou justly may'st prefer sit o
Before the Parthian; these two thrones except,
30
The rest are barbarous, and scarce worth the sight,
Shared among petty kings too far removed.
These having shown thee, I have shown thee all
The kingdoms of the world, and all their glory.
This emperor hath no son, and now is old, a T
Old and lascivious, and from Rome retired W
To Capreæ, an island small but strongs atorm
On the Campanian shore, with purpose there
His horrid lusts in private to enjoy,og to 89300H
Committing to a wicked favourite 7 pro
All public cares, and yet of him suspicious,iatu
Hated of all and hating: with what ease, v
Indued with regal virtues as thou art, she l
Appearing and beginning noble deeds, of T
Might'st thou expel this monster from his throne,
Now made a sty, and, in his place ascending,
A victor people free from servile yoke? roguenH
And with my help thou may'st; to me the power

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4 Cadiz, in Spain, the extreme west of the Roman Empire. OTVA

5 Palus Mæotis, or Black Sea.
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Is given, and by that right I give it thee.
Aim therefore at no less than all the world,
Aim at the highest, without the highest attain'd
Will be for thee no sitting, or not long,
On David's throne, be prophesied what will.
To whom the Son of God unmoved replied.
Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show
Of luxury, though call'd magnificence,
More than of arms before, allure mine eye,
Much less my mind; though thou should'st add to tell
Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts

On citron tables or Atlantic stone,

For I have also heard, perhaps have read,
Their wines of Setia, Cales, and Falerne,2
Chios, and Crete, and how they quaff in gold,
Crystal and myrrhine cups emboss'd with gems
And studs of pearl, to me should'st tell who thirst
And hunger still. Then embassies thou show'st
From nations far and nigh. What honour that,
But tedious waste of time to sit and hear
So many hollow compliments and lies,
Outlandish flatteries? then proceed'st to talk
Of the emperor, how easily subdued,
How gloriously; I shall, thou say'st, expel
A brutish monster: what if I withal
Expel a devil who first made him such ?
Let his tormenter conscience find him out;
For him I was not sent, nor yet to free
That people, victor once, now vile and base,
Deservedly made vassal, who, once just,
Frugal, and mild, and temperate, conquer'd well,
But govern ill the nations under yoke,
Peeling their provinces, exhausted all
But lust and rapine; first ambitious grown
Of triumph, that insulting vanity;
Then cruel, by their sports to blood inured

1 Tables of citron-wood were very highly valued by the Romans. It grew on Mount Atlas. Atlantic stone was probably marble from Numidia. Pliny, in his Hist. Nat. lib. v. c. i., says that

the woods of Atlas were explored for citron-wood.

2 These were famous Campanian wines. Falerian was the best wine they possessed. 3 Greek wines.

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Sacou if ther weath, and græder all,
Aut from the Cuir scene offenmate

TI V NÍ vaimun mar word seek to free
These tone degenerat, by themselves ensiawed,
Creonić i zwarć saves make outward free?
Know theseine, when my season comes to sit
On Devil's Stone, a sual te Pike a tree
Spreading and marinadowing all the earth,
Or as a some that sinal to pieces hash
AT manarines beates throughout the world,
And if my kingdom there sht be no end.
Means there shall be to this, but what the means,
Is not for the to know, ber me to tel

Is whom the tempter impalent replied.
I see all offers made by me bow sight
Thon raits, because offer'd, and reject'st;
Nothing will please the diffealt and nice,
Or nothing more than still to contradict.
On the other side know also thon, that I
On what I offer set as high esteem,
Nor what I part with mean to give for nonght;
All these which in a moment thou behold'st,
The kingdoms of the world to thee I give;
For, giv'n to me, I give to whom I please,
No trifle; yet with this reserve, not else,
On this condition, if thou wilt fall down,
And worship me as thy superior lord,
Easily done, and hold them all of me:
For what can less so great a gift deserve?

Whom thus our Saviour answer'd with disdain.

I never liked thy talk, thy offers less,

Now both abhor, since thou hast dared to utter
The abominable terms, impious condition;

But I endure the time, till which expired,

u hast permission on me. It is written
t of all commandments, Thou shalt worship
1 thy God, and only him shalt serve;
st thou to the Son of GoD propound
thee accurst, now more accurst

For this attempt, bolder than that on Eve,
And more blasphemous? which expect to rue.
The kingdoms of the world to thee were giv'n,
Permitted rather, and by thee usurp'd,
Other donation none thou canst produce:
If giv'n, by whom but by the King of kings,
Gon over all Supreme? if given to thee,
By thee how fairly is the giver now

Repaid? but gratitude in thee is lost

Long since. Wert thou so void of fear or shame,
As offer them to me the Son of God,

To me my own, on such abhorrèd pact,
That I fall down and worship thee as GOD?
Get thee behind me; plain thou now appear'st
That evil one, Satan for ever damn'd.

To whom the fiend with fear abash'd replied.
Be not so sore offended, Son of GOD,

Though sons of GOD both angels are and men,
If I, to try whether in higher sort

Than these thou bear'st that title, have proposed
What both from men and angels I receive,
Tetrarchs of fire, air, flood, and on the earth
Nations besides from all the quarter'd winds,
GOD of this world invoked and world beneath;
Who then thou art, whose coming is foretold
To me so fatal, me it most concerns.
The trial hath indamaged thee no way,
Rather more honour left and more esteem;
Me nought advantaged, missing what I aim'd.
Therefore let pass, as they are transitory,
The kingdoms of this world; I shall no more
Advise thee; gain them as thou canst, or not.
And thou thyself seem'st otherwise inclined
Than to a worldly crown, addicted more
To contemplation and profound dispute,
As by that early action may be judged,

When, slipping from thy mother's eye, thou went'st
Alone into the temple, there wast found
Amongst the gravest rabbies disputant
On points and questions fitting Moses' chair,

Teaching, not taught. The dihood shows the man.
As morning shows the day. Be famous then
By wisdom; as thy empire must extend,
So let extend thy mind d'er all the world
In knowledge, all things in it comprehend:
All knowledge is not couch'd in Moses' law,
The Pentateuch, or what the propbets wrote;
The Gentiles also know, and write, and teach
To admiration, led by nature's light;

And with the Gentiles much thou must converse,
Baling them by persuasion as thon mean'st;
Without their learning how wilt thou with them,
Or they with thee, hold conversation meet?
How wilt thou reason with them? how refute
Their idolisms, traditions, paradoxes?
Error by his own arms is best evinced.

Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount,
Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold
Where on the Egean shore a city stands
Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil,
Athens the eye of Greece,' mother of arts
And eloquence, native to famous wits,
Or hospitable, in her sweet recess,

en view

daughter of Pandion, King of Athens, was changed into a nightingale.

the

Aristotle. The Lyceum was school of Aristotle. Stoa was the school of Zeno, whose disciples were hence called Stoics. This Stoa, or portico, was adorned with a variety of paintings.