Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkl'd, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
Young: Night Thoughts, night v. line 600.
Græcia Mæonidam, jactet sibi Roma Maronem,
Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem
(Greece boasts her Homer, Rome can Virgil claim;
England can either match in Milton's fame).
Selvaggi: Ad Joannem Miltonum.