, describes Jacinta at _Vespers_:

Her eye did seem to labour with a tear,
Which suddenly took birth, but overweigh'd
With it's own swelling, drop'd upon her bosome;
Which, by reflexion of her light, appear'd
As nature meant her sorrow for an ornament:
After, her looks grew chearfull, and I saw
A smile shoot gracefull upward from her eyes,
As if they had gain'd a victory o'er grief,
And with it many _beams_ twisted themselves,
Upon whose _golden threads_ the _Angels_ walk
_To and again from Heaven_.----

You must not think me infected with the spirit of Lauder, if I give you
another of Milton's Imitations:

----The Swan _with arched neck_
Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows
Her state with oary feet.--B. 7. V. 438, &c.

"The ancient Poets," says Mr. Richardson, "have not hit upon this beauty;
so lavish as they have been in their descriptions of the _Swan_. Homer
calls the Swan _long-necked_, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}; but how much more
_pittoresque_, if he had _arched_ this length of neck?"

For _this beauty_, however, Milton was beholden to Donne; whose name, I
believe, at present is better known than his writings:

----Like a Ship in her full trim,
A _Swan_, so white that you may unto him
Compare all whitenesse, but himselfe to none,
Glided along, and as he glided watch'd,
And with his _arched neck_ this poore fish catch'd.--_Progresse of
the Soul_, St. 24.

Those highly finished Landscapes, the _Seasons_, are indeed copied from
Nature: but Thomson sometimes recollected the hand of his Master:

----The stately-sailing Swan
Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale;
_And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet_
Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier Isle,
Protective of his young.----

But _to return_, as we say on other occasions--Perhaps the Advocates for
Shakespeare's knowledge of the Latin language may be more successful. Mr.
Gildon takes the Van. "It is plain that He was acquainted with the Fables
of antiqu