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with God , and shines triumphant in the divine company of more than 10 , 000 celestial virgins . —From the phrase , bis vidua mater , it appears that Ursula was an only child .
Many of your readers will recojlect how the author of the Pleasures of Memory describes a widowed mother , pensively musing over her sleeping infant till
t < . oft she lifts the veil to trace The father ' s features in the daughter's face . " Having been led back into the 17 th century , I take the liberty of adding a poetical effusion on the destruction of a Dutch fleet , in 1653 , during the
war between England and Holland . The lines appear in a journal of * ' several proceedings of Parliament , " published weekly , with the imprimatur of * ' Hen . Scobell , Clerk of the Parliament . " Articles of intelligence are occasionally introduced . One of these €€
is an account of a violent tempest , ' * on the coast of Holland , Nov . 4 , 1653 , * ' upon which occasion these verses were written , " in the true spirit of an age which ventured , with remarkable confidence , to interpret the dispensations of Providence :
" In Belgas de clede calamitosa eorum classi , viventorum et tempestatis marinse Impetu , nuper illata , in qu& ( ut ajunt ) mxittae naves Bellicas et homiuum millia naufragio periGre . " Carmen Duodechasticfion . " Vae vobis Belgas , si contra nixlitat aether , Angligetiumquc Deu . s , ventus et
oceanus . Quid stratagema valet ? Quid gens ? Quid bellica classis ? Si contra Christum , Christi columque gregem . Ah revocate gradum Batavi ! desistite bello , Angliades non sunt gens inimica togae . Pro Christo pugnant , ut Christ us raonte Slonis Regnet apad Oentes , et ruat urbs Babylon , Pandite tune oculos Belgae , vestigia cooJi
Cernite , sit Oastris , pa * pietasque redux . Ne Deus omujpotens vobis xuaJefacta rependat , Et pereat refragis , spesque salusque poli . Augustinus JVingfieldus , Parliament i Membrum .
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" Upon the Dutch , concerning ^ lamentable destruction which lately happened to their navy , through the force of the winds and violent assault of a sea tempest , wherein ( as it is reported ) many ships of war and some thousands of men perished by shipwrack . "A Duodecastick I ^ er&e . " Wo to ye Dutch , if th' elements appear 'Gainst you , and eke the Lord , then dread and fear : What can your plots , your nation , ships avail , If Christ t * oppose and * s flock , ye hoist up sail ? Repent , repent O Holland ! cease from wars ,
The English nation are tor peace , not jars : It ' s for the Lord they stand , that Christ alone May reign in Sion > and Antichrist dethrone . Then ope your eyes , and heavenward set your face , That so Gods hand may teach you peace t' imbrace : Least for your evil deeds , the Lord repay , And from heavens joys ye perish quite
away . Augustine Wingfield , in the Short or jBarbone ' s Parliament , ( of which see XIV . 357 , 358 , ) was one of the three representatives for Middlesex . I have
paid so much respect to the memory of a quondam M . P . for our county as to attempt , in the following translation , to give his Carmen JJuodechasticon a modern dress , not quite so uncouth as the made English of 1653 . Woe to the Belgians ! leagued against them see
Ocean and air , and England ' s Deity . Their stratagems , their martial navies fail : Christ and his flock—o ' er these no hosts prevail . Ah cease Batavians ! from the contest cease
With Albion ' s sons , no foes to arts of pe ^ ce . For Christ they combat , till he reign oer a 11 f ii On Sion ' s Mount , and Babel ' s turrets fall . Yes , Belgians I Heaven ' s high provided discern , And quick to peace and piety return , Or ere the Almighty ' s well-earu'd wratn ye prove , And perish , hopeless of the bliss above
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214 Latin Peifoes *~~ Translations .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/22/
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