10* S.I. MARCH 12, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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The translations of Tasso that follow are
quite literal. I give them in preference to
the original, as some of your readers may
not be masters of the Italian language :
What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome ; That glory never shall His wrath or might Extort from me. ' Paradise Lost,' Book I.
"Twere idle to deny worsted we failed ; Yet the grand thought lacked none of Virtue's
own.
Whate'er it was gave victory to His will, Unconquered daring is our glory still.
'Ger. Lib.,' Canto IV.
" Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for heaven ? this mournful
gloom For that celestial light ?"
'Paradise Lost,' Book I. And we in lieu of day serene and pure, Of golden sun, of treading starry ways, Are here immured in this abyss obscure.
'Ger. Lib., 'Canto IV.
On the other side, Satan, alarm'd, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremov'd : His stature reached the sky.
' Paradise Lost,' Book IV. His rough and weighty sceptre doth he swing ; The seas contain no loftier rock nor cliff', Calpe nor Atlas higher raise their peaks.
'Ger. Lib.,' Canto IV.
To conclude with one or two minor instances, Milton puts these words into the mouth of the Almighty :
Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.
' Paradise Lost,' Book VII.
Let what I will be Fate ! (Sia destin cio ch' io voglio). ' Ger. Lib.,' Canto IV.
To spite us more,
Determined to advance into our room A creature formed of earth, and him endow, Exalted from so base original, With heavenly spoils, our spoils.
' Paradise Lost,' Book IX. Mankind he calls into Eternal Day, Vile earth-born man made of still viler clay.
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Conqueror triumphant, and in our despite Displayed the spoils of Hell in Heaven's sight ' Ger. Lib.,' Canto IV.
The above -will appear to most reader fairly numerous instances of similarity whei it is remembered that Tasso's description o Hell and his report of Pluto's speech ar limited to some eighteen stanzas in th whole epic. HOLCOMBE INGLEBY.
Heaeham, Norfolk.
JURTON'S ' ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY,'
(See 9 th S. xi. 181, 222, 263, 322, 441 ; xii. 2, 62,
162, 301, 362, 442 ; 10 th S. i. 42, 163.)
THE first four of the following notes should trictly have been given before :
Vol. i. p. 14, 1. 5 and n. 1 ; 3, 1. 10 and n. b, ' turbine raptus ingenii Scaliger." ' De Subtil.,' Exercit. 324, " videris turbine aptus, atque tempestate ingenii tui."
P. 43, n. 3 ; 20, n. p, "Anaxagoras oliin mens dictus ab antiquis." See the lines of ?imon ap. Diog. Laert., ii. 3, 1. Traversarius's rendering as given by Cobet begins
Fertur Anaxagoras quondam, fortissimus heros,.
Mens dictus.
P. 44, 1. 11 ; 21, 1. 6, "an enemy to all arts- and sciences, as Athenseus." See xiii. 588a, where Epicurus, not Socrates, is described as fyKVK\iov TrcuSet'as a/xiWos wv, the "omnium disciplinarum ignarus of Burton's marginal note.
P. 58, 1. 30 ; 30, 1. 4, "Flos hominum." Cf, J. C. Scaliger, ' Lacrymae,' ix. 1, in ' Poemata' (1574), Pt. I. 540 :
Flos hominum, flos idem hominum, sobolesque Deorum.
P. 85, 1. 1; 45, 1. 13, "his [Cardan's] triiun*
viri terrarum are Ptolemseus, Plotinus,
Hippocrates." ' De Subtil.,' xvi. 804, ecK Bas., 1582.
P. 85, 1. 2: 45, 1. 14, " Scaliger, exercitat- 224." Should be 324. For " Galen fimbriam Hippocratis " see ' Conf. Fab. Burd.,' p. 202, ed. 1612.
P. 85, 1. 8 ; 45, 1. 19, "Scaliger and Cardan, admire Suisset the Calculator, qui psene modum excessit humani ingenii." Seal., ' De Subtil.,' Exercit. 324, "qui psene modum excessit ingenii humani," and Cardan, * De Subt.,' xvi. 802.
P. 85, n. 6 ; 45, n. f, " Actione ad Subtil, in Seal. fol. 1226." Cardan's "In Calumnia- torem librorum de Subtilitate actio prima," p. 1015 ad fin. in 1582 ed. of his ' De Subt.'
P. 85, n. '13; 45, n. m, "Ps." Add xxxvi. 8.
P. 87, 1. 1; 46, 1. 25, "as you may read at large in Constantino's husbandry." See ' Geoponica,' x. 4, 4-9.
P. 87, 1. 2 ; 46, 1. 26, " That antipathy betwixt the vine and the cabbage, wine and oil." See 'Geopon.,' v. 11, 3; and xii. 17, 17-21.
P. 87, n. 1 ; 46, n. b, " See Lipsius, epist." Cent. I. ad Bel gas, 44.
P. 87, 1. 20 and n. 4 ; 43, n. c, " Cato Lib. de re rust." See Cato, 'De Agri Cultura/ i. 2, "vicini quo animo niteant, id animurn advertito : in bona regione bene nitere oportebit."
