the Expression is very similar to the Bishop’s: I will give you his Version as concisely as I can; “It is a nedeful thyng to suffer panis and torment—Sum in the wyndis, Sum under the watter, and in the fire uthir Sum:—thus the mony Vices— Contrakkit in the corpis be _done away_ _And purgit_.——_Sixte Booke of Eneados._ Fol. p. 191. It seems, however, “that Shakespeare _himself_ in the _Tempest_ hath translated some expressions of _Virgil_: witness the _O Dea certe_.” I presume we are here directed to the passage where Ferdinand says of Miranda, after hearing the Songs of Ariel, ——Most sure, the Goddess On whom these airs attend; and so _very small Latin_ is sufficient for this formidable translation, that if it be thought any honour to our Poet, I am loth to deprive him of it; but his honour is not built on such a sandy foundation. Let us turn to a _real Translator_, and examine whether the Idea might not be fully comprehended by an English reader; _supposing_ it necessarily borrowed from Virgil. Hexameters in our own language are almost forgotten; we will quote therefore this time from Stanyhurst: O to thee, fayre Virgin, what terme may rightly be fitted? Thy tongue, thy visage no mortal frayltie resembleth. ——_No doubt, a Godesse_!—Edit. 1583. Gabriel Harvey desired only to be “_Epitaph’d_, the Inventor of the _English Hexameter_,” and for a while every one would be _halting on Roman feet_; but the ridicule of our Fellow-Collegian Hall, in one of his _Satires_, and the reasoning of Daniel, in his _Defence of Rhyme_ against Campion, presently reduced us to our original Gothic. But to come nearer the purpose, what will you say if I can shew you that Shakespeare, when, in the favourite phrase, he had a Latin Poet _in his Eye_, most assuredly made use of a Translation? Prospero in the _Tempest_ begins the Address to his attendant _Spirits_, Ye Elves of Hills, of standing Lakes, and Groves. This speech Dr. Warburton rightly observes to be borrowed from Medea in Ovid: and “it proves,” says Mr. Holt, “beyond contradiction, that Shakespeare was perfectly acquainted with the Sentiments of the Ancients on the Subject of Inchantments.” The original lines are these, Auræque, & venti, montesque, amnesque, lacusque, Diique omnes nemorum, diique omnes noctis adeste. It happens, however, that the translation by Arthur Golding is by no means literal, and Shakespeare hath closely followed it; Ye Ayres and Winds; _Ye Elves of Hills_, of Brookes, of Woods alone, _Of standing Lakes_, and of the Night, approche ye everych one. I think it is unnecessary to pursue this any further; especially as more powerful arguments await us. In the _Merchant of Venice_, the Jew, as an apology for his cruelty to Anthonio, rehearses many _Sympathies_ and _Antipathies_ for which _no reason can be rendered_,