Upborne By frothy billows thousands float the stream In cumbrous mail, with love of farther shore; Confiding in their hands, that sed’lous strive To cut th’ outrageous fluent. In “Cyder” latinisms are still more abundant: _the nocent brood_ (of snails), _treacle’s viscuous juice_, _with grain incentive stored_, _the defecated liquour_, _irriguous sleep_, as well as passages like Nor from the sable ground expect success Nor from cretacious, stubborn or jejune, or Bards with volant touch Traverse loquacious strings. This kind of thing became extremely common and persisted throughout the eighteenth century. Incidentally, it may here be remarked that the publication of Philips’s poems probably gave to Lady Winchilsea a hint for her poem “Fanscombe Barn.”[98] Philips, as has been noted, was one of the very first to attempt to use Milton’s lofty diction, and his latinized sentence structure for commonplace and even trivial themes, and no doubt his experiment, having attracted Lady Winchilsea’s attention, inspired her own efforts at Miltonic parody, though it is probably “Cyder” and “The Splendid Shilling,” rather then “Paradise Lost,” that she takes as her model. Thus the carousings of the tramps forgathered in Fanscombe Barn are described: the swarthy bowl appears, Replete with liquor, globulous to fight, And threat’ning inundation o’er the brim; and the whole poem shows traces of its second-hand inspiration. Even those who are now remembered chiefly as Spenserian imitators indulge freely in a latinized style when they take to blank verse. Thus William Thompson, who in his poem “Sickness” has many phrases like “the arm _ignipotent_,” “_inundant_ blaze” (Bk. I), “terrestrial stores medicinal” (Bk. III), with numerous passages, of which the following is typical: the poet’s mind (Effluence essential of heat and light) Now mounts a loftier wing when Fancy leads The glittering track, and points him to the sky Excursive. (Bk. IV) William Shenstone, the author of one of the most successful of the Spenserian imitations, is more sparing in this respect, but even in his case passages such as Of words indeed profuse, Of gold tenacious, their torpescent soul Clenches their coin, and what electric fire Shall solve the frosty grip, and bid it flow? (“Economy,” Part I) are not infrequent.