_Till he, pressed down by his own weighty name, Did, like the vestal, under spoils decease._--St. XXXIV. p. 14. Tarpeia, the virgin who betrayed a gate of Rome to the Sabines, demanded, in recompense, what they wore on their left arms, meaning their golden bracelets. But the Sabines, detesting her treachery, or not disposed to gratify her avarice, chose to understand, that her request related to their bucklers, and flung them upon her in such numbers as to kill her. Note XVIII. _But first the ocean as a tribute sent The giant prince of all her watery herd; And the isle, when her protecting Genius went, Upon his obsequies loud sighs conferred._--St. XXXV. p. 14. The circumstance, of the dreadful storm which happened on the day of Cromwell's death, is noticed by all writers. Many vessels were dashed on the coast, and trees and houses were overthrown, upon the land. It seemed as if that active spirit, which had rode in the whirlwind while he lived, could not depart without an universal convulsion of nature. Waller has touched upon this remarkable incident with great felicity: We must resign; heaven his great soul does claim, In storms as loud as his immortal fame; His dying groans, his last breath, shakes our isle, And trees uncut fall for his funeral pile; About his palace their broad roots were tost Into the air:--so Romulus was lost; New Rome in such a tempest missed her king, And from obeying fell to worshipping. But, while the authors of these threnodies explained this prodigious storm as attendant on the deification of the Protector, or at least the effects of the Genius of Britain's unbounded lamentation, the cavaliers unanimously agreed, that the tempest accompanied the transportation of his spirit to the infernal regions. Note XIX. _His ashes in a peaceful urn shall rest._--St. XXXVII. p. 14.