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Updated: June 14, 2025
He first distinguished himself by his Latin compositions, published in the Musae Anglicanae: and was admired as one of the best Authors since the Augustan Age, in the two universities and the greatest part of Europe, before he was talked of as a Poet in Town. There is not, perhaps, any harder task than to tame the natural wildness of Wit, and to civilize the Fancy.
With respect to the fourth eclogue, addressed to Pollio, it is avowedly of a nature superior to that of pastoral subjects: Sicelides Musae, paullo majora canamus. Sicilian Muse, be ours a loftier strain.
Five years afterwards, when the loyal and learned divine was at Christ Church, Oxford, we find his name to a copy of Latin verses, addressed to the Protector on his conclusion of a treaty with the States of Holland. This, no doubt, was a mere college exercise. See Musae Oxoniensies, 1654.
The child who inspired the Mantuan poet with the idyl, or rather with the magnificent prophecy, Sicelides Musae, etc., was but an humble creature by the side of this infant, who to the most impressive pride of race added enormous, newly acquired glory, such as the world had never seen."
I should like to spend a week with you wandering through those Devonshire lanes if I could carry my two rooms with me and stick them in a field. Affectionately, G. L. My Dear Godfather, The little Musae came safely. My love to you for them, and for the pretty inscription. I positively refuse to say a single syllable on your scholarship.
Can your skipper come aboard? 'Just launching a boat, cried Logan. Bude gave the necessary orders. His captain stepped up to him and saluted. 'Do you know what these red fire-flies were that come aboard, sir? he asked. 'Fire-flies? Oh, musae volitantes sonorae, a common phenomenon in these latitudes, answered Bude. Logan rejoiced to see that the earl was himself again.
Dryden, indeed, as a man discountenanced and deprived, was silent; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute of tuneful sorrow. An emulation of elegy was universal. Mary's praise was not confined to the English language, but fills a great part of the Musae Anglicanae. Prior, who was both a poet and a courtier, was too diligent to miss this opportunity of respect.
He was to command not only the city-guard, but all the armed force. He had accepted the appointment with cheerful alacrity, and requested Maria to inform her husband. "Accept my congratulations," said the burgomaster's wife. "But what will now become of your motto: 'Ante omnia Musae?" "I shall change the words a little and say: 'Omnia ante Musas."
His Latin compositions seem to have had much of his fondness, for he collected a second volume of the "Musae Anglicanae" perhaps for a convenient receptacle, in which all his Latin pieces are inserted, and where his poem on the Peace has the first place. He afterwards presented the collection to Boileau, who from that time "conceived," says Tickell, "an opinion of the English genius for poetry."
For what glorious results may we not look when children from their earliest years learn that which is essential, but which now, alas! is picked up unmethodically and by chance? I cannot help saying all this to you, for your Musae arrived just as my youngest brother came home from Winchester. He was delighted with it, for he is able to write very fair Latin and Greek. That boy is nearly eighteen.
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