Mean while the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness:

The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made

To a green thought in a green shade.

Here at the fountain's sliding foot,
Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root,
Casting the body's vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide:
There, like a bird, it sits and sings,
Then whets, and claps its silver wings;
And, till prepar'd for longer flight,
Waves in its plumes the various light.

Such was the happy garden state,
While man there walk'd without a mate :
After a place so pure and sweet,
What other help could yet be meet!

But 'twas beyond a mortal's share
To wander solitary there:
Two paradises are in one,
To live in paradise alone.

How well the skilful gard'ner drew
Of flow'rs, and herbs, this dial new:
Where, from above, the milder sun
Does through a fragrant zodiac run:
And, as it works, th' industrious bee
Computes its time as well as we.

How could such sweet and wholesome hours
Be reckon'd but with herbs and flow'rs."

We have not extracted any other specimens of Marvell's burlesque or facetious poetry, that we might have space for the more interesting and superior extracts from the foregoing poems, and from his prose writings. His political facetiæ, although extremely witty and caustic, are generally interwoven with references to persons and public occurrences, now gone to the "tomb of the Capulets."

One of the pleasantest of Marvell's poems, is his character of Holland, with which we shall conclude our poetical extracts. It is pregnant with wit, and deserves to be quoted entire. We can only afford room for the first half of it.

'Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but th' off-scouring of the British sand ;

And so much earth as was contributed.

By English pilots when they heav'd the lead;
Or what by th' ocean's slow alluvion fell,
Of shipwreck'd cockle and the muscle-shell;
This indigested vomit of the sea

Fell to the Dutch by just propriety.

Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour, fish'd the land to shore : And div'd as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if't had been of Ambergreece; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows bear away; Or than those pills which sordid beetles rowl, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul.

How did they rivet, with gigantic piles,
Thorough the centre their new-catched miles;
And to the stake a struggling country bound,
Where barking waves still bait the forced ground;
Building their watry Babel far more high

To reach the sea, than those to scale the sky.
Yet still his claim the injur'd ocean lay'd,
And oft at leap-frog o'er their steeples play'd;
As if on purpose it on land had come
To shew them what's their mare liberum.
A daily deluge over them does boil;
The earth and water play at level-coyl.
The fish oft-times the burgher dispossess'd,
And sat, not as a meat, but as a guest ;
And oft the Tritons, and the sea-nymphs, saw
Whole shoals of Dutch serv'd up
for Cabillau ;
Or, as they over the new level rang'd,

For pickled herring, pickled heeren chang'd.
Nature, it seem'd, asham'd of her mistake,

Would throw their land away at duck and drake,
Therefore necessity, that first made kings,
Something like government among them brings.
For, as with Pygmys, who best kills the crane,
Among the hungry he that treasures grain,
Among the blind the one-ey'd blinkard reigns,
So rules among the drowned he that drains.
Not who first see the rising sun commands:
But who could first discern the rising lands.
Who best could know to pump an earth so leak,
Him they their lord, and country's father, speak.

To make a bank, was a great plot of state;
Invent a shov❜l, and be a magistrate.

Hence some small dyke grave, unperceiv'd invades
The pow'r, and grows, as 'twere, a king of spades;
But, for less envy some join'd states endures,
Who look like a commission of the sewers :
For these half-anders, half wet, and half dry,
Nor bear strict service, nor pure liberty.

'Tis probable religion, after this,

Came next in order; which they could not miss.
How could the Dutch but be converted, when
Th' Apostles were so many fishermen ?
Besides, the waters of themselves did rise,
And, as their land, so them did re-baptize;
Tho' herring for their God few voices miss'd,
And Poor-John to have been th' Evangelist.
Faith, that could never twins conceive before,
Never so fertile, spawn'd upon this shore
More pregnant than their Margret, that lay'd down
For Hands-in-Kelder of a whole Hans-Town.

Sure when religion did itself embark,

And from the east would westward steer its ark,
It struck, and splitting on this unknown ground,
Each one thence pillag'd the first piece he found:
Hence Amsterdam, Turk, Christian, Pagan, Jew,
Staple of sects, and mint of schism grew;
That bank of conscience, where not one so strange
Opinion, but finds credit, and exchange.

In vain for Catholics ourselves we bear:
The universal church is only there."

Captain Thompson was a very incorrect and injudicious editor of Marvell's works. He omits, altogether, his authority for various insertions and assertions of doubtful character. The celebrated ballad of William and Margaret, published and claimed by Mallet, is transferred to Marvell, by Captain Thompson, simply because it is said to exist in the hand-writing of Marvell, but where we are not told! As the property of Mallet, the ballad, to say the least, is extremely dubious; but Mallet has more occasion for it, and Thompson need not have appropriated it to Marvell, whose reputation stands not in need of a doubtful claim. A very contemptible charge of plagiarism is also preferred by the editor against Addison, for the insertion of three hymns, in the Spectator, Nos. 453, 461, and 465: no proof whatever is vouchsafed that they belong to Marvell; and

the hymn inserted in the Spectator, No. 461, "when Israel freed from Pharaoh's land," is now known to be the noble composition of Dr. Watts.

These jealous and absurd claims, by Captain Thompson, have naturally created a great suspicion of the general fidelity of his editorship; we have seen no reason, however, to believe that he was intentionally dishonest: his edition, with all its imperfections, is extremely valuable, as the only collection of Marvell's prose works, though we think that a more correct and authenticated edition of the poems is extremely desirable.

Marvell was the author of several valuable political tracts, advocating frequent and new Parliaments, as the spirit of the English Constitution, and of many admirable pamphlets on religious liberty. From his Essay on Creeds and Articles, we make the following extract :

"It were good that the greater Churchmen relied more upon themselves, and their own direction, not building too much upon stripling Chaplains, that men may not suppose the masters (as one that has a good horse, or a fleet hound) or attributes to himself the virtues of his creature. That they inspect the morals of the clergy: the moral heretics do the church more harm than all the nonconformists can do, or can wish it. That before they admit men to subscribe the thirtynine articles for a benefice, they try whether they know the meaning. That they would much recommend to them the reading of the bible. It is a very good book, and if a man read it carefully, will make him much wiser. That they would advise them to keep the Sabbath: If there were no morality in the day, yet there is a great deal of prudence in the observing it. That they would instruct those that come for holy orders and livings, that it is a terrible vocation they enter up on; but that has indeed the greatest reward. That to gain a love is beyond all the acquists of traffic, and to convert an Atheist, more glorious than all the conquests of the soldier. That betaking themselves to this spiritual warfare, they ought to disintangle from the world. That they do not ride for a benefice, as if it were for a fortune or a mistress; but there is more in it. That they take the ministry up not as a trade. That they make them understand, as well as they can, what is the grace of God. That they do not come into the pulpit too full of fustian or logic; a good life is a clergyman's best syllogism, and the quaintest oratory; and until they outlive them, they will never get the better of the fanaticks, nor be able to preach with demonstration and spirit, or with any effect or authority. That they be lowly minded, and no railers.

"But to the judicious and serious reader, to whom I wish any thing I have said may have given no unwelcome entertainment, I shall only so far justify myself, that I thought it no less concerned me to vindicate the laity from the impositions that the Jew would force upon them, than others to defend those impositions on behalf of the Clergy. But the Rev. Mr. Hooker, in his Ecclesiastical Polity, says, The time will come when three words, uttered with charity and meekness, shall

receive a far more blessed reward, than three thousand volumes, written with disdainful sharpness of wit. And I shall conclude.

“I trust in the Almighty, that with us, contentions are now at the highest float, and that the day will come (for what cause is there of despair) when the possessions of former enmity being allaid, men shall with ten times redoubled tokens of unfeignedly reconciled love, shew themselves each to other the same which Joseph, and the brethren of Joseph, were at the time of their interview in Egypt. And upon this condition, let my book also (yea myself, if it were needful) be burnt by the hands of those enemies to the peace and tranquillity of the religion of England."

In 1672, Marvell engaged in a controversy with the famous Dr. Samuel Parker, a most zealous high churchman, who had exerted himself very much in defending the persecutions of the non-conformists. That divine, in 1670, published a book, entitled "Ecclesiastical Polity;" and in 1671, a " Defence of Ecclesiastical Polity;" and in 1672, a " Preface to Bishop Bramhall." In all these he recommended unlimited monarchy, and a rigorous persecution of all dissenters from the established church. In his Ecclesiastical Polity, he says, "It is better to submit to the unreasonable impositions of Nero and Caligula, than to hazard the dissolution of the state." And in the same work, he asserts, "that it is absolutely necessary to the peace and government of the world, that the supreme magistrate of every commonwealth should be vested with a power to govern and conduct the consciences of subjects in affairs of religion." And he asserted, that "Princes may with less hazard give liberty to men's vices and debaucheries, than to their consciences." And, speaking of the different sects then subsisting, he lays it down, as a fixed rule for all princes to observe, that tenderness and indulgence to such men, were to nourish vipers in their own bowels; and the most sottish neglect of our own quiet and security." Marvell, to expose, as he deserved, this advocate for civil and ecclesiastical tyranny, wrote his "Rehearsal Transposed;" in which, with great strength of argument, and much wit and humour, he shews the absurdity of Parker's tenets.

The doctor, however, published an answer, but did not think proper to put his name to it; whereupon, in 1673, Marvell published" The Rehearsal Transposed, the Second Part; occasioned by two letters, the first printed by a nameless author, entitled a Reproof, &c. The second letter left for me, at a friend's house, dated Nov. 3, 1673, subscribed J. G.; and concluding with these words:- If thou darest to print or publish any lie or libel against Dr. Parker, by the eternal God I will cut thy throat.'

Several other anonymous pieces were published against