136 VIKGILIAN VERSES. [1693. 



Of 



The Great Loyola." ^ 



But after I had a little reflected upon it, two things 

 oblig'd me to blot out this Inscription. Tirst, T thought the 

 Comparison was not very Just ; and Secondly I imagin'd it 

 might displease the Jesuits, a Venerable Society, somewhat 

 false and Dangerous, 'tis true ; but my Companions and I 

 were very much oblig'd to them. I therefore took away this 

 Inscription, and put two verses of Virgil'^ in the place of it ; 



of Torments, drove those G?L\VdHv(]uenots out of the Kingdom, this House 

 was erected by the supream Magistrates, upon the ruins of the old Monas- 

 tery belonging formerly to the Predicant Friers, that Piety and Industry, 

 banish'd at once out of France, might meet there Avith an hospitable 

 entertainment : May it please the most Great and Good God, that this 

 Charitable Act may tend to the advantage of onr Native Country.'" (^1 

 New Voyage to Italy, by Maxmilian Misson, Done into English, Letter 



XXXV.) 



1 Ignatius de Loyola, the famous Spaniard who founded the order of 

 the Jesuits, and inspired the King of Spain, Philippe II, to become the 

 champion of Catholicism, under whom the dragoons of the cruel Duke 

 of Alva inundated with blood the Flemish and Dutch provinces, 1568- 

 1572. 



2 J^ncidos, lib. viii, 333-336 : 



" Me pulsum* patria, pelagique extrema sequentem 

 Fortuna omnipotens et ineluctabile fatum 

 His posuere locis, matrisque egere tremenda 

 Carmentis Nymphee monita, et deus auctor Apollo." 

 (King Evander is speaking, and alludes to an accidental murder which 

 compelled him to leave Arcadia) : 



" Myself, an exile from my home, 

 Went wandering far along the foam, 

 Till mighty chance and destined doom 



Constrained my errant choice : 

 So came I to these regions driven 

 By warning from my mother given, 

 And Phoebus' awful voice." 



Professor Conington's Translation. 

 Only the first portion of the Virgilian lines given above is inscribed 



* Me pulsiim Patria is changed into Nos patria pulsos in the 

 iscription ; vide frontispiece. 



