1801] 
Who fees,undazzled, fcepter’d pomp difplay’d, 
Yet bows to worth that thames all borrow’d 
aid ; 
‘To worth that fhines untarnifh’d on a throne, 
In fair LOUISA’s bright example thewn ! 
O, form’d alike to grace the courtly fcene, 
Or {mile the fweeteft on the village-green, 
To charm alike the heart, the eye, the ear, 
And claim the palm, though all around were 
fair ;—— 
From the Port Foiio of a Man of Letters. 
‘Amid the varied incenfe of the day, 
Accept the tribute of an honeft lay 5 
Nor deem the praife it bears, though warm 
i it flows, r ig 
An elogy that Flattery’s breath beftows :-—~ 
For know, while {uch defert fhall grace the 
theme, 
That Praife for Truth is but another name, 
Berlin, / B, BERESFORD. 
March to, 180r. 
Extras from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. 
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ORIGINAL HENRIAD. 
(coe Cegare MaLMIGNATI was 
{ B born inv the Venetian. territory, 
at Lendinara, a corporation-town on the 
Adiget, in the laft quarter of the 16th 
century. 
At Trevigi was printed his firft poetical 
wotk, Chlorizda, a Paftoral Tragedy, 
which was fo popular as to be reprinted in 
1618, and again in 1630. 
Probably he ftudied at Padova; for 
fome complimentary verfes of his on 
the Departure of Maximo Valerio, Capz- 
tano di Padova, are comprehended ina 
Colleétion of Poems,printed there in 1619. 
In 1620 he publithed, again at Trevigi, 
a Tragedy called Ordaura, of which a 
-fecond edition appeared at Venice, in 
1630, 
And in 1623, at Venice, and printed 
by Marco Guarifco, appeared /’Ezrico, o 
la Francia conquiffada, an epic Poem on 
the fame events, which Voltaire afterwards 
chofe for the fubjeét of his Henriad. 
This poem is written in ofave vine, and 
confitts of twenty-two cantos. It is printed 
in Italicletters on four hundred and eighty- 
two duodecimo pages, and is ufhered in ~ 
by a dedicatory epiftle to Louis XIII. 
King of France. . 
More fancy is difplayed or indwged by 
this Poet than by Voltaire. Angeis, In- 
‘eubafles, Saitsts joftle in bis fong. In the 
fixth canto, Henry is conveyed to heaven 
in a fiery car, and beholds the deftined 
manfions of all the Chriftian princes. In 
the fixteen canto, Merlin (it is no anachro- 
nifin furely, thus to preferve the lives of 
the more than mortal) accompanies 
Armilla into an enchanted palace, where 
they fee in painting the future ornaments 
of Italy, among whom the Poet, not very 
modeftly, reckons himéfelf. 
For cingue ftanze adorne e fcure quante 
Ornarle puo quaggiu Varte o Pingegno, 
We pone alcun nel ricco fuol le piante, 
Ch’anco Aon dia di maraviglia il fegno, 
- Montrury Mac. No, 30, 
to literature. . 
Qui appar tra gli altri ftegi, e frale tante 
Bellezze, di pittor l’opra e’l difegno 5 
Gli heroi che fur d’Italia i rai lucenti 
Serbanfi iilefi a fecoli vegnenti.— 
Vide Merlin ch’effer dovea chi Parmi 
Cantaffe, el Franco re con l’ampio acquifto § 
Ch’al dolce fuon di bellicofi carmi 
Trarria d’Italia e Francia il popol mifto ; 
E ch’effer quel dovea GiuLi0.— 
In the twenty-fecond canto, an appari- 
tion of Saint Louis invites and induces 
Henry to embrace the religion of Rome ; 
and thus the epopoea concludes. 
In the enumeration of his works, which 
takes place in the fixteenth canto, Malmig- 
nati mentions, befides the Ordaura,. il 
Thif, UIride, la diva Caterina, and Rime 
Diverfe. It does not appear that thefe have 
been printed. . 
Another epic Poem, entitled ’£zrico, 
0 Bijantio Acquifiato, appeared at Venice, 
in 1635, which confifts of twerty-feven 
cantos. It feems to bave cbfcured, by 
refemblance of title, the Poem eof Mal- 
mignati, which efcapes the natice both of 
Crefcimbeni and Tirabofchi, 
EMBLEMATIC PLANTS. 
The Parifian Minifter of the Interior 
lately requeited the Profeffors of the Mu- 
feum of Natural Hiftory, to indicate two 
trees to be confecrated to fcience and 
The Profeffors (Citizens 
Desfontaines and Thouin) pointed out the 
cedar of Lebanum for {cience, and the 
criental plane for literature. 
Thefe emblematic plants may be, and 
probably are, well-chofen; but it would 
facilitate the general reception of fuch 
hieroglyphs, which to the allegoric fculps 
tor may be very convenient, if the trains 
of idea were reyealed which have led to 
the feleé&tion. The myrtle of love, the 
palm of religion, the laurel of victory, the 
oak of liberty, the olive of peace, the iv 
of criticifm, the mimofa of fenfibility, 
are not all equally charaéteriftic of the 
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