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acquired by so many exploits had not been able to move the heart of Elizabeth daughter of Jarislaus king of Russia.

“The following piece is only a fragment; for the ode originally consisted of sixteen stanzas: it is also much more modern than any of the former. It was notwithstanding acceptable, as the subject of it turns upon the softer passions, and is not altogether taken up with blood and death and other images of horror, like the rest.

“The original of this fragment is printed in Bartholin's excellent treatise intitled, Causa contemptæ a Danis mortis, 4to 1689. p. 54: where it is accompanied with a literal Latin