The prince accepted the proposal, and prick't his pinne in the fourth book of the Aeneids. The prince understood not latin well, and desired Mr Cowley to translate the verses, which he did admirably well, and Mr George Ent (who lived in his house at Chertsey, in the great plague 1665) showed me Mr Cowley's own handwriting :

By a bold people's stubborn arms opprest,

Forced to forsake the land he once possessed

Torn from his dearest son, let him in vain

Seek help, and see his friend unjustly slain.

Let him to base unequal termes submit,

In hope to save his crown, yet loose both it

And life at once, untimely let him die

And on an open stage unburied lye.