Beresford) 14.
——­ Pindaric General Fitzpatrick 15.
——­ Irregular Dr. Laurence 16.
——­ Prettyman General Burgoyne 17.
——­ Graham Mr. Reid 18. 
Letter, &c. and Mount-
  morres Richardson 19. 
Birthday Ode George Ellis 20. 
Pindaric Ode Unmarked 21. 
Real Birthday Ode T. Warton 22. 
Remaining prose Richardson.

I am not certain whether Mr. Adair, to whom “Margaret Nicholson,” one of the happiest of the Political Eclogues, is attributed, is the present Sir Robert Adair.  If so, as the only survivor amongst his literary colleagues, he might furnish some interesting particulars respecting the remarkable work to which I have called your attention.

BRAYBROOKE.

Audley End, July, 1850.

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NOTES ON MILTON.

(Continued from Vol. ii., p. 53.)

Il Penseroso.

On l. 8 (G.):—­

  “Fantastic swarms of dreams there hover’d,
  Green, red, and yellow, tawney, black, and blue;
  They make no noise, but right resemble may
  Th’ unnumber’d moats that in the sun-beams play.”

Sylvester’s Du Bartas.

Caelia, in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Humorous Lieutenant, says,—­

  “My maidenhead to a mote in the sun, he’s jealous.”

Act iv.  Sc. 8.

On l. 35. (G.) Mr. Warton might have found a happier illustration of his argument in Ben Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour, Act i.  Sc. 3.:—­

  “Too conceal such real ornaments as these, and shadow
  their glory, as a milliner’s wife does her wrought
  stomacher, with a smoaky lawn, or a black cyprus.”

—­Whalley’s edit. vol. i. p. 33.

On l. 39. (G.) The origin of this uncommon use of the word “commerce” is from Donne:—­

  “If this commerce ’twixt heaven and earth were not
  embarred.”

—­Poems, p. 249.  Ed. 4to. 1633.

On l. 43. (G.):—­

  “That sallow-faced, sad, stooping nymph, whose eye
  Still on the ground is fixed steadfastly.”

Sylvester’s Du Bartas

On l. 52. (G.):—­

  “Mounted aloft on Contemplation’s wings.”

G.  Wither, P. 1. vol. i.  Ed. 1633.

Drummond has given “golden wings” to Fame.

On l. 88. (G.):—­

  Hermes Trismegistus.

On l. 100. (G.):—­

  “Tyrants’ bloody gests
  Of Thebes, Mycenae, or proud Ilion.”

Sylvester’s Du Bartas.

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Arcades.

On l. 23. (G.):—­

  “And without respect of odds,
  Vye renown with Demy-gods.”