And from her many-headed beast cast down
Duessa fell, her cup of sorcery spilt,

Her three-crown'd mitre in the dust devolved,
And all her secret filthiness exposed.

XII.

O thou fair Island, with thy Sister Isle
Indissolubly link'd for weal and woe;
Partaker of her present power,
Her everlasting fame;

Dear pledges hast thou rendered and received
Of that eternal union! Bedell's grave
Is in thy keeping; and with thee
Deposited, doth Taylor's holy dust
Await the Archangel's call.

O land profuse of genius and of worth, Largely hast thou received, and largely given !

XIII.

Green Island of the West,

The example of unspotted Ormond's faith

To thee we owe; to thee

Boyle's venerable name :
Berkley the wise, the good:

And that great Orator who first Unmask'd the harlot sorceress Anarchy What time, in Freedom's borrowed form profaned, She to the nations round

Her draught of witchcraft gave:

And him who in the field

O'erthrew her giant offspring in his strength, And brake the iron rod.

Proud of such debt,

Rich to be thus indebted, these,

Fair Island, Sister Queen

Of Ocean, Ireland, these to thee we owe.

XIV.

Shall I then imprecate

A curse on them that would divide Our union?.. Far be this from me, O Lord! Far be it! What is man,

That he should scatter curses?.. King of Kings,
Father of all, Almighty, Governor

Of all things, unto Thee
Humbly I offer up our holier prayer!
I pray Thee, not in wrath
But in thy mercy, to confound

These men's devices! Lord,

Lighten their darkness with thy Gospel light, And thus abate their pride,

Assuage their malice thus!

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NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

...the infamy of his nature.-p. 2.

I suspect that Sir Thomas Brown wrote infimy, a word which, though not regularly formed, would be more in his manner, and more in place.

Anthony Wood speaks in his own Life (p. 190) of “ a young heir who put his father's papers to infimous uses."

Question of apparitions.—p. 7.

In contradiction to the view of this important question which I have taken, and in which there is the opinion of Johnson to support me, Dean Sherlock, who has brought forward with irrefragable force the Natural Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul and a Future State, has shown" of what dangerous consequence it is to want any other arguments, or to build our Faith upon any other arguments than the Gospel Revelation." And he alludes to the indiscrete stress which

Glanville, and other writers of his stamp, laid upon supernatural stories. "For," says he, "in the first place, this is a spice of infidelity; it is an inclination towards it; and such men are disposed to be Infidels, or at least to be practised on by Infidels. For did we heartily believe the Gospel, we could want no other arguments of a future state, and should be satis