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To him who meets it with an upright heart? A quiet haven, where his shatter'd bark Harbours secure, till the rough storm is past. Perhaps a passage, overhung with clouds But at its entrance; a few leagues beyond Opening to kinder skies and milder suns, And seas pacific as the soul that seeks them."

Elsewhere Hurdis intimates that he was doubtful whether the soul sleeps after death, or passes into an intermediate state. But how certainly to all appearance might the voyage in Kehama be traced to this passage -if I had read it before that poem was written.

As Hurdis followed Cowper, so poor Romaine Joseph Thorn followed him, and imitated the worthless Adriano in the not more worthless Lodon and Miranda.

This poor fellow, who was clerk to a Bris

tol merchant, quarrelled with him. After the quarrel he went to the merchant's house, in Park Street, and being admitted, walked up to him and addressed him thus—“ Sir, did you ever read Churchill's Epistle to Hogarth?" and without waiting for an answer, "I'll write a severer satire than that upon you, Sir!" Mr. - took him by the collar, carried him, for he was about five feet two, to the street door, and dropped him over the steps into the street.

The poor poet got a situation afterwards in a merchant vessel, and died on the coast

of Africa, a victim to the climate.

JOHN LYLY.

IN a catalogue I see "Lyly's Euphues and Lucella, Ephoebus, and Letters rendered into modern English, 1716."

Britain's Remembrancer (G. Wither), canto 2, p. 42. Green and Lily's fashion gone by.

There is in his Euphues occasionally a vulgarity such as in Swift's Polite Conversations; and there are also conceited and vapid discussions like those in Madame Scudery's Romances.

Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit. Ed. 1607.
To the Gentlemen Readers-" We com-

monly see the book that at Easter lyeth

to be broken in the haberdasher's shop. It bound on the stationer's stall, at Christmas is not strange when as the greatest wonder lasteth but nine days, that a now work should not endure but three months. Gentlemen use books as gentlewomen handle their flowers; who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strew them at their heels. Cherries be fulsome when they be thorough ripe, because they be plenty; and books be stale when they be printed, in that they be common."

"In my mind Printers and Tailors are chiefly bound to pray for Gentlemen; the one hath so many fantasies to print, the other such sundry fashions to make, that

the pressing-iron of the one is never out of the fire, nor the printing-press of the other at any time lyeth still.

"He that cometh to print because he would be known, is like the fool that cometh into the market because he would be seen." It seems by his address to the Oxonians as if he had been rusticated for three years.

"B. he thought himself so apt to all things, that he gave himself almost to nothing but practising of those things commonly which are incident to these sharp wits, fine phrases, smooth quips, merry taunts, using jesting without mean, and abusing mirth without measure."

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- so rare a wit would in time either breed an intolerable trouble, or bring an incomparable treasure to the commonweal." thy bringing up seemeth to me to be a great blot to the lineage of so noble a brute."

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"I force not Philantus his fury, so I may have Euphues his friendship."

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"Be not like the Englishman, which preferreth every strange fashion before the use of his country."

"I would not that all women should take pepper in the nose, in that I have disclosed the legerdemain of a few.”

Snuff was not then known,

but here

Was Lyly a Puritan when he wrote this first part?

U. 2. Ladies of the Court.
This also has a Puritan air.

"By experience we see that the adamant cannot draw iron if the diamond lie by it."

Euphues and his England. "EUPHUES" was his first work. "The very feather of an eagle is of force to consume the beetle."

"Hens do not lay eggs when they chick but when they cackle."

Dedication to the Earl of Oxford, and to the Ladies and Gentlewomen of England.

"Euphues had rather lic shut in a Lady's

is an expressed fact equivalent to taking it coffer than open in a scholar's study.”

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the grisping of the evening."

a hermitage where a mouse was sleeping in a cat's ear!"

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Nothing shall alter my mind, neither penny nor pater-noster."

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Coming home by Weeping cross." "Every stool he sat on was Penniless bench."3

Philanthus is made to say "the English tongue, which, as I have heard, is almost barbarous."

England "marvellously replenished with people."

"Thou doest me wrong, in seeking a scar in a smooth skin."

Bees" delight in sweet and sound music, which if they hear but once out of tune, they fly out of sight."

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as the viper tied to the bough of the beech tree, which keepeth him in a dead

3 See NARES' Gloss. on Weeping Cross and Penniless Bench. The latter is well known to all Oxonians.-- J. W. W.

sleep, though he begin with a sweet slumber."

"If thou be bewitched with eyes, wear the eyes of a weasel in a ring, which is an enchantment against such charms."

"The Salamander, being a long time nourished in the fire, at last quencheth it." "As there is but one Phoenix in the world, so is there but one tree in Arabia wherein she buildeth."

"O infortunate Philantus! born in the wane of the moon, and as like to obtain thy wish as the wolf to eat the moon."

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"Mastiffs, except for necessary uses about their houses, as to draw water, to watch thieves, &c. And thereof they derive the word mastiff-of mase and thief." (?)

"Mineral pearls (?) in England, which is most strange, which as they are for greatness and colour most excellent, so are they digged out of the mainland, in places far distant from the shore."-Ibid.

B. b. 1, 2. The English ladies described, in ironically praising them for what he wished them to be.

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B. b. 3. Lords and Gentry. (See p. 70.) this I would have thee take for a flat answer."

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They, they sit heavy on us, and no date Makes our compassionate affection (affliction ?) cease."

"O thou, hereditary ulcer." 146. "Think you my mind is waxy, to be wrought into any fashion ?"

158. "No sooner shall the Tycian (?)
splendid Sol

Open heaven's casements, and enlarge the day."

160. A pretty speech of a princess about to be given in marriage.

167. “Bellona and Erynnes scourge us on, Should wars and treasons cease, why our own weight

Would send us to the earth, as spreading

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