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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S. X. Sept. 15. '60. 



Mr. Pope himself, or any of his Tools, shall think fit to 

 publish, are the same, or any way interfere, with those I 

 have publish'd, that the same shall be instantly reprinted 

 by me. 



" The Second Volume ofJtfr. Pope's Literary Corre^on- 

 dence contains the Remainder of his Own Letters to Henri/ 

 Cromwell, Esq., Bishop Atterbury's Letters to Mr. Pope, 

 and some other curious Pieces which I had of his Son. 

 Also, Original Letters to, and from, Ld. Somere, Ld. Par- 

 ker, Ld. Harrington, Judge Parrys, Sir R. Steele, Mr. 

 Prior, Mr. Addison, &c., with which, I presume, Mr. Pope 

 has not anything to do. 



" The Third Volume of Mr. Pope's Literary Correspon- 

 dence, I shall publish next Month, Okiginals being everv 

 day sent me, some of them, to a certain Dutchess, which 

 I am ready to produce under his own Hand. 



" I know not what Honours Mr. Pope would have con- 

 fer'd on him : — 1st. I have hung up his Head for mv 

 Sign ; and», 2ndly, I have engraved a fine view of hfs 

 House, Gardens, &c., from Mr. Jlijsbrack's Painting, which 

 will shortly be publish'd. But if he aims at any farther 

 Artifices, he never found himself more mistaken than he 

 will in trifling with Me. E. CuKti,." 



Nor did he end with a third volume. Another 

 and another still succeeded ; and he has not on his 

 shelves a complete set of Curll's edition o£ Mr. 

 Pope's Literary Correspondence who has less than 

 six. The fifth volume contains a curious adver- 

 tisement pointing out the Letters omitted in Pope's 

 Genuine Edition : — 



" Besides these many considerable Paragraphs are 

 omitted in the Letters which remain ; others are inter- 

 polated; and upon the whole the Genuine Edition is so 

 far from being an authentic one, that it is only a Select 

 Collection of Mr. Pope's Letters, more old Letters being 

 omitted than there are 7iew ones added." 



In conclusion we must remark that a large 

 portion of these six volumes of Curll's have no- 

 thing to do with Pope or his Correspondence, but 

 are made up of various tracts, poems, &c., which we 

 presume Edmund Curll could not otherwise get 

 rid of. M. N. S. 



(Tb be continued.) 



DR. BLISS'S SELECTIONS FROM THE OLD 



POETS. 



{^Continued from p. 184.) 



Samuel Daniel, author of various sonnets and 

 some tragedies. Tethy^s Festival is the scarcest 

 of all Daniel's productions, says Dr. Bliss, as it 

 was not inserted in any collected edition of his 

 works. A copy of it is in Gar rick's Collection in 

 the British Museum. 



" Youth of the Spring, milde Zephyrus, blowe faire, 

 And breathe the joyful! ayre. 

 Which Tethy's wisifies may attend this day, 

 Who comes herself to pay 

 The vows her heart presents 

 To these faire complements. 



" Breathe out new flowers, which yet were never 

 knowne 

 Unto the Spring, nor blowne 

 Before this time, to bewtifle the earth. 

 And as this d^y gives birth 



Unto new types of state 

 So let it blisse create." 



" Beau Tethy's Message to the Ocean King. 



" Say how she joyes to bring 

 Delight unto his islands and his seas ; 

 And tell Meliades 



The offspring of her bood 

 How she applauds his good, 



" Are they shadowes that we see.' 

 And can shadowes pleasure give? 

 Pleasures only shadowes bee 

 Cast by bodies we conceive. 

 And are made the thinges we deeme 

 In those figures which they seeme. 



" But these pleasures vanish fast. 

 Which by shadowes are exprest. 

 Pleasures are not, if they last ; 

 In their passing is their best. 

 Glory is most bright and gay 

 In a flash, and so away. 



" Feed apace then, greedy eyes, 

 On the wonder you behold ; 

 Take it sodaine as it flies. 



Though you tako it not to hold ; 

 When your ej'es have done their part 

 Thought must length it in the heart." 



Henry Hutton, author of Folly's Anatomy, or 

 Satyrs and Satirical Epigrams, 1619. A scarce 

 volume. The satyrs commence with the following 

 caustic lines, very much in the style of George 

 Withers' Satires Stript and Whipt : — 



" I urge no time, with whipt stript Satyrs lines, 

 With furies' scourge whipping depraved times : 

 'My Muse, tho' fraught with such, shall not begin 

 T' unleese the Centinel of sin.' 

 Yet let earth's vassailes, packhorse unto shame, 

 Know I could lash their lewdnesse, evil fame, 

 Reade them a lecture should their vice imprint 

 With sable lines on their obdured flint. 

 Their mappes of knavery and shame decry 

 In lively colours, with a sanguine die. 

 And tell a tale should touch them to the quick, 

 Should make them startle, fain themselves capsick, 

 But that no patron dare, or will maintaine 

 The awful subject of a Satyre's vaine. 



" What have we here? a mirror of this age 

 Acting a comick's part upon the stage ! 

 What gallant 's this ? his nature doth unfold 

 Him to be framed in Phantastes mold. 

 Lo here he sits ; how stern he shewed his face, 

 Whiles from the wall he passengers did chase ! 

 Muse, touch not this man, nor his life display, 

 Ne with sharpe censure 'gainst his vice inuey — 

 For sith his humour can no jesting brooke. 

 He will much less endure a Satyre's booke. 

 Beshrew me, sirs, I durst not stretch the streete. 

 Gaze thus on conduits scrowls, base vinters beat. 

 Salute a mad-dame with a French cringe grace, 

 Greete with' God-dam-me a confronting face, 

 Court a rich widow, or my bonnet vaile. 

 Converse with bankrupt mercers in the gaile ; 

 Nor in a metro-shew m}' Cupide's fire 

 Being a French- poxt ladle's apple -quire — 

 Lest taxing times, such folly being spide. 

 With austere Satyres should my vice deride. 

 Nere breath, I durst not use my mistresse fan, 

 Or walk attended with a Hackney-man ; 



