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dame, but not so saintly as her predecessor — at least, if 

 ■we are to believe the traditionary criticism of Ballycastle. 

 The third Earl, and first Marquis of Antrim, was twice 

 married. His first wife was the rich and splendidly con- 

 nected Duchess of Buckingham ; and his second the 

 gentle Rose O'Xeill, who doated on the proud MacDon- 

 nell, and brought with her as a dowry the six parishes 

 comprised in the three estates of Edinduff-carrick, or 

 Shane's Castle. None of these noble ladies repose in 

 Bunnamairge. Indeed there is only one female occupant 

 of the vault — Lady Anne, Countess of Antrim, who died 

 exactly a century ago." 



Simon Ward. 



PARALLEL PASSAGES. 



I. 



" When he is drunk," &c., 



" or about some act 



That has no relish of salvation in 't, 

 Then trip him, that his heels may kick at Heav'n, 

 And that his soul may be as damned and black 

 As Hell, whereto it goes '. " 



Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 3. 



" Let them not dare 



To mutter for their souls a gasping pray'r, 

 But in the utt'rance chok'd, and stab it there I 

 'T were witty handsome malice, could you do 't, 

 To make 'em die and make 'em damned to boot." 

 Oldham, Satires on the Jesuits, i. 306. 



u. 



" While some no other cause for life can give. 

 But a dull habitude to live." 



Oldham, To the 3Iemory of Morwent, § 5. 

 " Warrington, with nothing to do but," &c. &c., " and 

 no particular motive for living, except the custom and 

 habit of it." — " Thackeray and his Novels," Blackwood, 

 Jan., 1854 



in, 

 " Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate, 

 By every breach in that fair lodging made 

 Its blest inhabitant is more displayed." 



Oldham, To Madam L. E. on her Recovery, 106. 

 " And as pale sickness does invade 

 Your frailer part, the breaches made 

 In that fair lodging still more clear 

 Make the bright guest, vour soul, appear." 



Waller, A la Malade, p. 112. (Bell's Edit.) 



Who does not know the converse thought in 

 Waller? — 

 " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, 



Lets in new light thro' chinks that Time has made," 



IV, 



"And should you visit now the seats of bliss. 

 You need not wear another form but this ! " 



Oldham, IMd. 115. 

 " Moria pur quando vuol, non e bisogna mutar ni faccia 

 ni voce per esser un Angelo." 



Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Life, p. 36. 

 Versified thus by Moore : 



" Die when vou will, yon need not wear 

 At Heaven's Court a form more fair 



Than Beauty here on Earth has given : 

 Keep but the lovely looks we see. 

 The voice we hear, and you will be 

 An angel ready-made for heaven ! " 



Moore's Works (one vol. edit,"), p. 83. 

 No. 310.] 



" Verse, the great boast of drudging fools, from some, 

 Nay, most of scribblers, with much straining come: 

 They void 'em dribbling, and in pain they write, 

 As if they had a stranguiy of wit." 



Oldham. 



"And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines a 

 year." 



Pope, 



The Times, in one of its "leaders," some time 

 since, employed a kindred image when it spoke of 

 some monarch labouring under a " diarrhoea of 

 decrees." 



VI. 



" I could not love thee, dear, so much, 

 Loved I not Honour more." 



Lovelace, To Lucasta. 



" Landor says truly, ' Love is a secondary passion in 

 those who love most ; a primary in those who love least. 

 He who is inspired by it in the strongest degree, is in- 

 spired by honour in a greater.' " — Mrs, Jameson's Com- 

 mon-Place Book (1854), p. 27. 



A repetition, not a parallel: 



" So all we know of what they do above. 

 Is that they happy are, and that they love." 



Waller, On the Death of Lady Rich. 



. . . " For all we know 



Of what the blessed do above. 



Is that they sing, and that they love ! " 



Waller, Song, While I listen, §•<;. 



" The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 

 But in ourselves, that we are underlings." 



Julius CcBsar. 



And still more, Edmund's speech, beginning — 



" This is the excellent foppery of the world," &c. 

 King Lear, Act 11. Sc. 2. 



" Burden not the back of Aries, Leo, or Taurus, with 

 thy faults, nor make Saturn, Mars, or Venus guilty of thy 

 follies. Think not to fasten thy imperfection on the stars, 

 and so despairingly conceive thyself under a fatality of 

 being evil." — Sir J. Browne, Christian Morals, quoted in 

 Blackwood, July, 1855, p. 61. 



" For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout ! " 



King John. 



"Grief! thou art classed among the depressing pas- 

 sions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust ; but 

 also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with 

 ague, but thou steadiest like frost." — De Quincy, Auto- 

 hiogr. Shetches (1854), p. 20. 



Harry Lerot Temple. 



Occasionally there have appeared in " N". & Q." 

 several instances where the same thought has oc- 

 curred to diiFerent writers, especially poets. I 

 send one or two parallel passages which will assist 

 in showing how easily an idea magr be conceived 



