July 20, 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Ossianade Unknown 6. 

 IiregLiIar Ode Unknown 7. 

 Ode to the Attorney- 

 General Mr. Brummell 8. 

 Laureate Ode Mr. Tickell 9. 

 New Year's Ode Mr. Pearce 10. 

 Ode by M. A. Taylor Air. Boscawen 11. 

 • by Major Scott Lord John Towns- 



hend 12. 

 Irregular (Dundas) Never known lo the 



Club 13. 

 by Warton Bishop of Ossory 



(Hon. William Be- 



resford) 14. 



Pindaric General Fitzpatrick 15, 



Irregular Dr. Laurence 1 6. 



Pretty man General Burgoyne 17. 



Graham Mr. Reid 18. 



Letter, &c. and Mount- 



morres 

 Birthday Ode 

 Pindaric Ode 

 Real Birthday Ode 

 Remaining prose 



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 

 Kobert Adair. If so, as the only survivor amongst 

 his literary colleagues, he might furnish some in- 

 teresting particulai-s respecting the remarkable 

 work to which I have called your attention. 



Bkatbkookz. 



Audley End, July, 1850. 



NOTES ON MILTON. 



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



II Pemeroso. 

 Onl. 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. 



Cffilia, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Humorous 

 Lieutenant, says, — 



" My maidenhead to a mote in the sun, he's jealous." 



Act iv. Sc. 8. 



On 1. 35. (G.) Mr. Warton might have found 

 a happier illustration of liis argument in Ben Jon- 

 son's Every Man in his Humour, Act i. Sc. 3.: — 



" To conceal such real ornaments as these, and sha- 

 dow their glory, as a milliner's wit'e docs her wrought 

 stomacher, with a smoaky lawn, or a black Cyprus." — 

 Wlialley's edit. vol. i. p. 3:3. 



On 1.39. (G.) The origin of this uncommon 

 use of the word "commerce" is from Donne: — 

 " If this commerce 'twixt heaven and earth were not 

 embarred." — I'.iems, p. 2')9. Ed. 4to. 1033. 



On 1.43. (G.): — 

 " That sallow-faced, sad, stooping nymph, whose eye 

 Still on the ground is fixed steadfastly." 



Sylvester's Du liarlas. 



Onl. 52. (G.): — 



" Mounted aloft on Contemplation's wings." 



G. Wither, P. I. vol. i. Ed. 1633. 



Drummond has given " golden wings" to Fame. 



On 1. 88. (G.) : — 



Hermes Trismegistus. 



Onl. 100. (G.): — 



" Tyrants' bloody gests 

 Of Thebes, Mycena;, or proud Ilion." 



Sylvester's Du Bartas. 



Arcades. 

 Oal.23. (G.): — 



" And without respect of odds, 

 Vye renown with Demy-gods." 

 mther's Mistresse of Philarele, Sig. E. 5. Ed. 1633. 



On 1.27. (G.): — 



" But yet, whate'er he do or can devise, 

 Disguised glory shineth in his eyes." 



Sylvester's Du Bartas. 

 On 1. 46. (G.) : — 



" An eastern wind coraralx'd with noisome airs. 

 Shall blast the plants and the young sappUngs." 

 Span. Traq. Old Plays, vol. iii. p. 222. 



On 1. 65. (G.) Compare Drummond — speech 

 of Endymion before Charles : — 

 " To tell by me, their herald, coming things. 



And what each Fate to her stern distaff sings," &c. 



Onl. 84. (M.): — 

 " And with his beams enamel'd every greene." 



Fairfax's Tasso, b. i. st. 35. 



Onl. 97. (G.): — 



" Those brooks with lilies bravely deck't." 



Drayton, 1447. 

 Onl. 106. (G.): — 



" Pan entertains, this coming ni:ht. 

 His paramour, the Syrinx bright." 



Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess, Act i. 



J. F. M. 



DERIVATION OF EASTEK. 



Southey, in his Book of the Church, derives our 

 word Easter from a Saxon source : — 



" The worship," he says, " of the goddess Eostre or 

 Eastrc, which may probably bo traced to the Astarte 

 of the Phoenicians, is retained among us in the word 

 Easter; her annual festival having been superseded by 

 that sacred day." 



Should he not rather have given a British origin 

 to the name of our Christian holy day ? Southey 

 acknowledges that the "heathenism which the 



