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Noves : — ohnson may hs iced ; rs : s 
Dr. Johnson and Dr. pg a ons H. Sores - 481 J ) saat ay aE noticed these verses of War 
Spenser's Monument = : 41 | ton’s with some little attention, and unfortunately 
Borrowed Thoughts, by S. Ww. Singer = 482 
Folk Lore: — Easter Eggs —A Cure for W. arts — Charm 
for Wounds— Fifth Son—Cwm W mae - - 482 
Bartholomew Legate, the Martyr - - - 483 
Bohn’s Edition of Milton’s Prose Works - - 483 
Reprint of Jeremy Taylor’s Works - - 483 
Dr. Thos. Bever’s Legal Polity of Great Britain - 483 
QUERIES: 
Dr. Richard Holsworth and Thos. Fuller - - 484 
Queries upon Cunningham’s Handbook London - 484 
Ona Passage in Macbeth - - - - 484 
Minor Queries: — As Seana as vere, s Wite aan 
Family —‘“ Brozier” - 485 
ReEpLties : — 
The Dodo Queries, by S. W. eee - - - 485 
Abbey of St. Wandri - = = - ASG 
Origin of the Word * News” - 487 
Replies to Minor Queries: —Dr. Whicheot aia ara 
Shaftesbury—Elizabeth and Isabel—Trunck Breeches 
— Mercenary Preacher — Abdication of James II. — 
Toom Shawn Cattie—Wotton’s Poem to Lord Bacon 
—‘* My Mind to Me a Kingdom is” — Gesta Grayorum 
— Marylebone Gardens— Mother of Thomas a Becket 
—Dr. Strode’s Poem — Lord Carrington — Esquires 
and Gentlemen — Early Inscriptions — American Abo- 
rigines — Vox Populi— Dutch Language— Salting, &c. 488 
MISCELLANIES : — 
Bishop Burnet as an Historian—Dance Thumbkin— 
King’s Coffee House—Spur Money - - - 493 
MisceLLanegous: -— 
Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. - - - 494 
Books and Odd Volumes wanted - ~ - - 494 
Notice to Correspondents - - - 494 
Advertisements = - = a é - 495 
DR. JOHNSON AND DR, WARTON. 
Amongst the poems of the Rev. Thos. Warton, 
vicar of Basingstoke, who is best remembered as 
the father of two celebrated sons, is one entitled 
The Universal Love of Pleasure, commencing — 
« All human race, from China to Peru, 
Pleasure, howe’er disguised by art, pursue.” 
&e. &e. 
Warton died in 1745, and his Poems were pub- 
lished in 1748. 
Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes appeared in 
1749; but Boswell believes that it was composed 
in the preceding year. ‘That Poem, as we well 
remember, commences thus tamely : — 
“ Let observation with extensive view, 
Survey mankind from China to Peru.” 
borrowed the only prosaic lines in his poem. 
Besides the imitation before quoted, both writers 
allude to Charles of Sweden. Thus Warton says,— 
“Twas hence rough Charles rush’d forth to ruthless 
war.” 
Johnson, in his highly finished picture of the 
same monarch, says, — 
« War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field.” 
Jd. H. Marxuanp. 
Bath. 
SPENSER’S MONUMENT. 
Tn the Lives of English Poets, by William Win- 
stanley (London, printed by H. Clark for Samuel 
Manship, 1687), in his account of Spenser, p. 92. 
he says, “ he died anno 1598, and was honourably 
buried at the sole charge of Robert, first of that 
name, Earl of Essex, on whose monument is 
written this epitaph :— 
« Edmundus Spenser, Londinensis, Arglicorum poe- 
tarum nostri seculi fuit princeps, quod ejus Poemata, 
faventibus Musis, et victuro genio conscripta com- 
probant. Obiit immatura morte, anno salutis 1598, et 
prope Galfredum Chaucerum conditur, qui fcelicisime 
Poesin Anglicis literis primus illustravit. In quem 
hee seripta § sunt Epitaphia. 
“ Hie prope Chaucerum situs est Spenserius, illi 
Prominens ingenio, proximus ut tumulo 
Hic prope Chaucerum Spensere poeta poetam 
Conderis, et versu! quam tumulo proprior, 
Anglica te vivo vixit, plausitque Poesis ; 
Nunc moritura timet, te moriente mori.” 
I have also a folio copy of Spenser, printed by 
Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, London, 1679. 
In a short life therein printed, it says that he was 
buried near Chaucer, 1596; and the frontispiece 
is an engraving of his tomb, by E. White, which 
bears this epitaph :— 
“ Heare lyes (expecting the second comminge of our 
Saviour, Christ Jesus) the body of E dmond Spenser, the 
Prince of Poets in his tyme, whose Divine spirit needs 
noe othir witness than the works which he left behind 
