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type, where " the letter P is close to the nose : " 

 but if J. N. C. can turn to Lindsay's Coinage of 

 Ireland, 1839, he will find his coin engraved in 

 the fifth supplementary plate, No. 16., and in 

 the advertisement, p. 139., the following remarks 

 on it : 



"This curious variety of the 'voce populi' halfpence 

 exhibits a P before the face, and illustrates Pinkerton's 

 remark that the portrait on these coins seems intended 

 for that of the Pretender : it is a very neat coin, per- 

 haps a pattern." 



Blowen. 



Dog's Head in the Pot (Vol. iii., pp. 264. 463.). 

 — The sign is of greater antiquity than may be 

 expected. See Cocke Lorrelles Bote: — 

 " Also Annys Angry witli the croked buttocke 



That dwelled at y° synge of y^ dogges hede in y" pot. 



By her crafte a breche maker." 



Thos. Lawkence. 



Ashby de la Zouch. 



" O wearisome Condition of Humanitij " (Vol. iii., 

 p. 241.). — As no one has hitherto appropriated 

 these fine lines, as to the author of whicli your 

 correspondent inquires, 1 may mention that they 

 are taken from tlie " Chorus Sacerdotum," at the 

 end of Lord Brook's Mustapha. (See his Works, 

 fol. 1633, p. 159.) The chorus is worth quoting 

 entire : 



" O wearisome condition of humanity ! 

 Borne under one Law, to anotfier bound : 

 Vaindy begot, and yet forbidden vanity ; 

 Created sick, commanded to be sound : 

 What meaneth Nature by these diverse Lawes? 

 Passion and reason self division cause. 

 Is it the mark or majesty of power 

 To make offences that it may forgive? 

 Nature herself doth her own self defloure ' 

 To hate those Errors she herself doth give. 

 For how should Man think that he may not do 

 If Nature did not fall and punish too? 

 Tyrant to others, to herself unjust, 

 Only commands things difficult and hard, 

 Forbids us all things, which it knows is lust, 

 Makes easy pains, impossible reward. 

 If Nature did not talte deligltt in blood. 

 Site would have made more easy ways to good. 

 AVe that are bound by vows and by promotion, 

 With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites. 

 To teach belief in good and still devotion. 

 To preach of Heaven's wonders and delights; 

 Yet when each of us in his own heart looks. 

 He finds the God there far unlike his Books." 

 I should like to see a collected edition of the 

 works of the two noble Grevilles, Fulke and 

 Robert, Lords Brook ; the first tlie friend of Sir 

 Philip Sidney, the second the honoured of Milton. 

 The little treatise on Truth of tlic latter, wiiich 

 Wallis answered in his Truth Tried, is amply suf- 

 ficient to prove that he possessed powers of no 

 common order. James Cbossley. 



Bunyan and the " Visions of Heaven and Hell" 

 (Vol. iii., pp. 70. 89. 289. 467.). — The work re- 

 ferred to by your correspondents is so manifestly 

 not the composition of John Bunyan that it is 

 extraordinary that the title-page, which was evi- 

 dently adopted to get otf the book, should ever 

 have imposed upon anybody. The question, how- 

 ever, put by your correspondents F. R. A. and 

 N. H., as to who G. L. was, has not yet been 

 answered. The person referred to by these initials 

 is the real author of the book, who was George 

 Larkin, a printer and author, and great ally and 

 friend of the redoubted John Dunton, who gives a 

 long character of him, in his Life and Errors, in 

 his enumeration of London printers. (See Life 

 and Errors, edit. 1703, p. 326.) 



"Mr. Larkin, Senior — He has been my acquaint- 

 ance for Twenty years, and the first printer I bad in 

 London. He formerly writ a Vision of Heaven, &c. 

 (which contains many nice and curious thoughts), and 

 has lately published an ingenious Essay on the noble 

 Art and Mystery of Printing, Mr. Larkin is my alter 

 ego, or rather my very self in a better edition." 



The book itself was first published about 1690, 

 and went tlirough many editions in the early part 

 of the last century. James Crossley. 



Pope's Translations or Imitations of Horace 

 (Vol. i., p. 230. ; Vol. iv., pp. 58. 122.). — I am 

 much obliged to Mr. Crossley for having cor- 

 rected the error (for which I cannot account) 

 in the title of the pamphlet in question, which was 

 certainly not by " the author of the Critical History 

 of England," and certainly was by Dennis, as is 

 marked by Pope's own hand in the copy now 

 before me. As Mr. Crossley puts hypothetically 

 the correctness of my quotation, I subjoin the 

 whole passages. 



" After having been for fifteen j-ears as it were an 

 imitator, he has made no proficiency. His first imi- 

 tations, though bad, are rather better than the suc- 

 ceeding, and this last Imitation of Horace the most 

 execrable of them all." — P. 7. 



Again : 



" An extravagant libel, ridiculously called an imi- 

 tation of Horace." — P. 1 1. 



And again : 



" Of all these libellers the present Imitator is the 

 most impudent and incorrigible." — P. 15. 



Mr. Crossley says he has a fragment of the 

 " Imitation of the second satire of the first book 

 of Horace," published by Curll in 1716. This, 

 which I never saw, nor before heard of, would 

 solve the dilliculty ; and I respectfully request 

 Mr. Crossley to favour us with a transcript of tlie 

 title-page, whicli is the more desirable, Ijecause 

 all Pope's biographers, and indeed he himself (to 

 Spence), have attributed his first imitation of 

 Horace to a much later date, certainly stibseqtient 

 to 1723. Tlie imitation, therefore, of that satire 



