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Cowley and Gray, No. III. 



Old Sons : The Cuckold's Cap, by J. R. Relton 

 The Gododin, by Thomas Stephens . - - 



Folk Lore: — Lincolnshire Folk Lire - - - 



Minor Notes : — Modern Greek Names of Places—" There, 

 is no mistake" — Remarkable Prophecy — The Ball 

 that killed Nelson — Gypsies - - - 



QuEiUEs : — 



Dial Motto at Karlsbad - - . - - 



Suppressed Epilogue by Dryden. by Henry Campkin 

 Minor Queries : — Barrister — Indian Jugglers — Priory 

 of Hertford — Jocobus Creusius (or Crucius) — Clekit 

 House — Ballad on the Kising of the Vendee — Stanza 

 on .Spenser's "Shepherd's Calender" — Prophecy re- 

 specting 1837 — Lines on the Bible — En bon et poyer 

 — "England expects every man," &c. — Religious 

 Houses in East Sussex — Parish Registers, Right of 

 Search, Fees claimable— -Bac in a Poet ^Tregonwell 

 Frampton — Weever and Fuller; their Autt'graphs 

 wanted — Is the Badger Amphibious ? - 

 MiNOrt Q11ERIF.S .Answered: — Royal Registers — Paul 

 lloste — " Liber Mirabilis " — Saint Richard, King of 

 England — Saint Irene or St. Erini - . . 



Replies : — 



Cockney -.-.... 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Tlie Word Infortuner — 

 Foreign Ambassadors — Petition for the Recall from 

 Spain of the Duke of Wellington . - . 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Bioks, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - . - 



B'>oks and Odd Volumes wanted - - . - 



Notices to Correspondents - - - - 



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COWLET AND GRAr, NO. HI. 



Before again recurriiin; to Gray's partiality for 

 the poems of Cowley, I will make a remark or two 

 on Mr. Wakeficlil's edition of Gray. 



In liis (leliglitful " Ode to Adversity" Gray has 

 written : 



" DaiiglitLT of Jove, rek'ntk";s power, 

 Thou tamer of the human breast, 

 ^Vllose iron ncourye, and tiirt'iliuj hour, 

 The bail affrij.'ht, afflict tlie best." 



Upon which Wakefield gives us this brilliant 

 criticism : 



" ' Torturing hour.' There seems to'be some little 

 impropriety and incongruity in this. Consistency of 

 figure rather required some material image, like iron 

 scourge and adamantine chiin." 



Afterwards he seem.s to speak diffulently of his 

 own judgment, which is rather an unusual thing 

 in Mr. Wakefield. \Vell would it have been for 

 the reputations of Bentley, Johnson, and "Wake- 

 field, that, before improving upon jMilton and 

 Gray and Collins, they had remembered the words 

 of a truly great critic, even Horace himself: 



Sunt delicta tanien quibus ignovisse velimus : 



Nam neque chorda sonum reddit queni vuh manus 

 et mens, 



Poscentiijue gravem perscepe remittit acutum ; 



Nee semper feriet quodcuiujue minabitnr arcus. 



Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego jjaucis 



Offendur muculii; quas ant incnria fudit, 



Aut humana paruin cavit natura." 



Epist. ad Pisoiiea, 347. 



Not by any means that I am allowing in this case 

 the existence of a "macula," or an "incuria" 

 either. To D'Israeli's Curiosities of Litei-ature I 

 think I am indebted for the remark, that Gray 

 borrowed the expressions from Milton : 

 " When the scourge 

 Inexorably, and the torturing hour 

 Calls us to penance." 



Far. Lost, lib. ii. 90. 



It is therefore with Milton, and not with Gray, 

 that Mr. Wakefield must settle the matter. And 

 in proof of my earnest sympathies with him during 

 the very unequal contest, I will console hiin with 

 "proprieties," " congruities," "consistencies of 

 figure," and "material images," enough. 

 " The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, 

 Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel. " 

 Goldsmith's Traveller, ad finem. 



Or better for this purpose still : 



" Swords, daggers, bodkins, 'ocarded arrows, spears. 

 Nails, pincers, crosses, gibbets, hurdles, ropes, 

 Tallons of griffins, paws and teeth of bears, 



Tigre's and lyon's mouths, not iron hoops. 

 Hacks, wheels, and trappados, brazen cauldrons which 

 Boiled with oil, huge tuns which flam'd with pitch." 

 Beaumont's I'sycUv, cant. xxu. v. 69. p. 3LiO. 

 Cambridge, 1702. Folio. 



Voi.lV.-.Xo. 111. 



