2n'i S. VI. 133., July 17. '58.T 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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one day taking a mornin'4 walk, when he aoculentallr 

 met with the Right Hon. \V — m G — rr — cl H — m — It — n, 

 who asked his Grace if he h-M th:it day read Junius, for 



that he was greater than ever. Mr. then began to 



recite several parts of the letter, v.hich led the Duke to 

 return home in order to peruse the remainder ; when, to 

 his very great surprize, he found that no such letter had 

 made its appearance in the Public Advertiser of that 

 day. His Grace mentioned the circumstance to sever;'.! 

 of his friend.s, and, on the following da)-, the identical 

 letter appeared; having by accident or mistake been 



omitted to be inserted, as was intended by Mr. H the 



preceding day. This led to the long- wished-for discovery 

 of the author of Junius, and a cabinet council was forth- 

 with assembled, to determine on what was necessary to 

 be done. The Earl of Suffolk, at that time one of his 

 Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, was ver)' violent 



on the occasion, and recommended committing Mr. H 



(he being a member of parliament, and privy counsellor 

 in Ireland,) close prisoner to the Tower. This measure 

 the sagacious Lord Mansfield as violently opposed ; wiseh- 

 observing, that the Letters of Junius had already suffi- 

 ciently roused and alarmed the spirit of tlie nation, and 

 the sooner it was quieted the better. In consequence of 



this salutary counsel, a message was sent to Mr. H , 



to acquaint him that he was known, and that it was his 

 M — j -y's pleasure, he should continue to hold for life, 

 apartments which he has ever since occupied in the 

 palace of Hampton Court." 



R. Webb. 



Mev. Edward Marshall, a supposed Author of 

 Junius. — In the new volume (viii.) of Nichols's 

 Literary Illustrations of the Eighteenth Century, 

 p. 680 , in the course of the memoir of 'J'homas 

 EodJ, senior, the bookseller, mention is made of 

 "the Rev. Edward* Marshall, of Charing in Kent, 

 one of the supposed authors of Junius' Letters." 

 Can any reader of "N. & Q." say where this claim 

 has been put forward ? A Junius Queeist. 



COINCIDENCES AMONG THE POETS. 



The very able and interesting paper on Crashaw 

 and Shelley, communicated by D. F. M'Caetht 

 (2°* S..V. 449.), reminds me of some resemblances 

 and coincidences among the poets, of which he him- 

 self has so pleasingly treated. As Mason writes to 

 Walpole, '"I do not pretend to be learned away 

 from my books," and can send only a few in- 

 stances, supplied chiefly by memory. These are, 

 perhaps, sulficiently remarkable to be worthy of a 



flace in "N. & Q." And without farther preface, 

 begin with parallel passages by Beaumont and 

 Fletcher, and Wordsworth. The subject - is 

 "Books": — 



". . . That place that doe.s contain 

 My books, the best companion is to me ; 

 A glorious court where hourly I converse 

 With the old sages and philosophers; 

 And sometimes, for variety, I confer 



[* The Kev. Edmund (not Edward) Marshall, vicar of 

 Charing, was an occasional writer, chiefly on political 

 subjects, in the Kentish Gazette, under the signature of 

 "Cantianu,s." Ob. May 6, 1797.] 



With Kings and Emperons, and weigh their counsels. 

 Calling their victories, if unjustly got. 

 To a strict account ; and in my fancj' 

 Deface their ill-placed statues." 



B. and F., Elder Brother, Act I. 



"... Books we know 



Are a substantial world, both pure and good. 



Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood. 



Our pastime and our happiness will grow. 



There find I personal themes a plenteous store. 



Matter wherein right voluble I am, 



To which I listen with a readv ear." 



W. (Moxon's edit., 358.) 



In Wordsworth and in Spenser this line occurs 

 word for word : — 



" A weed of glorious feature," 



and both Wordsworth and Dryden use the term 

 "fool of nature." I am sorry, however, that my 

 defective memory will not alhjw me to supply the 

 references; and I should be tiiankful to any cor- 

 respondent who would indicate the position of the 

 passage in Spenser. Again, here are three very 

 similar lines from three very dissimilar poets : — 



" He best can paint them who shall feel them most." 



Pope. 

 " And what I dictate is from what I feel." — Prior. 



(" Your breast may lose the calm it long has known,) 

 And learn my woes to pity by its own." 



Hammond. 

 Again, Pope's line — 



" To err is human, to forgive divine," — 



has a remarkable afBnity to one in a brilliant but 

 not commendable prose writer, Petronius Arbiter, 

 who says : " Nemo nostrum non peccat, homines 

 sumus non dii." And I may add that the maxim 

 of the last writer, " Nequaquam recte faciet qui 

 cito credit," is traceable in the maxim of Halifax : 

 " Men are saved in this world by want of faith." 

 How close, too, are the following, by Wordsworth 

 and by Hood : — 



" So that a doubt almost within me .springs 

 Of Providence." — W., Powers of Imagination. 



" Even God's providence seeming estranged." 



H., Bridge of Sighs. 



Milton has somewhere the words, "tormented 

 all the air," but I have seen them cited from an- 

 other poet. The citation may be wrong, as in the 

 case of an editor of a Briti.sh son of song who 

 ascribed to Warlon the passage from Milton : — 



" And over them triumphant Death, his dart 

 Shook, but Aelay'd to strike." 



How familiar to us is the line — 



" Even in our ashes live their wonted fires ; " 

 but Chaucer said something very like it in the 

 Reeve's Prologue, long before : — 



" Yet in our aijshen olde is fyr i-reke." 

 In Chaucer, too, occurs the line — 



" Blake or white I take ne kepe." 

 The Irish poet who wrote the famous " Croo- 



