Comments on Sterite. 57 
genius.* The Anatomy of Melancholy has 
always been a fource of furreptitious learning ; 
Anthony a-Wood fpeaks of it, asa compilation highly 
ufeful to Gentlemen who were negligent at College ; 
and Archbifhop Herring alledged that the wits 
who flourifhed under Queen Anne and George 
the Firft, were under great obligations to it.f In 
literature, 
* The late Mr. Warton, in his edition of Milton’s 
Smaller Poems, ~has noticed the analogy between thele 
Englifh verfes, and the Allegro & Penferofo, Burton 
alternates them, thus: 
When I go mufing all alone, 
Thinking of divers things fore-known, 
When I build Caftles in the air, 
Void of Sorrow, void of Fear, 
 Pleafing myfelf with phantoms fweet, 
Methinks the time runs very fleet. 
_ All my joys to this are folly, 
Nought fo {weet as melancholy, 
‘When I go walking all alone, 
Recounting what I have ill done, 
My thoughts on me then tyrannize, 
Fear and forrow me furprize ; 
Whether I tarry ftill or go 
Methinks the time moves very flow. 
All my griefs to this are jolly, 
Nought fo fad as melancholy, &c. 
There is a dire&t imitation of thefe verfesin V 
‘ Jean qui pleure, et Jean qui rit.’ 
oltaire’s 
+ Biograph. Di&. Art. Burton (Rob.) 
The ftory of Dr, Parnell’s beautiful allegory on Man, is 
zaken from Burton, p. 64, 
