316 HOESE PORTRAITURE. 



describing the forest smoke, what will you think of the 

 following lines by the "Gentle Elia: " 



" Scent to match tliy rich perfume 

 Chemic art did ne'er presume ; 

 Through her quaint alembic strain, 

 None so sovereign to the brain ; 

 Nature, that did in.thee excel, 

 Framed again no second smell ; 

 Roses, violets, but toys 

 For the smaller sort of boys, 

 Or of greener damsels meant ; 

 Thou art the only manly scent." 



PRECEPTOR. It strikes me you have broken off rather 

 abruptly in your quotation. Do not the subsequent lines 

 read something like this: 



" Stinking'st of the stinking kind, 

 Filth of the mouth, and fog of the mind ; 

 Africa, that brags her foison, 

 Breeds no such prodigious poison ; 

 Henbane, nightshade, both together, 

 Hemlock, aconite." 



PUPIL. Certainly, though he gives his reasons for rail- 

 ing; and how fondly he returns to his first love: 



" And a seat, too, 'mongst the joys 

 Of the blessed tobacco boys ; 

 Where, though I, by sour physician, 

 Am debarred the full fruition 

 Of thy favors, I may catch 

 Some collateral sweets, and snatch 

 Sidelong odors, that give life 

 Like glances from a neighbor's wife ; 

 And still live-in the by-places 

 And the surburbs of thy graces, 

 And in thy borders take delight, 

 An unconquered Canaanite." 



