LIBRARY OF OLD AUTHORS. 345 



Sandys, mentions Sandys's Oriental travels, but seems 

 not to know that he translated Ovid in Virginia. 

 Pages 251, 252 : — 



" And as that soldier conquest doubted not, 

 Who but one splinter had of Castriot, 

 But would assault ev'n death, so strongly charmed, 

 And naked oppose rocks, with this bone armed." 



Mr. Hazlitt reads his for this in the last verse, and his 

 note on " bone " is : — 



" And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth 

 his hand and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. 

 (Judges xv. 15.) " 



Could the farce of " editing " go further 1 To make a 

 " splinter of Castriot " an ass's jawbone is a little too 

 bad. We refer Mr. Hazlitt to " The Life of George Cas- 

 triot, King of Epirus and Albania," &c, &c, (Edinburgh, 

 1753,) p. 32, for an explanation of this profound diffi- 

 culty. He will there find that the Turkish soldiers wore 

 relics of Scanderbeg as charms. 



Perhaps Mr. Hazlitt's most astounding note is on the 

 word pickear. (p. 203.) 



" So within shot she doth pickear, 

 Now gall's [galls] the flank and now the rear." 



" In the sense in which it is here used this word seems to 

 be peculiar to Lovelace. To pickear, or pickeer, means to 

 tkirmish." And, pray, what other possible meaning can 

 it have here 1 



Of his corrections of the press we will correct a few 

 samples. 



Page 34, for " Love nee're his standard," read " neere." 

 Page 82, for " fall too," read " fall to " (or, as we ought to 

 print such words, " fall-to "). Page 83, for " star-made 

 firmament,'' read "star, made firmament." Page 161, 

 for " To look their enemies in their hearse," read, both 

 for sense and metre, into. Page 176, for " the gods have 

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