1803.] 
fo arduous a tafk would require more than 
one hand. Pope’s edition, as being the 
mott judicious, (Vide, Monthly Magazine, 
wol. vi. p.88) fhould be followed. But 
a tranflation of Atterbury’s Preface fhould 
be given. 
I do not recolle& to have feen an Eng- 
lith verfion of the Pifcatory Eclogues of 
Sannazaro. Thofe of Fletcher now lie 
before me, in a very elegant edition, pub- 
lifhed at Edinburgh, 1771. Is it known 
who was the editor of this edition? He 
appears to have been a man of learning 
and tafte. Iam, &c. 
H.R. R. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
BOUT a fortnight from this time 
died here Thomas Hearne, nephew 
to the celebrated antiquarian of the fame 
name. He was the perfon mentioned in 
the codicil of the antiquarian’s.will. His 
mind, though by no means comparable 
with his uncle’s, was {till naturally trong; 
and, it is prefumed, had it been polifhed 
and intormed by education, would have 
fone with no {mall degree of fplendour. 
His memory was particularly faithful, 
his humour comic, and he had an abun- 
dant flore of anecdotes. He has been 
known to fpend whole days in reading. 
He has left a fon, who, though addicted, 
like his deceafed parent, to too much 
drinking, is remarkable for the laft-men- 
tioned propenfity. It is by no means, Sir, 
unworthy of remark, that a grandfon of 
the above Hearne, who died two years 
fince at the age of twelve, could play on 
a variety of inftraments, delighted all 
who heard him, and was univerfally 
efteemed. Able judges have, without 
flattery, afferted, that, had he lived, he 
would have defervedly been ranked among 
the firft muficians of this country. 
Thame, T am, Sir, your 
Feb. 25,1803. FRIEND AND ADMIRERs 
—— a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OUR readers, as well as myfelf, muft, 
doubtlefs, have remarked the grow- 
ing cuftom of adding, in the announce- 
ment of marriages in the newfpapers, the 
name of the officiating clergyman to thofe 
of the parties. When the performer is a 
bithop, a dean, or other dignified clergy- 
man, it is eafy to conceive that vanity in 
the connubial pair, or their friends, may 
caufe this addition: but as we frequently 
fee it made when he is only the fimple rec- 
tor of the parifh, I haye been confideriog 
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what can have entitled him to this public 
commemoration. In fiimilar cafes, as that 
of naming the phyfician under whole au- 
{pices acure has been effected, the record 
is intended as a compliment to the fkill of 
the agent ; but it is not, at firft fight, very 
obvious that any extraordinary praife can 
be due to the aét of reading the marriage- 
fervice. ‘There is, indeed, a flory of a 
clergyman’s having found a child very 
hard to chrifien: but in that cafe it is fuf- 
pected, that the difficulty arofe fr m his 
own fituation, and not from any peculiar- 
ity inthe patient. Yet I cannot but think 
that it is no uncommon circumftance to 
find couples hard to marry, and that there 
is often a fufficient degree of effort in per- 
forming this feat, to apologize for the 
feeming vanity of making public the name 
of the clerical prattitioner. I do not ex- 
actly know to what defect in the marriage- 
rites the melancholy Jacques alludes, when, 
diffluading the Clown from fuffering Sir 
Oliver Martext to couple him and Audrey, 
he tells him, “ This fellow will but join 
you together as they join wainfcot ; then 
one of you will prove a fhrunk pannei, 
and, like green timber, warp, warp.” The 
law, at prefent, feems to have determined, 
that if the union be but made, the manner 
of doing it is of no confequence ; and evea 
the workmanfhip of the imith of Gretna- 
green.is reckoned to hold as well as that 
of his Grace of Canterbury. But the 
tafk of bringing the parties together, may 
be a ferious labour indeed. A. fly old 
batchelor has lived a {core of years with 
a kept madam, who has a great delire at 
laft to be made an hone/t woman of. What 
a trial of fkill to a confidential divine to 
work upon the hardened buff of this man’s 
confcience, and mollify it down to that 
matrimony which has fo long been the ob- 
ject of his fcorn and ridicule! A novei- 
reading mifs, whofe heart has been fotten- 
ed by tome neighbouring Celadon, looks 
with horror upon the honeft Numps whom 
her caretul father has chofen for her ; and, 
like Anne Page, would rather ‘be fet 
quick in the earth, and bowled to death 
with turnips,’’ than meet him at the altar. 
What a profufion of rhetoric muft be em- 
ployed to bring fuch a damfel to the du- 
tiful a& of beltowing her hand contrary 
to the dictates of her heart! With the 
young fpendthrift, whofe ftomach rifes at 
the fight of an amorous dame of three- 
fcore, panting to deliver him froma jail by 
the gift of her purfe and perfon, fewer ar- 
guments for compliance may be neceflary ; 
and yet he muft, in fome meafure, be fa- 
thioned to the joke by perfuafion. In thete 
and fimilar cafes, which are not very un- 
commen, 
Se 
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