1803.] 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
COLEANA. 
Confifting of SELECTIONS from the curious 
mss. bequeathed by the late MR. COLE, 
to the BRITISH MUSEUM, azd lately 
opened. 
MR. GRAY. 
«¢ Vf AM apt tothink that the charafter 
ji. of Voiture and Mr. Gray were very 
fimilar. They were both little men, very 
nice and exact in their perfons and drefs, 
mott lively and agreeable in converfation, 
(except that Mr. Gray was apt to be too 
fatyrical,) and both of them full of affec. 
tation. What gave occafion to thefe re- 
fleStions, was the following paflage, from 
the fecond volume of ‘ Mélanges d’ Hiftoire 
et de Litterature, by the Carthufan Dom 
Bonaventure d’Argogne, p. 416. a book 
that I bought on Mr. Gray’s recommen- 
dation of it to me. ‘ Madame la Marquife 
de Sablé avoit accottumé: de reprocher 
Monfieur de Voiture en riant, qu’il avoit 
une vanité de femme: ce que) marquoit 
fort bien fon caractére. Tl en rioic auffi 
lui méme, et ne croioit pas, que, dans la 
profeffion qu'il faifoit d’aimer le monde et 
toutes fes affectations, ce petit reproche 
lui fut defavantageux.’ 
Reading Gil Blas, April 29, 1780, 
the print of Scipio in the arbour, begin- 
ning to tell his own adventures to Gil 
Blas, Antonia, and Beatrix, was fo like 
the countenance of Mr. Gray, that if lie 
had fat for it, it could not be more fo. It is 
in a 12mo edition, in four volumes, print- 
ed at Amfterdam, chez Herman Vytwerf, 
1735, in the fourth volume, p. 94. It is 
ten times more like than his print before 
Malon’s Life of him, which is horrible, 
and makes hima Fury. That little one 
done by Mr. Mafon, fs like him, and pla- 
cid; Mr. Tyfoa fpoiled the other by al- 
tering it.” ' 
MATTHEW PRIOR. 
“¢ In. the year 1712, my old friend Mat- 
thew Prior, who was then Fellow of St. 
John’s, and who-not long before had been 
employed by the Queen as her Plenipo- 
tentiary at the Court of France, came to 
Cambiidge,. and the next morning paid a 
vifit to the Mafter of his own College.— 
The matter, Dr. Jenkin, loved Mr. Pricr’s 
principles—had a great opinion of his abi- 
lities, and arefpeé for his’ charater in the 
world ; but then he had a much greater 
refpet for himfelf. He knew his own 
dignity too well to fuffer a Fellow of his 
College to fit down in his prefence. He 
kept his feat himfelf, and let the Queen’s 
Ambaflador ftand. I remember, by the 
way, an extempore epigram of Matt's, on 
MontTuty Mac. No. 106. 
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the reception he met with. We did not 
reckon, in thofe days, that he had a very 
happy turn for an epigram. But the oc- | 
cafion was tempting, and he ftruck it off, 
as he was walking from St. John’s Col- 
lege to the Rofe, where we dined toge- 
ther ; it was addreffed to the Mater. 
I ftood, Sir, patient at your feet, - 
Before your elbow-chair ; 
But makea bifhop’s throne your feat, — 
Ill kneel before you there. 
One only thing can keep you down, 
For your great foul too mean : 
You’d not, tomount a Britifh throne, 
Do homage to the Queen. 
HOUR-GLASSES IN PULPITS. 
«¢ An hour-glafs is ftill placed on fome 
of the pulpits in the provinces. Daniel 
Burgefs, of whimfical memory, never 
preached without one, and he frequently 
 faw it out three times during one fermon. 
In adifcourfe which he once delivered at 
the Conventicle in Ruffel.court, againft 
drunkennefs, fome of his hearers began to 
yawn at the end of the fecond glafs: but 
- Daniel was not to be filenced by a yawn 5 
he turned his time-keeper, and altering the 
tone of voice, defired they would be pa- 
tient a while longer, for he had much 
more to fay. upon the fin of drunkennefs : 
<¢ Therefore, (added he,) my brethren, 
we will have another glafs, ana then—.” 
ARMS IN CHURCH-WINDOWS. 
The reafon of placing arms in/church- 
windows, among. many others, may be 
gathered from the following article, in 
Mr. Martin’s Hiftory of Thetford, p. 
14s, publifhedin 1779. 
‘* In 144.6, the Medieties of the rectory 
of Brome, in Suffolk, were confolidated, 
and the Prior of Thetford was to have an 
alternate prefentation; upon which the 
following arms and in{criptions were put 
up in the eaft chancel-window, where they 
now remain : ras 
Et Magifter Cal- 
thorp, Patronus, ex 
altera parte, 
Prior et Conventus 
Monacherum de 
Thetford, 'Patronus, 
ex una parte. 
Per pale, O& V a Lion 
rampant. G. 
Cheque, O & Az: 
a fefs ermine.” 
Bifhop Sanderfon was fo great an anti. 
quarian, and lover of refearches after 
things curious and ancient, having feen 
the fpoil and havock made in the times of 
ufurpation, both in his own cathedral and 
throughout the kingdom, that in his Vifi- 
tation of his diocefe in 1662, he gave this 
admonition to his Clergy : j 
«© Alfo the Clergy within the county of 
Lincoln are defired ta bring with them in 
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