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quently produces, repeating like a perfon 
talking in her fleep.*” On the enfuing 
morning Mrs. Robinfon had enly a con- 
fufed idea of what had paffed, nor could 
be convinced of the fact till the manu- 
fcript was produced. 
wandering maniac known by that name 
at: Brighton) throughout the night, but 
was perfectly unconfcious of having been 
awake while fhe compofed the poem, or 
of the circumfances narrated by her 
daughter.—Mem. of Mrs. Robmfon, vol, 
Hep, 332. 
To your candour, Mr. Editor, the au- 
thor is much indebted, for introducing in- 
te your valuable pages thefe remarks on 
the {mall volume of poems now before the 
public, Thavenothing more to add, but 
to conclude, in the words of a celebrated 
poct, 
«* They heft can judge a poet’s worth, 
Who oft themfelves have known 
The pangs of a poetic birth, 
By labours of their own.” 
Cowrer’s Ode to Dr. Darwin. 
Iam, Sir, your's, &c. 
G. D. Yeats, M.D. 
Bedford, Dec. 15, 1804. 
=e 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
1 Mo the ufes to which periodical © 
IY 
publications are generally applied, I 
know tew more ferviceable than the pre- 
fervation of fuch anecdotes as may, for 
reafons too copious to be enumerated here, 
have efcaped the notice of bicographers.—— 
In fhort, when the lives of the great or 
good have been given to the world, thefe 
become the beft vehicles for fubfequent 
difcoveries. 
In the Lives which have been written 
of Lidgate,. the immediate fucceflor of 
Chaucer, he is ufually fpeken of as a 
monk of the Benedi&tine abbey of Bury, 
in Suffolk ; but the fact is, that he was 
originally one of the black-mopks of 
Hatfield-Broad-Oak, m the county of 
Effex. I here fend you a copy of the 
licence by which he quitted Hatfield. It 
“was communicated to me by a literary 
friend, who tranferibed it from an ancient 
regifter of Bury abbey, which was for- 
merly in the poticffion of Sir Edmund Ba- 
con, of Garboldefham :— ; 
«© Difmiffio Johannis Lidgate monachi 
ab obedientia prioris de Hatfield. Ex re- 
giftro Willielmi Curteys, abbatis monaf- 
terii fanfli Edmundi de Burgo. f. 90. bi= 
ae 
Anecdote of Lidgate.--Cuntabriziana, 
. She declared fhe. 
had been dreaming of mad Jenny (a poor 
Bu pesv rg Dopu Ongarlm, ev Y aranda Cerda. 
, Hom. * 
{ March 1, 
«« Johannes Prior, prioratus de Hatfeld 
Broke ordinis nigrorum monachorum 
Londonenfis diocefeos, fratri Johanni Lyd- 
gate, commonacho et confratri noftro, 
falutem et fincero in Domino caritatem ; 
licet in prioratu noftro pradigto habitu 
reguiari aliquandiu fueris converfatus, 
famen cum ut afferis, prepter frugem me- 
lioris vitee captandam, ex certis caufis ve- 
ris et legitimis con{cientiam tuam in hac 
parte moventibus, ad monafterium de Bu- 
‘ry fan&ti Edmundi in quo di@um dudum 
ordinem Jegitime et exprefle fuergs pro. 
feffus, regreflum habere proponas 3 nos 
gui commifarum nobis animarum falutera 
ferventi defiderio peroptamus, ut ad dic- 
tum monafterium vel alibi in Joco ejufdem 
religionis congruo et honefto, fumptis 
pennis cum Maria contemplationis libere 
valeas convolare licentiam in Domine 
tibi:concedimus fpecialem. In cujus rei 
teflimonium preelentibus figillum noftrum 
commune appofuimus. Dat. apud -Hat- 
feld predi&t. viii? die menfis Aprilis, anno 
Domini millefiimo quadringentefimo tri- 
cefimo quarto,” 
Your’s, &c. 4 Sa 
et 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CANTABRIGIANA. 
No. CxCVII.—MEN’S OPINIONS AND 
JUDGMENTS CONCERNING  UNBE- 
LIEVERS. : 
ie hla over-zealous of different fe&ts are 
often illiberal to one another. What 
wonder if they are unjuit towards unbe- 
lievers? In the former cafe they are bre- 
thren difunited, quarrelling about com- 
mon rights and privileges; in the latter, 
warrior-hofts combined, enraged againit 
a public enemy. 
Et 0€ Gor Eg ye usa “Cactreveropeey, oux Er" 
EDTEST 
Teurw avalancig uaxov ercerat, #3 nCaitov. 
If eer as friends we join, the Trojan wall 
ni hie and heavy will the vengeance 
ails sh ie Sage 
His fharpen’d {pear let every Grecian 
wield, i 
And every Grecian fix his brazen thield. 
Pope. 
This union may fwell to bigotry, 
which, like a (punge, abforbs the more 
generous affections of the foul ;—and then, 
feverity, the dry morfel left behind after. — 
the abforption, is confidered a virtue; Nec 
tam -vocis ille, quam wirtutis, concentus 
widelur.—~LACITUS, What is denomi- 
nated - 
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