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vinced of, that allthe Palmers, in their ori- 
ginal, were pilgrims ; that the anceftors 
of Fort-efcu-and Shake-fpear were war- 
riors ; and the Bill-men and Hook-mexu of 
the day but common foldiers a few centu-~ 
ries ago. How to account for Neptuze 
and Horace, and Homer and Pindar, and 
Cato and Cafar,T confels myfelf ata lofs ; 
but pofterity will, I dare fay, be as much 
perplexed when they hear, that, in the 
reign of fanaticifm, one man was found 
who had for a Chriftian-name the Lord’s 
Prayer, Creed, and Ten Commanments. 
, . NOMENCLATOR. 
et : 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
‘ CORRESPONDENT in your laft 
Magazine wifhes to know by whom 
the fong of «* Auld Robin Gray”’ was 
written. It is, I believe, generally al. 
Jowed to be an effufion of the elegant pen 
of Lady Anne Lindfay, now Bernard, 
daughter to the late Earl of Balearras.— 
This celebrated fong firft appeared, I 
think, in ‘* Love and Madrefs,”’ to the 
author of which work it had probably 
been communicated by the fair authore(s, 
as he ** begs to thank Lady A. Lindfay”’” 
forit. Mr. Ritfon feems to think that 
the author of ‘* Love and Madnefs”’ took 
fome liberties, with the original manu- 
{cript. Speaking of this fong, as given in 
his Colleétion of Scottifh Songs, vol. i. 
p- 135, he fays, “A different copy of 
this fong, with numerous and confideiable 
alterations, is printed in the Jaft edition of 
<< Love and Madnefs.”? The alterations 
(he continues) do not appear, in every 
inftance, for the better, and may probably 
be retracted by the fair and elegant au- 
thorefs in fome future publication ; which 
is one reafon why the original ftanzas 
have.been preferved: another is, that they 
Robin Gray.—DQueries, Se. 
[May 1, 
Her dove fhe did decks, 
She drew o’er his neck 
A bell and a collar fo gay 3 
She tied to his wing 
The fcroll with a ftring, 
Then kifs’d him and fent him away. 
It blew and it rain’d, 
The pigeon difdain’d 
To feek thelter,—wundaunted he flew ; 
Till wet was‘his wing, 
And painful the ftring, 
So heavy the letter it grew. 
He flew ail around, 
Till Colin he found, 
Then perch’d on his hand with the prize, 
Whofe heart, while he reads, 
With tendernefs bleeds 
For the pigeon that flutters and dies. 
I believe thofe two fongs are the only 
poetical produtions of Lady Anne Bar- 
nard that have iffued frem the prefs. Ie 
is to be lamented that one who writes fo 
well does sot write of:en. 
; Iam, &c. A, B. 
April 3, 1805, ; 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, . 
S they will occupy but litt’e room, 
\. be pleafed to infert in your Maga- 
zine the fojlowing additions to Vertue’s 
Catalogue of Hollar’s, works. I lately 
faw them in the Colle€tion at the Britith 
Mufeum. : 
Print of a great hollow Elm at Hamp» 
ftead, with Poetry round it. ~The Elm 
‘6 28 foote round at botrom.’” 
Map and Defcription of Plymouth, at 
the Siege, 1643.> 
A Booke of Country Dances, with the 
Frontilpiece mentioned in p. 110 of Ver- 
tue’s Catalogue, article the fecond, 1651. 
Your’s, &c. A CoLLEcror, 
rea amiliar to the pubilc.*’ ll 
ga on cae Died cf iy Pigeon,” To the Editor of the Moathly Magazine. 
has been afcribed to Lady Anne Barnard. SIR, Cone: 
As this fong does not feem to be generally if SHOULD efteem it a favour if fome *. 
known, and as it has confiderable merit, I - of your Correfpondents would inform 
fhajl tranferibe it here :-— me, whether or not tranflations in the. | 
is ‘ Engl.th larguage have appeared of the’ ~ 
‘< Eccerinis’? of Mufiatis, the “ Orfea’’ ; 
of Politiano, or the “ Progne’’ of Cor- 
rare 3 or point out any Englith writer who 
gives a latisfadtory account of thofe dra- : 
mas. Iam inclined to think that none of ~~ 
thefe pieces have yet appeared in the En | 
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Why tarries my love ? 
Ah! where does he rove ? 
My love is long abfent from me. 
Come hither, my dove, 
T’ll write to my love, 
And fend him a letter by thee. 
“To find him, fwift fly ! 
‘The letter I'll tie 
Secure to thy leg with a firing s 
_ Ah! not tomy leg, — 
Fair lady, [ beg, 
But faften it under my wing. 
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glifh language; yet the “¢ Orfeo”? is parti- 
cuiarly deferving notice, as it is faid to : 
have given birth to paftoral comedy and. y 
the melo-drama. - + ZENO, 
April 53 1305, : 
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