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prise, which the Lord Scales refused not. 
The kynge said he wold aske counsaile, 
and so calling unto him the constable 
and marshall, with the officers of armes, 
and after lone consultation had and 
lawes of armes rehearsed, it was declared 
to the Bastard for a sentence definitive 
by the Duke of Clarence, then constable 
of England, and the Duke of Norfolk, 
Erle Marshall, that yf he wold further 
prosecute hys attempted challenge, he 
must by the law of arms be delivered to 
his adv ersary in the same case and like 
condicion as he was when he was taken 
from him, that is to say, the pointe of the 
Lord Scales’s axe to be fixed in the sights 
of his BeBiie as deep as it was when 
theye were severed. The Bastard hearing 
this judgement, doubted much of the 
sequele if he so should proceade againe, 
wherefore he was content to relinquishe 
bis challenge, rather than to abyde the 
hazard of his dishonours.” 
LONG ACRE 
Among the entries in the Council 
Books, of the time of Edward VI. is the 
mention of a grant trom the king to the 
Parl of Be dford, and his heirs male, of 
the Covent Garden, and the ena 
ground called the Long Acre. 
FETTER-LANE, HOLBORN. 
Fetter, should be fupbur lane, a term 
used by Chaucer, for a lazy idle Pies. 
It occurs as early as the 37th of Edward 
lil. when a patent was granted for a 
toll traverse toward its improvement. 
The condition in which it yet remains, 
eer tainly warrauts the etymology .— Stowe 
agrees in it. 
FLEET-STREET. 
Sir Jonas More directed the re-building 
of Fleet street, according to an appointed 
model after the great fire of London. 
And from that beginning the city soon 
grew to a general perfection, and ‘far 
transcended its former splendor. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
LYCHUM OF ANCIENT LITERA- 
TURE.—No. VIL. 
THE ZNEID. 
HEN we begin to read the Mad, 
we find ourselves in regions of 
the most remote and unrefined antiquity. 
When we open the /Eneid, we discover 
aii the correctness and the improvements 
of she Augustan age. But what strikes us 
most in passing from the perusal of Ho- 
mer to Virgil, is the implicit devotion 
which the Latin poet scems {o have paid 
to the Greek; and were it not already 
Lyceum of Ancient Literature. 
—No. VII. 
known that Virgil was considered so 
warm an admirer of Homer as to be. 
called Homerieus, it would be sufficient 
to read the Atneid to be convinced of it. 
He has evidently throughout his poem 
kept his eye on the Grecian Bard, and in 
many places - he has not so much imis 
tated, as he has literally translated him. 
But to convey the beauties of one lan- 
guage into another, has always been con- 
sidered a mark of genius, and that such 
a transition is not a work OF facility, may | 
be admitted on the authority of Vi real 
himself, who affirmed, ‘ that it would be 
easier to deprive Hercules of his club, 
than to steal one live from Homer.’ For 
this adherence to the greatest poet.of an- 
quity, there are few who will reproach 
him; but he has been more severely, an 
more justly, censured, for having been 
the plagiar y of his own countrymen. OF 
this we may be convinced by ‘the nume- 
rous examples of lines, berrowed not only 
from the obscure poets of the time, such 
as Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and Suevius, 
but trom the more illustrious Lucretius, 
Catullus, Varius, and Furius. We have 
not the productions of the two latter, 
(July tr, 
-which of Varius is to be regretted, as, 
from an expression of Horace, he appears 
to have possessed a genius peculiarly 
formed for the epic. Virgil so little 
concealed these larcenies, that he boast- 
ed of having extracted geld from the 
dung-hill of Ennius. This expression 
does not appear strictly just from the 
specimens which we have of the latter 
poet, collected from the quotations of - 
ancient authors. There is in them all 
evidently a bad taste, and a style which 
proves that the language i in his ume had 
not attamed the purity of the Aucustan 
era: but the many beautiful expressions 
and truly poetical ideas with wlich he 
has furnished Virgil, also prove that En- 
nlus possessed the talent for which Quinti- 
lan so w armly comunchds | him, and justi- 
fies the veneration which Scipio Africanus, 
no unenlightened judge, always euter-* 
tained of Lim. There are still more 
flagrant proofs of Virals ° plagiarism. 
It does not’ appear to be very generaily, 
known that the second fneid, so univer- 
sally admired, which presents the grand 
picture of ‘the sack of Troy, was hierally 
copied (pene ad ver bum, is the expression 
of Macrobius) froma Greek poet, named 
Pisaiuder, who wrote in verse a amber 
of mythological tales. Macrobius speaks 
of this as a fact notorious im his time, 
even among children; and mentions Ei- 
sander as a poet of the first order among 
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