magined the leait application of what I laid of Timon could be nade to the Duke of Chandos, than whom there is fcarce a more lamelefs, worthy, and generous beneficent character among all the obility." In the latter end of the letter, he fays, "it would have been a pleasure to me to have found fome friend saying a word n my justification against a malicious falfehood.” This letter alfo contains fome very high-flown compliments to the tleman to whom it was addreffed, on a tragedy of his which had been received. Aaron Hill was (as a very judicious Critic* has juftly med him) 66 an affected, fuftian writer.". -Pope, who was not pron dmiration, could hardly have differed from the general opinion o Public, fo much as he profeffes to have done. The fincerity of the ole of the letter may therefore poffibly be doubted, and he might wish complimenting Mr. Hill, to induce him to take pains to refute a ftor which the credit of Pope had begun to fuffer in the world, and whic fo generally believed and refented. Lady Wortley Motague, amon ers, attacked him upon it, in her Verfes to the Imitator of Horace. But if thou fee'ft a great and generous heart, Thy bow is doubly bent to force a dart. Not only justice vainly we demand, But even benefits can't rein thy hand; To this, or that, alike we vainly truft, Nor find thee lefs ungrateful than unjust. P. 67. V. 608. Add to the Note.] James, the fourth Earl of Salisbury, father to the Nobleman here com mented, became a convert to the Roman Catholic religion, and wa fented as a Popish Recufant by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, in 1688 the following year it was refolved by the House of Commons, tha and Henry Earl of Peterborough should be impeached of high trea * Dr, Warton. fo fon, for departing from their allegiance, and being reconciled to the Church of Rome: but the profecution was waved. -He was after wards fufpected of engaging in a project for the restoration of K. James; and died in 1694. P. 71. V.633. Add to the Note.] Henry, Earl of Worcefter, great-grandfather of the Nobleman here mentioned, was fuppofed to be the richest English Peer of his time, but difperfed a great part of his fortune by the very expenfive part he took in the national commotions. It is faid to have been greatly owing to him that Charles I. was enabled to make fo refpectable a figure at the commencement of the war. Soon afterwards he was created Marquis of Worcester. He defended his caftle of Ragland, in Monmouthshire, for feveral years at his own pefonal expence, against the Parliament forces; but furrendered in 1646, on a capitulation, the articles of which were violated, and he died in confinement the latter end of that year.-Henry Marquis of Worcester, his grandfon, was created Duke of Beaufort towards the latter end of Charles II.'s reign. He exerted himself much in oppofition to the invafion of the Duke of Monmouth; and, in 1688, endeavoured to fecure Bristol against the adherents of the Prince of Orange; on whofe elevation to the crown he refused to take the oaths. P. 75. V. 665. Add to the Note.] From whom Spenfer, also, in his Colin Clout's come home again ; THAT, AS THE TREES DO GROW, HER NAME MAY GROW. Milton alfo mentions, the crefted cock, whofe CLARION founds The filent hours PARAD. L. B. vII. V. 443. P. 88. V. 781. Add to the Note.] Mr. Oldham, in his Satire against Poetry, introduces the ghoft of Spenfer difcouraging the pursuit of Poetry, and fhewing, from his own experience and example, that poverty and contempt were its infeparable attendants. Otway alfo, in his Prologue to Conftantine the Great, warns us of the miferies of a life devoted to the Mufes. All you, who have male iffue born And warn them early from the fin of rhyme. Tell them how Spenfer ftarv'd, how Cowley mourn'd, How Butler's faith and fervice were return'd. P. 99. V. 27. Add to the Note.] Thus alfo Propertius ; Dummodo PURPUREO SPUMENT MIHI DOLIA MUSTO, Et nova preffantes inquinet avapedes. L. iii. Eleg. vii. V. 17. P. 102. PARAD. L. B. 1x. V. 45c P. 136. V. 396. Nor can the Poet Bacchus' praife indite Debarr'd his grape-] Ingenium quod excitet vinum, ex eo clariffime intelligitur, qu ad Poefin, quæ res ingenii eft, mirifice difponat. Perpetuo ab ar quitate creditum eft, et ipfa res docet, VINI CALOREM POETARI FUROREM ET IMPETUM EXCITARE, et Bacchi et Apollinis furor unum effe eundemque; quamobrem Ovidius vino carens de fe c queritur. P. Qui prius in nobis effe folebat, abest." v. Haller. PHYSIOL. L. XVII. Sect, 1.13 155. 549. Add to the second Note on this line.] Which feems to have been copied from a paffage in the Пginynois Dionyfius, V.667, where he defcribes the people who dwell on the ba f the Tanais, which originates in the Caucasian Mountains. Σχέλιοι οι περι κείνον ενοικια φιλες εχεσιν, |