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to all minor Poets, as far better than sleeping to concoct surfeits. Vid. Apology for Smectymnuus. For the listening to Throstles or Thrushes, awaking the lustless Sun, is is ah unreproved or innocent pastime: "As are cranks, by which I understood cross purposes. Vid. my Milton, 41" Filling a wife with a daughter fair," is not an unclassical notion (vid. my Milton, 39), if, according to Sir Richard Brathwaite," She had a dimpled chin, made for love to lodge within' (vid. my Milton, 41). While the cock," vid. the same, 44.Indeed, " My mother said I could be no lad, till I was twentye," is a passage I notice in my Milton with a view to this; which see; and therein also of a shepherdess, “taking the tale."Twere well likewise if Bards learned the Rebeck, or Rebible, being a species of Fiddle; for it solaceth the fatigued spirit much; though to say the truth, we have it 'tis present death for Fiddlers to tune their Rebecks, or Rebibles, before the great Turk's grace. However, Middleton's Game of Chess is good for a Poet to peruse, having quaint phrases

fitting to be married to immortal vèrse. Joshua POOLE, of Clare-hall, I also recommend as an apt guide for an alumnus of the Muse. Joshua edited a choice Parnassus, 1657, in the which I find many delicious, mel

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low hangings" of poesy. He is undoubtedly a" sonorous dactylist"and to him I add Mr. Jenner, Proctor of the Commons, and Commissary of St. Paul's, who is a gentleman of indefatigable politeness in opening the Archives of a Chapter-house for the delectation of a sound critics Tottell's Songs and Sonnets of uncertain Auctoures is likewise a butful, or plenteous work. I conclude with assuring the Public, that my brother remembers to have heard my father, tell his (ie. my brother's) first wife's second cousin, that he, once, at Magdalen College, Oxford, had it explained to him, that the famous passage "His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff,” has no sort of reference to verbal criticism and stale quotations, i onda og vs p

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ACCORDING to the old and laudable usage of Editors, we shall how present our Readers with the judgments of the learned concerning our Poets.-These Testimonies, if they proceed from critical pens, cannot fail to have due influence on all impartial observers. They pass an author from one end of the kingdom to the other, as rapidly as the pauper Certificates of Magistracy,-Indeed, it were much to be wished, that as we have no State Licenser of Poetry, it might at least be made penal, to put forth rhymes without previously producing a certain number of sureties for their goodness and utility;, which precaution, if assisted with a few other regulations, such as requiring all Practitioners in Verse to take out a License, in the manner of many other Dealers in Spirits, &c. could not fail to introduce good order among this class of authors, and also to bring in a handsome sum towards the aid of the public revenue. Happy indeed will be those Bards, who are supplied with 0 as réputable vouchers as those which are here subjoined.]

Testimonies of Sir JOSEPH MAWBEY's good Parts for Poetry, ·

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MISS HANNAH MORE,

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SIR JOSEPH, with the gentlest sympathy, begged me to contrive that he should meet

Lactilla, in her morning walk, towards the Hot-Wells. I took the proper measures for this tête-à-tête between my two naturals, as I call this uneducated couple.-It succeeded beyond my utmost hopes.-For the first ten minutes they exchanged a world of simple observations on the different species of the brute creation, to which each had most obligations.-Lactilla praised her Cows-Sir Joseph his Hogs.-An artless eclogue, my dear madam, but warm from the heart.At last the Muse took her turn on the tapis of simple dialogue.-In an instant both kindled into all the fervors-the delightful fervors, that are better imagined than described. Suffice it to relate the sequel

Lactilla pocketed a generous half-crown, and Sir Joseph was inchanted! Heavens! what would this amiable Baronet have been, with the education of a curate?"

Miss Hannah More's Letter to the Duchess of Chandos.

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OF THE SAME.

By JONAS HANWAY, Esq.

"In short, these poor children who are employed in sweeping our chimnies, are not treated half so well as so many black Pigsnor, indeed, a hundredth part so well, where the latter have the good fortune to belong to a benevolent master, such as Sir Joseph Mawbey a man who, notwithstanding he is a bright Magistrate, a diligent Voter in Parliament, and a chaste husband, is nevertheless author of not a few fancies in the poetical way."

Thoughts on our savage Treatment of Chimney-swerters.

Testimonies in Favour of Sir CECIL WRAY, Bart.

DR. STRATFORD *.

ALCANDER, thou'rt a God, more than a God!
Thou'rt pride of all the Gods-thou mount'st by woes-

* Author of 58 Tragedies, only one of which, to the disgrace of our Theatres, has yet appeared.

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