3. Wednesday. The tête à tête. Dancinda.

4. Thursday. The bassette table. Smilinda [Lady

Mary Wortley Montagu] and Cardelia [Countess

of Bristol].

This is printed by Anderson among Pope's

works. Sharper is Lord Stair; Ombrelia is

Mrs. Hanbury; Betty Loveit is Mrs. South-

well. Corticelli's is described by Walpole

as a fashionable Indian warehouse at the

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of the Vice-Chamberlain].

5. Friday. The Toilette. Lydia [Mrs. Coke, wife-

Gray (Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 182) says:—

This is not only a state-poem (my ancient aver-upper end of Suffolk Street, and a rendezvous

sion), but a state-poem on the peace of Utrecht...... of galantry."

This is only a poor short-winded imitation of

Addison, who had himself not above three or four

notes in poetry, sweet enough indeed, like those of

a German flute, but such as soon tire and satiate

the ear with their frequent return. Tickell has

added to this a great poverty of sense, and a string

of transitions that hardly become a schoolboy.

However, I forgive him for the sake of his ballad

['Colin and Lucy'], which I always thought the

prettiest in the world.'

34-6. To Sir Godfrey Kneller at his country seat

Whitton.-In Twickenham, 1722.

36-7. On the death of the Earl of Cadogan.

38-41. Ode to the Earl of Sunderland at Windsor.

Published 1720.

41-60. Kensington Garden.

61-8. Epistle from a lady in England to a gentle-

man at Avignon.

The above are by Thomas Tickell ('D.N.B.').
The Epistle' was published anonymously
in 1717, and reached five editions. To the
six lines beginning "To Rome then must
the royal wand'rer go," and ending The
proffered purple and the hat may please,'
Horace Walpole in his copy wrote the com-
ment: "This litterally became the Lot of
the last of the Family." Bramston says

in his Art of Politics':-

The Jacobites rediculous opinion

Is seen from Tickell's letter to Avignon.

69-81. The female reign, an ode, by Mr. [Samuel]

Cobb.-D.N.B.'

Dr. Joseph Warton speaks of him (Nichols,

'Lit. Anecdotes of the 18th Cent.,' vi. 170)

as "author of a very fine ode in Dodsley's

Miscellanies"; again, “his ode in Dodsley

is most excellent.'

82-104. Six town eclogues by the Right Hon.

L. M. W. M.-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

('D.N.B.').

1. Monday. Roxana [the Duchess of Roxburgh],

or the drawing-room.-Coquetilla is the Duchess of

Shrewsbury.

2. Tuesday. St. James's coffee house. Silliander

[General Campbell] and Patch [Lord Hertford].—
In 1. 3 H-d is Howard.

This is printed by Anderson, with consider-
able alterations, among Gay's works. Damon
is Lord Berkeley. "Your wife " (two lines
afterwards) is Lady Louisa Lenox (sic). To
1. 15, "side boxes," Walpole puts the note
ladies at that time sat in the front-boxes,

men in the side," and adds the line When

bows the side box from its inmost rows

('Rape of the Lock').

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6. Saturday. The Small-pox. Flavia [Lady Mary

Wortley Montagu].

Mirmillio (1. 71) is usually said to be Dr.

Gibbons; Walpole says that it is Sir Hans-

Sloane. Machaon (1. 77) is Garth. Horace

Walpole's note is :

-

"These eclogues Lady M. Wortley allowed me to

transcribe from a volume of her poems in MS. at

Florence in 1740, and from my copy Dodsley printed

them and the 'Epistle from A. Grey,' 'The Lover,"

and the Epilogue'; and her Ladyship told me all

the persons alluded to. Bp. Warburton has printed!

the second eclogue as Pope's, who might correct or

at least transcribe it; but it [is evident] that all six

are by the same hand and not like Pope."

The words in brackets are much blurred.

Gray('Letters,' i. 187) wrote:-

"The town is an owl if it don't like Lady Mary,

and I am surprised at it; we here [Cambridge] are

owls enough to think her eclogues very bad; but

The Epistle from Arthur Grey the footman

....to Mrs. [Griselda], afterwards Lady,

Murray' was subsequently suppressed. She

died 6 June, 1759.

that I did not wonder at."

105-7. The lover, a ballad, to Mr. [Richard] C-
[Chandler].
Eldest son of Dr. Chandler, Bishop of
Durham. He married Elizabeth, the only
daughter of Lord James Cavendish, whose
name he took by Act of Parliament in 1752.
107. The lady's resolve, written extempore on a

window.

108. The gentleman's answer.

108-11. An epistle to Lord B- [Bathurst].

112-13. Epilogue to Mary, Queen of Scots [a tragedy

begun by the Duke of Wharton], design'd to be
spoken by Mrs. Oldfield.

114-15. A receipt to cure the vapours, written to
Lady J-[Irwin, daughter of the Earl of Carlisle).

The above are also by Lady Mary Wortley before. This is the only manuscript of Montagu. An account of Lady Irwin is Arbuthnot in existence, and Mr. Aitken in printed in Walpole's 'Royal and Noble his 'Life and Works of Arbuthnot,' pp. 436Authors,' ed. Park, v. 155-7. She wrote 442, has printed it, "first as it was published, an answer to this "Receipt." Both pieces and secondly, as it was originally written." are printed in the 'Additions to the Works of Pope' (1776), i. 168–70.

116-46. The Spleen, an epistle to Mr. C-J-[i.e., Cuthbert Jackson]. By Mr. Matthew Green of the Custom-house.-D.N.B.'

Gray says ('Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 183):—

"All there is of M. Green here has been printed before; there is a profusion of wit everywhere; reading would have formed his judgment and harmonised his verse, for even his wood-notes often break out into strains of real poetry and music." Walpole says of 'The Spleen' :

186-99. London, a poem in imitation of the third satire of Juvenal. By Mr. Samuel Johnson.'D.N.B.'

Writing to Horace Walpole, Gray says ('Letters,' i. 183):—

"I am sorry to differ from you, but London' is to me one of those few imitations that have all the ease and all the spirit of an original. The same man's verses on the opening of Garrick's theatre are far from bad."

To the words "whom pensions can incite
To vote a patriot black, a courtier white,"
"This wd have
is the note by Walpole:
suited Johnson himself latterly."
next page is Hervey's.

H-y's

"This is as original a poem as ever was written. It has the wit of Butler with the ease of Prior without imitating either, and tho' so poetic all the images are taken from the streets of London." He fills up the blanks g-1 p-s as gospel propagators," and to corporation adds the Charitable Cor-Johnson. poration.' When Goldsmith asserted that there was no poetry in his age, Dodsley appealed to his own collection as a refutaparticularly tion, and mentioned 'The Spleen.' Johnson's comment on this was: I think Dodsley gave up the question.... The Spleen' is not poetry (Boswell, 11 Apl., 1776). To the account of Green in the D.N.B.' it may be added that two letters by him are in the Political State for July, 1740, pp. 85–9.

200-2. Prologue spoken by Garrick, at the opening such was of late a of the theatre in Drury Lane, 1747. By Samuel 203-13. Of active and retired life, an epistle to H. C., Esq. [Henry Coventry]. By William Melmoth the Younger (D.N.B.'); first printed in the year 1735.

146-7. An epigram on the Rev. Mr. Laurence Echard's and Bishop Gilbert Burnet's histories. 147-9. The sparrow and diamond, a song. 150-1. Jove and Semele.

152-3. The seeker.

153-7. On Barclay's apology for the Quakers. The above are also by Green, whose family were Quakers. He respected, but deserted,

that creed.

158-72. Pre-existence, a poem in imitation of Milton.

It was published with a preface by J. B. in 1714, and reprinted in 1740 and 1800. Gray writes ('Letters,' i. 184) :

:

"Dr. Evans [Abel Evans: see 'D.N.B.'] is a furious madman; and pre-existence is nonsense in all her altitudes."

172-80. Chiron to Achilles, a poem by Hildebrand Jacob, Esq.-D.N.B.'

This was first published in 1732, and was included in his collected works (1735), pp. 133-44.

180-5. Know your self, by the late Dr. Arbuthnot. -D.N.B.'

Pub. anon. in 1734, with an advertisement that it had been written several years

214-19. Grongar Hill. By Mr. [John] Dyer.'D.N.B.'

Dyer, says Gray (Letters,' i. 183), "has more of poetry in his imagination than almost any of our number, but rough and injudicious."

220-41. The ruins of Rome, a poem. By the same. 241-55. The school - mistress, a poem in imitation of Spenser. By William Shenstone, Esq.'D.N.B.'

Paul

L. 1, "Sir James " is Thornhill, Sir Robert is of course Sir Robert Walpole. "New Bond Street and a newer square,' i.e. Cavendish Square. "Let Sir resign," Methuen. "Cibber's opera from Johnny Gay's": the opera is "Love in a Riddle,' the other piece The Beggar's Opera.' "Th' arch-bishop and the Master of the Rolls," Wake and Sir Joseph Jekyll. Wyndham is Sir William Wyndham; " Lord William's dead and gone,' "Lord William Poulet. Bramstone's poem contains many pointed lines.

286-97. The man of taste. By the same.

Sir Andrew is Sir Andrew Fountaine, The di'mond count," says Walpole, was a noted venturer, who was said to be going to marry the Ds of Buckingham, when he was detected and decamped.'

The Art of Cookery,' by Dr. King, and edition, pp. 223-63), and 'The Apparition,' the following poems by him (vol. i. first

"FIRST-FOOTING," ANNO DOM. 1907: SOME OLD SONGS.

298-321. An essay on conversation. By Benjamin Stillingfleet.-'D.N.B.' This poem is addressed to William Wind-by Dr. Evans (ib. pp. 238-68, the paging being repeated), were afterwards omitted. ham, of Felbrigg, near Cromer, Norfolk, to W. P. COURTNEY. whom Stillingfleet had been tutor, and with whom he travelled abroad. More than once the author shows himself angry with Bentley in refusing him a fellowship at Trinity College. B-y "should be filled up as Bentley. B-rm-n is Burman; Ba-l-y" is Bailey. Dr. Doran says that Stillingfleet's poem helped the social reform of Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Montagu. It lays down some very excellent rules, that implicitly followed would make conversation impossible."

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321-3. Ode to a lady on the death of Col. Charles Ross in the action at Fontenoy. Written May, 1745. By Mr. William Collins.-D.N.B.'

324. Ode written in the same year. By the same. 325-6. Ode to evening. By the same.

327. Verses written on a blank leaf, by [George Granville] Lord Lansdown (D.N.B.') when he presented his works to the queen, 1732.

328-9. Advice to a lady in autumn.

This and the three next pieces are by Lord Chesterfield ('D.N.B.').

329-30. On a lady's drinking the Bath waters. 330. Verses written in a Lady's 'Sherlock upon Death.'

331-2. Song.

Fanny in 1. 1 is Lady Fanny Shirley. The Rev. R. S. Cobbett in his Memorials of Twickenham,' 1872, p. 69, expresses his belief that the song was written by Mr. Thomas Philips, a dramatic writer. An article by George Agar Ellis, afterwards Lord Dover, on Chesterfield and Fanny,' is in The Keepsake' for 1831, pp. 1-15.

An original poem by Lord Hervey, which was printed in a few copies of the first edition of this Miscellany, but then suppressed as too personal, is reproduced in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1796, pt. i. 509. Cf. ib. pt. i. 530; pt. ii. preliminary page, and p. 740.

The poem to the Earl of Warwick (pp. 22-6), that on the prophecy of Nereus (pp. 30-33), the following poems to p. 115

THE poem written an entire century ago. by the Hon. William Robert Spencer (17701834), as an Epitaph on the Year 1806," needs no alteration beyond a single word to fit it as an echo to the present date. For it begins and ends thus, with touching appropriateness :

'Tis gone, with its thorns and its roses,
With the dust of dead ages to mix!
Time's channel for ever encloses
The year [Nine]teen Hundred and Six.
[Two stanzas intervene.]

If thine was a gloom the completest
That death's darkest cypress could throw,
Thine, too, was a garland the sweetest

That life in full blossom could show.

One hand gave the balmy corrector

Of ills which the other had brewed-
One draught from thy chalice of nectar
All taste of thy bitter subdued.

'Tis gone with its thorns and its roses!
With mine tears more precious may mix
To hallow this midnight which closes

The year [Nine]teen Hundred and Six. Thus did our earlier and better Bobby Spencer prove himself a century ago to be a First-Footer," as they would say in Scotland. For myself, an Englishman born, a Surrey native, and of Lambeth, Gray's Walk Road, my “first footing" in Scotland that I can remember is of the date 1828 or 1829. Of this anon.

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It so happens that I can remember a long First-Footings series of happy " in the "Land of Cakes," which I and my dear father before me (Joseph Ebsworth, 17881868) found to be brimming over with hospitality and true-heartedness, as worthy of the country that gave birth to Robert Burns and to Walter Scott-men

was

who deserve our love and gratitude for what they were in their own noble individuality as well as for what they gave us as undying legacies in literature by their genius. Our reverence and admiration for them both is undimmed, and should remain So whilst life can last. But life is flitting away fast, and while I am still able let me try to furnish to dear N. & Q.,' that I have loved from its earliest days, some records that I hold in authentic autographs and memories connected with, e.g., William Hazlitt, Sir Henry Bishop, and others who have passed away into the silence. May a blessing rest at this New Year on all who love N. & Q.' !

J. WOODFALL EBSWORTH. The Priory, Ashford, Kent.

(To be continued.)

KING ALFONSO'S MARRIAGE. - In the speech of our gracious King read in Parliament on 21 December, 1906, the date of the marriage of the King and Queen of Spain is given as "last June.” So say the reports [We trust that our old friend MR. EBSWORTH will published in the London newspapers. pardon the alterations made in the interesting com-real date was, of course, 31 May. King munication he has sent us. His far too kind words about all connected with N. & Q' are deeply Alfonso is altogether a May King; and may appreciated, but we feel that we must retain them he long succeed in making history a blessing for our own private perusal.] to Spain and to England!

CARDINAL MEZZOFANTI: JEREMIAH CURTIN. -According to the Central News of 15 December, Mr. Jeremiah Curtin, who translated Quo Vadis?' from the Polish, has recently died at Bristol, Vermont. He is said to have known seventy languages. If this be correct, he must have surpassed Cardinal Mezzofanti, who, according to The Encyclopædia Britannica,' spoke with considerable fluency some fifty or sixty languages of the most widely separated families. Byron, it will be remembered, called him the Briareus of parts of speech, and a walking polyglot who ought to have existed at the time of the Tower of Babel as universal interpreter. The Countess of Blessington, who met Mezzofanti at Bologna, says :

"Mezzofanti is said to be the master of no less than forty languages. When, however, we referred to this subject he disclaimed it, and modestly said there was great exaggeration in the statement. But as he has never left Italy and yet speaks English correctly, I can imagine his proficiency in other tongues."

Mezzofanti, it will be observed, disclaimed a knowledge of forty languages; if Mr. Curtin knew seventy languages, Mezzofanti ceases to be a name synonymous with Briareus in a linguistic sense. When I visited Bologna twenty years ago, I chanced, while passing the corner of the Via dell' Orso, to see some workmen pulling down a house. It was the house in which Mezzofanti resided while Professor of Oriental

The

EDWARD S. DODGSON, Correspondiente de la Real Academia. de la Historia.

GUEVARA INSCRIPTIONS AT STENIGOT: " "" POTIE WARDEN.-A few months ago local newspapers chronicled the removal from the old church at Stenigot, Lincolnshire (now closed), to a new church, of two alabaster monumental tablets, with kneeling figures, bearing the following inscriptions:

"Here lyeth ye bodie of Francis Viles De Guevaraa, naturale Spannyarde, borne in ye province of Biscay, who had to his first wife Devise Reade, daughter and heyre to John Reade, of Boston, in ye county of Lincoln, Esquire, by whome he had issue one daughter, Ellene, and after married Annie Egerton, daughter to John Egerton, of Willoughby, in ye county aforesaid, Esquire, by whome he had issue 5 sonnes, viz., John, Peregrine, Henry, William, George, and 5 daughters, viz., Anne, Susan, Cathrine, Elisabeth, and Fraunce, and died ye tenth of February 1592."

"Here lyeth ye bodie of Sir John Grevara, Knight, sometimes the Potie Warden of the East Marches of England under the Right Honourable Peregrine, Lo: Willoughby, Baron of Willoughby, Beak, and Eagesby, some and Heire to Francis Grevara, Esquire, who maryed Anne, daughter of Robert Sanderson, of Saxeby, in the countie of Lincoln, Esquire, by whome he had issue 6 sonnes, viz., Frannces [sic], John, William, Thomas, Charles, and Robert, and 2 daughters, viz., Katherine and Mary, and departed this life ye 6th June, 1607.“

I have exactly copied these inscriptions as they appeared in print, and the variation in spelling of the surname will be noticed. I am curious, and shall be glad of information,

An original poem by Lord Hervey, which was printed in a few copies of the first edition of this Miscellany, but then suppressed as too personal, is reproduced in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1796, pt. i. 509. Cf. ib. pt. i. 530; pt. ii. preliminary page, and p. 740.

The poem to the Earl of Warwick (pp. 22-6), that on the prophecy of Nereus (pp. 30-33), the following poems to p. 115