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REPLIES: - Hogarth Family, 254-Hall, 256 William Tans'ur, 257-St. Herefrid, 258 - Dolly Pentreath, 259 Lacus Ampsanctus, 260-Illegitimate Children of King Charles II.- Smiting the Thighs - "The Victim". Curious Orthographic Fact- Bummer "Songs of Shepherds" - Swift's Marriage - Parish Registers-Ambergris - Drydeniana - Hessey Whit-Sunday Decorations Tavern Sign-Mask of Cromwell - Medal of Cromwell: as preserved at Oxford and Cambridge, some interesting particulars have been recorded by the rev. Thomas Warton and the rev. Henry John Todd. 2. On Helicon. -The line which contains the word Helicon is objectionable, because it conveys no distinct idea. It is an enigma. I shall content myself with two illustrative extracts: "Helicon, mons in Aonia, non longe à Parnasso, musis dicatus. Nam in eo est fons caballinus quem Pegasus fecit."-Torrentinus, Elucidarius carminum et historiarum etc. Daventrie, M.CCCCC.1, 4o Sig. E ii. "Helicon, a well consecrated to the Muses."-Henry Cockeram, The English dictionary, London, 1658. Sm. 8°. The Elucidarius of Torrentinus is about as inaccessible as was Helicon itself when seen by Dodwell in 1801. Its information is correct. "Ce n'est jamais impunément qu'on renonce à ses pères.' As the volume of master Cockeram, which was published as early as 1632, had reached its eleventh edition in 1658, I can give no estimate of the number of readers whom it may have misled. 3. On Parnassus. -I assume that "the two-topt mount divine" means Parnassus. Dodwell describes it as "towering above the clouds." He the Dassier Medals - Raymond Lully - Joshua Sylvester denies its right to be called Parnassus biceps, and - Local Terminations, &c., 260. Notes on Books, &c. I shall therefore, without a jot of concession as to the argument which rests on its non-appearance in 1673, decline further controversy on the main question; but-accepting the opinion of those who are in favour of J. M. - I submit specimens of the notes made for my own use, as they may prove acceptable both to experts and novices. 1. On the handwriting and signature of the MS.-The engraved specimens of the handwriting of Milton in my own possession are, 1. A signature and scrap dated in 1631. 2. A portion of a letter to Carlo Dati, dated in 1647. 3. A signature dated in 1667. When I compare the second specimen with the fac-simile of the poem as published by professor Morley, I find it impossible to admit his hypothesis. But I attach no importance to my own conclusion. The testimony of Mr. Aldis Wright, whose qualifications and opportunities of comparison are beyond dispute, will no doubt prevail as to that portion of the assumed evidence. Of the existing manuscripts of Milton, [* 4th S. ii. 100, 146, 170.] a affirms that its summit is "divided into many points." But it is not a question of fact: what said the ancient poets? Ovid, Persius, and Lucan describe it as two-topt.-When I first read the poem, I considered the epithet as trite and commonplace, and now learn, to my utter dismay, that a very reverend and much admired writer pronounces it to be "Milton all over." I have since found some small relief from a line in the Lucan of Thomas May esquire, printed A.D. 1627. Prose or verse, thus it stands "Parnassus with two topps reaching the sky." 4. On the word its. - This short word has given rise to more than its share of discussion. I shall therefore aim at brevity. The earliest English grammar which I have ever examined is that of Charles Butler, M.A. - Oxford, 1634, 4°. He gives the possessive pronoun his, her, its; and remarks that some refined wit had turned the Teutonic termination s into his. He thus exemplifies the word in his preface: "For copiousness, no marvel if it [the English] exceed the Greek, so happy in composition; seeing it hath words enow of its own, to express any conceit." Sig. *3. I can safely recommend this learned work to all students of early English literature. There is, however, one serious objection to it. The author injudiciously adopted a reformed alphabet and orthography. Now, reform and improvement. are not synonymous terms. 5. On the insertion of the manuscript poem in a printed volume. - Why was the epitaph transcribed into the volume of 1645? Was paper so |