quires no apology. They were written in the honefty and gaiety of his heart, in the earlier part of Life, though after he had left the University. To the Nymph of the Spring. Written near a Spring between two Hillocks, in the Neighbourhood of the River Tivy, in Pembrokeshire. Why should old Tivy, boys, claim all our duty paid, And no juft homage be to charming youth and beauty faid? See where the Nymph of the Spring fits in viting us, With charming waters cryftalline, refreshing and delighting us. What, tho' his margin broad be rocky, oak'd and willowy? And what, tho' his ozier banks be fpacious, deep, and billowy? She, from her fweet paps, lilied and rofeal, Lies feeding all her laughing buds, with dewdrops ambrofial. Then, with fweet melody, carol to the fountain nymph, Far fweeter than a fea nymph, and milder than a mountain nymph. Long may her streams gufh, lucid and necta. rious, And long may her banks be deck'd with flow'rets multifarious; Long o'er her arched grot may purple-winged Zephyrus Come leading on his wanton bands of breezes odoriferous. Yearly to the Naiad fhall the roundelay re peated be, And by the chorus jubilant her liquid filver greeted be. Say, can we better, boys, chace dull idle Care away, Than thus by paffing hours of mirth in har mony and roundelay? Stretch'd on that green hillock's bank, around her rofy nipple, boys, We merrily will fing and laugh, and merrily we'll tipple, boys. Drinking to damfels, lovely and delicious; Oh! heav'ns, would they fmile on us, like deities propitious. And, mark! if any rebel here shall miss the cup or mutiny, Amerc'd shall be the mifcreant without appeal or fcrutiny, Thefe lines are original; but, judging only by Sir William's tranflations, we are of opinion, that he has produced no fpecimen of Afiatic poetry fuperior, if equal, to this. It is in the true fpirit of Hafez, 'N Forfter's Travels from Bengal, Letter I the laid in Holy Writ, I believe that there is no Editor, in vain fearched for fuch a saying, wifdom under the girdle." I have, Mr. and fhould be glad to be informed by the means of your excellent and very inftructive Magazine, if any fuch expreffion is to be found in the Bible, or whether it is only a mere affertion of the author. I am, Sir, your's, &c. Sherborne, Feb. 19, 1804. SENEX. THE "Thou art dearer to me than any creature: let that fuffice. The Lord hath fhewed us an exceeding mercy. Who can tell how great it is? My weak faith hath been upheld: I have been, in my inward man, marvellously fupported; though I affure thee, I grow an old man, and feel infirmities of age marvellously stealing upon me. Would my corruptions did as faft decrease! Pray on my behalf in the latter respect. "The particulars of our late fuccefs Harry Vane or Gil. Pickering will impart to thee. My love to all dear friends. Dunbar, the "Thine, 4th of Sept. 1650. "O. CROMWELL." EPITAPH in KING'S CHAPEL. The epitaph in Mr. Walpole's Fugitive Pieces, p. 5, note, mentioned to be in King's-college chapel, and in the Spectator, Vol. 7, No. 518, though extremely fine, yet, in my opinion, wants a great deal to come up to the noble loftinels of that really in one of the fide chapels of King's-college chapel, on Mr. Thomas Crouch, who died in 1679, and is without his name to it. "Aperiet Deus Tumulos et educet, Which is fo grand, folemn, and fublime, that it is impoffible to read it, and not be ftruck with it. The capital beauty in the former part is wanting in that quoted by Mr. Addison, and has only the latter turn of thought, which, though extremely beautiful, would not fingly have been noticed, to the neglect of the former, had fo judicious a perfon ever feen it. From whence I conclude, he must allude to fome other infcription than that in our college-chapel. HARLOW, ESSEX. Round the font, or by it, for it is fo long ago fince I saw it, that I have forgot which, is wrote this Greek infcription, which may be read either backwards or forwards: ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ. Wafh the fin, not the face only. The fame is round the font of the church of Sandbach, in Chefhire; and round a noble filver bafon, or large dish, in which ftands an ewer, and used at the Trinity-college hall, in Cambridge, on vice-mafter's table on great festivals, in the rim is wrote the fame infcription in large capitals. l'ancien nom de Micy, fur la rivière "St. Memin eft une abbaye célébré sous de Loire, proche d'Orleans, en Latin, Miciacum, ou S. Maximini ad Ligeritum. Il y a dans l'églife de ce monaftère un benitier de forme ronde, avec cette infcription Grecque, gravée sur le bord du bas fin, ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ. La même chofe eft à Paris au Benitier de Saint Etienne d'Egrés, et auffi autrefois à celui de Saint Sophie à Conftantinople. "On lit encore la même chofe en retro gradant, ce qu'on peut rendre ainfi en Latin-Lava delicta, non folam faciem; et en François, Ne lave pas feulement ton vifage mais en die tes pechez."--Voyage Liturgique de France, par le Sieur de Moleon, p.19. OATH of WILLIAM RUFUS. Our hiftorians fay, that the common oath of King William Rufus, was by St. Luke's face; but this is a mistake, for he used to wear by the holy face of Lucca; meaning a great crucifix in the cathedral of that city, held in fingular veneration. -See Butler's Lives of the Saints, vol. 2, p. 136, and Lord Lyttleton's Life of Hen. II. vol 1, p. 424. MR. GRAY. "I have the unhappinefs to live in an age when all decency, both of behaviour and language, is fet at nought; and, under a notion of freedom and liberty, every man's private character is made the ob ject of public cenfure, by means of a moft licentious mifufe of the liberty of the prefs. Thus my friend Mr. Gray, a man void of all ambitious views, because his friend, Mr, Stonehewer, had pointed him out as a moft proper perion to the Duke of Grafton, for the profefforfhip of modern hiftory, without the least application or thought of it himself, met with |
