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ape express, Fine by degrees, and beautifully less: 430 Nor shall thy lower garments' artful plait, From thy fair side dependent to thy feet, Arm their chaste beauties with a modest pride, And double every charm they seek to hide." C. FORBES. Temple, Feb. 10. [We are also indebted for replies to this Query to Robert Snow, Fras. Crossley, A. M., J. J. M., A. H., S. T., E. S. T. T., V., W. K., R. B., and other correspondents. C. H. P. remarks: "Pope, who died in 1744, twenty-three years after Prior, evidently had this line in view when he wrote as follows:-- "'Ladies, like variegated tulips, show; 'Tis to their changes half their charms they owe; Fine by defect, and delicately weak, Their happy spots the nice admirer take.'" And J. H. M. tells us, "The late Lord Ellenborough applied the line somewhat ignobly, when speaking of bristles, in a dispute between two brushmakers."] _"The Soul's dark Cottage"_ (Vol. iii., p. 105.).--The couplet "EFFARESS" inquires for, is to be found in Waller's poems. It is a production of his later years, and occurs in the epilogue to his "Poems of Divine Love," and "Of the Fear of God," &c., thus:-- "The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made, Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw nigh to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." {155} There is another couplet worth citing-- "The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er; So calm are we, when passions are no more." How different were the effusions of Waller's earlier muse! In the year 1645, Humphrey Mosley published "_Poems, &c_., written by Mr. Ed. Waller, of Beaconsfield, Esquire, lately a Member of the Honourable House of Commons." The title-page also states that-- "All the Lyrick Poems in this Booke were set by Mr. Henry Lawes of the King's Chappell, and one of his Majesties Private Musick." It is not a little remarkable that the same publisher, in the same year, should have also given to the world the first edition of that precious volume--Milton's _Minor Poems_; and, in the advertisement prefixed, he thus adverts to the circumstance:-- "That incouragement I have already received from the most ingenious men, in their clear and courteous entertain
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