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."

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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