d-fashioned enough to
admire and to study Pope, would feel greatly obliged if any of your
correspondents could help him to the interpretation of the following
lines, in the "Imitation" of Horace's _Epistle to Augustus_:--

"The Hero William, and the Martyr Charles,
One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles,
Which made old Ben, and sturdy Dennis swear,
_No Lord's Annointed, but a Russian bear!_"

The passage in Horace, of which this purports to be an "Imitation," is
the well-known

"Boeotum in crasso jurares aeere natum,"

and it is clear enough that Pope meant to represent kings Charles and
William as so devoid of the taste which should guide royal patronage,
that, in selecting such objects of their favour as Blackmore and
Quarles, they showed themselves to be as uncouth and unpolished as the
animal to which he likens them. But the principal motive of this inquiry
is to ascertain whether there exist in their writings any record
of the indignation supposed to have been expressed by Jonson and Dennis
at the favour shown by majesty to their less worthy rivals.

P.C.S.S.

_Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood_.--There is a passage in
Longinus (ch. xxii.), familiar perhaps to some of the readers of the
"NOTES AND QUERIES," which indicates that the fact of the circulation of
the blood was well established in the days of Plato. The father of
critics, to exemplify, and illustrate the use and value of _trope_ in
writing, has garbled from the Timaeus, a number of sentences descriptive
of the anatomy of the human body, where the circulation of the blood is
pointed at in terms singularly graphic. The exact extent of professional
knowledge arrived at in the time of the great philosopher is by no means
clearly defined: he speaks of the fact, however, not with a view to
prove what was contested or chimerical, but avails himself of it to
figure out the surpassing wisdom of the gods in constructing the human
frame. Perhaps some of the readers of the "NOTES," who are more
thoroughly conversant with the subject, may think it worth while to
inquire how much was known on that subject before Harvey wrote his
_Exercitationes Anatomiae_. The _Prooemium_ of that author seems hardly
sufficient to satisfy the desire of every reader, who has looked with
some care to the passage in Longinus to which I have taken the liberty
of calling public attention.

A.W.

Brighton.

_The Meaning of "Pallace_."--A lease granted