e per serjentiam marescautiae may be I am
not prepared to say. May it not have had some reference to the support
of the royal stud?

J.B.D.

_Memoirs of an American Lady_ (Vol. i., p. 335.).--If this work cannot
now be got it is a great pity,--it ought to go down to posterity; a
more valuable or interesting account of a particular state of society
now quite extinct, can hardly be found. Instead of saying that "it is
the work of Mrs. Grant, the author of this and that," I should say of
her other books that they were written by the author of the _Memoirs
of an American Lady_. The character of the individual lady, her way
of keeping house on a large scale, the state of the domestic slaves,
threatened, as the only known punishment and most terrible to them,
with being sold to Jamaica; the customs of the young men at Albany,
their adventurous outset in life, their practice of robbing one
another in joke (like a curious story at Venice, in the story-book
called _Il Peccarone_, and having some connection with the stories of
the Spartan and Circassian youth), with much of natural scenery, are
told without pretension of style; but unluckily there is too much
interspersed relating to the author herself, then quite young.

C.B.

_Poem by Sir E. Dyer_ (Vol. i., p. 355.).--"My mind to me," &c.
Neither the births of Breton nor Sir Edward Dyer seem to be known;
nor, consequently, how much older the one was than the other. Mr. S.,
I conclude, could not mean much older than Breton's tract, mentioned
in Vol. i., p. 302. The poem is not in England's _Helicon_. The
ballad, as in Percy, has four stanzas more than the present copy, and
one stanza less. Some of the readings in Percy are better, that is,
more probable than the new ones.

"I see how plenty _surfeits_ oft."--_P._
suffers.--_Var._

"I grudge not at another's _gain_".--_P._
pain.--_Var._

"No worldly _wave_ my mind can toss."--_P._
wants.--_Var._

These seem to me to be stupid mistranscriptions.

"I brook that is another's pain."--_P._
"My state at one doth still remain."--_Var._

Probably altered on account of the slight obscurity; and possibly a
different edition by the author himself.

"They beg, I give,
They lack, I _lend_."--_P._
leave.--_Var._

In this verse,

"I fear no foe, I _scorn_ no friend."--_P._
fawn.--_Var._

I thin