of the learned physician. He doubtless thought far more of the
benefit which he could render to the youthful Wykehamists, than of either
the originality or smoothness of his own verses.

_Sir Thomas Browne._
"While I do rest, my soul advance;
Make my sleep a holy trance:
That I may, my rest being wrought,
Awake into some holy thought,
And with as active vigour run
My course as doth the nimble sun.

"Sleep is a death: O make me try,
By sleeping, what it is to die!
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And as gently lay my head
On my grave, as now my bed.

"These are my drowsy days; in vain
I do now wake to sleep again.
O come that hour when I shall never
Sleep again, but wake for ever!

"Guard me 'gainst those watchful foes,
Whose eyes are open while mine close;
Let no dreams my head infest,
But such as Jacob's temples blest."

_Bishop Ken._
"Awake, my soul, and with the sun
Thy daily stage of duty run.

"Teach me to live that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.

"O when shall I in endless day
For ever chase dark sleep away,
And endless praise with th' Heavenly choir,
Incessant sing and never tire.

"You, my blest Guardian, whilst I sleep,
Close to my bed your vigils keep;
Divine love into me instil,
Stop all the avenues of ill.

"Thought to thought, with my soul converse
Celestial joys to me rehearse;
And in my stead, all the night long,
Sing to my God a grateful song."

In the work referred to--one of the most valuable and best edited of modern
days--Mr. Wilkin, when speaking of a fine passage on music in the _Religio
Medici_ (vol. ii. p. 106.), asks whether it may not have suggested to
Addison the beautiful conclusion of his Hymn on the Glories of Creation:

"What tho' in solemn silence, all," &c.

This passage in Sir Thomas Browne appears forcibly to have struck the
gifted author of _Confessions of an English Opium-eater_ (see p. 106. of
that work).

J. H. MARKLAND.

[Footnote 1: _Sketch of Bishop Ken's Life_, p. 107.]

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BOHN'S EDITION OF HOVEDEN.

(Vol. vii., p. 579.)

MR. RILEY mistakes my purpose if he thinks that my object was to make a
personal attack on him; and for anything in my last communication which may
have appeared to possess that tendency, I hereby freely express my regret.
Still I cannot allow that he has explained away the mistakes of which I
complained, and of which I still