rs after the death of
the aforesaid Bonner, just as the clock of the gothic chapel
had struck six, undertook to cut, with his own hand, a narrow
walk through this thicket, which is since called the _Monk's
walk_. He had no sooner begun to clear the way, than lo!
suddenly up started from the chair, the ghost of Bishop
Bonner, who, in a tone of just and bitter indignation,
uttered the following verses." This curious publication
contains only four pages of stanzas, written in alternate
rhyme, of 8 and 6 feet metre.----XXIV. _The Magpie and her
Brood_; a fable, from the tales of Bonaventure de Periers,
valet de chambre to the Queen of Navarre; addressed to Miss
Hotham. This is a very scarce poetical tract of four pages
only; subscribed H.W.----XXV. _Fourteen different pieces,
printed at Strawberry Hill, of verses, cards, &c._ This title
I borrow from a book-auction catalogue. At a sale in 1804,
these detached pieces were sold for 2_l._ 2_s._; but it is
not in my power to identify them. Whether they be the same
"_parcel of scraps, and loose leaves of poetry, epigrams_,"
_&c._ which, according to a daily newspaper, were sold at the
commencement of this year "for 16 pounds," I am also equally
ignorant. See _Kirgate's Catalogue_, 1810, no. 420.----XXVI.
_Hieroglyphic Tales_, 8vo. Only seven copies printed; _idem_,
no. 380. From newspaper authority, I learn that these tales
formed "a small pamphlet of two sheets, crown 8vo.," which
were sold for 16_l._; and I understand that the late Mr. G.
Baker was the purchaser. N.B. They are incorporated in the
author's printed works; but this is not having the _first_
and _true edition_! There is nothing like the comfort of
bleeding smartly for exhibiting these fourth and fifth
symptoms of the Bibliomania! Vide pp. 521, 525,
ante.----XXVII. _Additions to First Editions of Walpole's
Lives of the Painters, sewed._----XXVIII. _The Press at
Strawberry Hill to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, a
Poem._----XXIX. _The Master of Otranto in durance._----XXX.
_Air, a Poem._----XXXI. _A Poetical Epistle to Mrs.
Crewe._----XXXII. _A Poetical Epistle to Lady Horatio
Waldegrave, on the Death of the Duke of Ancaster._----XXXIII.
_The Press at Strawberry Hill to Miss Mary and Miss Agnes
Berry, a Poetical E