hnson, but some, Mr. Croker
believes, by Mr. Langton. In the following copy the variations are
marked in italics.

INSULA KENNETHI, INTER HEBRIDAS.
Parva quidem regio sed religione priorum
_Clara_ Caledonias panditur inter aquas.
Voce ubi Cennethus populos domuisse feroces
Dicitur, et vanos dedocuisse deos.
Huc ego delatus placido per caerula cursu,
Scire _locus_ volui quid daret _iste_ novi.
Illic Leniades humili regnabat in aula,
Leniades, magnis nobilitatus avis.
Una duas _cepit_ casa cum genitore puellas,
Quas Amor undarum _crederet_ esse deas.
_Nec_ tamen inculti gelidis latuere sub antris,
Accola Danubii qualia saevus habet.
Mollia non _desunt_ vacuae solatia vitae
Sive libros poscant otia, sive lyram.
_Fulserat_ illa dies, legis _qua_ docta supernae
Spes hominum _et_ curas _gens_ procul esse jubet.
_Ut precibus justas avertat numinis iras,
Et summi accendat pectus amore boni._
Ponti inter strepitus _non sacri_ munera cultus
Cessarunt, pietas hic quoque cura fuit.
_Nil opus est oeris sacra de turre sonantis
Admonitu, ipsa suas nunciat hora vices._
Quid, quod sacrifici versavit foemina libros?
_Sint pro legitimis pura labella sacris._
Quo vagor ulterius? quod ubique requiritur hic est,
Hic secura quies, hic et honestus amor.

Mr. Croker says of the third line from the end, that in a copy of these
verses in Johnson's own hand which he had seen, 'Johnson had
first written

_Sunt pro legitimis pectora pura sacris._

He then wrote

_Legitimas faciunt pura labella preces._

That line was erased, and the line as it stands in the _Works_ is
substituted in Mr. Langton's hand, as is also an alteration in the 16th
line, _velit_ into _jubet_.' _Jubet_ however is in the copy as printed
by Boswell. Mr. Langton edited some, if not all, of Johnson's Latin
poems. (_Ante_, iv. 384.)

[878] 'Boswell, who is very pious, went into the chapel at night to
perform his devotions, but came back in haste for fear of spectres.'
_Piozzi Letters_, i. 173.

[879] _Ante_ p. 169.

[880] John Gerves, or John the Giant, of whom Dr. Johnson relates a
curious story; _Works_ ix. 119.

[881] Lord Chatham in the House of Lords, on Nov. 22, 1770, speaking of
'the honest, industrious tradesman, who holds the middle rank, and has
given repeated proofs that he pr