s lie,
And teach that truth is truest poesy."

Yet, in the English language there is, I believe, no work of this
description; and I therefore beg leave to suggest, that your learned
correspondents may contribute to a very useful compilation by furnishing
illustrations, or references to illustrations, critical and poetical,
collected from the most valuable authors, ancient and modern; and that
this "sacred eloquence," {458}

"Where'er 'tis found
On Christian or on heathen ground,"

if transplanted into learned pages, would to many readers, afford much
pleasure. Meanwhile, I would refer Querist to the useful work of
Camerarius on _Symbols and Emblems_.

"Do thou, bright Phoebus, guide me luckily
To the first plant by some kind augury."

The proverbial expression, "Under the rose," appears opportunely in p.
214, beautifully illustrated[4], but still deserving further
consideration. Schedius (_De Diis Gemanis_) and others have, with much
learning, shown Venus Urania to be the same as Isis Myrionyma. With
erudition not inferior, but in support of a peculiar theory, Gorop.
Bacanus maintains Harpocrates and Cupido, son of Venus Uranis, to be one
and the same hieroglyphical character. I shall now endeavour to explain
the symbolism and dedication of the Rose. This "flower of flowers"
adumbrates the highest faculty of human nature--_Reason_, and Silence,
or the rest of the reasoning powers, which is indicated by the Greek
term [Greek: epistaemae], _science_. (See Harris's _Philosoph. Arrang._
p. 444., and _Hermes_, p. 369.). To whom, then, could the hieroglyphical
rose have been more appropriately dedicated than Harpocrates, who is
described with his finger pointing to his mouth--_tacito plenus
amore_--a proper emblem of that silence with which we ought to behave in
religious matters.

T.J.

[Footnote 4: Has "ARCHILAEUS" looked for these verses into the
_Rhodologia_ of Rosenbergius? I have in vain searched for them under
"Rosae," in the _Amphitheatrum sapientiae_ of Dornavius.]

"_Where England's Monarch_" (No. 26. p. 415.).--The two lines inquired
for are in Bramston's _Man of Taste_, a poem printed about the middle of
the last century. I need hardly add, that the poet was misinformed, it
being well known that Charles I., when brought to trial, refused to
plead or _to take off his hat_.

There is an account of Duke of Marlborough's adventure with Barnard in
the _Gentleman's Magazine_, May 175