d--"I do not fear your _pen_, but your
_penknife_." The play on the word, tells even better in our
language than in the original--_plume_ and _canife_.

[429] I know of only one _Laneham_, who wrote "A Narrative of the
Queen's Visit at Kenilworth Castle," 1575. He was probably a
redoubtable satirist. I do not find his name in Ritson's
"Bibliographia Poetica."

[430] Alluding to the title of one of their most virulent libels
against Bishop Cooper ["Hay any worke for Cooper," which was a
pun on the Bishop's name, conveyed in the street cry of an
itinerant trader, and was followed by another entitled] "More
work for a Cooper." Cooper, in his "Admonition to the People
of England," had justly observed that this _Mar-Prelate_ ought
to have many other names. See note, p. 510.

I will close this note with an extract from "Pappe with a
Hatchet," which illustrates the ill effects of all sudden
reforms, by an apposite and original image.

"There was an aged man that lived in a well-ordered
Commonwealth by the space of threescore years, and finding,
at the length, that by the heate of some men's braines, and
the warmness of other men's blood, that newe alterations
were in hammering, and that it grewe to such an height, that
all the desperate and discontented persons were readie to
runne their heads against their head; comming into the midst
of these mutiners, cried, as loude as his yeeres would
allow:--'Springalls, and vnripened youthes, whose wisedomes
are yet in the blade, when this snowe shall be melted (laying
his hand on his siluer haires) then shall you find store
of dust, _and rather wish for the continuance of a long frost,
than the incomming of an vntimely thaw_.'"--_Sig. D. 3.
verso._

LITERARY QUARRELS

FROM
PERSONAL MOTIVES

Anecdote of a BISHOP and a DOCTOR--Dr. MIDDLETON and Dr.
BENTLEY--WARBURTON and Dr. TAYLOR--WARBURTON and EDWARDS--SWIFT
and DRYDEN--POPE and BENTLEY--why fiction is necessary for satire,
according to Lord ROCHESTER'S confession--ROWE and ADDISON--POPE
and ATTERBURY--Sir JOHN HAWKINS and GEORGE STEEVENS--a fierce
controversial author a dangerous neighbour--a ludicrous instance
of a literary quarrel from personal motives between BOHUN and the
W