Ossian Collection > Gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle > Volume 66, Part 2

doubtlefs, once popuhr, as it padtd
thrcvugh a 4ro and fo.io imprclTi )n, and
IS at this time of more cuirman occur-
rence tl-.an any volum;: o! Enj-i ih vtr-
fiticacion priiUed in ihe forn.cr ^>^rt of
Jail century. Le viT. Erudit.
Mr. Urban, Ni^v. 8.
'T^HEtpitaahon Henrv Dunch, cfq.
-'- (p. 809) is a Jrerar,- cuti -fuv of
fonfiderahle v«luc. In the tra;)fcri,pt
Dur Magazine, the word race, wiilch
for
occurs w. til propi-ittyi:- line i. has been
by accident repeated in line 5, to the
tieftruQion of the rh^me.
Lines 5 and 6 fnouid run thus :
*' Sprtrng from .^n opvlent and worthy line,
Wiios well vs'd fortun made their v'crtues
ihiw."
Dr. Uili, the aff'ciate and fellow-
traveller of Dr. WiUia.Ti Sherard, w .s
bi(h 'p of Noriuich at the lime of his
death, to which+ie was trdefi<ircd from
St. David'i a few months l)efore that
event. His remains he buriid in the
pariili-ch.irchof N.jrtlioit, co. Midnle-
fex. ( See Lvfons's Environs of London,
voi. in. ar,. Northolt.) Perhaps fonie
of your ccrrefponden.s w/ill inf= t rhe
biftiop's epitaph, if any epitaph be e.<i-
Unr, in your va.!t;ab;e Mifctll.'.nv. It
. is not to he Found in Lyfo-.s.
Qi_ Was not the late Thomas An-
Ruifh, efq. mafter in Chancery, and
father to the prefenr Dachcis of Leeds,
interred in the adjoiniiig village of Hau-
W.:li, where he had eftaus in thi
1 have often wiflied for an accurate
- lift of the biihop;. advancea hy hib pre-
sent Maj-fty, with the dates of their
fevera: conges d'tlire. It would be a
very acctptabie prefent to the clerical
part of your readers.
In the liif of ihe new parlia.-nent, as
pubiiflKd in the Court Calendar, I fee
the i;a:i'e of a feliow of Ail Soui$ col-
lege. Now, I always undirAood that
a fellow of All Souls was obliged
immediately to vacate his fcllowfhip on
becomiug pcfi'dTed of 100 i. per anuum ;
while members of parliament aver, on
their oaths, that they are ojuorth 300 1.
a year. I am a plain man, xMr. Ur-
ban, and am occafionally puzzled by
fcne of thcfe comradi.itions.
The learned publ-.lhcr of the defcrip-
tions annex-d to Donovan's beautiful
prints of Biuith Inlcfts mention^ the
tbuiana Cojus as tlie common inhabi-
tant (in its caterpillar ftaie)of the wiU
lowtrte, zni as the reput«<i ^ccafional
year
inmate of the 03k ; but he adds, that he
never found a fpccimen of it on the laiU
mtntioued tree. A friend of -nine met
with a colltiflion of wild honey this (um-
nitr in an oik-trce, and, ne^r the feat of
the lufcious irealure, a fpecimen of the
catei pi.lar of the Pbal^tu Co/us, of un-
common lize and beauty.
Indulge inc witij a few more deful-
tcrv obfervations.
The line, which concludes the firft
ftntence of the P^radife Lult, is a great
fav.ourite with the Walian p..cts, witli
whom it's Author was fo converfant.
It is indeed obvious enough to any
WT ter, and is, perhaps, after all, original,
whtfcver it occurs. Certain itis, tiia; the
" C )fa non delta in profa mai, ni in rima"
of Arioflo is alfo to be found in the Or-
lando Inamorato of Buvardo, and in
the very fing-Ur and ecc-ntrx work,
which deLrves more genera! a'tentioa
fioin the learned than it has received,
the Morgante Maggiore of Luigi Pulci,
a w;ik concerning which I cann.>t but
exprefs, tiiough with fome diffidence,
niv dillent fiom the ingenious Mr.
Kofcoe's opinio.n. 1 have read it again
and jgain ; and am ir.cre and mare
confirmed in the opinion, ih^t, notwith-
fl.'.nd ng the variety of comic incidents
and cxprellirns which it contain^ it is
in us dcfig.j and cxccutum p.rfeflly
f'trious, and by no means written with a
view of ridiculing the prevailing taUe
Of the age.
Trie laid Mr. Rofcoe, in one of his
quotations from the elegant Politian,
knds additional authonty', if authority
w^re vvanting, to the truly clafTi^a! for-
mula, in which duration of time is occa-
fionally exprelf'ed in Latin in the abla-
tive inittad of the accufative cafe. The
nervous writer of Dr. johnfon's epi-
taph in St. Paul's cathedral (would
he had fpoken of him as a Christian !)
defcribed him as having lived Ann.
Menf. — Di^ji. The Latinity has been
difputed ; but it is undoubtedly pure
and genuine Such of your readers as
have been admifcd to tiie cuiiofuiesof
S;rawl)erry-hill may have ftcn the very
ntique
monument, which ferves as a bafe to
Caraca la'seagle. (See Ly(on3,V(J.Ili.)
From Mr, Lyfons's account of IHe-
worili, I think we may hnd the moft
probable ioiution of the uncouth poetry
in Percy's Colleaion. (Vol. II. p. 4 )
" The ley ng of AJemaigne wende do ful wel.
He laifeUe the mulne for a caltel,
With