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455 Treaty, 1787;” and on “Reform of the Representation,” in vol. 60. They were never published. He died December 2nd, 1791, at Farmley, in Kilkenny. The edition, in the British Museum, is a thin quarto.

I have long endeavoured in vain to ascertain the time when Lady M. W. Montague and Pope quarrelled. Circumstances seem to fix it at some period between 1717, when Pope sent his verses on Addison to him in MS., and 1719, when that writer died. The advice she received from the latter was to avoid Pope; otherwise he would certainly play her some devilish trick. It appears certain that Pope was the first to break off the acquaintance in form.

Song in ye Praise of Melancholy.—F. 80 Bod.

The author of this beautiful piece (Dr. Strode) part of which has been ascribed unjustly to Fletcher, because it is sung in his Nice Valour, was born about the year 1600, and died Canon of Christ Church in 1644. Milton evidently took the hint of his “L’Allegro” and “Penseroso” from it.

No. 21 in Catalogue; 8vo, 96 leaves; Miscellaneous Poetry.

Pope’s nephew has been mentioned by some. This was, I suppose, the son of Mrs. Racket, Pope’s half-sister, or half-sister-in-law. None of the biographers have told us whether Mrs. Racket was the daughter of Pope’s father by a former wife, or the daughter of his mother by a former husband, or the wife of