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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIIL D EC. 7, 1907.

DODSLEY'S FAMOUS COLLECTION OF POETRY.

(See 10 S. vi. 361, 402 ; vii. 3, 82, 284, 404, 442; viii. 124, 183, 384.)

VOL. VI., ED. 1766, CONTENTS AND ATTTHOKS.

I CONTINUE my notes on Dodsley's sixth volume.

211-12. The ever-green and answer. [By Shen- stone, 'D.N.B.']. 212-13. Candour. 213-14. Lysander to Chloe.

215. Chloe to Lysander.

216. To the memory of an agreeable lady, bury'd in marriage to a person undeserving her.]

The last four pieces are also by Shenstone.

217-20. Elegy, written on Valentine morning. By ****.

221-5. The dowager. By the same.

226-7. Ode to the Hon.'****. By the late Mr. F. Coventry (' D.N.B.')

228-9. To Miss ****. By Miss Eliza Carter ('D.N.B.'). Much altered in the edition of her poems.

[In the 1758 ed. there appears on p. 229 " To Chloe, written on the author's birth- day."]

230. Lady Mary W. *** [Wortley Montagu, 'D.N.B.'] to Sir W*** Y*** [William Yonge, ' D.N.B.'].

230-31. Sir W***** Y*****'s answer.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was much vexed at the publication of these poetical pieces. They were not meant to refer to Yonge and herself, but to Lord William Hamilton and Lady Hertford ( ' Letters of Lady M. W. Montagu,' 1861 ed., ii. 346-51).

231-2. Miss Soper's answer to a lady, who invited her to retire into a monastic life, at St. Cross, near Winchester.

Miss Soper was probably the rich heiress of Dummers and King's Down, North Oakley, Kingsclere, who married Thomas Garnier, apothecary-general to Chelsea College from 1723 until his death in October, 1739. None of their seven children survived, and the widow, inheriting everything, married Philip Hubert, and went to live at Stanmore, Middlesex (' Garniers of Hampshire,' pp. 14- 15).

232-3. Repentance. By the same.

233-4. A song [" Nancy, wilt thou go with me "]. By T. P***cy [Bishop Percy, ' D.N.B.'].

This song was set to music by Thomas Carter. For the bishop and Carter see ' D.N.B.' Some information about the song is in John Miller's ' Fly-leaves,' i. 18-21.

234-9. Cynthia, an elegiac poem. By the same.

239-41. Dialogue ; toChlorinda. By Mr. Anthony AlsopC D.N.B.').

241-2. ToChlorinda.

242-6. Fable of Ixion, to Chlorinda. 246-9. A tale, to Chlorinda. The last three pieces are also by Alsop

MM* CIXN.B.'f P0etry< By

o^'o' Arion, an ode. By the same.

255-8. Horace, Bk II ode xi., imitated by Lord B h [Pulteney, Lord Bath, ' D.N B '1 Paul [Foley] to Faz. [Michael Fazakerly] Letters from the Rev. W. Hirst to Fazakerly are in ' Letters by Several Eminent Persons ' ed. John Duncombe, 1773, iii. 94-101 and 159-65. Fazakerly had made a great for- tune in the East Indies. Foley and he were both members " of the old club at White's " (Gent. Mag., 1780, p. 281). Earl L. is Earl of Leicester. Br is William Bristow, Com- missioner of Revenue in Ireland. This has been printed among the odes of Sir C. Han- bury Williams.

258-63. A panegyric on ale. Bv T w***** [Thomas Warton, 'D.N.B.'].

, ' 263 ' 4 - . Ode, to the genius of Italy, occasioned by the Earl of Corke's going abroad. By Mr J Duncombe.

265-6. To C*** P*** [Charles Pratt], now Lord Camden. Written in 1743. By Dr. D. [Snevd Da vies].

This also is included in " A Collection of Original Poems and Translations, by John Whaley, 1745," as " by a friend."

267-8. Epistle from the late Viscount B eb k .BolingbroW .'D.N.B.'] to Miss Lucy Vk-S .Atkins]. Written when he was young

268-70. The cheat's apology By Mr. Ellis [" Jack Mlis, the scrivener, D.N. Is. ].

270-71. [Two] Songs. By the same. One of his poems from The European Mag is printed in Southey's ' Later English Poets ' vol. iii.

271-2 To Mr. Grenville on his intended resigna- tion. By Richard Berenger, Esq. ('D.N.B.'). ' He matriculated as Richard Beranger, son of Moses Beranger, from Trinity College Oxford, on 30 March, 1736, aged 16. As a commoner of University College he had a set of English verses on the death of Queen Caro- line, 1738.

273-5 To Mr. Garrick,on his erecting a temple and statue to Shakespear. By the same.

This poem ends with the Horatian maxim

Quod spiro, et placeo, si plaeeo tuum est. Horace Walpole in his copy has appended these words :

Mr. H. W. gave Mr. Garriek this motto with this translation :

That I spirit have, and nature, That sense breathes in every feature That I please, ifplease I do, Shakespear, all lowe to you. 275-6. On the birthday of Shakespear ; a cento taken from his works. By the same.