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 L. 20. And shot lyke Cupids in Apollos bow.

A beautiful line; as much as to say, that the power of these musicians was as great as that of the god of love. It puts me in mind of a fine line in Lee's "Alexander:" Diana's soul, cast in the flesh of Venus. Apollo was the god of music, poetry, and medicine:

So Milton,

L. 40. Soft-pend Crashaw. An epithet finely expressive of the genius and style of that tender, mystical, enthusiastic poet.

L. 8. I know a seazond verse, &c.

This claim of the poet may very fairly be allowed. He seems to have had a very good notion of what poetry really ought to be. He begins his remarks on poetical composition, by telling us that he hates

Which are called by Horace, "Versus inopes rerum nugæque canoræ."