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 apposite. In honour of the ladies they are all heroines. Birtha, Rhodalind, and Bellario, are female characters in Davenant's Gondibert," a poem which still finds some readers, and still exercises the ingenuity of critics.

When King Edward I. had been stabbed, as was supposed, by a poisoned dagger in the Holy Land, Eleanor his queen sucked out the poison.

Who was

my confined knowledge of minute history will not enable me to explain.

A judicious distinction between history and fiction.

P. 92. This is an elegy on the death of the first Lord Aston, who died in 1639, soon after his return from his second embassy in Spain.

So Tickell, in his beautiful Elegy on Addison:

. Rich. III. Jet. 2. Sc. i.