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 title in the middle of it: "Recreations refined and augmented with Ingenious Conceites for the wittie, and Merrie Medicines for the Melancholic."

P. 183. This song is in Dryden's works, and is there entitled "The Fair Stranger;" but it is divided into four stanzas, and is, in other respects, so unlike my copy, as almost to render it a different production. There are also two very different copies of it, in my MS. The Heveninghams, pronounced Henningham, were a Roman Catholic family, and resided at Aston, near Stone, in Staffordshire; now the property of my brother-in-law, Thomas Weld, Esq. of Lulworlh Castle, in Dorsetshire.

P. 184. In the MS. this song is set to music; but a lady, whom I requested to play it, declared she could make little or nothing of it.

P. 185. This song, from Lee's tragedy of "Mithridates," has been ascribed to Sir Car Scrope, one of the mob of gentlemen and wits in Charles's days, who "thought and wrote with ease."

P. 186. LV. I am very much pleased with the structure, and metre, of this little poem, of which I have never met with an example any where else. As a further illustration of its structure, I submit the following composition to the reader, in which I have endeavoured to make the rhymes more exact than those in the text.