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 we must find gayer subjects of discourse to intermix with these amorous caresses."

P. 245. This spirited song I have found in a miscellany, with this singular title: "Wit at a Venture, or Clio's Privy Garden; containing Songs and Poems on several occasions, never before in print.

Potare, et spargere flores Incipiam, patiarque vel inconsultus haberi.

London, printed for John Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate Street, 1674." P. 246. The title of the miscellany, in which this poem is to be found, is still more strange than the foregoing: "Holborn Drollery, or the Beautiful Chloret surprised in the Sheets: All the Love Songs and Poems with which she hath been treated this long vacation being published. To which is annexed Flora's Cabinet unlocked. London, 1673."

I do not recollect to have met with a happier, or more expressive description of what is commonly meant by low spirits, vapours, and the blue devils.

P. 248. This song occurs, in a collection, entitled "New Court Songs and Poems. By R. V. Gent. London, printed for R. Paslac, at the Stationer's Arms and Ink-Bottle, in Lumbard Street, 1672."

P. 249. In a collection of "Divers Hymns and Poems on several occasions, by several eminent hands, London, 1708 these lines are ascribed to Mr Flatman.

P. 250. This happy, and elegant imitation of Ovid, in which are introduced all the great names in English poetry, down to the close of the 17th centuiy, wTas written, I believe, by Mr John Evelyn, son of the celebrated author of "Sylva," and other ingenious, and useful works.

P. 254. These stanzas were the production of Habington, author of "Castara."