Hail tuneful pair! Say by what wondrous charms
One 'scaped from Hell, and one from Greber's (b) arms;
When the soft Thracian struck the trembling strings,
The winds were hushed and furled their ruffling wings;
And since the tawny Tuscan raised her strain,
R-k (e) furled his sails, and dozes on the main.
Treaties unfinished in the office sleep,

And Sh-el (d) yawns for orders on the deep.
Thus equal charms an equal conquest claim,
To him high words and bending timber came,
To her shrub H-s and tall N--m (e).

6a. VERSE 644.

Alluding to the doctrine of the Cartesians, that gravity was a quality inherent in matter, by which they sought to get rid of the belief in God.

(b) Manager of the theatre in which Margarita sang. She was called Greber's Peg. (e) Adiniral Sir George Rooke.

(d) Sir Cloudesley Shovel.

(e) Sir John Hawkins (History of Music, vol. v. p. 154) fills up the blanks with the names "Hedges" and "Nottingham," i.e., Sir Charles Hedges, Secretary of the Admiralty in 1703, and the Earl of Nottingham. Rowe alludes to the amour of the latter with Margarita, who was very ugly:

Ne sit ancillæ ibi amor pudori.

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES IN VERSE.

INTRODUCTION.

THE only poems included by Warburton in the edition of 1751, among those which he classed as "Miscellaneous " (apart, that is to say, from the Epitaphs, the Odes, and the Early Imitations of the English Poets),' were the following: The Epistles to the Earl of Oxford, Mr. Craggs, Mr. Jevons, and Miss Blount; The Basset Table; Verbatim from Boileau; Answer to a Question of Mrs. Howe; Occasioned by some Verses of the Duke of Buckingham; A Prologue to a Play for Mr. Dennis's Benefit; Macer; To Mr. John Moore; Song by a Person of Quality; On a Certain Lady at Court; On his Grotto at Twickenham; To Mrs. M. B. on her Birthday; To Mr. Thomas Southern on his Birthday.

It might have been thought that, as Pope had entrusted his literary reputation to Warburton, any of his writings, which did not appear in the edition of the latter, were suppressed by the poet's own wish. But the industry or the avarice of the collectors of curiosities could not be satisfied with this conclusion. In 1757 a volume was published entitled "A Supplement to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq.," with a preface, in which the Collector says: "As the leaves of the Sibyl were too valuable to be lost, so we apprehend the recovering the subsequent pieces of Mr. Pope's from the obscurity they lay in, will be an acceptable service to the public." He accordingly prints the following poems: Verses to Lady M. W. Montagu; Version of the First Psalm; Moore's Worm Powder (giving a verse omitted by Warburton);

Warburton separates from the Miscellanies, the Epitaphs, the Odes, and the Imitations of the English Poets.