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"I preach'd as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men."
The passage occurs in one of his "Poetical Fragments," entitled "Love
breathing Thanks and Praise."
This small volume of devotional verse is further entitled, _Heart
Imployment with _GOD_ and Itself; the concordant Discord of a Broken-healed
Heart; Sorrowing, Rejoicing, Fearing, Hoping, Dying, Living: published for
the Use of the Afflicted_. The Introduction is dated "London: at the Door
of Eternity, Aug. 7. 1681."
He yet survived ten years, in the course of which he was twice imprisoned
and fined under {37} the profligate and persecuting reigns of Charles II.
and James II. for his zeal and piety.
J.M.G.
Hallamshire.
_Authors of Anonymous Works._--On the title-page of the first volume of my
copy of _The Monthly Intelligencer_ for 1728 and 1729, which was published
anonymously, is written in MS., "By the Rev. Mr. Kimber."
This book belonged to, and is marked with the autograph of D. Hughes, 1730;
but the MS. note was written by another hand.
P.H.F.
_Umbrellas_ (Vol. ii., pp. 491. 523., &c.).--I have talked with an old lady
who remembered the first umbrella used in Oxford, and with another who
described the surprise elicited by the first in Birmingham. An aunt of
mine, born 1754, could not remember when the house was without one, though
in her youth they were little used. May not the word umbrella have been
applied to various sorts of _impluvia_? Swift, in his "Description of a
City Shower," says:--
"Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down,
Threatening with deluge this devoted town.
To shops in crowds the dangled females fly,
Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
The Templar spruce, while every spout's abroach,
Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach.
The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides,
While _streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides_."
_Tatler_, No. 238. Oct. 17. 1710.
This might be applied to an oiled cape, but I think the passage quoted by
MR. CORNEY (Vol. ii., p. 523.) signifies something carried over the head.
By the way, the "Description of a City Shower" contains one of the latest
examples of _ache_ as a dissyllable:--
"A coming shower your shooting corns presage,
Old _aches_ throb, your hollow tooth will rage."
H.B.C.
U.U. Club, Jan.
* * * * *
QUERIES.
SONNET (QUERY, BY MILTON) ON THE LIBRARY AT CAMBRIDGE.
In a _Collection of Recente and Witty Pieces by several eminente hands_,
London, printed by W.S. for Simon Waterfou, 1628, p. 109., is the following
sonnet, far the best thing in the book:--
"ON THE LIBRARIE AT CAMBRIDGE.
"In that great maze of books I sighed and said,--
It is a grave-yard, and each tome a tombe;
Shrouded in hempen rags, behold the dead,
Coffined and ranged in crypts of dismal gloom,
Food for the worm and redolent of mold,
Traced with brief epitaph in tarnished gold--
Ah, golden lettered hope!--ah, dolorous doom!
Yet mid the common death, where all is cold,
And mildewed pride in desolation dwells,
A few great immortalities of old
Stand brightly forth--not tombes but living shrines,
Where from high sainte or martyr virtue wells,
Which on the living yet work miracles,
Spreading a relic wealth richer than golden mines.
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