The false sentiments in "The sun was sunk beneath the hill", (p. 22.) I have noticed before, Letter ii. p. 54.

P. 24. In "Time has not thinn'd my flowing hair", the poet says "pleas'd, let me trifle life. away".

P. 26. In "No glory I covet", I have before noticed (L. iii. p. 99.) "The one thing I beg 1 of kind heaven to grant".

P. 35. In "When clouds that angel face deform", the poet says "I curse the sex". (see Letter v. p. 261.)

P. 39. In "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?" it is said "the devil take her". This is the conclusion of the verse, which Dr. Aikin thought it right to omit. See Letter v. p. 260. In this same page occurs the expression "By Jove, the devil a word could I say”.

P. 40. I have before noticed "Not, Celia, that I juster am". (L. v. p. 262.)

P. 41. Cries Damon, teaz'd by dearest life," is profane and of the same kind with "When Orpheus went down", before noticed, L. v. p. 22.

P. 44. "Mistaken fair! lay Sherlock by," has been noticed before. L.v. Postscript. p.279. P. 45. In Love's a dream of mighty treasure," it is said

In the folly lies the pleasure,

Wisdom always makes it less. &c.

And

Happy only is the lover

Whom his mistress well deceives.

P. 46. In" Young Jocky he courted sweet Mog the Brunette," it is first said "her charms he ador'd", and then they

now live as man and wife usually do;

As their humours excite, they kiss and they fight,
'Twixt kindness and feuds pass the morn, noon, and night;
To his sorrow he finds with his match he has met,
And wishes the devil had Mog the brunette.

P. 47. In "A Cobler there was, and he liv'd in a stall," the allusion in the last line of the 3d verse is low; and in the last verse suicide is made light of.

P. 48. In "There was a jolly miller once", the sentiments" I care for nobody, no not I, if nobody cares for me", and "the days of youth are made for glee," must be taken with many limitations to be admissible.

P. 49. is

"Yes, Fortune, I have sought thee long,

Invok'd thee oft, &c.

And the next song

Five thousand years

have roll'd away," is profligate.

P. 50. "Ye gentil 'squires, give o'er your sighs," express'd so generally as it is, is an illiberal censure of the fair sex.

No. 10. p. 5. In " The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day," it is said,

His Ghost shall rejoice in the fame of his Son.

Though this is put into the mouth of an Indian, and may be considered as characteristic, yet 1 conceive it to be liable to the objection, mentioned Letter ii. Postscript, p. 59, &c.

In "A dawn of hope my soul revives", it is said, "make him, ye gods! your care."

P. 8. In "From thee, Eliza, I must go," the cruel fates are introduced, and the maid whom I adore.

P. 13. In "The moon had climb'd the highest hill", Sandy's Ghost is introduced speaking to Mary, and vanishing when "Loud crow'd the cock". This is another of those songs which fosters the belief in Ghosts; as, likewise does the next, "Loud toll'd the stern bellman of night," (p. 14.) and "Despairing beside a clear stream," (p. 20. 22.) mentioned before. L. ii. p. 51.

P. 27. In "Now spring returns, but not to me returns," it is said,

Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate,
And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true;
Led by pale ghosts, I enter death's dark gate,
And bid the realms of life and light adieu.

No. 11. p. 21. In "Lo qwhat it is to lufe,"

it is said "Thair is no man, I say, that can both lufe and to be wyise.'

P. 51. In " Pain'd with her slighting Jamie's love," it is said

The gods descended from above.

In No. 76. p. 10. In " Forgive, ye fair, nor take it wrong," it is said, verse 2.

This index of the virtuous mind

Your lovers will adore.

For this, I believe, I am myself in some measure responsible, as the song is taken from the second volume of my Collection, and the expression was overlooked by me. I am therefore happy in this opportunity of acknowledging and correcting the error, which may be done thus:

This index of the virtuous mind,

Your lovers will admire;

This, this will leave a charm behind,
When beauty shall expire.

This

Having mentioned that this Song is taken from my second volume, I may observe, that out of 113 Songs in this Number, 40 (above a third) are taken from my three volumes. appears, not only from their being the same, and having the same titles I had given them; but also from some of them being printed as I have

altered them. I could only have wished that the Editor had acknowledged the source whence he had derived them. The Songs at p. 15. 44. 52. 66. 68. 70. 82 and 85, Maria's Evening service to the virgin, I do not approve.

P. 15. "Ye belles and ye flirts, and ye pert little things," concludes with,

But if, Amazon-like, you attack your gallants,

And put us in fear of our lives,

You may do very well for sisters and aunts,

But, believe me, you'll never be wives.

The two last lines are quoted by Mr. Styles in his Essay on the Stage, p. 37. as applicable to females who go to see plays, and are noticed by me accordingly in the Notes to my Discourses on the Stage, p. 239. Surely whatever is improper in a wife is equally so in a sister or an

aunt.

P. 24. In "My friends all declare that my time is mispent," it is said,

I ask no more wealth than dame Fortune has sent.

P. 31. In "How sweet in the woodlands," the poet calls upon Chaste Dian to assist him in regaining his Nymph.

P. 39. In "The merchant to secure his treasure," it is said,

And Venus to the loves around

Remark'd how ill we all dissembled: