In verse 26, we cannot with absolute certainty fill the blank. Yet, in the absence of disproof, we can scarcely doubt that the name suppressed was neither _Sexby_, “an active agitator,” who, in 1658, employed against Cromwell “all that restless industry which had formerly been exerted in his favour” (Hume’s _Hist. Engd._, cap. lxi.); nor “Doomsday Sedgwick;” not _Sidney_, staunch Republican, Algernon Sidney, whose condemnation was in 1687 secured most iniquitously, and whose death more disgracefully stains the time than the slaughter of Russell, although sentimentalism chooses the latter, on account of his wife. Sidney was “but a young member” at the Dissolution of 20th April, 1653. Probably the word was _Say_, the notorious “Say and Seale,” “Crafty Say,” of whom we read:— _There’s half-witted ~Will Say~ too,_ _A right Fool in the Play too,_ _That would make a perfect Ass,_ _If he could learn to Bray too._ (“Chips of the Old Block,” 1659; _Rump_, ii. 17.) Page 64 [213]. _I went from ~England~, &c._ A MS. assertion gives the date of this _Cantilena de Gallico itinere_ as 1623. There seems to us no good reason for doubting that the author was DR. RICHARD CORBET (1582-1635), Bishop of Oxford, afterwards of Norwich. It is signed Rich. Corbett in Harl. MS. No. 6931, fol. 32, _reverso_, and appears among his printed poems, 3rd edit. 1672, p. 129. In _Wit and Mirth_, 1684, p. 76, it is entitled “Dr. Corbet’s Journey,” &c. But it is fair to mention that we have found it assigned to R. GOODWIN, by the epistolary gossip of inaccurate old Aubrey (see Col. Franc. Cunningham’s _“Mermaid edit.” of Ben Jonson_, i. Memoirs, p. lvii. first note). In a recent edition of Sir John Suckling’s Works, 1874, it is printed as if by him (“There is little doubt that it is his”), i. 102, without any satisfactory external evidence being adduced in favour of Suckling. In fact, the external evidence goes wholly against the theory. The very MS. Harl. 367, which is used as authority, is both imperfect and corrupt throughout, as well as anonymous (_ex. gratiæ_, misreading the _Bastern_, for Bastile), and the date on it, 1623, will not suit Suckling at all: though Sir Hy. Ellis is guessed (by his supposed handwriting,) to have attributed it to him. Could it be possible that he was otherwise unacquainted with the poem? At earlier date than our own copy we find it, by Aug. 30th, 1656, in _Musarum Deliciæ_, p. 17, and in _Parnassus Biceps_, also 1656, p. 24. From this (as well as Harl. MS. 367) we gain corrections printed as our _marginalia_, pp. 214-6: _deserv’d_, for received; _statue_ stairs, At _Nôtre Dame_; prate, _doth_ please, &c. Harl. MS. 367 reads “The Indian _Roc_” [probably it is correct]; and “As great and wise as Luisuè” [Luines, who died 1622]. _Parnassus Biceps_ has an extra verse, preceding the one beginning “His Queen,” (and Harl. 367 has it, but inferior):—