_The people don’t dislike the youth,_ _Alleging reasons. For in truth_ _Mothers should honoured be._ _Yet others say, he loves her rather_ _As well as ere she loved his father,_ _And that’s notoriously._ (A similar scandal meets us in other early French reigns: Diana de Poictiers had relations with Henry II., as well as with his father, Francis I., &c.) Compare _West. Droll._, i. 87, and its Appendix, pp. xxv-vi. It may be a matter of personal taste, but we cannot recognize the genial Bishop in the “R. C., Gent.,” who wrote “The Times Whistle.” A reperusal of the E. E. T., 1871, almost _convinces_ us that they were not the same person. We must look elsewhere for the author. In MS., on fly leaf, prefixed to 1672 edition of Dr. Corbet’s poems, in the Brit. Mus. (press mark, 238, b. 56), we read:— _If flowing wit, if Verses wrote with ease,_ _If learning void of pedantry can please,_ _If much good humour, join’d to solid sense,_ _And mirth accompanied by Innocence,_ _Can give a Poet a just right to fame,_ _Then CORBET may immortal honour claim._ _For he these virtues had, & in his lines_ _Poetick and Heroick spirit shines._ _Tho’ bright yet solid, pleasant but not rude,_ _With wit and wisdom equally endued._ _Be silent Muse, thy praises are too faint,_ _Thou want’st a power this prodigy to paint,_ _At once a Poet, Prelate, and a Saint._ Signed, John Campbell. Page 85 [218]. _I mean to speak of ~England’s~_, &c.