On being assured that he is her husband, she exclaims-- "_Beppo._ And are you really truly, now a Turk? With any other women did you wive? Is't true they use their fingers for a fork? Well, that's the prettiest shawl--as I'm alive! You'll give it me? They say you eat no pork. And how so many years did you contrive To--Bless me! did I ever? No, I never Saw a man grown so yellow! How's your liver?" More than half the poem is taken up with digressions, more or less amusing, such as-- "Oh, mirth and innocence! Oh milk and water! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days! In these sad centuries of sin and slaughter Abominable man no more allays His thirst with such pure beverage. No matter, I love you both, and both shall have my praise! Oh, for old Saturn's reign of sugar-candy! Meantime I drink to your return in brandy." We may observe that there is humour in the rhymes in the above stanzas. He often used absurd terminations to his lines as-- "For bating Covent garden, I can hit on No place that's called Piazza in Great Britain." People going to Italy, are to take with them-- "Ketchup, Soy, Chili-vinegar and Harvey, Or, by the Lord! a Lent will well nigh starve ye." We are here reminded of the endings of some of Butler's lines. Such rhymes were then regarded as poetical, but in our improved taste we only use them for humour. Lamb considered them to be a kind of punning, but in one case the same position, in the other the same signification is given to words of the same sound. The following couplet was written humorously by Swift for a dog's collar-- "Pray steal me not: I'm Mrs. Dingley's Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies." Pope has the well known lines, "Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow, And all the rest is leather and prunella." Miss Sinclair also, in her description of the Queen's visit to Scotland, has adopted these irregular terminations with good effect-- "Our Queen looks far better in Scotland than England No sight's been like this since I once saw the King land. Edina! long thought by her neighbours in London A poor country cousin by poverty undone; The tailors with frantic speed, day and night cut on, While scolded to death if they misplace a button. And patties and truffles are better for Verrey's aid, And cream tarts like those which once almost killed Scherezade." The parallelism of poetry has undergone very many changes, but there has generally been an inclination to assimilate it to the style of chants or ballad music. The forms adopted may be regarded as arbitrary--the rythmical tendency of the mind being largely influenced by established use and surrounding circumstances. We cannot see any reason why rhymes should be terminal--they might be at one end of the line as well as at the other. We might have--