Our Coblers shall translate their soules From Caves obscure and shady; Wee' make Tom T---- as good as my Lord, And Joan as good as my Lady. Wee'l crush and fling the marriage Ring Into the Romane See; Wee'l ask no bans, but even clap hands; And, hey! then up goe we. By "Barow," named in the second stanza, is intended, no doubt, Henry Barrow, the Nonconformist enthusiast who was executed at Tyburn in 1592. A follower of Robert Browne, founder of the Brownists, whence sprang the sect of Independents, he brought upon himself, by his zeal and imprudence, a vengeance which his wary leader contrived to evade. Browne himself is alluded to punningly in _The Shepheards Oracles_, where Philorthus, at sight of Anarchus approaching, asks whether he is "in a Browne study." Anarchus replies: "Man, if thou be'st a Babe of Grace, And of an holy Seed, I will reply incontinent, And in my words proceed; But, if thou art a child of wrath, And lewd in conversation, I will not, then, converse with thee, Nor hold communication." Philorthus rejoins, referring by his "we all three" to Philarchus, with whom he had just been conversing: "I trust, Anarchus, we all three inherit The selfe same gifts, and share the selfe same Spirit." Then follow the stanzas which I have first quoted. There is certainly ground to surmise that Lord Macaulay had in mind what I have called "The Lay of the Leveler" when in 1820 he wrote "A Radical War-song." In support of this opinion, I subjoin, for comparison, its last stanza but one: Down with your sheriffs and your mayors, Your registrars and proctors! We'll live without the lawyer's cares, And die without the doctor's. No discontented fair shall pout To see her spouse so stupid: We'll tread the torch of Hymen out, And live content with Cupid. F.H. * * * * * THE PHILOSOPHER STRAUSS AS A POET.