Your correspondent challenges comment in assuming that his explanation was satisfactory enough to preclude all correction. At the same time I must confess I am altogether sceptical with regard to Mr. Halliwell's _verb_. As, however, he has excited our curiosity, he will doubtless not object to satisfy it. MR. SINGER's suggestion seems to me worthy of consideration; but, after all, I feel that there is a degree of incoherency in the passage, and so unsatisfactory a connexion between the words "and let them work" and that which precedes, that I cannot help recurring to the idea that a line has been lost,--an accident of not very uncommon occurrence. SAMUEL HICKSON. St. John's Wood. _"Stunt with false care," &c._ (Vol. v., p. 538.).--The lines alluded to, though the first of them is incorrectly quoted, are from George Cox's brilliant satire, _Black Gowns and Red Coats; or, Oxford in 1834_, respecting which some information was recently furnished by your correspondents S. F. C. (Vol. v., p. 297.) and C. W. B. (Vol. v., p. 332.) in reply. The work is perhaps sufficiently scarce to warrant the citation of the whole passage, which occurs at the commencement of Part V.: "When Philip's son, in all a monarch's pride, With tempting boons approach'd the barrel's side, Full in the sun his glitt'ring trains display'd, And sought to cumber with officious aid, The Cynic sneer'd, and only begg'd in spite The free enjoyment of the beams of light. Such were the humble prayer, the meek request That Oxford's sons might ask their tyrants best; The full out-pouring on their blinded youth Of Nature's sunbeams, and the light of truth, Rest from the burking systems of the sect, Who kill with care more fatal than neglect, Who twist with force unnatural aside The straight young branches in their heaven-ward pride, _With culture spoil_ what else would flourish wild, And rock the cradle till they bruise the child." The poem in question, which is equal in talent to anything that has appeared since the days of Pope, was published by Ridgway in 1834, but is now rarely to be met with, though I never heard of its being suppressed. G. T. D. _The Lines on Chaucer_ (Vol. v., p. 536.).--The lines about which ELIZA inquires are not quoted by her quite correctly. They are by Mr. W. J. Fox, and may be found in the little volume entitled _Hymns and Anthems_ (published by Chas. Fox, 1845), used at the Unitarian Chapel in South Place, Finsbury. No. CXXIII. begins thus: "Britain's first poet, Famous old Chaucer, Swan-like in dying, Sang his last song, When at his heart-strings Death's hand was strong," &c. JAYDEE.