[Abednego Seller was a native of Plymouth, educated at Lincoln College, Oxford; minister of Combentynhead, in Devonshire, and subsequently vicar of St. Charles, Plymouth; but was deprived for refusing to take the oaths to William III. In Hearne's _MS. Diaries_, 1710, vol. xxv. occurs a notice of him:--"Mr. Abednego Seller was another Nonjuror, and had also collected an excellent study of books; but as he was a man of less learning than Dr. Thomas Smith [the editor of Bede], so his books were inferior to them, and heaped together with less discretion." Another notice of him occurs in Granger's _Biog. Dict._, vol. iv. p. 11.;--"Mr. Ashby, President of St. John's College, Cambridge, has a copy of _Konigii Bibliotheca_, interleaved and filled with MS. notes by A. Seller." He was the author of several works which are given in Watt's _Bibliotheca Britan._, but the following is omitted: _Remarks upon the Reflections of the Author of 'Popery Misrepresented,' &c. in his Answerer, particularly as to the Deposing Doctrine_, Anon., London, 4to. 1686. Another work has also been attributed to him, viz. _Considerations upon the Second Canon in the Book entitled 'Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical,'_ &c. Lond., 4to. 1693. Seller died about 1720, aged seventy-three. A letter from Seller to Humphrey Wanley, concerning Greek music, &c., will be found in the Harl. MSS. No. 3782, Art. 26. Consult also Wood's _Athenæ Oxon._, vol. iv. p. 563. edit. Bliss.] _Martin-drunk._--1. Thomas Nash, in his classification of drunkards, describes the seventh species as "Martin-drunk, when a man is drunk, and drinks himself sober ere he stir." What is the origin of the expression "Martin-drunk?" 2. This passage reminds me of a line, which I fancied I had read in Lord Byron, but which I am now unable to trace. It is (if I remember aright): "And drinking largely sobers one again." Can you give me a reference for this, either in Byron or any other of our poets? HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia. [2. The latter passage occurs in Pope's _Essay on Criticism_, line 215:-- "A little learning is a dangerous thing! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again."] _Bagster's English Version._--Who edited Bagster's English version of the _Polyglott Bible_? The preface is signed T. C. Whence is the motto: [Greek: Pollai men thnêtois Glôttai, mia d' Athanatoisin?] A. A. D. [The late Dr. Thomas Chevalier was the editor, and wrote the Preface; and the Rev. H. F. Cary supplied the Greek motto.] * * * * * Replies. REPLY TO MR. HICKSON'S OBJECTIONS. Vol. v., pp. 554. 573.)