"There dainty Joys laugh at white-headed Caring." _Fletcher's Purple Island_, C. vi. St. 35. On l. 42. (G.):-- "The cheerful lark, mounting from early bed, With sweet salutes awakes the drowsy Light; The earth shee left, and up to Heaven is fled: There chants her Maker's praises out of sight." _Purple Island_, C. ix. St. 2. "From heaven high to chase the cheareless darke, With mery note her lowd salutes the morning larke." _Faery Queene_, B. i. c. 11. On l. 45. (G.):-- "The chearful birds, chirping him sweet good-morrow, With nature's music do beguile his sorrow." _Sylvester's Du Bartas._ On l. 67. (G.) See note already inserted in "NOTES AND QUERIES," p. 316. On l. 75. (G.):-- "In May the meads are not so _pied with flowers_." _Sylvester's Du Bartas._ On l. 78. (G.) So in _Comus_:-- "And casts a gleam over the _tufted grove_." v. 225. On l. 80. (G.):-- "Loadstar of Love and Loadstone of all hearts." _Drummond._ On l. 117. (Anon.) See extracts from the _Diary of a Lover of Literature_. To me this line seems to allude to the imagination in sleep:-- "Such sights as youthful poets dream." On l. 121. (G.):-- "Yet served I, gentles, seeing _store_ _Of dainty girls_ beside." _Albion's England_, p. 218. 4to. 1602. On l. 125. (G.):-- "_In saffron robes_ and all his solemn rites, Thrice sacred _Hymen_." _Sylvester's Du Bartas._ and in Spanish Tragedy:-- "The two first the nuptial torches bore, As brightly burning as the mid-day's sun: But after them doth _Hymen_ hie as fast, Clothed in sable and a _saffron robe_." On l. 187. (G.):-- "Marrying their sweet tunes to the angels' lays." _Sylvester's Du Bartas._ On l. 144. (D.):-- "Those precious mysteries that dwell In Music's ravished soul." _Crashaw's Music's Duet._ J. F. M. * * * * * COLVIL'S WHIGG'S SUPPLICATION. Heber possessed a curious MS. volume entitled _A Poetical Miscellany, selected from the Works of the Men of Genius of the XVIIth Century_. In Part XI. of the _Bibliotheca Heberiana_ it is thus described:-- "The first part of this volume was obviously collected by a Scotchman, and it includes pieces by Ben Jonson, Wither, Dr. Donne, &c. It must have been made in the latter part of the reign of Charles I. The second portion of the volume is a later production; a humourous poem, called a _Whig's Supplication_, by {54} S. C., in which there is a remarkable notice of Cleveland, Donne, and 'Bass Divine.' The latter name somebody has ignorantly altered, not knowing, probably, who 'Bass Divine' was. The poem is in imitation of Hudibras, both in style and metre."