On a reconsideration of the subject, I see no reason to alter this opinion. Morhof, who always attributed it to Isaac Vossius (see Polyhistor, vol. i. p. 74., edit. 1747), was thoroughly versed in the literary history, including the English, of the period, and was not likely to have been mistaken. Vossius lived in England from 1670 to 1688, when he died. I have seen several English letters of his, though his general correspondence was in Latin or French, and he seems quite able to have written it, as far as the language is concerned. Vairasse appears to have translated it into French but to have had no other part in it. I may observe, that the publication in English, London, 1738, is a retranslation from the French, not a reprint of the original work of 1675-9. JAMES CROSSLEY. _Verses attributed to Charles Yorke_ (Vol. ii., p. 7.; and Vol. iii., p. 43.).--These lines, "Stript to the naked soul," have been frequently printed, indeed so lately as in Lord Campbell's _Lives of the Chancellors_, at the end of the Life of Charles Yorke, as his, but without any observation. What is most singular is, that the excellent editor of Bishop Warburton's _Literary Remains_ has overlooked the fact that they are driven in that prelate's correspondence with Bishop Hurd as Pope's. (See _Letters_, p. 362., edit. 1809, 8vo.) Warburton observes, "The little poem is certainly his." He remarks in a letter to Yorke-- "You have obliged me much (as is your wont) by a fine little poem of my excellent and endeared friend, Mr. Pope, and I propose to put in into use."--_Letters from Warburton to C. Yorke_. 1812, 4to. p. 64. Warburton then gave them to Ruffhead, who inserted them in his _Life of Pope_, from which they were transferred in Bowles's editions of _Pope's Works_ (vol. ii. p. 406), and in the supplementary volume to _Pope's Works_ (1807, 4to.). The extraordinary circumstance is, that they had appeared as far back as 1753 in the miscellaneous works of Aaron Hill, published in 1753, in 4 vols. 8vo., and are included in that collection as his own. Roscoe observes (Life of Pope, in vol. i. of his edition of _Pope's Works_, p. 361., edit. 1824), without, however appearing to have been fully acquainted with the facts of the case: "These verses are not the production of Pope, as might indeed readily have been perceived, but of Aaron Hill."