"All the Lyrick Poems in this Booke were set by Mr. Henry Lawes of the King's Chappell, and one of his Majesties Private Musick." It is not a little remarkable that the same publisher, in the same year, should have also given to the world the first edition of that precious volume--Milton's _Minor Poems_; and, in the advertisement prefixed, he thus adverts to the circumstance:-- "That incouragement I have already received from the most ingenious men, in their clear and courteous entertainment of _Mr. Waller's_ late choice Peeces, hath onece more made me adventure into the world, presenting it with these _ever-green and not to be blasted laurels_." Had Humphrey Mosley any presentiment of the deathless fame of Milton? S. W. SINGER. _"The Soul's dark Cottage," &c_. (Vol. iii., p. 105.).--This admired couplet can never escape recollection. It was written by Waller. From the tenor of some preceding lines, and the place which the verses occupy in the edition of 1693, they must be among the latest of his compositions. BOLTON CORNEY. [A. H. H., R. B., C. J. R., H. G. T., and other friends have replied to this Query. The Rev. J. Sansom points out a kindred passage in his poem of _Divine Love_, canto vi. p. 249.: "The soul contending to that light to fly From her dark cell," &c. H. G. sends a beautiful parallel passage from Fuller (_Holy State Life of Monica_): "Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven, and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body." And J. H. M. informs us that amongst Duke's Poems is a most flattering one addressed to Waller, evidently allusive to the lines in question.] "_Beauty Retire_" (Vol. iii., p. 105.).--The lines beginning "Beauty Retire," which Pepys set to music, taken from the second part of the _Siege of Rhodes_, act iv. scene 2., are printed in the 5th volume of the _Memoirs_, p. 250., 3rd edition. I believe the music exists in the Pepysian Library, but any of the Fellows of Magdalene College could ascertain the fact. BRAYBROOKE. _Mythology of the Stars_ (Vol. iii., p. 70.).--I would here add to my recommendation of Captain Smyth's _Celestial Cycle_ (_ante_, p. 70.), that soon after it appeared it obtained for its author the annual gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society; and that it is a book adapted to the exigencies of astronomers of all degrees, from the experienced astronomer, furnished with every modern refinement of appliances and means of observation, to the humbler, but perhaps no less zealous beginner, furnished only with a good pair of natural eyes, aided, on occasion, by the common opera-glass. Such an observer, if he goes the right way to work, will make sure of a high degree of entertainment and instruction, and may reasonably hope to light on a discovery or two, worthy, even in the present day, of being recorded. ROBERT SNOW.