"For your reputation we keep to ourselves your not hunting nor drinking hogan, either of which here would be sufficient to lay your honor in the dust." This passage occurs in a letter from Gray to Horace Walpole in 1737. Can any subscriber state what "hogan" was, the not drinking of which was "to lay your honor in the dust?" HENRY CAMPKIN. "_Trepidation talk'd._"--What mean the following words in Milton, _Paradise Lost_, book iii. line 481? "They pass the planets seven, and pass the fixed, And that crystalline sphere _whose balance weighs The trepidation_ TALK'D, and that first moved." By the last three words we may easily understand the _primum mobile_ of the Ptolemaic astronomy; and _trepidation_ is thus explained in the _Imperial Dictionary_: "In the _old astr._ a libration of the eighth sphere, or a motion which the Ptolemaic system ascribes to the firmament, to account for the changes and motion of the axis of the world." Newton, in his edition of Milton, is silent. Bentley says in a note: "_Foolish_ ostentation, in a thing that a child may be taught in a map of these imaginary spheres. _Talk'd_, not good English, for called, styled, named." Paterson, in his _Commentary on Paradise Lost_, 1744, for the sight of which I am indebted to the courtesy of the librarian of the Chetham Library, says: "_Trepidation_, Lat., an astronomical T., a trembling, a passing. Here, two imagined motions of those spheres. Therefore Milton justly ridicules those wild notions." Granting that _trepidation_ and _whose balance weighs_ are understood, can any of your readers explain the phrase _trepidation talk'd_? W. B. H. Manchester. _Lines on the Temple._--Can any of your readers inform me if these lines, said to be the impromptu production of some passer-by struck with the horse and lamb over the Temple gates, have ever been in print, and where? "As by the Templars holds you go, The Horse and Lamb display'd In emblematic figures show, The merits of their trade. "That travellers may infer from hence How just is their profession; The lamb sets forth their innocence, The horse their expedition. "Oh! happy Britons! happy isle, May wondering nations say, There you get justice without guile, And law without delay." J. S.