"The work, however, which has given the greatest public notoriety to his name as a poetical writer, is that generally called 'Zacharie Boyd's Bible,' said to be a metrical version of the whole Scriptures--an arduous task indeed, if ever he contemplated the undertaking. But such a book as this has existed only in name, not in reality; _at least, it is nowhere to be found among his works_. The only one approaching to it is a metrical version of the 'Four Evangels,' which proceeds through the Gospels of the New Testament by chapter and verse.... And, among other works, he produced two volumes under the title of '_Zion's Flowers_,' _and it is these_ which are usually shown as his Bible, and have received that designation. These volumes consist of a collection of Poems from select subjects in Scripture History, such as Jonah, Jephtha, David and Goliath, &c., &c., rendered into the dramatic form, in which various 'Speakers' are introduced, and where the prominent parts of the Scripture narrative are brought forward and amplified. We have a pretty close parallel to these in the 'Ancient Mysteries' of the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries, and in the Sacred Dramas of more modern writers. "It is from this work, _Zion's Flowers_, that the various quotations which have occasioned so much mirth to the public are said to have been made, _but not one of these which are in circulation_ are to be found there: the only '_genuine extract_ from these MSS. is that printed by Pennant.'"--_Biog. Sketch_, p. 14. _et seq._ The "genuine extract" will be found in Pennant's _Tour in Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 156. PHILOBODIUS, "NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. i., p. 406., will find the four lines he quotes given differently there. S. WMSON. P.S. To show the extent of Mr. Boyd's _poetical perseverance_, I subjoin a note of the contents of one of his poetical MSS.:--the _Flowers of Zion_, generally called Zacharie Boyd's Bible.