Lest they should fill thy mind with vanity, Check its too speedy growth, observe and see How the too early buds all blasted be. And as all human care and labour's vain, Without the vernal breeze and gentle rain; So when thy utmost care and skill is shown, Reflect it is not thou, but God alone Whose heavenly grace, distilling on thy soul, Must all the wild disorders there controul. Pray for the beams of his celestial light, To clear the errours of thy misty sight. So thy endeavours and God's grace conjoin'd, Will towards perfection lead the willing mind. "A. E." This piece is the second in the collection, several of the other poems are signed with the author's name at full length: the last piece appears to be written under a presentiment of impending death; its heading is somewhat curious: "February 15th [1763], past 2 in the morning. Going to bed very ill." This leads me to inquire the date of her death. Should any further extracts from the MS. be deemed desirable, allow me to assure you that they are very much at your service. W. SPARROW SIMPSON. [From the epitaph on the tablet erected to the memory of Bishop Ellys in Gloucester Cathedral, we learn that "he married Anne, the eldest daughter of Sir Stephen Anderson of Eyworth, in the county of Bedford, Bart., whom he left, with only one daughter, to lament the common loss of one of the best of mankind." Kippis, in his _Biog. Britain._, adds, "The unfortunate marriage of Bishop Ellys's daughter, after his decease, and the subsequent derangement of her mind, would form a melancholy tale of domestic history."] NOTE ON VIRGIL. "Ecce _levis_ summo de vertice visus Iüli Fundere lumen _apex_...." _Æn._ II. 682-3. The common translations of _apex_ with its epithet _levis_ seem to me to be strangely deficient in sense. I am anxious to submit an idea which has occurred to me to the judgment of the riper scholars whose well-known names are subscribed to so many valuable articles in "N. & Q." The Delphin note defines _apex_ to be "summa pars pilei," the conical termination of the bonnet worn by Iülus; and in this all other comments on this passage (at least with which I am acquainted) seem to agree. But in what sense can any part of a cap or bonnet be _levis_--_light_, _flimsy_, _worthless_, or _capricious_? which I take to be the only meanings of which _levis_ is capable. Surely Virgil would not be guilty of so meaningless an epithet--of so palpable an instance of school-boy _cram_? Now, from a passage in Euripides, _Phoen._ 1270-4., "... ἐμπύρους τ' ἀκμὰς ῥήξεις τ' ἐνώμων ὑγρότητ' ἐναντίαν, ἄκραν τε λαμπάδ', ἣ δυοῖν ὅρους ἔχει, νίκης τε σῆμα καὶ τὰ τῶν ἡσσωμένων." it seems clear to me that Virgil meant, by _levis apex_, a _light, flickering, lambent, pyramidal flame_, the omen of success in the Πυρομαντεία.