It is much to be wished that these 'four verses' were recovered. Further, he had a daughter named 'Lucy'; and of her the same authority writes: "So that the said Lucy being sole heiress to her father, Ferdinando, Lord Hastings, (afterwards Earl of Huntingdon) became a suitor to her for marriage; whereupon the father made this Epigram: LUCIDA VIS oculos teneri perstrinxit amantis Nec tamen erravit nam VIA DULCIS erat." On this WATTS remarks: "This is a remarkable anagram of Lucy Davies. See as remarkable ones on the mother Eleanor Davies, _Reveal O Daniel_, by herself, the other made on her by DR. LAMB,--Dame Eleanor Davies, _Never so mad a Lady_. Heylin's Life of Laud p. 266." Wood's Athenæ, (edn. by Bliss) Vol. II. p. 404. G. VII. HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED POEMS. METAPHRASE OF SOME OF THE PSALMS, &c. NOTE. The MANUSCRIPT VOLUME from which the following hitherto unpublished POEMS are taken, is the property of DAVID LAING, Esq., LL.D., EDINBURGH, who purchased it, or perhaps obtained it in exchange many years ago from the Rev. John Jamieson, D.D., author of the "Scottish Dictionary" and other learned works--a scholar of full learning and to be held in honour in many respects. It was parted with to his like-minded friend as containing the hitherto unprinted 'Psalms,' &c., by SIR JOHN DAVIES; but no memorial remains to ascertain the quarter from whence Dr. Jamieson obtained the Volume. Mr. Laing states that, if anything was said at the time on the subject, it has escaped his recollection; and this cannot be wondered at, as it must have been from thirty to forty years ago. Along with eminent Experts I have carefully compared this Manuscript with undoubted holographs of SIR JOHN DAVIES, preserved in Her Majesty's State Paper Office (State Papers: Domestic. James I. Vol. 173. No. 54: Oct. 18, 1624, etc., etc.) and among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum--the former being preferable as being of the same year-date with ours: and I feel constrained to pronounce it throughout non-autograph. There are at least FIVE handwritings in the volume--as more particularly described _in locis_: but none bears a resemblance to SIR JOHN DAVIES'. The Manuscript, therefore, belongs to a class that abounds at the Period, viz, a Scribe's transcript and which closely resembles that of MS. Speeches and other writings of DAVIES preserved among the HARLEIAN MSS. This is further, in accord with SIR JOHN DAVIES' practice, as appears by 'The Egerton Papers' of Mr. Collier, (Camden Society, 1840, I Vol. 40.) where in a letter to ELLESMERE (pp. 410-16) he apologizes for his own 'ill hand' and substitutes his 'man's.' The evidence for DAVIES' authorship of these POEMS is EXTERNAL and INTERNAL.