THE BIRTH OF DEATH.

I fled, and cried out Death:

Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd
From all her caves, and back resounded Death!

EVE EATING THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT.

So saying, her rash hand in evil hour

Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat!
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat,
Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe,
That all was lost.

Book ix.

ADAM PARTICIPATING IN THE GREAT TRANSGRESSION.

He scrupled not to eat

Against his better knowledge

Earth trembled from her entrails, as again

In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan;

Sky lour'd; and muttering thunder, some sad drops
Wept at completing of the mortal sin-

Original.

Book ix.

Page 254.

BARCLAY'S ARGENIS.

Barclay was the author of two celebrated Latin romances; the first entitled Euphormio, a political, satirical work, chiefly levelled against the Jesuits, and dedicated to James I.

His Argenis is a political allegory, descriptive of the state of Europe, and especially of France, during the League. Sir Walter Scott alludes to the Euphormio in his notes on Marmion, canto 3rd.

Page 258.

Savary's travels in Egypt and the Levant, from 1776 to 1780.-They have acquired sufficient popularity to be translated into most of the European languages. He died in 1788.

Baron de Tott's memoirs.--The severe reflections in which this writer indulged against the Turkish government, and his imprudent exposure of its political weakness, subjected him to a series of hardships and imprisonment, which seem almost to exceed the bounds of credibility.

Sir John Fenn's, Letters -Written by various members of the Paston family, during the historical period of the wars between the two houses of York and Lancaster. He died in 1794.

Henri de Lorraine, Duc de Guise.--This celebrated character was the great opponent of the Huguenots, and founder of the League in the time of Henry III. of France. He was assassinated at Blois, at the instigation, it is said, of his sovereign, to whom his influence had become formidable.

Page 272.

MR. M-.

(Henry Mackenzie.) This popular writer first became known as the author of "The Man of Feeling," which was published in 1771, and of other works of a similar character. He afterwards became a member of a literary society, established at Edinburgh, in 1778, under the title of the Mirror Club. Here originated the Mirror and

Lounger, periodical essays written after the manner of the Spectator, of which he was the editor and principal contributor. He died in 1831.

Page 280.

MR. MERRY.

He belonged to what was formerly known by the name of the Della Crusca School, at Florence, whose writings were characterised by ar an affectation of style and sentiment, which obtained its admirers in this country. The indignant muse of Gifford, in his well-known Baviad and Mæviad, at length vindicated the cause of sound taste and judgment; and such was the effect of his caustic satire, that this spurious and corrupt style rapidly disappeared.

END OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

LONDON:

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

NOTES TO VOLUME THE THIRD.

Page 77.

"I rejoice particularly in my uncle's felicity, who has three female descendants," &c.

The daughters of Ashley Cowper, Esq. were Lady Hesketh, Miss Theodora Jane Cowper, and Lady Croft, the wife of Sir Archer Croft, Bart.

Page 80.

"The minister who shall reillumine the faded glories of the Lock."

The Lock chapel was the favourite resort of religious characters in the time of the Rev. Martin Madan, not only from the high popularity of his talents, as a preacher, but from the fidelity and impressive energy with which he proclaimed the great and fundamental doctrines of the scripture.

Mr. de Coetlogon subsequently became the minister, and was associated with the Rev. Thomas Scott; but in consequence of the former being too