When they shall read this clearly in your charge, 20 of an edition which is his model. The line stands thus in the manuscript, Crop ye as close as marginal P's ears.” That is, Prynne, whose ears were cropped close in the pillory, and who was fond of ostentatiously loading the margin of his voluminous books with a parade of authorities. But why was the line altered when this piece was first printed in 1673, as Prynne had been then dead four years? Perhaps he was unwilling to revive, and to expose to the triumphs of the loyalists now restored, this disgrace of one of the leading heroes of the late faction; notwithstanding Prynne's apostasy. The meaning of the present context is "Check your insolence, without proceeding to cruel punishments." To balk, is to spare. T. WARTON. Mr. Warton, as well as doctor Newton, is here mistaken in respect to the text; for Mr. Warton thinks that Tickell first gave bauk, and doctor Newton says that all the editions read bank, although it is corrected in the table of Errata in the edition of 1673. But the truth is, Tonson's edition of 1713, which is certainly valuable, and which appears to have been Tickell's model, (as I have had several occasions to observe,) reads "bauk your ears." Tonson's edition of 1747 reads also" baulk." Fenton reads the same, and therefore has not retained the errour. To Mr. Warton's notice of Prynne I must add Milton's own account of that voluminous writer, in his treatise, The likeliest means to remove hirelings out of the Church: "A late hot querist for tithes, whom ye may know, by his wits lying ever beside him in the margin, to be ever beside his wits in the text, a fierce reformer once, now rankled with a contrary heat," &c. TODD. Ver. 20. New Presbyter is but old Priest] He expresses the same sentiment in his Areopagitica; "Bishops and Presbyters are the same to us both name and thing." See also the conclusion of his Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. NEWTON. writ large.] That is, more domineering and tyrannical. WARBUrton. Ver. 20. ORIGINAL VARIOUS READINGS, ON THE Ver. 2. FORCERS OF CONSCIENCE. the vacant whore Plurality. Ver. 6. To force the consciences &c. Ver. 12. By haire-brain'd Edwards. Shallow is in the margin; and the pen is drawn through hairebrain'd. Ver. 17. Crop ye as close as marginal P's eares. TRANSLATIONS. THE FIFTH ODE OF HORACE, LIB. I. WHAT slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odours, Ver. 1. What slender youth,] In this measure, my friend and school-fellow Mr. William Collins wrote his admired Ode to Evening and I know he had a design of writing many more Odes without rhyme. In this measure also, an elegant Ode was written On the Paradise Lost, by the late captain Thomas, formerly a student of Christ-church Oxford, at the time that Mr. Benson gave medals as prizes for the best verses that were produced on Milton at all our great schools. It seems to be an agreed point, that Lyrick poetry cannot exist without rhyme in our language. Some of the Trochaicks, in Glover's Medea, are harmonious, however, without rhyme. Jos. WARTON. Dr. J. Warton might have added, that his own Ode to Evening was written before that of his friend Collins; as was a Poem of his entitled the Assembly of the Passions, before Collins's favourite Ode on that subject. There are extant two excellent Odes, of the truest taste, written in unrhyming metre many years ago by two of the students of Christ-church Oxford, and among its chief ornaments, since high in the church. One is on the death of Mr. Langton who died on his travels, by the late Dr. Shipley, bishop of St. Asaph: the other, by the late archbishop of York, is addressed to George Onslow, esquire, the Speaker. But |