Qui dolet oppressus lapsis velocius umbris, Sed nimis hæc longas tenebris nox prorogat horas, Sic Exultat reducis quisque videre jubar. Si quoque vel toti renuis mihi luminis usum, "Emblem I. of Book III. of Quarles. My soul hath desired thee in the night. ISAIAH xxvi. 6. "Good God! What horrid darkness doth surround The bold fac'd lamp of heaven can set and rise, eyes! Of gazing mortals; his victorious ray Falls have their risings; wainings have their primes, How often have I vainly grop'd about, With lengthen'd arms, to find a passage out, Her jingling fetters, and begins to bate At every glimpse, and darts at every grate : Lock'd up by cloud-brow'd error, which invites Quarles died Sept. 8, 1644, æt. 52. A Relation of his Life and Death, by his widow, Ursula Quarles, was prefixed to his Solomon's Recantation, 1645, 4to. and has been lately reprinted before the new edition of his Judgment and Mercy for afflicted Souls, 1807, 8vo. accompanied by an excel T "Judgment and Mercy for afflicted Souls; or Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. By Francis Quarles. A new Edition, with a Biographical and Critical Introduction, by Reginalde Wolfe, Esq." [i. e. Rev. T. F. Dibdin.] London, printed for Longman and Co. 1807, pp. 332. lent copy, by Freeman, from Marshall's print of him. • The following short notice may be here given of another publication of Quarles; " Divine Poems, revised and corrected, with Additions. By the Author, Fra. Quarles. Printed for Jobn Marriot, in St. Dunstan's church-yard, Fleetstreet, 1630." On an engraved title-page, by T. Cecill, small 8vo. pp. 502. N. B. The printed title has the date 1633. It contains, I. A Feast for Wormes. II. Pentelogia, dated 1632. III. Hadassa, 1632. The running title is, "The Historie of Ester." IV. Job Militant, printed by Miles Flesher, 1632. V. The Historie of Samson. VI. Sion's Sonnets, sung by Solomon the King, and periphrased. VII. Sion's Elegies, wept by Jeremie the Prophet, and periphrased. VIII. An Alphabet of Elegies, upon the much and truly lamented death of that famous for learning, piety, and true friendship, Doctor Ailmer, a great favourer and fast friend to the Muses, and late Archdeacon of London. Imprinted in his heart that ever loves his memorie. Ob. Jan. 6th, 1625. March, 1, 1809. N° LXIX. Falsus honor juvat Quem nisi mendosum et mendacem? TO THE RUMINATOR. SIR, THERE are, I believe, few terms more commonly used, few sounds more generally captivating, than that of honour. From the moment when our infancy ceases, to that in which old age begins to creep upon us, it is the theme of every pen, the boast of every tongue. It is the school boy's assertion, the lover's vow, and the peer's judicial declaration. If it be falsified, the man is deemed worthy of no further trust; nor is even the sacred obligation of an oath supposed to be capable of binding him whom honour cannot restrain. Honour necessarily includes in it the idea of the dazzling quality of courage; and this is probably the chief reason why the imputation of falsehood cannot be washed off but by blood. For falsehood is the very reverse of courage, and always implies cowardice; inasmuch as no man can deny a fact, or assert an untruth, but from natural fear, or from |