d the
Dean and Chapter of Lands, to the value of 600l. a year and upwards,
for the maintenance of the Poor Knights, 1 Eliz. Orders and rules for
the establishment and good government of the said thirteen Poor
Knights. The case of the Poor Knights (printed), with several other
papers relating to them.]

_"Elijah's Mantle."_--Who was the author of _Elijah's Mantle_? And are
there any grounds for ascribing it to Canning?

W. FRASER.

Tor-Mohun.

[This poem was attributed to Canning, as noticed by Mr. Bell, in his
_Life of George Canning_, p. 206. He says, "Mr. Canning's reputation
was again put into requisition as sponsor for certain verses that
appeared at this time in the public journals. The best of these is a
piece called _Elijah's Mantle_."]

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Replies.

MILTON AND MALATESTI.

(Vol. ii., p. 146.; Vol. viii., p. 237.)

When I gave some account of _La Tina_ of Antonio Malatesti, and its
dedication to Milton, two years since, I was not aware that it had been
printed, as I had no other edition of Gamba's _Serie dell' Edizioni de'
Testi di Lingua_, than the first printed in 1812. That account was derived
from the original MS. which formerly passed through my hands. I fear that
my friend MR. BOLTON CORNEY will be disappointed if he should meet with a
copy of the printed book, for the MS. contained no other dedication than
the inscription on the title-page, of which I made a tracing. It represents
an inscribed stone tablet, in the following arrangement:

"LA
Tina Equiuoci Rusticali
di Antonio Malatesti c[=o]-
posti nella sua Villa di
Taiano il Settembre dell'
L'Anno, 1637.

Sonetti Ciquanta
Dedicati all' Ill^{mo} Signore
Et Padrone Oss^{mo} Il Signor'
Giouanni Milton Nobil'
Inghilese."

I copied at the time eight of these equivocal sonnets, and in my former
notice gave one as a specimen. They are certainly very ingenious, and may
be "graziosissimi" to an Italian ear and imagination; but I cannot think
that the pure mind of Milton would take much delight in obscene allusions,
however neatly wrapped up.

Milton seems to have dwelt with pleasure on his intercourse with these
witty, ingenious, and learned men, during his two-months' sojourn at
Florence; and it is remarkable that Nicolas Heinsius has spoken of the same
men, in much the same terms, in his dedication to Carlo Dati of the