have not adhered rigidly to my author,
compared with him; and if that were not the case, I am very sensible how
little they are calculated to undergo so fiery an ordeal."

And speaking particularly of the third satire, he adds:

"This part has been altered, as already mentioned, to render it more
applicable to London: nothing is to be looked for in it but the
ill-humour of the emigrant."

The reader will perhaps recollect, that in the opening of the third
satire, Juvenal represents himself about to take leave of his friends
Umbritius, who is quitting Rome for Canae: they meet on the road (the Via
Appia), and turning aside, for greater freedom of conversation, into the
Vallis Egeriae, the sight of the fountain there, newly decorated with
foreign marbles, leads to an expression of regret that it was no longer
suffered to remain in the simplicity of the times of Numa:

"In valem Egeriae descendimus, et speluncas
Dissimiles veris. Quanto praestantius esset
Numen aquae, viridi si margine clauderet undas
Herba, nec ingenuum violarent marmora tophum?"
_Sat._ iii. 17.

In imitating this passage, Mr. Rhodes, finding no fons Egeriae, no Numa,
and perhaps no Muses in London, transfers his regrets from a rivulet to
a navigable stream; and makes the whole ridiculous, by suggesting that
the Thames would look infinitely better if it flowed through grass, as
every ordinary brook would do.

"Next he departed to the river side,
Crowded with buildings, tow'ring in their pride.
How much, much better would this river look,
Flowing 'twixt grass, like every other brook,
If native sand its tedious course beguil'd,
Nor any foreign ornament defil'd."

W (1.)

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DEDICATION TO MILTON BY ANTONIO MALATESTI.

Dr. Todd, in his _Life of Milton_, ed. 1826, mentions the accidental
discovery of a manuscript by Antonio Malatesti, bearing the following
title:

"La Tina Equivoci Rusticali di Antonio Malatesti, c[=o]posti nella sua
Villa di Taiano il Settembre dell' Anno 1637. Sonetti Cinqu[=a]nta.
Dedicati al' III'mo Signore et Padrone Oss'mo Signor Giovanni Milton,
Nobil' Inghilese."

It seems that this MS. had been presented, together with Milton's works,
to the Academy della Crusca, by Mr. Brand Hollis, but had by some chance
again found its way to England, and was sold by auction at Evans's some
short time before Mr. Todd published this second editi