“In agonies and pain he then did lie,
“While life and death strove for the mastery–”
clearly from Shakspeare:
“That Death and Nature do contend about them,
“Whether they live or die.”
So also in Ella:
“Fen-vapours blast thy every manly power!”
taken from the same author:
“As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed
“With raven's feather from unwholesome fen,
“Light on you both!” [Tempest.]
“Ye fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun,
“To fall and blast &c.” [King Lear]
Thus again in Ella:
“O thou, whate'er thy name, or Zabalus or Queede,
“Come steel my fable spright, for fremde and doleful
“deed–”
from the Dunciad:
“O thou, whatever title please thine ear,
“Dean, Drapier, &c."
But in all these, and twenty other places, not a word is said by the editor.–I am ashamed of taking up the time of my readers in discussing such points as these. Such plain and direct imita-
