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482 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. DEC. IB, ra It was probably the banking business—ol which lie had become the head since his father's death in 1793—that prevented his visiting Italy, a country so congenial to a man of his tastes, until 1825, and he made a last visit there the year before he died. It was his custom to overlook his collection of prints and drawings—said to be the most magnificent in England — daily. And this it was that no doubt helped to alle- viate the shock caused by the closing of his bank, though he only survived it one year, dying at his house in Clapham on 2 October, 1837, and being buried in the family vault in Bunhill Fields. His portrait was painted by George Sharpies (engraved by Robert Graves in 1826), by Sir David Wilkie (exhibited in the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition 1888), and by Sir Thomas Lawrence. His whole collection was in 1838 and 1840 dispersed at Christie's, and realized 9.409/. 15s. HAROLD MALET, Col. HERRICK'S 'HESPERIDES,' 1648. If! the preface to his edition of Herrick, 1870, Dr. Grosart observes (p. vii):— "One curious typographical difference in copies of the same-dated volume [1648] suggests that the types may have been kept standing for awhile. In the ' Hesperides,' p. 207, while the catchword ' 11. Where' is found in some—as in my own—the stanza to which it belongs is dropped out and p. 208 commences with 12. It is vain to sing, or stay. In most copies that I have examined and had reported on, the stanza appears as in our vol. ii. p.129." The result of a close examination of the original and corrected issues of the ' Hes- perides ' leads me to differ from Dr. Grosart's opinion that the type was kept standing for a time. I think there is no doubt that the type of pp. 207-8 had been distributed before the error of the missing stanza was dis- covered. My reason for this opinion is that not only was the missing Stanza 11 inserted, but many other alterations in the text were made in the revised issue. The following are the typographical changes in the two issues, which I will denominate respectively A and B :— P. 207, Stanza 3, 1. 1 :— (A) Yet, ere twelve Moon* shall whirl about (B) Yet, ere twelve Moone.s shall whirl about P. 207, Stanza 4,11. 2, 3 :— (A) As that your Pans no Ebbe may know ; But if they do, the more to flow, (B) As that your pans no Ebbe may know ; But if they do, the more to flow. P. 207, Stanza 5, 1. 2 :— (A) Bankt all with Lillies and the Cream (B) Bankt all with Lillies, and the Cream P. 207, Stanza 6, 1. 2 :— (A) Nor Bee, or Hive ye have be mute; (B) Nor Bee, or Hive you have be mute -r P. 207, Stanza 7, 1. 2 :— (A) Both to the Cocks-tread, say Amai : (B) Both to the Cocks-tread say Amen ; P. 207, Stanza 8, 1. 1 :— (A) Last may your Harrows, Shares and Ploughes, (B) Last, may your Harrows, Shares ud Ploughes, P. 207, Stanza 8, 1. 3 :— (A) All prosper by our Virgin-vowes. (B) All prosper by your Virgin-vowes. P. 207, Stanza 10, 11. 1, 2 :— (A) Lets leave a longer Time to wait, Where Rust and Cobwebs, bind the gilt; (B) Let's leave a longer time to wait, Where Rust and Cobwebs bind the gate P. 208 :— (A) Stanza 11 omitted. (B) Stanza 11 inserted. P. 208, Stanza 12,1. 3 :— (A) Yet to the Lares this we '1 say. (B) Yet to the Lares this we'l say, P. 208, Stanza 13, 1. 1 :— (A) The time will come, when you '1 be sad (B) The time will come, when you '1 be sad, P. 208, Stanza 13, 1. 3 :— (A) T' ave lost the good yee might have had. (B) T' ave lost the good ye might have had. P. 208, heading of next poem :— (A) Upon a Lady Faire but fruitless. (B) Vpoii a Lady fain, but fruitle-ise. P. 208, poem as above, I. 2 :— (A) By holy Hymen to the Nuptiall Bed. (B) By holy Himtii to the Nuptiall Bed. P. 208, ibid., 1. 3 :— (A) Two Youths sha 's known thrice two, »oi twice 3. yeares : (B) Two Youths sha's known, thrice tiro,i3J twice 3. yeares ; P. 208, in the heading of poem,' How Spring came first,' the word " Springs" is very irregularly printed in A, but correctly in £• P. 208, poem as above, 1. 2 :— (A) But lost to that, they most approv'd: (B) But lost to that they most approv'd: P. 208, ibid., I 3:— (A) My Story tels. by Love they were (B) My Story tells, by Love they were P. 208, poem as above, 1. 7 :— (A) Tels yee but this, they are the game, (B) Tels ye but this, they are the same, P. 208, heading of next poem :— (A) To Rotemary, and Baits. (B) To Rosemary and Saien.