"True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."

These lines are from Pope's _Homer_, the Odyssey, Book xv., lines 83 and
84.

E.H.]


"_A Chrysostom to smoothe his Band in_" (Vol. ii., p. 126.).--This Query
by Rev. ALFRED GATTY is answered by referring him to the _Happy Life of
a Country Parson_, by Swift, beginning with--

"Parson, these things in thy possessing,
Are worthy of a bishop's blessing."

And enumerating amongst them

"A large Concordance bound long since,
Sermons to Charles the First when prince,
A chronicle of ancient standing,
A chrysostom to smoothe thy band in;
The polyglott--three parts--my text,
Howbeit--likewise--to my next."

T.H.Q.

[C.I.R. (to whom we are indebted for a similar reference) adds the
concluding line--