I think the odes are given in the other volumes of the early editions of
Drayton's _Miscellaneous Poems_; but I speak without book, my collection
being in the country.

The selection from Herrick, noticed by Mr. Milner Barry, was made by Dr.
Nott of Bristol, whose initials, J.N., are on the title page. "The head
and front of my offending" is the Preface of Mr. Pickering's neat
edition of Herrick in 1846.

S.W.S.

March 12. 1850.

["O.E." informs us that these pretty lines form No. CCXXXIX. of
_A Collection of Epigrams. London. Printed for J. Walthoe_,
1727, and of which a second volume was published in 1737; and
"J.B.M." adds, that they are also to be found in the
_Encyclopædia of Wit_, published about half a century since.]


_Teneber Wednesday._--In Hall's _Chronicle_, under the date of 23rd Hen.
VIII., is this passage:

"When Ester began to draw nere, the Parliament for that tyme
ended, and was proroged till the last day of Marche, in the next
yere. In the Parliament aforesayde was an Acte made that
whosoeuer dyd poyson any persone, shoulde be boyled in hote
water to the death; which Acte was made bicause one Richard
Roose, int the Parliament tyme, had poysoned dyuers persons at
the Bishop of Rochester's place, which Richard, according to the