"As by our little Machiavel we find,
That nimblest creature of the busy kind:
His limbs are crippled, and his body shakes,
Yet his hard mind, which all this bustle makes,
No pity on its poor companion takes."

If Mulgrave wrote these lines, and Dryden only corrected them, Dryden was
at all events indebted to Mulgrave for the thought of the inequality, and
disproportion between the mind and body of Shaftesbury. Moreover, we know
that Pope expunged the assertion subsequently made, that Dryden had been
"punished" (not _beaten_, as "D." quotes the passage) "for another's
rhimes," when he was bastinadoed, in 1679, at the instigation of Rochester,
for the character of him in the _Essay upon Satire_.

It might suit Mulgrave's purpose afterwards to claim a share in this
production; but the evidence, as far as I am acquainted with it, seems all
against it. There may be much evidence on the point with which I am not
acquainted, and perhaps some of your readers will be so good as to point it
out to me. The question is one that I am, at this moment, especially
interested in.

THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_Æneas Silvius (Pope Pius II.)._--A broadsheet was published in 1461,
containing the excommunication and dethronement of the Archbishop and