To shops in crowds the dangled females fly,
Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
The Templar spruce, while every spout's abroach,
Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach.
The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides,
While _streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides_."

_Tatler_, No. 238. Oct. 17. 1710.

This might be applied to an oiled cape, but I think the passage quoted by
MR. CORNEY (Vol. ii., p. 523.) signifies something carried over the head.

By the way, the "Description of a City Shower" contains one of the latest
examples of _ache_ as a dissyllable:--

"A coming shower your shooting corns presage,
Old _aches_ throb, your hollow tooth will rage."

H.B.C.

U.U. Club, Jan.

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QUERIES.

SONNET (QUERY, BY MILTON) ON THE LIBRARY AT CAMBRIDGE.

In a _Collection of Recente and Witty Pieces by several eminente hands_,