"
Lord Campbell and Mr. Harris both make another mistake with reference to
this ballad which I may perhaps be excused if I notice. They say that it
was composed on an unsuccessful prosecution of the _Craftsman_ by Sir
Philip Yorke, and that this unsuccessful prosecution was subsequent to
the successful prosecution of that paper on December 3rd, 1731. This was
not so: Sir Philip Yorke's unsuccessful prosecution, and to which of
course Pulteney's ballad refers, was in 1729, when Francklin was tried
for printing "The Alcayde of Seville's Speech," and, as the song
indicates, acquitted.
C.H. COOPER.
Cambridge, July 29. 1850.
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NOTES ON MILTON.
(Continued from Vol. ii., p. 115)
_Comus._
On l. 8. (G.):--
"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well."
_Macbeth_, iii. 2.
On l. 101. (M.):--
"The bridegroom Sunne, who late the Earth had spoused,
Leaves his star-_chamber_; early in the _East_
He shook his sparkling locks."
Fletcher's _Purple Island_ C. ix.
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