And fo my fervants on that morn The corpfe to bury foon were bound; And feemed for forrow to fall down. The corpfe they cunningly conveyed, If he up to the court had come, And come again from death to life, Whose policy they had perceived, The notes which Mr. Lambe, the Editor, has annexed to this poem are copious and miscellaneous; in many places both entertaining and inftructive. Well skilled in the ancient Anglo-Saxon language, a confiderable portion of which remains in ufe in the North, he is a more competent judge of many obfolete expreffions in Shakespeare than any of his learned fouthern commentators. As there is nothing, fays he, which we are fo forward to give as advice; the interpreters, and enraptured admirers of Shakespeare must allow me to recommend to them a feven years refidence on the north fide of the Tweed; in which time, if they are diligent, they may acquire a competent knowledge of the old English tongue.' In the appendix to thefe notes there is an old Scotch fong on the battle of Floddon, which, for its genuine fimplicity and the truly plaintive fpirit of elegy, excels every thing of the kind we have met with: 8 I. I have I. I have heard of a lilting, at our ewes milking, II. At boughts, in the morning, nae blyth lads are fcorning; Nae daffin, nae gabbin, but fighing, and fabbing; III. At e'en at the gloming, nae fwankies are roaming, IV. At harreft, at the fhearing, nae youngfters are jeering, 12 At a fair, or a preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching, 16 y. O dool for the order, fent our lads to the border: The flowers of the foreft, that ay shone the foremost, VI. We'll hear nae mair lilting, at our ewes milking, Since our braw forrefters are a' wede away. An Explanation of the Scotch words. • Verfe 1. Lilting. Singing in a brifk lively manner, V. 3. Ilka. Every. 20 24 V. 3. Loaning. A little common, near country villages, where Cows are milked. V. 4. Braw. Brave. Finely apparelled. V. 4. A' wede. All cut away. Shakespeare, Rich. Ill. A weeder out of his proud adversaries. V. 5. Bought. The little fold, where the ewes are inclosed at milking time. V. 5. Scorning. Jeering the laffes about their sweethearts. To fcorn is often now used in this fenfe in the N. V. 6. Dowie, melancholy. Wae, forrowful. Jobbing. V. 8. Ilka ape, every one. handle. Gabbin, prating pertly. Sabbing, Leglen, a milking-pail with one lug or The hafty, filent, and difconfolate departure of the milk-maids, is natural, and affecting. V.9. Gloming. At even, in the twilight, or evening gloom. V. 9 V. 9. Swankies. Young countrymen. This is an old English word, derived from the Saxon Sang, a country fwain. V. 10. Bogle. Hobgoblin, Spectre. Bogle Bo about the ftack, is the diverfion of young folks in a ftack-yard. V. 11. Dreary. Sad. V. 14. Banftars. Binders up of the fheaves of corn.-Runkled, wrinkled. Lyart, hoary. The binders were now all old men. V. 15. Fleeching. Flattering. V. 17. Dool. Grief. V. 19. Ay. Ever; always. V. 20. Cauld. Cold. There was hardly a genteel family in Scotland, but what loft one or more of their nearest relations in this battle. • V. 22. Bairns. Children.-The tune to this fong, called, The Flowers of the Forrest, is a pretty, melancholy one.' We take leave of this entertaining book with our public thanks to Mr. Lambe for his diligence and information as an Editor. ART. III. Poems by the Author of The Sentimental Sailor. 4to. 3 s. 6d. Boards. Dilly. 1774. WH HEN we expreffed fome difappointment in the Sentimental Sailor*, it appeared not to be occafioned fo much by the Author's want of ability, as by the infelicity of his choice of a fubject: for who, after Rouffeau, could write for St. Preux ?-In the three little poems before us he has been more fuccessful. The fubject of the firft is Arthur's Seat, a beautiful and commanding eminence in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, which affords a variety of profpect, and suggests many circumstances for reflection. The Author has here fhewn himself by no means deftitute of genius. His colouring is not languid, nor is his verfification fpiritlefs; neither are his defcriptions unanimated. • See Hawthornden's once vocal groves, Mid shelving banks and mazy bowers *M. Review, vol. xlviii. p. 68. What • What would the Mufe? forbear, forbear; How grand, with circling mountains crown'd, The varied prospect fwells, from where, See Pentland huge, enormous pile! See lingring fnow-tracts white remain So high Ben Lomond, capt with fnow, • Romantic height! thy ether keen Infpiring pureft joy ferene, Methinks I breathe! methinks I view } We We leave for future bard to fing, Hov'ring high on daring wing." In the above extract there is certainly ftrength of numbers, of painting, and of fancy. The fame may be faid of the beautiful lines occafioned by the introduction of Thomfon: To ufher in the smiling years, Nature's gentle bard appears! Defcriptive Thomfon! on thy head Every Muse sweet influence fhed. • Ethereal mildnefs! while the Spring And flowers with filken leaves appear; Haunts cryftal ftream, and fylvan fhade Prepare, prepare my funeral! WHILE Winter, wrapt in midnight-glooms, Father of the tempeft, comes; And calls his ruffian blafts, and reigns, Ruthless tyrant! o'er the plains; And roars the river down the dale, Arrested oft by icy gale; And shakes the founding world defac'd ; And rushes wild the watry wafte: -WHILE rounding thus the varied year, The circling feafons ftill appear; So long shall last thy matchlefs fong, The fecond poem is entitled Elyfium, a Dream; a subject which invited to exuberance of fancy, and every indulgence of poetical daring: Who with Anacreon lyes fupine ? Than |