Part II

, Canto II, Line 377,--_Samuel Butler_.

SAMUEL BUTLER, a famous English satirist, was born in Strensham, Worcestershire, 1612, and died in London, September 25, 1680. His most important works are: "Ode to Duval," "Characters," "The Elephant in the Moon," and "Hudibras," which won for him world-wide fame.

Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she, That shall command my heart and me.

"Wishes to his Supposed Mistress,"--_Richard Crashaw_.

RICHARD CRASHAW, a noted English poet, was born in London, about 1613, and died in 1650. His poems were collected by an anonymous friend and published under the titles of "Steps to the Temple," "Sacred Poems," and "The Delights of the Muses."

I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more.

"To Lucasta, on going to the Wars,"--_Richard Lovelace_.

RICHARD LOVELACE, a famous English poet and dramatist, was born in Woolwich, Kent, in 1618, and died in 1658. He wrote: "The Scholar," a comedy, "The Soldier," a tragedy, and "Lucasta," a volume of poems.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

--_Abraham Cowley_.

ABRAHAM COWLEY, a noted English poet and essayist, was born in London, 1618, and died at Chertsey, Surrey, July 28, 1667. He wrote: "The Mistress," "Poems," and numerous Virgilian elegies, essays, and love-songs.

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!

"They Are All Gone,"--_Henry Vaughan_.

HENRY VAUGHAN, a celebrated British poet, known as "The Silurist," was born in Newton, Brecknockshire, Wales, in 1621, and died in April, 1695. His works are: "Olor Iscanus: Select Poems," "The Bleeding Heart," "Ejaculations," "The Mount of Olives; or Solitary Devotions," and "Thalia Rediviva."

God helps those who help themselves.

"Discourses on Government," Ch. II, Pt. xxiii,--_Algernon Sidney_.

ALGERNON SIDNEY, a noted English republican patriot, was born at Penshurst, Kent, in 1622 (?), and died in London, December 7, 1683. His "Discourses on Government" appeared in 1698.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

"Letters," 202,--_Mme. de Sévigné_.

MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL, MARQUISE DE SÉVIGNÉ, a celebrated French letter-writer, was born at Paris, in 1626, and died at the Castle of Grignan, in Dauphiné, April 18, 1696. The best edition of her "Letters" appeared in 1818-19.

Let free, impartial men from Dryden learn Mysterious secrets, of a high concern, And weighty truths, solid convincing sense, Explain'd by unaffected eloquence.

"On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici,"--_Earl of Roscommon_.

WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMMON, a noted Irish poet, was born in 1630, and died January 21, 1685. His reputation as a didactic writer and critic rests on his blank verse translation of Horace's "Ars Poetica," and "Essays on Translated Verse."

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

"The True-Born Englishman,"