Heber possessed a curious MS. volume entitled _A Poetical Miscellany,
selected from the Works of the Men of Genius of the XVIIth Century_. In
Part XI. of the _Bibliotheca Heberiana_ it is thus described:--
"The first part of this volume was obviously collected by a Scotchman,
and it includes pieces by Ben Jonson, Wither, Dr. Donne, &c. It must
have been made in the latter part of the reign of Charles I. The second
portion of the volume is a later production; a humourous poem, called a
_Whig's Supplication_, by {54} S. C., in which there is a remarkable
notice of Cleveland, Donne, and 'Bass Divine.' The latter name somebody
has ignorantly altered, not knowing, probably, who 'Bass Divine' was.
The poem is in imitation of Hudibras, both in style and metre."
It is somewhat singular that the writer of this notice never suspected that
the _author_ of the second part, and the _collector_ of the first part of
the volume, was Samuel Colvil, whose celebrated poem, _The Whigg's
Supplication, or the Scotch Hudibras_, went through so many editions, from
1667 to 1796. This "mock poem", as the author terms it, turns upon the
insurrection of the Covenanters in Scotland in the reign of Charles the
Second. An interesting notice of it, and other imitations of Hudibras, will
be found in the _Retrospective Review_, vol. iii. pp. 317-335.