Welsh-Hampton, Salop.
_Passage in Wordsworth._--Can any of your correspondents find an _older
original_ for Wordsworth's graceful conceit, in his sonnet on Walton's
lines--
"There are no colours in the fairest sky
As fair as these: _the feather whence the pen_
_Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men,_
_Dropt from an angel's wing_"--
than the following:
"whose noble praise
Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing."
Dorothy Berry, in a Sonnet prefixed to Diana Primrose's _Chain of
Pearl, a Memorial of the peerless Graces, &c. of Queen Elizabeth_:
published London, 1639,--a tract of twelve pages.