Temple, Feb. 10.
[We are also indebted for replies to this Query to Robert Snow, Fras.
Crossley, A. M., J. J. M., A. H., S. T., E. S. T. T., V., W. K., R. B.,
and other correspondents. C. H. P. remarks:
"Pope, who died in 1744, twenty-three years after Prior, evidently had
this line in view when he wrote as follows:--
"'Ladies, like variegated tulips, show;
'Tis to their changes half their charms they owe;
Fine by defect, and delicately weak,
Their happy spots the nice admirer take.'"
And J. H. M. tells us, "The late Lord Ellenborough applied the line
somewhat ignobly, when speaking of bristles, in a dispute between two
brushmakers."]
_"The Soul's dark Cottage"_ (Vol. iii., p. 105.).--The couplet "EFFARESS"
inquires for, is to be found in Waller's poems. It is a production of his
later years, and occurs in the epilogue to his "Poems of Divine Love," and
"Of the Fear of God," &c., thus:--
"The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has made,
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become,
As they draw nigh to their eternal home.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new."
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