Olney, Bucks.
_John Keats's Poems._--Can any of your readers inform me what legend (if
any) John Keats the poet refers to in his beautiful poem of _St. Agnes'
Eve_, st. xix., when he says:
"Never on such a night have lovers met,
Since Merlin paid his demon all the monstrous debt."
And pray let me know what is implied in the concluding lines of his absurd
poem of _Hyperion_, as they have always been a mystery to me.
[Greek: Xanthos].
_Holland._--We have the kingdom of Holland, we have the Holland division of
Lincolnshire, and in Lancashire we have the two townships of Downholland
and Upholland. Is the derivation of each the same, and, if it be, what is
the affinity?