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Minor Queries Answered.
_Wither's Haleluiah._--Mr. R. A. Willmott, in his _Lives of Sacred Poets_,
has done himself credit by doing justice to George Wither, and vindicating
his claims as poet, whom it has long been the fashion to underrate, but who
Southey said "had the heart and soul of a poet in him."--(_Life_, iii.
126.)
In the _Life_, Mr. Willmott says:
"In 1641 appeared the _Haleluiah, or Britain's Second Remembrancer_ ...
which book, now as scarce as the first _Remembrancer_ is common, I have
not seen."
It is therefore very probable that the work is seldom to be met with. I
have a copy, but it is unfortunately imperfect; wanting a few leaves (only
a few I imagine) at the end. There is no index, nor table of contents, by
which I might ascertain the extent of the deficiency. The last page is 478,
and contains a portion of Hymn 60, part iii. If any reader of "NOTES AND
QUERIES" would kindly inform me what is the number of pages of the work,
and where a copy may be seen, he will oblige