[B] "Who this modern poet was," says Mr. Collier, "is a secret worth
discovering." The wood-cut on the title of the pamphlet is an ass with a
wreath of laurel round his neck.
[C] Milton, _from memory_.
[D] Fletcher, in the "Faithful Shepherdess." The Satyr offers to Clorin
"grapes whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good; Sweeter yet did
never crown The head of Bacchus; nuts more brown Than the _squirrels'
teeth_ that crack them."
[E] Fauntleroy.
[F] The reader, says Mr. Patmore, need not be told that all the above
items of home-news are pure fiction.