Minor Queries Answered.
_Poet referred to by Bacon._--To what poet does Bacon refer in the
following passage of the _Advancement of Learning_?--
"The invention of one of the late poets is proper, and doth well
enrich the ancient fiction: for he feigneth that at the end of the
thread or web of every man's life there was a little medal
containing the person's name, and that Time waited upon the
shears; and as soon as the thread was cut, caught the medals, and
carried them to the river of Lethe; and about the bank there were
many birds flying up and down that would get the medals, and carry
them in their beak a little while, and then let them fall into the
river," &c.--Vol. ii. p. 112. in B. Montagu's edition of Bacon.